Author : Vern L. Bullough
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 1994-05-27
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN :
A comprehensive history of more than a century of sex research by a scholar who has been deeply involved in the field and who has known personally most of the players since Kinsey.
Author : Brian Hayes
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 22,16 MB
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1429938579
“A refreshing collection of superb mathematical essays . . . from choosing up sides to choosing names, the topics are intriguingly nonstandard . . . First-rate.” —John Allen Paulos, author of Innumeracy A science and technology journalist and essayist whose work has appeared in multiple anthologies, Brian Hayes now presents a selection of his most memorable pieces—including the National Magazine Award–winning “Clock of Ages”—in this enjoyable volume. In addition, Hayes embellishes the collection with an overall scene-setting preface, reconfigured illustrations, and a refreshingly self-critical “Afterthoughts” section appended to each essay. “You don’t have to be a geek to appreciate Hayes’s lively, self-effacing style . . . The first essay explains how clockmakers developed the gears and linkages that enabled fabled medieval clocks to reach remarkable accuracy, as well as predict the day Easter would fall on. Other essays celebrate the notion of random numbers and why they are so hard to achieve. Numerical analysis also plays a role in economic models based on the kinetic theory of gases or simplified markets involving iterations of buying and selling. Hayes goes on to explain how statistics have been applied to compute which quarrels—from interpersonal to world wars—are the deadliest (surprising results here) . . . Challenging but rewarding for anyone intrigued by numbers.” —Kirkus Reviews “As much as any book I can name, Group Theory in the Bedroom conveys to a general audience the playfulness involved in doing mathematics: how questions arise as a form of play, how our first attempts at answering questions usually seem naive in hindsight but are crucial for finding eventual solutions, and how a good solution just feels right.” —David Austin, Notices of the AMS
Author : Michelle Perrot
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 46,92 MB
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0300169531
An erudite and highly enjoyable exploration of the most intriguing of personal spaces, from Greek and Roman antiquity through today The winner of France’s prestigious Prix Femina Essai (2009), this imaginative and captivating book explores the many dimensions of the room in which we spend so much of our lives—the bedroom. Eminent cultural historian Michelle Perrot traces the evolution of the bedroom from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans to today, examining its myriad forms and functions, from royal king’s chamber to child’s sleeping quarters to lovers’ trysting place to monk’s cell. The history of women, so eager for a room of their own, and that of prisons, where the principal cause of suffering is the lack of privacy, is interwoven with a reflection on secrecy, walls, the night and its mysteries. Drawing from a wide range of sources, including architectural and design treatises, private journals, novels, memoirs, and correspondences, Perrot’s engaging book follows the many roads that lead to the bedroom—birth, sex, illness, death—in its endeavor to expose the most intimate, nocturnal side of human history.
Author : Laura E. Williams
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 49,28 MB
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1571318267
It is 1942. Korinna, a thirteen-year-old girl in Germany, is an active member of the local Jungmadel, a Nazi youth group, along with many of her friends. She believes that Hitler is helping Germany by dealing with what he calls the “Jewish problem,” a campaign that she witnesses as her Jewish neighbors are attacked and taken from their homes. When Korinna discovers that her parents—who are secretly members of an underground resistance group—are sheltering a family of Jewish refugees behind her bedroom wall, she is shocked. As she comes to know the family her sympathies begin to turn, and when someone tips off the Gestapo, Korinna’s loyalties are put to the test. She must decide what she really believes and whom she really trusts. An exciting novel for middle-grade readers, Behind the Bedroom Wall teaches tolerance and understanding while exploring why Nazism held so many in its deadly thrall.
Author : Richard Robinson
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780199111558
Science Magic is a series of four paperbacks for children, that make science fun! Find out about everyday science, while performing as a magician, and dazzle your friends and family. Each book uses objects to be found in a different room in the house, to explain some basic scientific principles through magic tricks, or experiments. The easy, accessible text is complemented with cartoon illustrations throughout. Richard Robinson has created numerous popular science shows for television, including The Big Bang (CITV), and The Riddlers (YTV). He also helped set up and perform in the first series of Spitting Image.
Author : Debby Herbenick
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 37,25 MB
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0756699045
Everyone wants to have great sex. Now everyone can! Written by Dr. Debby Herbenick and Grant Stoddard, two of the world's most highly esteemed sex experts, Great in Bed is a guide to fantastic sex that takes a "he said/she said" point of view, so couples can learn how to properly communicate their desires with their partner. Perfect for a couple just getting together, or one who's been together for years, Great in Bed teaches sexual confidence, positive self-image, and multiple skills so readers can learn how to bring their bedroom escapades to the next level.
Author : Susan Martineau
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,95 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781615334100
Presents nine science experiments to be performed in the house, demonstrating such scientific properties as static electricity, light reflections, and magnetism.
Author : Brooke Borel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 16,34 MB
Release : 2015-04-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 022604193X
Bed bugs are thriving across the globe--from North and South America, to Africa, Asia and Europe. For some time, bed bugs were naively seen as a problem unique to developing countries, but their love of high thread content sheets has set them up in five-star residences in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and other parts of Europe as well. Bed Bugs were first noticed in society by Americans in the early 1700 s. Many believe sailboats returning from Europe unknowingly carried the bugs as cargo, as sailors complained of being attacked as they slept in their cabins. With the introduction of DDT in the 1950s, bed bugs nearly disappeared. But when DDT was banned in the 1970 s, a wave of super bed bugs rejoiced. Now, up to 25% of residents in some cities have reported problems with the pests, bordering on epidemic levels. In fact, history has never seen such widespread and intense bed bug infestations. Our propensity for travel has left bed bugs with enviable frequent flyer status too. Following the Sydney Olympics, for example, and the thousands of visitors to Australia, it was estimated that the bed bug occupancy rate in Sydney hotels was 95%. In "Sleep Tight, "Brooke Borel introduces readers to the biology of these amazingly adaptive insects which can travel over 100 foot distances at night--and the myriad ways in which humans respond to them. She travels to meet with scientists who are rearing bed bug colonies on their own blood-- to the BedBug University, to swank apartments on the upper East Side of Manhattan. She explores the history of bed bugs, and their near extinction, charting how current infestations are in direct response to human chemical use. She also introduces us to the economics of bed bug infestations, and the industry that has arisen to combat that. This is the first history and natural history of bed bugs, and it leaves few exoskeletons unturned."
Author : Pat Cavendish O’Neil
Publisher : Palmer Higgs Pty Ltd
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 32,23 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 1876624280
Author : Antonio Zadra
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 20,83 MB
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 1324002840
"A truly comprehensive, scientifically rigorous and utterly fascinating account of when, how, and why we dream. Put simply, When Brains Dream is the essential guide to dreaming." —Matthew Walker, author of Why We Sleep Questions on the origins and meaning of dreams are as old as humankind, and as confounding and exciting today as when nineteenth-century scientists first attempted to unravel them. Why do we dream? Do dreams hold psychological meaning or are they merely the reflection of random brain activity? What purpose do dreams serve? When Brains Dream addresses these core questions about dreams while illuminating the most up-to-date science in the field. Written by two world-renowned sleep and dream researchers, it debunks common myths that we only dream in REM sleep, for example—while acknowledging the mysteries that persist around both the science and experience of dreaming. Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold bring together state-of-the-art neuroscientific ideas and findings to propose a new and innovative model of dream function called NEXTUP—Network Exploration to Understand Possibilities. By detailing this model’s workings, they help readers understand key features of several types of dreams, from prophetic dreams to nightmares and lucid dreams. When Brains Dream reveals recent discoveries about the sleeping brain and the many ways in which dreams are psychologically, and neurologically, meaningful experiences; explores a host of dream-related disorders; and explains how dreams can facilitate creativity and be a source of personal insight. Making an eloquent and engaging case for why the human brain needs to dream, When Brains Dream offers compelling answers to age-old questions about the mysteries of sleep.
