Romantic love presents some of life's most challenging questions. Can we choose who to love? Is romantic love rational? Can we love more than one person at a time? And can we make ourselves fall out of love? In On Romantic Love, Berit Brogaard attempts to get to the bottom of love's many contradictions. This short book, informed by both historical and cutting edge philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, combines a new theory of romantic love with entertaining anecdotes from real life and accessible explanations of the neuroscience underlying our wildest passions. Against the grain, Brogaard argues that love is an emotion; that it can be, at turns, both rational and irrational; and that it can be manifested in degrees. We can love one person more than another and we can love a person a little or a lot or not at all. And love isn't even always something we consciously feel. However, love - like other emotions, both conscious and not - is subject to rational control, and falling in or out of it can be a deliberate choice. This engaging and innovative look at a universal topic, featuring original line drawings by illustrator Gareth Southwell, illuminates the processes behind heartbreak, obsession, jealousy, attachment, and more.

What was the first toy advertised on TV? Who was the first Star Wars character to speak? Is the Baby Ruth candy bar really named after the legendary baseball player? When was the very first selfie taken? Learn the answers to all of these things and more facts you probably never knew in 254 Cool Facts You Probably Never Knew. Liam Willis is a junior high student in a rural Texas town. He became fascinated with facts and trivia at a young age and has read dozens of fact books. In 254 Cool Facts, he shares the best of the best...and debunks a few that are widely thought to be facts but aren't. 254 Cool Facts You Probably Never Knew is Liam Willis's first book.

GODS AND GODDESS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW. TAKES A LOOK AT SOME OF THE THOUSANDS OF GODS AND GODDESS. THAT MEN AND WOMEN HAVE WORSHIPED OVER THE EONS. I AM NOT HERE TO JUDGE OR HELP YOU DECIDE WHAT GOD OR GODDESS IS RIGHT FOR YOU, BUT MERELY HERE TO HOPEFULLY BROADEN YOUR PERSPECTIVE OF GODS IN GENERAL. THIS BOOK IS NUMBER ONE IN THIS SERIES. WITH YOUR SUPPORT OTHER VOLUMES WILL FOLLOW. BASED ON MY RESEARCH THERE ARE THOUSANDS. IF NOT MILLIONS OF GODS. IN ANCIENT TIMES THERE WERE GODS ASSIGNED TO ALMOST EVERY PART OF MAN'S DAILY LIFE. A GOD FOR FOOD, A GOD FOR SHELTER, AND ALMOST ANY OTHER BASIC NEED OR DESIRE OF MAN. WE WILL TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THESE LESSER KNOWN GODS. FROM THE GREAT KINGS OF EGYPT TO THE LONELY FISHERMAN. THERE IS A GOD TO GUIDE AND PROTECT THEM. OR AT LEAST THAT WAS THE COMMON BELIEF OF THE TIME PERIOD. SO IN PARTING, I HOPE THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU APPRECIATE THE BEAUTY OF GODS AND GODDESS. NO MATTER WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN MAY YOUR GOD HELP YOU APPRECIATE AND UNDERSTAND YOUR FELLOW MAN OR WOMAN. THAT SHARE THIS WORLD WITH YOU. GOD IS THE GREATEST MYSTERY IN THE UNIVERSE AND WILL PROBABLY NEVER BE TRULY UNDERSTOOD BY MERE HUMANS LIKE OURSELVES. BUT IN THE MEAN TIME ENJOY SOME OF THE GODS AND GODDESS THAT WE HAVE EXPOSED YOU TO IN THIS BRIEF HISTORY. OF GODS AND GODDESS. UNTIL WE MEET IN THE NEXT ONE. ENJOY

The essential voyage companion: a text to stimulate the bored and the curious. This fascinating volume is packed with useful bits of information on the rarely known facts, enigmas, and curiosities of our world, serving the purpose of entertainment and enlightenment with captivating articles on the oddities of human behavior, eccentric historical figures, dead and dying languages, uncontacted peoples, sin-eaters, sky-burials, hidden metros, bizarre micronations, and puzzling manuscripts.