Helen Fisher
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Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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A groundbreaking exploration of our most complex and mysterious emotion. Elation, mood swings, sleeplessness, and obsession-these are the tell-tale signs of someone in the throes of romantic passion. In this revealing new book, renowned anthropologist Helen Fisher explains why this experience-which cuts across time, geography, and gender-is a force as powerful as the need for food or sleep. Why We Love begins by presenting the results of a scientific...
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English
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A groundbreaking book about how your personality type determines who you love… Why do you fall in love with one person rather than another? In this fascinating and informative book, Helen Fisher, one of the world's leading experts on romantic love, unlocks the hidden code of desire and attachment. Each of us, it turns out, primarily expresses one of four broad personality types-Explorer, Builder, Director, or Negotiator-and each of these types is...
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Language
English
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First published in 1992, Helen Fisher's Anatomy of Love quickly became a classic. Since then, Fisher has conducted pioneering brain research on lust, romantic love, and attachment; gathered data on more than 80,000 people to explain why you love who you love; and collected information on more than 30,000 men and women on sexting, hooking up, friends with benefits, and other current trends in courtship and marriage. This is a cutting-edge tour de force...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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A thoroughly uplifting novel about a neurodivergent young man who unexpectedly builds a community and saves a friend in need by following—in a way only he can—his mother's words of wisdom.
Joe-Nathan likes the two parts of his name separate, just like dinner and dessert. Mean Charlie at work sometimes calls him Joe-Nuthin. But Joe is far from nothing. Joe is a good friend, good at his job, good at making things and at following...
Joe-Nathan likes the two parts of his name separate, just like dinner and dessert. Mean Charlie at work sometimes calls him Joe-Nuthin. But Joe is far from nothing. Joe is a good friend, good at his job, good at making things and at following...
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Language
English
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"Faye is a thirty-seven-year-old happily married mother of two young daughters. Every night, before she puts them to bed, she whispers to them: "You are good, you are kind, you are clever, you are funny." She's determined that they never doubt for a minute that their mother loves them unconditionally. After all, her own mother Jeanie had died when she was only seven years old and Faye has never gotten over that intense pain of losing her. But one...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
1270L
Language
English
Description
Updated to include the latest research on anthropology and internet-age relationships, a revised edition of a classic reference examines the brain's role in love and courtship while making recommendations for returning to traditional patterns of romance. By the author of Why We Love. --Publisher's description.
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Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Discusses desire and attachment in relation to romantic love, and explains how personality types--each driven by a different chemical in the brain--govern attraction in relationships; and describes four personality types--the explorer, builder, negotiator, and director.
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Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Explains how to promote a healthier lifestyle by improving one's eating habits, discussing the principles of the Mediterranean-style diet plan, which promotes lower saturated fat consumption, antioxidant-rich foods, and whole grains, and presents more than 140 delicious recipes to help readers get started.