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Wired for Love (2022) combines fascinating neuroscientific research with a captivating personal story to reveal some of the secrets behind that great human mystery: love. Love is often thought of as a topic best left to poets and musicians –⁠ but it can and should be studied as a legitimate scientific question. In a world that is constantly throwing up new challenges to romance, from online dating to global pandemics, an understanding of and respect for love is more important than ever before.

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Stephanie Cacioppo teaches psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at the University of Chicago, where she’s also the director of the brain dynamics laboratory. Her work focuses primarily on the neurobiology of love and the social self. Her scientific articles have been covered by the New York Times, CNN, and National Geographic.

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C. S. Lewis was a renowned British author and theologian. He wrote over 30 books, including The Chronicles of Narnia series which has sold over 100 million copies, and nonfiction books such as Mere Christianity and The Problem of Pain.

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In Praise of Love (2012) is a passionate defense of love in an age when romance is threatened from all directions. The product of a dialogue between French philosopher Alain Badiou and journalist Nicholas Truong, the book lays bare how our sex-obsessed media, our individualistic striving, and our online-dating culture are all setting love up to fail. Its thesis: love needs to be reinvented for the modern world.

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Gary Zukav is a best-selling author who has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show numerous times. His other books include The Seat of the Soul and The Dancing Wu Li Masters. Zukav and his partner, Linda Francis, cofounded the Seat of the Soul Institute in 1998.

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