The Scientific American Book of Love, Sex and the Brain: The Neuroscience of How, When, Why and Who We Love

by Judith Horstman and Scientific American

Book Overview

Who do we love? Who loves us? And why? Is love really a mystery, or can neuroscience offer some answers to these age-old questions?

In her third enthralling book about the brain, Judith Horstman takes us on a lively tour of our most important sex and love organ and the whole smorgasbord of our many kinds of love-from the bonding of parent and child to the passion of erotic love, the affectionate love of companionship, the role of animals...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470647787
• ISBN13: 9780470647783
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.5" x 9.3"