Discovering Mathematics: The Art of Investigation

One of the most striking characteristics of mathematics is that thoughtful and persistent mathematical analysis often provokes totally unexpected insights into what may at first have looked like an uninteresting or intractable problem. This book gives students an opportunity to discover the nature and process of mathematics by developing their ability to investigate problems without relying on the standardized methods usually taught. The techniques required are elementary, allowing the student to concentrate on the way the material is explored and developed, and on the strategies for addressing questions whose answers are not immediately obvious.

Your Soul's Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born

An eloquent spokesman for his explorations in the realm few of us have even considered, much less explored fully: the concept of pre-birth planning as a convention of souls who make decisions about incarnation - place, time, circumstances, and challenges - that will heighten the overall improvement of not only their repeated growth in the process of rebirth but also the gift to the betterment of mankind.

The Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy

Set in an unnamed part of Appalacia, sometime around the turn of the century, this book is a tale of love and loss. The story begins as a woman bears her brother's child - a boy. He leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth to find him.

The New South and the Old West 1866-1890 (Discovering U.S. History)

The end of the Civil War in 1865 brought significant change to the United States. The war had destroyed the physical fabric of the South, ushering in an age of reform and rebuilding that would create a new South free from slavery and open to progress and industrialization. But much of the promise of the post-war South was lost in the political heat of Reconstruction, which pitted Radical Republicans against Redeemer Democrats.