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  Delta of Venus

  by Anaïs Nin

  This is a collection of short stories which explore the ultimate in sexual possiblility, from a female angle.
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  Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty & Venus in Furs

  by Gilles Deleuze

  In his stunning essay, Coldness and Cruelty, Gilles Deleuze examines the work of the late-nineteenth-century German novelist Leopold von Sacher-­Masoch. He shows that masochism is something far Tore subtle and complex than the enjoyment of pain, that masochism has nothing to do with sadism; their worlds do not communicate, just as the genius of those who created them - Masoch and Sade - lie stylistically,... (more)
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  The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell

  by Luca Turin

  The Secret of Scent is a book about science by way of art, in which the author's passion for perfume leads him to the scientific mystery of what makes one molecule smell of garlic while another smells of rose. Readers who know Luca Turin as the lively central figure in Chandler Burr's The Emperor of Scent will remember the ongoing debate between two competing theories of smell—one based on molecular shape,... (more)
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  Henry and June: From a Journal of Love

  The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931-1932)

  by Anaïs Nin

  This bestseller covers a single momentous year during Nin’s life in Paris, when she met Henry Miller and his wife, June. “Closer to what many sexually adventuresome women experience than almost anything I’ve ever read....I found it a very erotic book and profoundly liberating” (Alice Walker). The source of a major motion picture from Universal. Preface by Rupert Pole; Index.