Author : Robert J. Sternberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 110847568X
This is a much-needed update on the latest theory and research on love supplied by leading scientific experts. It is suitable for psychologists, neuroscientists, anthropologists, sociologists, and anyone with an interest in love and what has been learned from scientific studies of it.
Author : Ada Lampert
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 1997-09-16
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :
Lampert presents the story of love: when, why, and how love became a central experience of humans. Assuming that our world is built of matter, she states that evolution is the change of this matter, according to the supreme criterion of success in offspring reproduction. Love evolved because of its contribution to reproduction. It first appeared in the mothers of mammals, who used the body's proximity as a main adaptation. Human love expands its borders to include the relationships between women and men, friends, and even nonhuman subjects. Lampert describes motherhood as the source of the genetic, hormonal, brain, and behavioral changes that we call love. In the sexual stage, love enters both as a way to select a partner and as a bonding force. Sexuality is built upon ancient layers of early forms of life, before humanity, and includes strong elements of aggression which interrupt our ability to experience a peaceful sexual life. Maternal love and sexual love combine in the evolution of the family. Lampert also examines homosexual love as a way to look at the fascinating process of growing sexual identity and behavior in an individual. Written in a style suited to any educated person, Lampert uses current scientific knowledge on the brain, hormones, the nervous system, ethology, psychology, and even modern physics to make her case. This book will be of interest to students and scholars alike.
Author : Emil Lucka
Publisher : London : G. Allen & Unwin
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 13,36 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Behavior evolution
ISBN :
Author : Elison
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 18,39 MB
Release : 2021-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781736567104
The Evolution of Love follows the human heart through the intense highs and lows of First Love, the frustrating but instructive path of Middle Love, and the battle-tested yet eternal light of Final Love. From a first crush to the death of a spouse and beyond, these poems and stories capture what connects us all: the search for true and unimpeachable love.
Author : Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Publisher : Vireo Book, A
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781945572838
When a devastating earthquake cuts the San Francisco Bay Area off from the outside world, Lily travels into the disaster zone to search for her sister, and is joined by a group of feral children and others in their quest for survival.
Author : Denis O. Lamoureux
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 50,73 MB
Release : 2009-03-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1621891658
In this thought-provoking book, born-again Christian Denis O. Lamoureux argues that the God of the Bible created the universe and life through evolution--an ordained, sustained, and design-reflecting natural process. In other words, evolution is not the result of blind chance and our creation is not a mistake. Lamoureux challenges the popular assumption that God disclosed scientific facts in the opening chapters of Scripture thousands of years before their discovery by modern science. He contends that in the same way the Lord meets us wherever we happen to be in our lives, the Holy Spirit came down to the level of the inspired biblical writers and used their ancient understanding of origins in order to reveal inerrant, life-changing Messages of Faith. Lamoureux also shares his personal story and struggle in coming to terms with evolution and Christianity.
Author : Helen E. Fisher
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0449908976
An exploration of human behavior examines the innate aspects of love, sex, and marriage, discussing flirting behavior, courting postures, the brain chemistry of attraction, divorce and adultery in societies around the world, and more. Reprint.
Author : Nicole Krauss
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 18,80 MB
Release : 2006-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393342840
ONE OF THE MOST LOVED NOVELS OF THE DECADE. A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive. But it wasn’t always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book…Sixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a character in that book, undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. With virtuosic skill and soaring imaginative power, Nicole Krauss gradually draws these stories together toward a climax of "extraordinary depth and beauty" (Newsday).
Author : Ilia Delio
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 43,42 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1626980292
This title explores the meaning of Christian theology in light of the scientific discoveries of our age. Like Teilhard de Chardin and Thomas Berry, Delio opens out eyes to the omni-active, all-powerful, all-intelligent Love that forms and guides the interrelatedness and interbeing of everything and everyone - ourselves included.
Author : Michael R. Kauth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,94 MB
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1000226522
The Evolution of Human Pair-Bonding, Friendship, and Sexual Attraction presents an evolutionary history of romantic love, male-female pair-bonding, same-sex friendship, and sexual attraction, drawing on sexuality research, gay and lesbian studies, history, literature, anthropology, and evolutionary science. Employing evolutionary theory as a framework, close same-sex friendship is examined as an adaptive trait that has harnessed love, affection, and sexual pleasure to navigate same-sex environments for both men and women, ultimately benefiting their reproductive success and promoting the inheritance of traits for friendship. Chapters consider the desire to form close same-sex friendships and ask if this is embedded in our biology, concluding that most humans have the capacity to form loving, meaningful, and sexual relationships with men and women. This book takes on a unique interdisciplinary approach and is essential reading for those studying and working in sexuality research, anthropology, sociology, evolutionary psychology, and gay and lesbian studies. It will also be of interest to marriage and family therapists as well as sex therapists.
