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I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
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I Am Nujood, Age 10 and DivorcedI Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced

Nujood Ali, a ten-year old Yemeni girl forced into marriage with a repulsive older man, refuses to put up with the injustice of the terrible abuse she suffers daily at his hands. Against tremendous odds, she will not back down until she gets what she wants: a divorce.
Najood tells her own amazing story with the help of co-author Delphine Minoui. This inspiring book, which comes out out in February 2010, has already been translated into 16 languages.
 
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Tags: Nujood, between, alternate, determined, legal, Divorced, author, story, Delphine
Aha! Insight
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Aha! Insight
Martin Gardner can be considered one of the best there ever was in writing about mathematics. His essays are always entertaining and contain enough content to suggest other applications of the main point of his thesis. This book contains a series of short puzzles, most of which have quick solutions based on an "alternate" form of reasoning. That form is described as an "Aha" moment, where looking at the problem a different way leads to a simple solution to what appears to be a hard problem.
 
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Tags: problem, alternate, reasoning, described, based