UDC 177.61 BBK 88.37 F68 Translator Ekaterina Militskaya Editor Natalya Narcissova Fisher H. Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love / Helen Fisher; Translated from English. — 2nd ed. — Moscow: Alpina non-fiction, 2022 — 414 pp. — (Alpina Popular Science series). ISBN 978-5-91671-861-4 Each of us has experienced happiness and despair that love brings. For many centuries, people have tried to understand what it is. Why do we lose our minds? How to survive rejection? What happens to spouses' feelings in a long marriage? How to win love and can it be preserved? The book by renowned anthropologist Helen Fisher offers new and sometimes unexpected answers to these questions. Scanning the brains of various patients, she identified important patterns, starting with the fact that certain brain areas "light up" at the moment of falling in love. By studying types of love, its evolution, and processes occurring in the bodies of humans and other creatures — from wolves to ducks and chimpanzees — the author provides a scientific explanation for the most astonishing manifestations of this universal driving force and great gift. UDC 177.61 BBK 88.37