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How Pleasure Works

The New Science of Why We Like What We Like

By Paul Bloom

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| Paperback | 9780393340006

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Why is an artistic masterpiece worth millions more than a convincing forgery? Pleasure works in mysterious ways, as Paul Bloom reveals in this investigation of what we desire and why. Drawing on a wealth of surprising studies, Bloom investigates plea Continue

Why is an artistic masterpiece worth millions more than a convincing forgery? Pleasure works in mysterious ways, as Paul Bloom reveals in this investigation of what we desire and why. Drawing on a wealth of surprising studies, Bloom investigates pleasures noble and seamy, lofty and mundane, to reveal that our enjoyment of a given thing is determined not by what we can see and touch but by our beliefs about that thing s history, origin, and deeper nature.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 280 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0393340007
  • ISBN-13: 9780393340006
  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Publish date: 2011-09-06
  • Dimensions: 209 mm x 141 mm x 19 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover , eBook
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