Cup of Comfort for Inspiration: Uplifting stories that will brighten your day
Added by: koji0777 | Karma: 58.05 | Fiction literature | 4 September 2010
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Cup of Comfort for Inspiration: Uplifting stories that will brighten your day
Just like a cup of hot tea or coffee on a cold morning, this remarkable collection of true stories will warm your heart, lighten your mood, and rouse you to move mountains. In each one of these stories, you'll share in the blessings and triumphs of ordinary folks who have rediscovered the everyday pleasures inherent in living and loving. You will be inspired by such great stories.
The Happy Stripper: Pleasures and Politics of the New Burlesque
If the burlesque stripper, with her bawdy spirit and unruly insubordination, has emerged for many as a new ‘empowering’ model for the sexually aware woman, then she also strikes horror in the heard of second wave feminism. Embodied by high profile artists such as Dita von Teese and Catherine d’Lish,
The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of Mathematics
Robert Kaplan, writing together with his
wife Ellen Kaplan, once again takes us on a witty, literate, and
accessible tour of the world of mathematics. Where The Nothing That Is
looked at math through the lens of zero, The Art of the Infinite
takes infinity, in its countless guises, as a touchstone for
understanding mathematical thinking. Tracing a path from Pythagoras,
whose great Theorem led inexorably to a discovery that his followers
tried in vain to keep secret (the existence of irrational numbers);
through Descartes and Leibniz; to the brilliant, haunted Georg Cantor,
who proved that infinity can come in different sizes, the Kaplans show
how the attempt to grasp the ungraspable embodies the essence of
mathematics ...