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Dr. Graham Tattersall*
239 pages
2010

A Guide to Answering the Unanswerable, Making Sense of the Nonsensical, and Solving the Unsolvable

How big is your vocabulary?
How heavy is your house?
Do the dead outnumber the living?
What are the best words to use
in a personal ad?

We humans are a curious species, prone to think, ruminate, reflect, cogitate, mull over, and philosophize. We long to explain away the world aruond us, to answer all those seeming unanswerables. Why are we here? Is there a God? Is there life after death? And, above all, how many houseflies does it take to pull a car?

A confirmed and superior geek, Dr. Graham Tattersall has rescued math from the prison of the classroom and put it to use in novel and unexpected ways to explain some oft-pondered mysteries of the world. Geekspeak is an essential tool that will help আপনি exercise your brain and solve the unsolvable, make আপনি sound intelligent so আপনি can impress your friends, and enable আপনি to better understand the fascinating world in which we live in ways never possible before.

Math has a new champion, and the geeks a new king.

*Dr. Graham Tattersall is a freelance engineer working on projects as diverse as computer-aided shoe fitting, automated image recognition, fault analysis systems for trains, and enhancement of ultrasound images. He lives in Suffolk, England.

Hope আপনি will enjoy as much as I did!
--- Venus.a.k.a.♥jj9
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Advance Readers' Copies -- one of the many benefits of working at a bookstore. For those who might not know what that phrase refers to though, it means I (and other booksellers) are invited, even encouraged, to read advance copies of বই before they are officially released to the public. In this world of thousands upon thousands of books, publishers often send out a free copy in hopes that a particularly enthusiastic recipient will personally promote the work to his অথবা her customers, and thus increase sales exponentally.

Here are a few বই that I have read in galley form (another phrase...
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Daniel J. Levitin, 2006, 320 pages

Why human beings make and enjoy সঙ্গীত is, in Levitin’s telling, a delicious story. In this unprecedented meeting of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between সঙ্গীত – its performances, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it – and the human brain.

Taking on prominent thinkers who argue that সঙ্গীত is nothing আরো than an evolutionary accident, Levitin argues that সঙ্গীত is fundamental to our species, perhaps even আরো so than language. ‘This Is Your Brain On Music’ is an ear-opening,...
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Here are some of my favourite books. Try to read them, they are excellent. For those who can speak Spanish, I advise পাঠ করা García Márquez in Spanish.

1.    The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
2.    The Firm, John Grisham
3.    Crossing the River, Caryl Phillips
4.    The Innocent Man, John Grisham
5.    Vanity Fair, William Thackeray
6.    Jane Eyre, পুডিংবিশেষ Brontë
7.    Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
8.    A Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
9.    The Sword of Truth, Terry Goodkind
10.    The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
11.    Hamlet, Shakespeare
12.    It, Stephen King
13.    Les Rois Maudits, Maurice Druon
14.    Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
15.    Atonement, Ian McEwan
16.    Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
17.    Book of the Dead, Patricia Cornwell
18.    Annales, Tacite
19.    Mémoires d’Hadrien, Marguerite Yourcenar
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