{"product_id":"9781476761404","title":"A Book About Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eNumber one bestselling science writer Jonah Lehrer explores the “only happiness that lasts”—love—in a book that “is interesting on nearly every page” (David Brooks, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWeaving together scientific studies from clinical psychologists, longitudinal studies of health and happiness, historical accounts and literary depictions, child-rearing manuals, and the language of online dating sites, Jonah Lehrer’s \u003ci\u003eA Book About Love\u003c\/i\u003e plumbs the most mysterious, most formative, most important impulse governing our lives.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eLove confuses and compels us—and it can destroy and define us. It has inspired our greatest poetry, defined our societies and our beliefs, and governs our biology. From the way infants attach to their parents, to the way we fall in love with another person, to the way some find a love for God or their pets, to the way we remember and mourn love after it expires, this book focuses on research that attempts, even in glancing ways, to deal with the long-term and the everyday.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe most dangerous myth of love is that it’s easy, that we fall into the feeling and then the feeling takes care of itself. While we can easily measure the dopamine that causes the initial feelings of “falling” in love, the partnerships and devotions that last decades or longer remain a mystery. “Lehrer uses scores of detailed vignettes to traverse a complicated intellectual landscape, eventually arriving at modern theories of love…He is a talent” (\u003ci\u003eUSA TODAY\u003c\/i\u003e), and \u003ci\u003eA Book About Love\u003c\/i\u003e decodes the set of skills necessary to cultivate a lifetime of love. Love, Lehrer argues, is not built solely on overwhelming passion, but, fascinatingly, on a set of skills to be cultivated over a lifetime.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43085078560829,"sku":"9781476761404","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781476761404_p0.jpg?v=1775253296","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781476761404","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}