The Math Teacher

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, it prompted the United States to enter World War II on multiple fronts. From Africa to Europe, the Pacific to the home front, explore the American experience of World War II through the first-hand documents of the war.

Aunque tener buenos amigos es una aspiración permanente, no es fácil. Para ello, hay que saber y querer tener amigos y poner los medios adecuados. La improvisación -"vivir sobre la marcha"- no da buenos resultados. Y así, todo esfuerzo para poner por obra las nociones básicas acerca de la amistad da buenos resultados. En estas páginas encontrarás esas ideas.

"Some things are so huge or so old that it's hard to wrap your mind around them. But what if we took these big, hard-to-imagine objects and events and compared them to things we can see, feel and touch? Instantly, we'd see our world in a whole new way." So begins this endlessly intriguing guide to better understanding all those really big ideas and numbers children come across on a regular basis. Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one...

What sort of woman has a taste for middle-aged, married men? Ellie, twenty years old and living in Paris, leads a light and carefree life until she meets, through Facebook, "Mister", a married surgeon approaching middle age. Beginning with their frenzied affair in a hotel room in the fifteenth arrondissement, Monsieur details the clandestine Tuesday morning hotel meetings and fleeting phone calls spanning several months of sexual adventure. Generous with her body and never lacking erotic imagination (or partners, men and women), Ellie illuminates her deviations in a lucid, ferocious, and...