The Essential Rules of Love: A Practical Guide to Creating a Harmonious, Healthy, and Happy Relationship

The Essential Rules of Love distills love and relationships into their component parts, including psychological, chemical, neuroscientific, and evolutionary factors from both a functional and pragmatic approach. Musical and literary references sprinkled throughout add a flavor not often seen in books of this genre.

The book begins with an examination of what love really is-so we can keep it once we've found it. Each chapter explores the process of love and scrutinizes the basic influences on...