The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots, to Quantum Cryptography
Added by: nastroenie | Karma: 223.50 | Black Hole | 7 February 2011
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The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots, to Quantum Cryptography
"Singh spins tales of cryptic intrigue in every chapter." -The Wall Street Journal "Brings together . . . the geniuses who have secured communications, saved lives, and influenced the fate of nations. A pleasure to read." -Chicago Tribune
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How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
Yale psychologist Paul Bloom presents a striking and thought-provoking new understanding of pleasure, desire, and value. The thought of sex with a virgin is intensely arousing for many men. The average American spends more than four hours a day watching television. Abstract art can sell for millions of dollars. People slow their cars to look at gory accidents, and go to movies that make them cry. Pleasure is anything but straightforward. Our desires, attractions, and tastes take us beyond the symmetry of a beautiful face, the sugar and fat in food, or the prettiness of a painting.
"Barthes repeatedly compared teaching to play, reading to eros, writing to seduction. His voice became more and more personal, more full of grain, as he called it; his intellectual art more openly a performance, like that of the other great anti-systematizers . . .
Like all good single volume encyclopedias, this one is also a delight for the casual browser who is not looking for anything in particular. Opening the book to read in an idle moment invariably provides both pleasure and instruction."
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 28 October 2010
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The Man From Half Moon Bay
Surprise. Panic. Then desire like an electric shock filled Sara O'Rourke when she saw Jordan Bandor across the crowded room. For eighteen months she'd lived free of the man from the harsh, unforgiving Australian outback who'd swept her off her feet, then wrapped her in a seductive web of sensual pleasure that left no room for work or friends. The walls she'd built against his obsession were strong, but he'd never tried to scale them... until now.
