Partez à la découverte du monde des mathématiques et laissez-vous guider par les nombres. Nombre d'or, nombres irrationnels, nombres premiers, nombre pi..., des plus connus aux plus mystérieux, les nombres permettent d'explorer l'histoire des mathématiques et de leurs applications dans tous les domaines: architecture, météorologie, informatique, médecine... En route pour une visite guidée : de zéro à l'infini, chaque nombre est le point de départ d'histoires drôles, curieuses ou tragiques....

From the author of the highly acclaimed The Keeper of Secrets, New York Times bestselling author Julie ThomasWhen Dr Kobi Voight is given a set of old letters by his mother, he has no inkling that they will lead him around the world and deep into his family's tragic past.Within the letters - written in Hebrew and filled with delicate illustrations - lie the reflections of a young Jewish woman, forced to give up her baby daughter while fighting with...

In Dear Life, palliative care specialist Dr. Rachel Clarke recounts her professional and personal journey to understand not the end of life, but life at its end.Death was conspicuously absent during Rachel's medical training. Instead, her education focused entirely on learning to save lives, and was left wanting when it came to helping patients and their families face death. She came to specialize in palliative medicine because it is the one specialty in w...

"Excellent" poetry and prose about physicians and their patients, by Raymond Carver, Kay Redfield Jamison, Rachel Naomi Remen, and more ( Library Journal).A Life in Medicine collects stories, poems, and essays by and for those in the healing profession, who are struggling to keep up with the science while staying true to the humanitarian goals at the heart of their work. Organized around the central themes of altruism, knowledge, skill, and duty, ...

Winner of a third-place award in the collection of prayers category from the Catholic Media Association.Every mother is looking for a spiritual lifeline—words that help bring you closer to God when you need him the most.The Ave Prayer Book for Catholic Mothers is your go-to resource to find the perfect words to lift up in prayer for almost any occasion or need. This beautiful, full-color, hardcover book includes a collection of original and traditi...

From Publishers Weekly:"Standouts include Dennis Lehane's gilt-edged chiller, 'A Bostonian (in Cambridge),' in which a wealthy collector of letters of abandonment falls prey to wily blackmailers, and Joe R. Lansdale's 'The Skull Collector,' a gangster yarn featuring gun-toting female grave robbers. Overshadowing everything, though, is Lee Goldberg's 'Lost Shows,' a delightful shocker about a fanatical collector of short-lived and unaired TV shows who has t...

The first biography of the most popular anchor in cable news.Rachel Maddow has beaten the odds in a way that’s novel in today’s America: she uses her brain.In a world of banal and opinionated soundbites, she regularly crushes Sean Hannity’s ratings thanks to her deeply researched reports. And in our highly polarized world, Maddow amiably engages the staunchest conservatives, while never hesitating to expose their light-on-facts defenses.As a result,...

Augustine and Ethics examines the topic of ethics in the life and works of Augustine of Hippo. Adopting a global perspective on ethics as a field of philosophical and theological investigation, this volume includes reflections on virtue and vice, love and sin, and the political outcomes to which certain ethical stances tend to give rise. For Augustine himself, ethics was never merely theoretical. Ethical concerns are concrete; and ethical solutions should be practical. Accordingly, this vo...

This edited volume examines mass media portrayals of women leaders and other powerful women in popular culture. Contributors argue that increased media visibility and representation can lead to more widespread acceptance of women as societal leaders.The book employs an interdisciplinary, intersectional, and international approach to its coverage of these portrayals and their meanings for society and gender norms. Through a feminist lens, contributors examine these ...

A transformational approach to conflict argues that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns and social and discursive structures. Central to this book is the idea that the origins of transformation can be momentary, situational, and small-scale or large-scale and systemic. The momentary involves shifts and meaningful changes in communication and related patterns that are created in communication between people. Momentary transformative changes can radiate ou...

In de roman Rachels verzet van Julie Thomas staat een jonge vrouw vlak voor de Tweede Wereldoorlog haar baby af.Dr. Jakob (Kobi) Voight is kunstenaar en doceert kunstgeschiedenis aan de Universiteit van Melbourne. Hij besluit een sabbatical te nemen van drie maanden en naar Duitsland te reizen. Vlak voor zijn vertrek krijgt hij van zijn moeder een dagboek dat zij heeft gevonden tussen de spullen van zijn overleden oma. Het is geschreven in het Hebreeuws en bevat prachtige ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLDDiscover how to become the joyous, confident woman you were meant to be.Do you ever suspect that everyone else has life figured out and you don't have a clue? If so, Rachel Hollis has something to tell you: that's a lie.If you have ever said any of these things to yourself . . .Something else will make me happy.I'm not a good mom....