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008    940602t19941994nyu           001 0 eng d 
020    0679403477 
035    (OCoLC)30537135 
040    ORL|beng|cORL|dMCP|dWaOLN 
049    MCPL 
092    306.734|bAck 
100 1  Ackerman, Diane,|d1948- 
245 12 A Natural history of love /|cDiane Ackerman. 
264  1 New York :|bRandom House,|c[1994] 
264  4 |c©1994 
300    358 pages ;|c29 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    Includes index. 
505 0  Contents (chapter titles only): Introduction: Love's 
       vocabulary (p.xv) -- A long desire : the history of love -
       - Egypt (p.3) -- Greece (p.17) -- Rome (p.29) -- The 
       Middle Ages (p.43) -- Modern days (p.66) -- The heart is a
       lonely hunter : ideas about love -- Plato : the perfect 
       union (p.95) -- Stendhal meets the Deep South (p.99) -- 
       Denis de Rougemont : love and magic (p.105) -- Marcel 
       Proust and the erotics of waiting (p.112) -- Freud : the 
       origins of desire (p.123) -- Attachment theory (p.131) -- 
       All fires the fire : the nature of love -- The loving 
       impaired (p.139) -- Brain-stem sonata : the 
       neurophysiology of love (p.146) -- The evolution of love 
       (p.150) -- The chemistry of love (p.159) -- Aphrodisiacs 
       (p.169) -- A necessary passion : the erotics of love -- 
       Fire from the flesh : why sex evolved (p.177) -- The face 
       (p.181) -- The hair (p.190) -- Women and horses (p.196) --
       Men and cars (p.217) -- The lightest longing : sex and 
       flying (p.227) -- Wings over Africa (p.230) -- Men and 
       mermaids (p.236) -- Sexual chic : perversion as fashion 
       (p.241) -- Kissing (p.249) -- On the sensuality of looking
       (p.255) -- Passing strange and wonderful : love's customs 
       -- Patterns in nature (p.259) -- The courtship (p.261) -- 
       Flesh of my flesh : the marriage (p.267) -- Of cocks and 
       cunts (p.277) -- Love on the edge : adultery, extravagant 
       gestures, and crimes of passion (p.279) -- Points for a 
       compass rose : varieties of love -- Altruism (p.289) -- 
       For the love of children : interplast (p.292) -- For the 
       love of strangers : Life and death in the South Seas 
       (p.308) -- On religious love (p.314) -- On transference 
       love (p.322) -- On the love of pets (p.326) -- Postscript 
       : the museum (p.332) -- Selected bibliography (p.338) -- 
       Index (p.345). 
650  0 Love|xMiscelleanea. 
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