Beautiful Structures argues that structure, mathematics, aesthetics, teleology, and personhood belong together rather than existing as separate domains requiring subsequent integration. The world is necessarily structured, and structure possesses an aesthetic character as a condition of its existence rather than becoming aesthetic only through human response. Mathematics, on this account, is not an abstract language imposed upon reality but the articulation of the relations constitutive of...

When Danielle dials the wrong number and gets Mark on the line, he surprises her with making a fantasy of hers come true.Only there's one small catch: no sex, no talking, but a whole lot of orgasms...

The novel follows the story of Charlie Eddington, a former Major League Baseball player who, at the age of 42, is invited to join a minor league team as a coach. Eddington is faced with the challenge of working with a new generation of ballplayers while reflecting on his own career and life experiences in baseball.Mark Harris's "With the Procession" is appreciated for its insights into the world of baseball, its depiction of the sport's culture and the challenges faced by athletes as they ...

Winner of the 1991 New American Writing Award.Originally published in 1952, this poignant, romantic biography of the poet Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931) is well worth a second chance. From early on, Lindsay was a wanderer, tramping hundreds of miles along country roads, visiting small towns, never holding a job, writing poems of uplift and defiance, and giving them, or his drawings, away on the streets, selling them for food or declaiming them on the lecture circuit. A...

Glass and Water is the first book on underwater photography for freedivers. With contributions from expert underwater photographers, this book teaches the skills, knowledge and equipment necessary to successfully pursue underwater photography without scuba gear.Rather than seeking to replace books on underwater photography, Glass and Water focuses on freediving techniques, equipment and photo opportunities. By carefully choosing or adapting freediving and photogra...

Sonic Wilderness accesses the critical value of unusual vinyl records that concern our relationship with nature. These wild records reveal unconventional perspectives on the entanglements of human life with animals, gardens and plants. They form a lyrical unconscious exposing the conventions and ideologies of popular music, their warped perspectives and acoustic radioactivity comprising a resistance to enduring social, psychological and political conditions.

**One of The Hollywood Reporter’s 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time • A National Book Critics Circle finalist • One of People's top 10 books of 2021 •An instant New York Times bestseller • Named a best book of the year by NPR and TimeA magnificent biography of one of the most protean creative forces in American entertainment history, a life of dazzling highs and vertiginous plunges*—some of the worst largely unknown until now—by th...

During the colonial and postcolonial eras, local people in lowland South America experienced exploitation from outsiders. But as new kinds of societies emerged from engagements between outside and Indigenous communities, Indigenous Amazonians formed strategic alliances to defend livelihoods, territory, and symbolic values, as well as to curb exploitation, predation, and threats.The contributors in Indigenous Alliance Making bring together historical analyses with anthropol...

The Science of Global Warming Remediation examines the workings of a complex chemical system using concepts such as chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and oxidation/reduction. It focuses on preventing environmental deterioration as well as using environmental chemistry for environmental cleanup or remediation. Further, it describes how to utilize mechanical, chemical, and biological methods to detoxify contaminated land or water. The book also considers how environmental legislati...

God and the Book of Nature develops theological views of the natural sciences in light of the recent theological turn in science-and-religion scholarship and the ‘science-engaged theology’ movement. Centered around the Book of Nature metaphor, it brings together contributions by theologians, natural scientists, and philosophers based in Europe and North America. They provide an exploration of complementary (and even contesting) readings of the Book of Nature, particularly in light...

When a bomb goes off in a Toronto Jewish school, John Webster, a Daily Globe reporter and former war correspondent, is told he is the only man for the job. Against his own better judgement, John investigates the horrific death of a teacher and six students killed in the blast. But in doing so he relives the past in his nightmares, when he witnessed horrible suicide bombs in Iraq.John searches for witnesses in a hospital and meets one of the victims, Lila Neuhoff, who was severally ...

It’s just another day for John Webster, a reporter for the Daily Globe, when disaster strikes from out of nowhere. A sniper kills a prominent figure at a news conference and all hell breaks loose. With very few clues, the police are stumped. They have never seen anything like it before. A perfect headshot from over a 1,000 meters away. John is one of the few people around who has experience dealing with snipers. In Iraq and Afghanistan he saw a lot of good people die and he underst...