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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

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For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray

by Helen Fisher

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"Captivates the reader, answers all those puzzling questions that caused your mother (or priest or guidance counselor or gym teacher) to blame God and/or hormones....Her prediction of a more open and egalitarian order provides a compelling--and hopeful--vision for the future."<BR>THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER<BR>Love at first sight...the copulatory gaze...dinner dates...jealousy... intimacy... homesexuality...infidelity...Dr.Helen Fisher, an anthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History, explains it all in this four-million-year history of the human species. She demystifies much about romance and pairing that we tend to believe is willfull or just plain careless. She offers new explanations for why men and women fall in love, marry, and divorce, and discusses the future of sex in a way that will surprise you.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-408).
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ISBN:
9780449908976
Subtitle:
A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray
Author:
Fisher, Helen
Publisher:
Ballantine Books
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Non-Classifiable
Subject:
Interpersonal Relations
Subject:
Marriage
Subject:
Love
Subject:
Anthropology - Cultural
Subject:
Love & Romance
Subject:
Divorce
Subject:
Human Sexuality
Subject:
Adultery
Subject:
Sex customs
Copyright:
c199
Edition Description:
1st Ballantine Books ed.
Series Volume:
7.70
Publication Date:
January 1994
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
432
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838x538x88 76
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