Lust And Love: Is it More Than Chemistry? [Hardcover]

Gabriele Frobose (Author), Rolf Frobose (Author), John Wiley (Author), Bettina Loycke (Author), Michael Gross (Translator)

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Publication Date: July 31, 2006 | ISBN-10: 0854048677 | ISBN-13: 978-0854048670 | Edition: 1

Philosophers have mused over them, poets have written about them and musicians have sung about them. Love, desire and passion will at some point touch everyone's life - yet they are little understood and some of the oldest mysteries of mankind. Why do people fall in love and what is love anyway? What makes people attractive? How do these emotions tie in with our physiology and how we have evolved? Lust and Love: Is it more than Chemistry? provides answers to some of these questions through the eyes of science. It takes a light hearted and entertaining approach in explaining the current scientific knowledge of why people are attracted to each other, from the first moments of meeting to how emotions change in a long lasting partnership. The book covers research from the fields of chemistry, biochemistry, neurology, psychiatry, psychology, physics and medicine while using the love story of a fictional couple to take the reader on a journey explaining the science. Additional topics on the 'tools of attraction', including the history of the lipstick, and the development of perfumes and aphrodisiacs, provide an absorbing insight into the subject. Medical treatments and conditions including contraception, erectile dysfunction and the climacteric phenomenon are also discussed. This engaging and unusual book is ideal for anyone interested in the science behind love, desire and passion.

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Its strength is in the way it brings together an eclectic mix of material in a concise, coherent manner. The content is so absorbing......few conceptual challenges that a good A-level student could not handle.

Book Description

Why do people fall in love and what is love anyway? What makes people attractive? How do these emotions tie in with our physiology and how we have evolved? Lust and Love: Is it more than Chemistry? provides answers to some of these questions through the eyes of science. It takes a light hearted and entertaining approach in explaining the current scientific knowledge of why people are attracted to each other, from the first moments of meeting to how emotions change in a long lasting partnership. Covering chemistry, biochemistry, neurology, psychiatry, psychology, physics and medicine while using the love story of a fictional couple to take the reader on a journey explaining the science. This engaging and unusual book is ideal for anyone interested in the science behind love, desire and passion.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 182 pages
• Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry; 1 edition (July 31, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0854048677
• ISBN-13: 978-0854048670
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,525,564 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Focused, March 4, 2010

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Nathan Laing (Kobe, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lust And Love: Is it More Than Chemistry? (Hardcover)

This book uses the evocative title, "Lust and Love" to sell its rather broad investigation into the chemical processes present in the human -and sometimes animal- body.

Whilst there is a mix of both common and scientific/technical discourse, there seems to be more of the technical. Due to this, and because the topics presented rarely focus specifically on the topic of "Lust and Love", I finished the book still waiting to read and learn more about what the title of the book suggests its main theme is.

Unless you're a science student looking for quotes to use in an essay or paper, the reader hoping to find a focused investigation into the topics of lust and love may be disappointed. "Lust and Love: Is it more than chemistry?" According to this work, the answer seems to be "perhaps not much more".

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too expensive for the content, December 8, 2009

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This review is from: Lust And Love: Is it More Than Chemistry? (Hardcover)

Most of the book is fluffy stuffing, e.g. watered down biochemistry summaries, or mentions of the Coolidge effect, etc. It does, however, have a few interesting bits of trivia, e.g. that show girls spray the prescription oxytocin containing substance syntocinon on their nipples to make them erect. Some of the chapters have absolutely no relation to the cover, e.g. chapter 14: history of lipstick.