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| A Natural History Of Love | 
| Author: Diane Ackerman
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 301041
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0679761837
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.7
EAN: 9780679761839
ASIN: 0679761837
Publication Date: February 21, 1995
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| Customer Reviews:
 The Poetry of Biology March 16, 2000
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
A NATURAL HISTORY OF LOVE is an excellent book, an insightful overview of the many faces of love. Ackerman's knowledge of history, animal behavior, and literature dovetail to provide the perfect browser's book. Beautifully written and thought-provoking.
 Immature analysis and unresearched conclusions April 2, 1999
8 out of 27 found this review helpful
Ms Diane Ackerman is not ready yet to write on love and call it a natural history of love.She has put together what people say at cocktail parties and then gives it an aura with a little poetic prose.A 400 page book which pretends to be a treatise on love has no mention of the Kama Sutra!She has't obviously heard of Parvati, the Goddess of love.A reference to some obscure anthropological study doesn't make the book a serious study.I would call this a passable Cornel University term paper.
 Excellent. February 11, 1999
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Diane Ackerman, with her characteristic aplomb and eloquence, provides a captivating overview of how human society has viewed love through the course of history. This book is particularly well-written, and the topic it addresses is likely of interest to virtually anyone. At Amazon.com prices, and for those who love to read, this book is a must.
 Negatory. July 20, 1998
4 out of 15 found this review helpful
Just started Diane Ackerman's, _Natural History of Love_. I find it practically insufferable, but will give it a little more time, or will skip around some. The writing itself has nothing to commend it and the Western, late twentieth century, cultural/psycho-theraputic-ethno-centricity is uninteresting to the extreme. I've recently finished Alain de Botton's _On Love_, am reading Plato's _Phaedrus_, and thought this might be, uh, right up my alley. Negatory.
Excellent, intelligent leisure reading July 18, 1998
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Ackerman's history of love in society was fascinating. I especially enjoyed her attention to the changing roles of women and men in various cultures in our history. Some of her descriptions and explanations for human behavior hit all too close to home, making her work more intriguing. For women, this is definitely one of those books where you will find yourself reading passages aloud to your lover... or making him read the entire thing!
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