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Book Description: Paperback. Book Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. Bookseller Inventory # 1841448

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Book Description: TRANSACTION PUBL, 2000. Paperback. Book Condition: New. New print on demand book. Shipped from US. Bookseller Inventory # IH-9780765806963

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Book Description: Transaction Publishers, United States, 2000. Paperback. Book Condition: New. New edition. 229 x 152 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery ***** Print on Demand *****. "In a freewheeling.provocative exploration of what motivates us most powerfully, Tiger seeks to establish the moral, scientific and political authority of entitlement.His observations offer fresh, intriguing perspectives." -Publishers Weekly "Tiger explores how sex, food, smell, warmth and other sensual pleasures have yielded advantages to man and are rooted in our physiological prehistory.His major point is that pleasure is positive, desirable, delicious, demanding and worth pursuing.The Pursuit of Pleasure is a great idea for a book."-Washington Times "Throughout these pages, this Lionel is a tiger of a writer: witty, frank, elegant and insightful." -Los Angeles Times Book Review Pleasure is biologically desirable and good for physical and mental health. In The Pursuit of Pleasure, Lionel Tiger explores this aspect of human nature by focusing on the origins and forms of pleasure. Medical science has perfected a host of often astonishingly impressive methods for preventing, alleviating, or recovering from pain. Its opposite, pleasure, has not had such a well-funded and fully justified constituency. In fact, those committed to the understanding and pursuit of pleasure, are rarely accorded respect and a sense of significance. People have objected to the notion of pleasure for a variety of reasons. The most complex derive from religious convictions that the most morally admirable human life is marked by abstemiousness, suffering, even martyrdom. There is also a corresponding fear that people may pursue pleasure too avidly and with too strong a sense of entitlement, and the world's work will not get done. But just as there have been suspicions of the dangers of pleasure, there have also been its supporters who assert its vital and joyful centrality to human experience. The Pursuit of Pleasure favors an agnostic approach borrowed from natural science. In lively, witty, and eminently readable prose, Tiger identifies major forms of pleasure and explores their variations, now and in the past. Pleasure, says Tiger, is not a luxury but an evolutionary entitlement that deserves to be taken seriously. As we acknowledge our need for enjoyment, we understand the need to establish balance in our lives-our need for the pursuit of pleasure. Lionel Tiger is professor of anthropology at Rutgers University and the author of Men in Groups, Optimism, and Manufacture of Evil. He is also the co-author of The Imperial Animal with Robin Fox (available from Transaction). Bookseller Inventory # APC9780765806963

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Book Description: Transaction Publishers. Paperback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW PRINT ON DEMAND., The Pursuit of Pleasure (New edition), Lionel Tiger, The author identifies some major forms of pleasure - sex, food, drugs, pets, plants, power and more - and explores their variations now and in the past. Pleasure, says Tiger, is not a luxury but an evolutionary entitlement that deserves to be taken seriously. He tackles a variety of complex and larger issues, such as the historic link between religion, public policy and the control of pleasure and the fact that some pleasures reflect our hunter-gatherer pasts - for example, the way we still respond to the warmth, physical and psychological, of a fire. But he also looks at the lighter side of pleasure and what it means, from a taste for barbecue to the sensual enjoyment of a kiss. Bookseller Inventory # B9780765806963

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Book Description: TRANSACTION PUBL 01/05/2012, 2012. Paperback. Book Condition: New. New print on demand book. Shipped from US. This item is printed on demand. Bookseller Inventory # IP-9780765806963

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Book Description: Transaction Publishers, 2012. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 8.88 by 6 inches. (00348 pages) This item is printed on demand. Please allow up to 10 days extra for printing & delivery. {Publisher's Publication Date = 2000-09-30 00:00:00} [ships from USA takes 8-14 days to Europe] Lang=English accessory:NO ACCESSORY (Paperback ). Bookseller Inventory # AF0765806967

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Book Description: Paperback. Book Condition: New. 156mm x 22mm x 226mm. Print on Demand 348 pages. 0.572. Bookseller Inventory # 9780765806963

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Book Description: 2000. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 156mm x 22mm x 226mm. 348 pages. 0.572. Bookseller Inventory # 9780765806963

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Book Description: Transaction Publishers, 2000. Paperback. Book Condition: Brand New. 330 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # zk0765806967

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