Download The Book of Human Emotions: From Ambiguphobia to Umpty: 154 Words from Around the World for How We Feel AudioBook Free
A thoughtful, gleeful encyclopedia of emotions, both extensive and outrageously specific, from throughout background and throughout the world. How will you feel today? Is your center fluttering in anticipation? Your abdomen tight with nerves? Will you be dropping in love? Sensing somewhat miffed? Have you got the heebie-jeebies? Will you be antsy with iktsuarpok or filled up with nakhes? Recent research implies there are only six basic emotions. But if which makes you feel uneasy, suspicious, and maybe a good little bereft, The Reserve of Human Emotions is for you. In this original book, you'll get to travel around the world and through time, learning how different ethnicities have articulated the human experience and picking up some attractive new knowledge about yourself along the way. From your familiar (anger) to the foreign (zal), each entertaining and beneficial alphabetical entry uncovers the surprising connections and attractive facts behind our emotional lives. Whether you're searching for the perfect phrase last but not least that cozy feeling you get from being inside on the cold winter's nights, surrounded by friends and good food (the particular Dutch call gezelligheid); or thinking how nostalgia progressed from a fatal health issues to enjoyable self-indulgence, Tiffany Watt Smith draws on background, anthropology, science, fine art, books, music, and popular culture to get the answers. In listening to The Reserve of Human Emotions, you'll discover feelings you never understood you had (like basorexia, the sudden urge to kiss someone) and gain surprising insights into why you feel how you do. Besides, aren't you interested what nginyiwarrarringu means?
