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As Framboise finds success with her food, she is forced to confront the truth about what happened in 1940: an affair with a German officer and a choice between love and loyalty that cost her family everything.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2dmmwjj2rxs4f7z9xnmygq.jpg?v=f2f2d89eb8","LFP6j8~px__2%gj^RPR%IVWBIoRj",2001,"4.00",307,[420],{"id":421,"slug":422,"name":423},"01kk5pxcfnekd801asb104zwba","joanne-harris-rjps","Joanne Harris",[425,426,427,431,435,436],{"id":346,"name":347,"slug":348,"is_fiction":18},{"id":228,"name":229,"slug":230,"is_fiction":18},{"id":428,"name":429,"slug":430,"is_fiction":18},9,"Literary Fiction","literary-fiction",{"id":432,"name":433,"slug":434,"is_fiction":19},112,"Cooking","cooking",{"id":154,"name":155,"slug":156,"is_fiction":18},{"id":49,"name":50,"slug":51,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":120,"complexity":7,"audience":123,"mood":439,"themes":440,"setting_period":7,"summary":413,"content_warnings":7},[234,127],[441,442],"dual-timeline","secret-identity",[444,498,624],{"key":445,"params":446,"works":447},"genre_year",{"genre":54,"year":9},[448,478],{"id":449,"slug":450,"title":451,"description":452,"primary_cover_url":453,"cover_blurhash":454,"first_publish_year":455,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":456,"authors":457,"genres":462,"series":472,"enrichment":473},"01kx24mzffk61zpeptmmhf4166","against-love-a-polemic-jgfb","Against Love A Polemic","A polemic against love that is “engagingly acerbic ... extremely funny.... A deft indictment of the marital ideal, as well as a celebration of the dissent that constitutes adultery, delivered in pointed daggers of prose” (The New Yorker). Who would dream of being against love? No one. Love is, as everyone knows, a mysterious and all-controlling force, with vast power over our thoughts and life decisions. But is there something a bit worrisome about all this uniformity of opinion? Is this the one subject about which no disagreement will be entertained, about which one truth alone is permissible? Consider that the most powerful organized religions produce the occasional heretic; every ideology has its apostates; even sacred cows find their butchers. Except for love. Hence the necessity for a polemic against it. A polemic is designed to be the prose equivalent of a small explosive device placed under your E-Z-Boy lounger. It won’t injure you (well not severely); it’s just supposed to shake things up and rattle a few convictions.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx24mzg8wfnnbds3jgb3r4k3.jpg?v=48cfb2aea4","L7P?{s=|u3*I-Ua1XlTI.RtlnOrr",2004,224,[458],{"id":459,"slug":460,"name":461},"01kx24mzg14wnwr840tjk0bw10","laura-kipnis-qoft","Laura Kipnis",[463,464,468],{"id":53,"name":54,"slug":55,"is_fiction":19},{"id":465,"name":466,"slug":467,"is_fiction":19},103,"Society","society",{"id":469,"name":470,"slug":471,"is_fiction":19},83,"Sociology","sociology",[],{"pace":351,"complexity":7,"audience":123,"mood":474,"themes":477,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[475,476],"thought-provoking","satirical",[],{"id":479,"slug":480,"title":481,"description":7,"primary_cover_url":482,"cover_blurhash":483,"first_publish_year":484,"community_rating_avg":417,"community_rating_count":293,"page_count":485,"authors":486,"genres":491,"series":494,"enrichment":495},"01kx2hdzkyrb1c2em202v7bypz","the-best-american-essays-1995-jita","The Best American Essays 1995","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2hdzmezqtms6wy6pfsksed.jpg?v=31f88675d6","L3OzLv_2%e_1}ea$o|xtE1WUtPoy",1995,263,[487],{"id":488,"slug":489,"name":490},"01kjr13qm5qbwfnarygrv02xb1","jamaica-kincaid-9xuw","Jamaica Kincaid",[492,493],{"id":53,"name":54,"slug":55,"is_fiction":19},{"id":224,"name":225,"slug":226,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":351,"complexity":7,"audience":123,"mood":496,"themes":497,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[475,127],[],{"key":499,"params":500,"works":501},"genre_mood",{"genre":50,"mood":125},[502,530,550,575,596],{"id":503,"slug":504,"title":505,"description":506,"primary_cover_url":507,"cover_blurhash":508,"first_publish_year":509,"community_rating_avg":417,"community_rating_count":293,"page_count":510,"authors":511,"genres":516,"series":526,"enrichment":527},"01kx2kvtaejqr3p502ax1jh18s","the-lost-gospel-emn5","The lost gospel","\"This is the first full account of the lost gospel of Jesus' original followers, revealing him to be a Jewish Socrates who was mythologized into the New Testament Christ. Compiled by his followers during his lifetime, the Book of Q (from Quelle, German for source) became the prime foundation for the New Testament gospels. Once lost, it has been reconstructed through a century of scholarship. In presenting his own translation, Burton Mack explains how the text of Q was determined and explores the implications of the discovery that Jesus was transformed into the dying and rising messianic savior of Christianity by the New Testament gospels.\" \"Instead of telling a dramatic story about Jesus' life as the Christian gospels do, the Book of Q contained only his sayings. The first followers of Jesus focused not upon his life and destiny, but on the social experiment called for by his teachings. Their book collected his proverbs, aphorisms, and parables to offer instruction in living authentically in the midst of a most confusing time.\" \"In The Lost Gospel, Burton Mack puts forth the first popular translation of Q as scholarly consensus has reconstructed it; shows that Jesus' life story as presented in the New Testament gospels was fictionalized for theological purposes; reveals Jesus to be a countercultural teacher and leader - subsequently mythologized into the Christ of the New Testament; depicts Jesus' followers not as Christians, but as disciples of a wise, antiestablishment teacher; they did not believe him to be the son of God, believe that he rose from the dead, or gather to worship in his name and concludes that Christianity is a mythologized religion (like Buddhism and other religions) rooted in a historical figure and teachings that in reality are quite remote from conventional beliefs.\"--Jacket.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2kvtc4rvmkepgyx0e012m9.jpg?v=e8bca37700","LKI2[%~8R7I=tP-TxDafEgnjNday",1993,275,[512],{"id":513,"slug":514,"name":515},"01kx2kvtav2fh4xjp3f7kx2pf6","burton-l-mack-ndbt","Burton L. 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In The Modernity of Witchcraft, Peter Geschieres uses his own experiences among the Maka and in other parts of eastern and southern Cameroon, as well as other anthropological research, to argue that contemporary ideas and practices of witchcraft are more a response to modern exigencies than a lingering cultural custom. The prevalence of witchcraft, especially in African politics and entrepreneurship, demonstrates the unlikely balance it has achieved with the forces of modernity. Geshiere explores why modern techniques and commodities, usually of Western Provenance, have become central in rumors of the occult.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx26p9xjf4zd9788rgc84ngz.jpg?v=368ad55854","L5CPV9?^8wKi0Nt7ozjZ00D%?bV@",311,[539],{"id":540,"slug":541,"name":542},"01kx26p9xdtr875q86dc85wq6r","peter-geschiere-dwaw","Peter Geschiere",[544,545],{"id":49,"name":50,"slug":51,"is_fiction":19},{"id":518,"name":519,"slug":520,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":120,"complexity":7,"audience":123,"mood":548,"themes":549,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[125,319],[],{"id":551,"slug":552,"title":553,"description":554,"primary_cover_url":555,"cover_blurhash":556,"first_publish_year":557,"community_rating_avg":417,"community_rating_count":293,"page_count":558,"authors":559,"genres":564,"series":571,"enrichment":572},"01kx25pkaq5f71kzvcg6a68kd0","the-anatomy-of-a-moment-thirty-five-minutes-in-history-and-imagination-ncgl","The Anatomy of a Moment Thirty-five Minutes in History and Imagination","In February 1981, Spain was still emerging from Franco's shadow, holding a democratic vote for the new prime minister. On the day of the vote in Parliament, while the session was being filmed by TV cameras, a band of right-wing soldiers burst in with automatic weapons, ordering everyone to get down. Only three men defied the order. For thirty-five minutes, as the cameras rolled, they stayed in their seats.Critically adored novelist Javier Cercas originally set out to write a novel about this pivotal moment, but determined it had already gained an air of myth, or, through the annual broadcast of video clips, had at least acquired the fictional taint of reality television. Cercas turned to nonfiction, and his vivid descriptions of the archival footage frame a narrative that traverses the line between history and art, creating a daring new account of this watershed moment in modern Spanish history.The Anatomy of a Moment caused a sensation upon its publication in Spain, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. The story will be new to many American readers, but the book stands resolutely on its own as a compelling literary inquest of national myth, personal memory, political spectacle, and reality itself.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx25pkb76xrh29vfj8vdmy9k.jpg?v=d4bc1e6284","L5C=O_TFt5M~0$w{xZIq_r?Dxsf7",2011,410,[560],{"id":561,"slug":562,"name":563},"01kpp8fzqbh54d1pzthf7rs9ky","javier-cercas-ivrl","Javier Cercas",[565,566,570],{"id":224,"name":225,"slug":226,"is_fiction":18},{"id":567,"name":568,"slug":569,"is_fiction":19},102,"Politics","politics",{"id":49,"name":50,"slug":51,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":351,"complexity":7,"audience":123,"mood":573,"themes":574,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[475,125],[],{"id":576,"slug":577,"title":578,"description":579,"primary_cover_url":580,"cover_blurhash":581,"first_publish_year":582,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":583,"authors":584,"genres":589,"series":592,"enrichment":593},"01kx2f3qc654xr8efmzwab5m8z","the-uses-of-literature-in-modern-japan-6cb7","The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan","The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan explores the varying uses of literature in Japan from the late Meiji period to the present, considering how creators, conveyors, and consumers of literary content have treated texts and their authors as cultural resources to be packaged, promoted, and preserved. As the printed word became a crucial form of entertainment and edification for an increasingly literate public in early 20th-century Japan, literature came to assume a variety of new uses. Touching upon a wide array of sources, Sari Kawana traces the ways in which literary works have morphed into different variants, ranging from textual (compilations, textbooks) and visual (film, manga, other media) to virtual and real world, through innovative publishing and reading practices. She takes up themes such as the materiality of texts, the role of publishers and advertising campaigns, the interplay between literature and other media, and the creation and dissemination of larger cultural fantasies tied to literary consumption. She stresses the agency and creativity with which readers engaged literary works, from divergent readings of propaganda literature to inventive adaptations of canonical texts in adjacent media, culminating in the practice of literary tourism. Moving beyond close reading of texts to look at their historical context, the book will appeal not only to scholars of modern Japanese literature but also those studying the history of the book and modern Japanese cultural history.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2f3qcrxxr74fz5wk23n2a7.jpg?v=e37a4b4659","LYNc4qi_%zs.n4a#bZj].lkAR6ax",2018,294,[585],{"id":586,"slug":587,"name":588},"01kx2f3qckyg3zzpdkhq2srw7b","sari-kawana-qyab","Sari Kawana",[590,591],{"id":224,"name":225,"slug":226,"is_fiction":18},{"id":49,"name":50,"slug":51,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":120,"complexity":7,"audience":123,"mood":594,"themes":595,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[125,127],[],{"id":597,"slug":598,"title":599,"description":600,"primary_cover_url":601,"cover_blurhash":602,"first_publish_year":603,"community_rating_avg":292,"community_rating_count":293,"page_count":604,"authors":605,"genres":610,"series":620,"enrichment":621},"01kx266qjcyjwesd15qm19wzcf","imagined-london-a-tour-of-the-worlds-greatest-fictional-city-usi4","Imagined London A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City","Anna Quindlen first visited London from a chair in her suburban Philadelphia home—in one of her beloved childhood mystery novels. She has been back to London countless times since, through the pages of books and in person, and now, in Imagined London, she takes her own readers on a tour of this greatest of literary cities.While New York, Paris, and Dublin are also vividly portrayed in fiction, it is London, Quindlen argues, that has always been the star, both because of the primacy of English literature and the specificity of city descriptions. She bases her view of the city on her own detailed literary map, tracking the footsteps of her favorite characters: the places where Evelyn Waugh's bright young things danced until dawn, or where Lydia Bennett eloped with the dastardly Wickham.In Imagined London, Quindlen walks through the city, moving within blocks from the great books of the 19th century to the detective novels of the 20th to the new modernist tradition of the 21st. With wit and charm, Imagined London gives this splendid city its full due in the landscape of the literary imagination.Praise for Imagined London:\"Shows just how much a reading experience can enrich a physical journey.\" —New York Times Book Review\"An elegant new work of nonfiction... People will be inspired by this book.\" —Ann Curry, Today\"An affectionate, richly allusive tribute to the city.\" —Kirkus Reviews","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx266qjvstwvxs8rfjd2xmnd.jpg?v=c112f88cf9","LrIF0UWZ~poz-:j[%MfkE2axM{ay",2006,169,[606],{"id":607,"slug":608,"name":609},"01kjqz7rh0fdqmz4w4nydwxcfw","anna-quindlen-qz3s","Anna Quindlen",[611,615,619],{"id":612,"name":613,"slug":614,"is_fiction":19},85,"Travel","travel",{"id":616,"name":617,"slug":618,"is_fiction":19},69,"Biography & Memoir","biography-memoir",{"id":49,"name":50,"slug":51,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":120,"complexity":7,"audience":123,"mood":622,"themes":623,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[127,125],[],{"key":625,"params":626,"works":627},"genre",{"genre":50},[628,653,680,701,720,731],{"id":629,"slug":630,"title":631,"description":632,"primary_cover_url":633,"cover_blurhash":634,"first_publish_year":455,"community_rating_avg":331,"community_rating_count":293,"page_count":635,"authors":636,"genres":641,"series":648,"enrichment":649},"01kx26t0a3tz8hpv509x3djyp8","the-bielski-brothers-the-true-story-of-three-men-who-defied-the-nazis-built-a-village-in-the-forest-and-saved-1200-jews-y9ga","The Bielski Brothers The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews","In 1941, three brothers witnessed their parents and two other siblings being led away to their eventual murders. It was a grim scene that would, of course, be repeated endlessly throughout the war. Instead of running or giving in to despair, these brothers -- Tuvia, Zus, and Asael Bielski -- fought back, waging a guerrilla war of wits against the Nazis. By using their intimate knowledge of the dense forests surrounding the Belarusan towns of Novogrudek and Lida, the Bielskis evaded the Nazis and established a hidden base camp, then set about convincing other Jews to join their ranks. As more and more Jews arrived each day, a robust community began to emerge, a \"Jerusalem in the woods.\" After two and a half years in the woods, in July 1944, the Bielskis learned that the Germans, overrun by the Red Army, were retreating back toward Berlin. More than one thousand Bielski Jews emerged -- alive -- on that final, triumphant exit from the woods.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx26t0agg1ngvkhhv9yyt2km.jpg?v=9d4bff31dd","L6BWSR1401IB~mEhVuxa02$xShtR",336,[637],{"id":638,"slug":639,"name":640},"01kqn921tw9va8xzsx6y3tqy1w","peter-duffy-evzb","Peter Duffy",[642,643,647],{"id":154,"name":155,"slug":156,"is_fiction":18},{"id":644,"name":645,"slug":646,"is_fiction":19},88,"Biography","biography",{"id":49,"name":50,"slug":51,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":317,"complexity":7,"audience":123,"mood":650,"themes":652,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[320,651],"inspiring",[],{"id":654,"slug":655,"title":656,"description":657,"primary_cover_url":658,"cover_blurhash":659,"first_publish_year":660,"community_rating_avg":331,"community_rating_count":293,"page_count":365,"authors":661,"genres":666,"series":676,"enrichment":677},"01kx2kejzw8emerhgyafym4fpz","sin-in-the-second-city-jqut","Sin in the Second City","Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history--and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago's notorious Levee district at the dawn of the last century, the Club's proprietors, two aristocratic sisters named Minna and Ada Everleigh, welcomed moguls and actors, senators and athletes, foreign dignitaries and literary icons, into their stately double mansion, where thirty stunning Everleigh \"butterflies\" awaited their arrival. Courtesans named Doll, Suzy Poon Tang, and Brick Top devoured raw meat to the delight of Prince Henry of Prussia and recited poetry for Theodore Dreiser. Whereas lesser madams pocketed most of a harlot's earnings and kept a \"whipper\" on staff to mete out discipline, the Everleighs made sure their girls dined on gourmet food, were examined by an honest physician, and even tutored in the literature of Balzac.Not everyone appreciated the sisters' attempts to elevate the industry. Rival Levee madams hatched numerous schemes to ruin the Everleighs, including an attempt to frame them for the death of department store heir Marshall Field, Jr. But the sisters' most daunting foes were the Progressive Era reformers, who sent the entire country into a frenzy with lurid tales of \"white slavery\"--the allegedly rampant practice of kidnapping young girls and forcing them into brothels. This furor shaped America's sexual culture and had repercussions all the way to the White House, including the formation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.With a cast of characters that includes Jack Johnson, John Barrymore, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., William Howard Taft, \"Hinky Dink\" Kenna, and Al Capone, Sin in the Second City is Karen Abbott's colorful, nuanced portrait of the iconic Everleigh sisters, their world-famous Club, and the perennial clash between our nation's hedonistic impulses and Puritanical roots. Culminating in a dramatic last stand between brothel keepers and crusading reformers, Sin in the Second City offers a vivid snapshot of America's journey from Victorian-era propriety to twentieth-century modernity.Visit www.sininthesecondcity.com to learn more!Praise for Sin in the Second City:\"Assiduously researched... [Sin in the Second City] describes a popular culture awash in wild tales of sexual abuse, crusading reformers claiming God on their side, and deep suspicion of the threat posed by \"foreigners\" to the nation's Christian values.\" --Janet Maslin, The New York Times \"Lavish in her details, nicely detached in her point of view, [and with] scrupulous concern for historical accuracy, Ms. Abbott has written an immensely readable book. Sin in the Second City offers much in the way of reflection for those interested in the unending puzzle that goes by the name of human nature.\" -- The Wall Street Journal \"Abbott's first book is meticulously researched and entertaining... a colorful history of old Chicago that reads like a novel.\" --The Atlanta Journal Constitution\"With gleaming prose and authoritative knowledge Abbott elucidates one of the most colorful periods in American history, and the result reads like the very best fiction. Sex, opulence, murder -- What's not to love?\" -- Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants\"A detailed and intimate portrait of the Ritz of brothels, the famed Everleigh Club of turn-of-the-century Chicago. Sisters Minna and Ada attracted the elites of the world to such glamorous chambers as the Room of 1,000 Mirrors, complete with a reflective floor....","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2kek06y7x25r4fbptg8w31.jpg?v=75b1ea577e","L8E2hE}]9Z%M1Gt+-VIo4TIox]xa",2007,[662],{"id":663,"slug":664,"name":665},"01kvqxtz08stnkbr45qtqejx10","karen-abbott-kjqz","Karen Abbott",[667,671,675],{"id":668,"name":669,"slug":670,"is_fiction":18},144,"Women's Fiction","womens-fiction",{"id":672,"name":673,"slug":674,"is_fiction":18},34,"Historical Romance","historical-romance",{"id":49,"name":50,"slug":51,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":317,"complexity":7,"audience":123,"mood":678,"themes":679,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[319,320],[322],{"id":681,"slug":682,"title":683,"description":684,"primary_cover_url":685,"cover_blurhash":686,"first_publish_year":242,"community_rating_avg":331,"community_rating_count":293,"page_count":687,"authors":688,"genres":693,"series":697,"enrichment":698},"01kx27p2svvwepgyk3gnd4q0xm","aint-i-a-woman-5dwr","Ain't I a Woman","A world renowned author, scholar, public intellectual, and activist, bell hooks was 19 years old when she wrote *Ain't I a Woman* (published ten years later). It was her first book, and one of the first published by South End Press, an independent, np, collectively-organized publisher dedicated to advancing movements for radical social change.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx27p2wry0rer1mh14e88b95.jpg?v=16cdd5c67b","LCJNm-11J,X7}WsnWWS3wL}CNcsA",206,[689],{"id":690,"slug":691,"name":692},"01kjq6xkbaaankp8vwpdsa66vm","bell-hooks-osuz","bell hooks",[694,695,696],{"id":149,"name":150,"slug":151,"is_fiction":19},{"id":644,"name":645,"slug":646,"is_fiction":19},{"id":49,"name":50,"slug":51,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":120,"complexity":7,"audience":123,"mood":699,"themes":700,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[651,127],[],{"id":702,"slug":703,"title":704,"description":7,"primary_cover_url":705,"cover_blurhash":706,"first_publish_year":707,"community_rating_avg":331,"community_rating_count":293,"page_count":7,"authors":708,"genres":713,"series":716,"enrichment":717},"01kx2cs38jh9peyvvp092mvgcr","secretariats-meadow-the-land-the-family-the-legend-dl56","Secretariats Meadow The Land The Family The Legend","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2cs392ga7gp1ptshwaatfs.jpg?v=1c208170c2","L9Dj-H100i}r1g=H,?NuJU$$NGEh",2010,[709],{"id":710,"slug":711,"name":712},"01kx2cs38ye18gx0521px6vb28","wayne-dementi-rkd5","Wayne Dementi",[714,715],{"id":644,"name":645,"slug":646,"is_fiction":19},{"id":49,"name":50,"slug":51,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":351,"complexity":7,"audience":123,"mood":718,"themes":719,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[651,160],[],{"id":382,"slug":383,"title":384,"description":385,"primary_cover_url":386,"cover_blurhash":387,"first_publish_year":388,"community_rating_avg":331,"community_rating_count":293,"page_count":389,"authors":721,"genres":723,"series":727,"enrichment":728},[722],{"id":392,"slug":393,"name":394},[724,725,726],{"id":397,"name":398,"slug":399,"is_fiction":18},{"id":401,"name":402,"slug":403,"is_fiction":18},{"id":49,"name":50,"slug":51,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":317,"complexity":7,"audience":123,"mood":729,"themes":730,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[319,320],[],{"id":732,"slug":733,"title":734,"description":735,"primary_cover_url":736,"cover_blurhash":737,"first_publish_year":738,"community_rating_avg":417,"community_rating_count":293,"page_count":15,"authors":739,"genres":744,"series":754,"enrichment":755},"01kx2m3exgx2c3tfbdz4576esw","a-natural-history-of-love-aqaa","A natural history of love","Following the triumphant success of her A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman has turned her formidable gifts to that greatest gift of all - the elusive, eternal, and endlessly interesting matter of love. The result is pure Ackerman: a splendid, serious, scientific, poetic, playful, and lyrical \"tour d'horizon\" of love's many forms and faces. Ackerman draws on a variety of sources, both classical and from her immediate experience. The historical, cultural, religious, and biological roots of love are all explored and illuminated. She gives a fresh new reading to Freud (\"mapping the war zones of the heart\"), Stendhal (love as fantasy), and Proust (\"the erotics of waiting\"), and draws lessons from lovers across time. Her attention then moves to the physical - the chemistry, biology, and neurophysiology associated with love in the brain, mind, and body. She discusses the \"evolution of the face,\" the cuddle, both as caress and as chemical, and the customs of marriage. There are astonishments everywhere. Her distinctive touch, aided by her personal adventures and explorations, enriches our understanding of women and horses, men and mermaids, sex and flying, and other equally enticing subjects. The book begins: \"Love is the great intangible.\" Diane Ackerman then proceeds to make it more tangible, traceable, breathable, and ... well, lovable.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2m3eyqtmn59j653rzsp6q7.jpg?v=60ce28a326","LDQcn{IU~qt7?bofRjWBt7of-;xu",1994,[740],{"id":741,"slug":742,"name":743},"01kjr9ns73pxsf6a4jr6q01m3j","diane-ackerman-rfwd","Diane Ackerman",[745,749,753],{"id":746,"name":747,"slug":748,"is_fiction":19},96,"Psychology","psychology",{"id":750,"name":751,"slug":752,"is_fiction":19},92,"Science","science",{"id":49,"name":50,"slug":51,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":120,"complexity":7,"audience":123,"mood":756,"themes":757,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[475,127],[],[]]