Although there are many kinds of love erotic love has been celebrated in art & poetry as life's most rewarding & exalting experience worth living & dying for & bringing out the best in ourselves & yet it has excused & even been thought to justify the most reprehensible crimes Why should this be? This Very Short Introduction explores this & other puzzling questions Do we love someone for their virtue their beauty or their moral or other qualities? Are love's characteristic desires altruistic or selfish? Are there duties of love? What do the sciences
- neuroscience evolutionary & social psychology & anthropology
- tell us about love? Many of the answers we give to such questions are determined not so much by the facts of human nature as by the ideology of love Ronald de Sousa considers some of the many paradoxes raised by love looking at the different kinds of love
- affections affiliation philia storage agape but focusses on eros or romantic love He considers whether our conventional beliefs about love & sex are deeply irrational & argues that alternative conceptions of love & sex although hard to formulate & live by may be worth striving for ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable


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Kelly Flanagan is a psychologist father & blogger who is best known for the letters he has written to his children on his blog one of which landed him on the Today Show with his four-year-old daughter In Loveable Flanagan answers three fundamental human questions Am I enough? How do I become unlonely? Do I matter? He shows us how to rediscover our worthiness & remember that we are good enough He encourages us to shed the false self that keeps us lonely & to find people who accept us as we are & he inspires us to fully embrace our passions regardless of how ordinary those passions may be Reading like an extended love letter to readers Loveable uncovers three essential truths you are enough you are not alone & you matter Flanagan invites us to disconnect from the distractions & demands of daily life & to listen more intently for the voice of grace within each of us so we might fully awaken to the redemptive story we are here to live ...

Before HACKSLASH Tim Seeley introduced another critically acclaimed duo to the world in the form of dysfunctional superheroes Lovebunny & Mr Hell! Former sidekick Beth Bowers wants to be her own hero but she's saddled with a sidekick of her own; the demonic eternally hungry Mr Hell! Long out of print their twisted adventures return in this all-new volume
- in full-color for the first time!

Includes:: EVERY appearance of Lovebunny & Mr Hell to-date including the HACKSLASH strips & crossover with Savage Dragon!


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Chicago 1954 When his father Montrose goes missing 22-year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him accompanied by his Uncle George
- publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide
- & his childhood friend Letitia On their journey to the manor of Mr Braithwhite
- heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus's ancestors
- they encounter both mundane terrors of white America & malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours At the manor Atticus discovers his father in chains held prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient Dawn
- led by Samuel Braithwhite & his son Caleb
- which has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus & his one hope of salvation may be the seed of his
- & the whole Turner clan's
- destruction An imaginative blend of magic power hope & freedom that stretches across time touching diverse members of two black families Matt Ruff's Lovecraft Country is a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racism
- the terrifying specter that continues to haunt us today








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A mind-shattering journey into the world of HP Lovecraft & the Cthulhu Mythos warped into the shape of a Love Letter experience You’re not trying to gain affection from the Princess You are trying to eliminate your rivals for power as you seek to understand the cosmic horror that lurks just beyond what we foolishly call “reality” In each round only one player will prevail Use deduction & luck to eliminate other players or watch as their own madness consumes them Will you accept madness as the price that must be paid for Knowledge Man Was Not Meant to Know? Or will you attempt to hold the shreds of your sanity together in the face of eldritch nightmares attempting to enter & destroy our world? Players 2-6 Ages 14 Playing Time 10 min ...

A Diamond Select Toys release! Cthulhu awakens! The first-ever Gallery Diorama of HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu depicts the old god rising from his place of dreaming in R'lyeh Measuring Approx. 10 inches tall & h&-sculpted in extraordinary detail by Eli Livingston this sculpture is cast in high-quality PVC with detailed paint applications & comes packaged in a full-color window box A Diamond Select Toys release!extraordinary detail by Eli Livingston Measuring Approx. 10 inches tall ...

Collector&s Edition Contains Game Disc Badge Artbook Original Soundtrackand Lithographs Lovecraft&s Untold Stories is based on the stories written by HP Lovecraft Experience in your own flesh the cosmic horror created by the genius of Providence Experience a different story with each character that will take you through different settings from the haunting Victorian mansion to the abandoned hospital where forbidden experiments are performed to the jungle where lost tribes perform forgotten rituals (among other locations) Levels are progressively generated & vary depending on the character you&re playing with so you&ll have a different experience in each game
- look for items & clues to unlock secrets & new stories! Fight against hundreds of different monsters from the Cthulhu Myths Explore Lovecraft&s stories with each of the characters Take on the " Ancients" like the Great Cthulhu Dagon Azathoth & many more Investigate each level carefully to uncover all the secrets Madness lurks Make decisions throughout your adventure if you take the wrong ones you could lose your mind & your character will take his own life to escape the horrors that lie in wait 5 different heroes to play with Get & upgrade weapons items & artifacts Search for clues & special items to unlock secrets & new stories
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Collector&s Edition Contains Game Disc Badge Artbook Original Soundtrackand Lithographs Lovecraft&s Untold Stories is based on the stories written by HP Lovecraft Experience in your own flesh the cosmic horror created by the genius of Providence Experience a different story with each character that will take you through different settings from the haunting Victorian mansion to the abandoned hospital where forbidden experiments are performed to the jungle where lost tribes perform forgotten rituals (among other locations) Levels are progressively generated & vary depending on the character you&re playing with so you&ll have a different experience in each game
- look for items & clues to unlock secrets & new stories! Fight against hundreds of different monsters from the Cthulhu Myths Explore Lovecraft&s stories with each of the characters Take on the " Ancients" like the Great Cthulhu Dagon Azathoth & many more Investigate each level carefully to uncover all the secrets Madness lurks Make decisions throughout your adventure if you take the wrong ones you could lose your mind & your character will take his own life to escape the horrors that lie in wait 5 different heroes to play with Get & upgrade weapons items & artifacts Search for clues & special items to unlock secrets & new stories
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Lovecraft's untold stories is an action rogue-lite with RPG elements You explore randomly generated levels based in HP Lovecraft stories fighting cultists & all kinds of monsters from the Mythos improving your weapons & gear solving puzzles & challenges & looking for clues & knowledge to defeat the Great old ones & the outer gods ...

Illustrated in haunting black & white over 30 years ago these comics are re-presented in a new edition adapting three of HP Lovecraft&s most famous stories involving the Cthulhu Mythos " The Nameless City" is considered the first story of Lovecraft&s Cthulhu Mythos detailing the discovery of an ancient city in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula built by an unnamed race of beings of reptilian appearance In " The Festival" a man arrives at the sea town of Kingsport Massachusetts during Christmas but finds a place eerily empty & centuries out of date " The Call of Cthulhu" is perhaps Lovecraft&s most famous story describing a man who after finding the notes of his gr&-uncle is lead on a journey around the world in search of this mysterious & disturbing phenomenon About the Author Esteban Maroto began his career in the 1960s in Spain but was soon working for American publishers on titles such as Red Sonja Savage Tales & The Savage Sword of Conan In 1971 he joined Warren Publishing working on the titles Creepy Eerie & Vampirella After Warren folded in 1983 he continued working in comics on titles such as Zatanna Cadillacs & Dinosaurs & X-Men Unlimited ...