6/30/2023 0 Comments Guts raina telgemeier![]() The cartoon strips she draws to mitigate her distress become a major part of her adult life, along with anxiety and IBS. Her narrative chronicles how she tries to cope with these illnesses as a preadolescent while simultaneously encountering bullying and injustice at school and benign chaos in the two-bedroom apartment she shares with her parents, sister, brother, and occasionally her grandmother. ![]() Panic attacks accompany the IBS, and the two conditions exacerbate each other, intensifying her distress. During this period, she first experiences gastrointestinal issues, eventually diagnosed as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Guts specifically records Raina’s fourth- and fifth-grade years, when she transitioned from nine to 10 years old. Guts is the third mid-grade graphic memoir in a trilogy by author/illustrator Raina Telgemeier through which she relates the true story of her childhood. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Eight cousins alcott![]() She also makes friends with Phebe, her aunts' maid of her own age, whose cheerful attitude in the face of poverty helps to illustrate to Rose her own good fortune. Through his unorthodox theories about child-rearing and her exposure to the exploits of her seven male cousins and numerous aunts, Rose becomes happier and healthier, cured of many of her fears and prejudices. In one of Louisa May Alcott’s most charming but lesser known novels, Eight Cousins, 13-year-old Rose Campbell must move to Boston and live with her wealthy relatives and their large families after the death of her father. When Rose's guardian, Uncle Alec, returns from abroad he takes over her care. This is the story of Rose, a rich but lonely and sickly girl who has been recently orphaned and sent to live with her maiden aunts. Download cover art Download CD case insert Eight Cousins ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Love and Math by Edward Frenkel![]() ![]() ![]() Having braved a discriminatory educational system to become one of the twenty-first century’s leading mathematicians, Frenkel now works on one of the biggest ideas to come out of math in the last 50 years: the Langlands Program. ![]() Love and Math tells two intertwined stories: of the wonders of mathematics and of one young man’s journey learning and living it. In this heartfelt and passionate book, Frenkel shows that mathematics, far from occupying a specialist niche, goes to the heart of all matter, uniting us across cultures, time, and space. In Love and Math, renowned mathematician Edward Frenkel reveals a side of math we’ve never seen, suffused with all the beauty and elegance of a work of art. What if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of van Gogh and Picasso, weren’t even told they existed? Alas, this is how math is taught, and so for most of us it becomes the intellectual equivalent of watching paint dry. An awesome, globe-spanning, and New York Times bestselling journey through the beauty and power of mathematics ![]() |