This is a Mathematics book with a difference. There are more stories here than problems! So read the stories, take in the mixture of facts and fiction and enjoy teasing your brain.
Outsiders - American Short Stories for students of ESL
The purpose of Outsiders is to help address this twofold obligation to nonnative English users in our colleges and universities by offering short stories carefully chosen for their quality, diversity, and appeal, so that they can provide a sound, structural basis for studying fiction as a literary genre in a college credit course. Since the "outsiders" theme, if left undiluted, could become somewhat intensive, an effort was made to intersperse the stories having more serious themes with lighter, more humorous pieces such as "The Loudest Voice," "Senor Payroll," "Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N and Vocabulary," and "Rope."
With a Little Help is my first serious experiment in self-publishing. I’ve published many novels, short story collections, books of essays and so on with publishers, and it’s all been very good and satisfying and educational and so on, but it seems like it’s time to try something new. With a Little Help consists of 12 stories, all reprints except for “Epoch” (commissioned by Mark Shuttleworth).
Tales of Terror and Mystery by: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930
Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his detective stories, he also wrote other short stories which are masterpieces of mystery and suspense. In some of the stories in “Tales of Terror and Mystery”, a suppressed uneasiness gradually builds up and evolves into sheer terror. In others, the story line unexpectedly changes and comes to a horrific conclusion.
