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Author : Gene Wallenstein
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 047047548X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pleasure Instinct written by Gene Wallenstein and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-12-16 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An immensely fascinating look at the origins and evolutionary purpose of human pleasure From our enjoyment of music to our cravings for chocolate, from our love for children and family to our attraction to things of beauty, this book embarks on an intriguing and accessible exploration of the purpose of pleasure in our lives and in human history. How did pleasure evolve and why? How does it develop in children? How does the pursuit of pleasure play a critical role in brain development? The Pleasure Instinct explores everything we need to know about our urge to feel good.

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Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure written by and published by . This book was released on 1765 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roque Larraquy
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566895227
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comemadre written by Roque Larraquy and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the outskirts of Buenos Aires in 1907, a doctor becomes involved in a misguided experiment that investigates the threshold between life and death. One hundred years later, a celebrated artist goes to extremes in search of aesthetic transformation, turning himself into an art object. How far are we willing to go, Larraquy asks, in pursuit of transcendence? The world of Comemadre is full of vulgarity, excess, and discomfort: strange ants that form almost perfect circles, missing body parts, obsessive love affairs, and man-eating plants. Darkly funny, smart, and engrossing, here the monstrous is not alien, but the consquence of our relentless pursuit of collective and personal progress.

Author : Michael Nylan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1942130163
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Pleasure Book written by Michael Nylan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes up one of the most important themes in Chinese thought: the relation of pleasurable activities to bodily health and to the health of the body politic. Unlike Western theories of pleasure, early Chinese writings contrast pleasure not with pain but with insecurity, assuming that it is right and proper to seek and take pleasure, as well as experience short-term delight. Equally important is the belief that certain long-term relational pleasures are more easily sustained, as well as potentially more satisfying and less damaging. The pleasures that become deeper and more ingrained as the person invests time and effort to their cultivation include friendship and music, sharing with others, developing integrity and greater clarity, reading and classical learning, and going home. Each of these activities is explored through the early sources (mainly fourth century BC to the eleventh century AD), with new translations of both well-known and seldom-cited texts.

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Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure written by and published by . This book was released on 1762 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Casey McQuiston
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1250316782
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red, White & Royal Blue written by Casey McQuiston and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Instant NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestseller * * GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER for BEST DEBUT and BEST ROMANCE of 2019 * * BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR* for VOGUE, NPR, VANITY FAIR, and more! * What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales? When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius—his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse. Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals. What at first begins as a fake, Instragramable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Soon Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret romance with a surprisingly unstuffy Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations and begs the question: Can love save the world after all? Where do we find the courage, and the power, to be the people we are meant to be? And how can we learn to let our true colors shine through? Casey McQuiston's Red, White & Royal Blue proves: true love isn't always diplomatic. "I took this with me wherever I went and stole every second I had to read! Absorbing, hilarious, tender, sexy—this book had everything I crave. I’m jealous of all the readers out there who still get to experience Red, White & Royal Blue for the first time!" - Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners "Red, White & Royal Blue is outrageously fun. It is romantic, sexy, witty, and thrilling. I loved every second." - Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six

Author : Georgia Cowart
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226116387
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Triumph of Pleasure written by Georgia Cowart and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a particular focus on the court ballet, comedy-ballet, opera, and opera-ballet, Georgia J. Cowart tells the long-neglected story of how the festive arts deployed an intricate network of subversive satire to undermine the rhetoric of sovereign authority.

Author : Gerd Van Riel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004117976
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pleasure and the Good Life written by Gerd Van Riel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume concentrates on a hedonistic argument that enters the philosophical debate, when philosophers argue that what they present as the good life is the truly pleasurable life. The book investigates more precisely how this point was made by Plato and his successors.

Author : Paul van Riel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004321101
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pleasure and the Good Life written by Paul van Riel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the general theory of pleasure of Plato and his successors. The first part describes the two paradigms between which all theories of pleasure oscillate: Plato's definition of pleasure as the repletion of a lack, and Aristotle's view that pleasure is the perfect performance of an activity. After an excursus on Epicureans and Stoics, the book concentrates on Neoplatonism, opposing the 'standard Neoplatonic view' of Plotinus and Proclus to the original viewpoint of Damascius' commentary on Plato's Philebus. The volume sheds light on the discussion between hedonists and anti-hedonists, by concentrating on the 'crucial point' at which any philosophical analysis of the good life (hedonistic or other) ought to argue that the life of the philosopher is the most desirable, and thus truly pleasurable, life.

Author : Paul Pearsall
Publisher : Hunter House
ISBN 13 : 9780897932295
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Write Your Own Pleasure Prescription written by Paul Pearsall and published by Hunter House. This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers sixty suggestions for bringing back small, everyday pleasures intone's life to restore it's balance, and describes the five Polynesian keys to happy life.