Daniel Bergner: 9 books

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What Do Women Want?

Adventures in the Science of Female Desire

by Daniel Bergner
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013

In What Do Women Want? Adventures in the Science of Female Desire, critically acclaimed journalist Daniel Bergne disseminates the latest scientific research and paints an unprecedented portrait of female lust: the triggers, the fantasies, the mind-body connection (and disconnection), the reasons behind...
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God of the Rodeo

The Quest for Redemption in Louisiana's Angola Prison

by Daniel Bergner
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011

Never before had Daniel Bergner seen a spectacle as bizarre as the one he had come to watch that Sunday in October. Murderers, rapists, and armed robbers were competing in the annual rodeo at Angola, the grim maximum-security penitentiary in Louisiana. The convicts, sentenced to life without parole,...
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Die versteckte Lust der Frauen

Ein Forschungsbericht

by Daniel Bergner
Language: German
Release Date: January 13, 2014

Mächtig, animalisch und unbändig: die weibliche Lust in der neuesten Forschung. Gehirn und Vagina: Zwischen dem, was Frauen über ihre Lust berichten, und dem, was sich wissenschaftlich messen lässt, besteht ein gewaltiger Unterschied. Sind die Frauen gar nicht das „monogame Geschlecht“,...
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Sing for Your Life

A Story of Race, Music, and Family

by Daniel Bergner
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016

**A New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable Book** A Washington Post Notable Book A Publishers Weekly Book of the Year **As seen on CBS This Morning, NPR's Fresh Air, and People Magazine A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice A Publishers Weekly...
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The Other Side of Desire

Four Journeys into the Far Realms of Lust and Longing

by Daniel Bergner
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

“Riveting….Powerful…as much about desire and what’s normal as it is an exploration of why we are the way we are, whether we like it or not.” —New York Times Book Review Subtitled “Four Journeys into the Far Realms of Lust and Longing,” Daniel Bergner’s The Other Side...
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In the Land of Magic Soldiers

A Story of White and Black in West Africa

by Daniel Bergner
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2004

An Los Angeles Times Best Book 2003 A chilling, beautifully written narrative of African war Sierra Leone is the world's most war-ravaged country. There, in a West African landscape of spectacular beauty, rampaging soldiers--many not yet in their teens--have made a custom of hacking...
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Die dunkle Seite der Lust

Vier Fallgeschichten

by Daniel Bergner
Language: German
Release Date: March 30, 2015

„Diese verstörenden Geschichten hallen lange nach.“ Lori Gottlieb, New York Times Book Review Wenn Lust Grenzen überschreitet - Daniel Bergner stellt in vier Fallgeschichten Menschen vor, die mit extremen Begierden leben und lieben. Erzählerisch packend, zwischen Oliver Sacks und Ferdinand...
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¿Qué quieren las mujeres?

Últimas revelaciones de la ciencia sobre el deseo sexual femenino

by Daniel Bergner
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 19, 2013

¿Qué quieren las mujeres? muestra la trastienda de algunos de los más rompedores experimentos sobre sexualidad y nos pone frente a frente con sus resultados, a menudo incómodos. ¿Es posible que la sexualidad femenina sea tan agresiva y voraz como la masculina? ¿Qué importancia tiene...
Book cover of Mit dem Kochlöffel durch die sächsische Geschichte

Mit dem Kochlöffel durch die sächsische Geschichte

25 berühmte Sachsen bitten zu Tisch

by Daniel Bergner
Language: German
Release Date: September 25, 2017

Hat der Thomaskantor Johann Sebastian Bach seine "Kaffeekantate" komponiert, um seine Töchter vor allzu viel Kaffeegenuss zu warnen? Welche kulinarischen Vorlieben mögen Bachs Musikerkollegen Richard Wagner zum Lohengrin inspiriert haben? Welches Gericht liebte die Schriftstellerin Lene Voigt über...
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