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, were thrown, trampled, and gored by bucking bulls and broncos before thousands of cheering spectators. But amid the brutality of this gladiatorial spectacle Bergner caught surprising glimpses o...

In this moving and unforgettable narrative journalist Daniel Bergner travels into the heart of Sierra Leone, a country torn apart by war. This is the story of the people he encounters in a realm of fire and jungle as they rebuild their lives: Lamin, who lost his hands to save his daughter; Komba, child soldier and sometime cannibal; Neall Ellis, the mercenary pilot with a conscience; Valentine Strasser the embittered ex-dictator; and the Western outsiders trying to save a land of startling...

When it comes to sex, common wisdom holds that men roam while women crave closeness and commitment. But in this provocative, headline-making book, Daniel Bergner turns everything we thought we knew about women's arousal and desire inside out. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with renowned behavioral scientists, sexologists, psychologists, and everyday women, he forces us to reconsider long-held notions about female sexuality.This bold and captivating journey into the wo...

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 the loss of libido, and, most revelatory, that this loss is not inevitable.Bergner asks: Are women actually the less monogamous gender? Do women really crave intimacy and emo...

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 alles? Mit dem Titel Mit dem Kochlöffel durch die sächsische Geschichte möchten wir Sie anhand von 25 berühmten sächsischen Persönlichkeiten aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart zu einem anregenden Bu...

"Girded with scientific data about the nature of sexual identity . . . a foray into extreme passion, in quest of the human soul." — O, The Oprah MagazineHow do we come to be who we are sexually? How do we cope with the forces of desire? How can we understand the relationship between the transcendent and the physical, between the wish for love and the anarchy of the erotic?Daniel Bergner looks for answers in the stories of four peop...

“A profound and powerful work of essential reporting." —The New York Times Book ReviewAn important—and intimate—interrogation of how we treat mental illness and how we understand ourselvesIn the early 1960s, JFK declared that science would take us to the moon. He also declared that science would make the “remote reaches of the mind accessible” and cure psychiatric illness with breakthrough medications. We were walking on the moon w...

„Diese verstörenden Geschichten hallen lange nach.“ Lori Gottlieb, New York Times Book ReviewWenn 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 von Schirach, leuchtet „Die dunkle Seite der Lust“ Abgründe aus, die sich in jedem von uns auftun könnten.

Jacob is a man with an overwhelming attraction to female feet. The Baroness is a clothing designer and evangelical sadist. Roy is a wedding band singer entranced by his step daughter. Ron and Laura are simply in love - only Laura lost both her legs in a car accident, and Ron is beguiled by a beauty many would be blind to.How do we deal with desire? Our own, and the desires of others? How do we comprehend desires that are extreme, or unacceptable? And how do those who have them, liv...

**The New York Times bestseller about a young black man's journey from violence and despair to the threshold of stardom: "A beautiful tribute to the power of good teachers" (Terry Gross, Fresh Air)."One of the most inspiring stories I've come across in a long time." —Pamela Paul, New York Times Book Review**Ryan Speedo Green had a tough upbringing in southeastern Virginia: his family lived in a trailer park and later a bullet-riddled house across the stree...

An Los Angeles Times Best Book 2003A chilling, beautifully written narrative of African warSierra 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 off the hands of their victims, then letting them live as the ultimate emblem of terror. The country is so anarchic and so desperate that, forty years after independence, i...

In this headline-making book, Daniel Bergner turns everything we thought we knew about women's desire on its head. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with renowned behavioural scientists, sexologists, psychologists and everyday women, Daniel Bergner asks:- Do women really crave intimacy and emotional connection?- Are women more disposed to sex with strangers or multiple partners than either science or society have ever let on?- And is 'the fairer sex' actu...