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  1. jtotheizzoe:

    othergeeks:

    In the academic world Dover Publications is widely known for publishing standard texts in mathematics. To me they’re known for publishing books with the best cover designs around, which truly make them stand out among the boring rest.

    These are fantastic. If you can make a math book look inviting … well, you’ve done something special.

    I kid, of course. Math is awesome. I’m only allowed to give math a hard time because I am the child of mathematicians.

    Any other favorite artistic textbook covers? Reblog with your favorites or send them my way via the fan mail button or Twitter.

    (via proofmathisbeautiful)

    #covers  #Morris Tenenbaum  #Harry Pollard  #Ordinary Differential Equations  #Differential Geometry  #Heinrich W. Guggenheimer  #Advanced Calculus  #David V. Widder  #Challenging Problems in Algebra  #Alfred S. Posamentier  #Charles T. Salkind  #Introduction to Topology  #Bert Mendelsen  #Tensor Calculus  #J. L. Synge  #A. Schild  #Fourier Series and Orthogonal Functions  #Harry F. Davis  #Set Theory and Logic  #Robert R. Stoll  #Geometry Relativity and the Fourth Dimension  #Rudolf v. B. Rucker 
    2 days ago  /  1,045 notes
  2. thecloudman: reading this! enjoying this! The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty etnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilental, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”

    thecloudman:

    reading this! enjoying this!

    The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

    “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty etnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilental, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”

    #covers  #Richard Dawkins  #The God Delusion  #lines 
    3 days ago  /  27 notes
  3. walkwhilereading: “Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.” Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin. walkwhilereading: “Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.” Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin.
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    walkwhilereading:

    “Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.”

    Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin.

    #covers  #lines  #Vladimir Nabokov  #Pnin 
    4 days ago  /  32 notes
  4. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

    (Source: carouselinparis, via tropicoforange)

    #covers  #F. Scott Fitzgerald  #The Great Gatsby 
    6 days ago  /  9,351 notes
  5. Susan Forward, Toxic Parents

    Susan Forward, Toxic Parents

    (Source: coverspy)

    #covers  #Toxic Parents  #Susan Forward  #Craig Buck 
    2 weeks ago  /  23 notes
  6. iamgreaterthanhate: typingfrantically: Let me talk to you about books. Specifically, one book. This book. This book should be a best seller. This book should be required reading for graduating from high school. Before you get that diploma, you read this book. This book deals with debunking “Neurosexism,” which is a very fancy term for all of that evolutionary psychology bullshit that people spill about those “brain differences” between boys and girls. This book debunks such myths as: Boys are better at math than girls Women make crappy lawyers/business CEOs/etc, as their brains are not cut out for aggression. Men make crappy counselors/primary school teachers/primary parents/etc, as their brains are not cut out for empathy. MEN ARE BUILT FOR GOING OUT AND HUNTING WHILE WOMEN ARE BUILT FOR STAYING HOME AND BABYMAKING IT’S NOT SEXISM IT’S JUST BIOLOGY And many other such myths. Furthermore, this book covers topics such as:  Neurosexism and gender perceptions in multiple races (as this is not a singularly white experience, just as the western world isn’t a singularly white experience) Sex discrimination in the workplace, and how women are (or, more often, are not) allowed to behave How science is used (badly) to support many of these claims Experiences of trans* people, both through interviews and empirical studies. AND FINALLY - It is all brilliantly researched, cited, compiled - and it’s easy to read! Cordelia Fine actually manages to be funny while writing this, which I think is important, because it makes all of this information infinitely accessible. Delusions of Gender has reinforced what Oberlin taught me: The gender binary is stupid and arbitrary, and dangerous. And it is a self-perpetuating bias that needs to be addressed to be overcome. I think I’d like to read this. iamgreaterthanhate: typingfrantically: Let me talk to you about books. Specifically, one book. This book. This book should be a best seller. This book should be required reading for graduating from high school. Before you get that diploma, you read this book. This book deals with debunking “Neurosexism,” which is a very fancy term for all of that evolutionary psychology bullshit that people spill about those “brain differences” between boys and girls. This book debunks such myths as: Boys are better at math than girls Women make crappy lawyers/business CEOs/etc, as their brains are not cut out for aggression. Men make crappy counselors/primary school teachers/primary parents/etc, as their brains are not cut out for empathy. MEN ARE BUILT FOR GOING OUT AND HUNTING WHILE WOMEN ARE BUILT FOR STAYING HOME AND BABYMAKING IT’S NOT SEXISM IT’S JUST BIOLOGY And many other such myths. Furthermore, this book covers topics such as:  Neurosexism and gender perceptions in multiple races (as this is not a singularly white experience, just as the western world isn’t a singularly white experience) Sex discrimination in the workplace, and how women are (or, more often, are not) allowed to behave How science is used (badly) to support many of these claims Experiences of trans* people, both through interviews and empirical studies. AND FINALLY - It is all brilliantly researched, cited, compiled - and it’s easy to read! Cordelia Fine actually manages to be funny while writing this, which I think is important, because it makes all of this information infinitely accessible. Delusions of Gender has reinforced what Oberlin taught me: The gender binary is stupid and arbitrary, and dangerous. And it is a self-perpetuating bias that needs to be addressed to be overcome. I think I’d like to read this.
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    iamgreaterthanhate:

    typingfrantically:

    Let me talk to you about books.

    Specifically, one book. This book.

    This book should be a best seller. This book should be required reading for graduating from high school. Before you get that diploma, you read this book.

    This book deals with debunking “Neurosexism,” which is a very fancy term for all of that evolutionary psychology bullshit that people spill about those “brain differences” between boys and girls.

    This book debunks such myths as:

    • Boys are better at math than girls
    • Women make crappy lawyers/business CEOs/etc, as their brains are not cut out for aggression.
    • Men make crappy counselors/primary school teachers/primary parents/etc, as their brains are not cut out for empathy.
    • MEN ARE BUILT FOR GOING OUT AND HUNTING WHILE WOMEN ARE BUILT FOR STAYING HOME AND BABYMAKING IT’S NOT SEXISM IT’S JUST BIOLOGY
    • And many other such myths.

    Furthermore, this book covers topics such as: 

    • Neurosexism and gender perceptions in multiple races (as this is not a singularly white experience, just as the western world isn’t a singularly white experience)
    • Sex discrimination in the workplace, and how women are (or, more often, are not) allowed to behave
    • How science is used (badly) to support many of these claims
    • Experiences of trans* people, both through interviews and empirical studies.

    AND FINALLY - It is all brilliantly researched, cited, compiled - and it’s easy to read! Cordelia Fine actually manages to be funny while writing this, which I think is important, because it makes all of this information infinitely accessible.

    Delusions of Gender has reinforced what Oberlin taught me: The gender binary is stupid and arbitrary, and dangerous. And it is a self-perpetuating bias that needs to be addressed to be overcome.

    I think I’d like to read this.

    (Source: likefrancium)

    #covers  #reviews  #Delusions of Gender  #Cordelia Fine 
    2 weeks ago  /  11,227 notes

  7. High Resolution

    (Source: bestiario, via booklover)

    #covers  #spines  #Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen  #Fairy Tales  #Hans Andersen  #Hans Christian Andersen 
    2 weeks ago  /  83 notes
  8. emptybed: My copy of Where The Wild Things Are, from when I was a kid. Rest In Peace, Maurice Sendak. emptybed: My copy of Where The Wild Things Are, from when I was a kid. Rest In Peace, Maurice Sendak.
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    emptybed:

    My copy of Where The Wild Things Are, from when I was a kid.

    Rest In Peace, Maurice Sendak.

    #Maurice Sendak  #memoriam  #Where the Wild Things Are  #covers 
    2 weeks ago
  9. wwnorton: “Have you ever heard of a debulked woman? Have you ever seen one? I am one such living, breathing, debulked woman, though no one ever explained to me how such a being comes about, what such a condition means, or how it would feel, so I’m still finding my own debulked ways of being in a decidedly bulky world.” -Susan Gubar, from Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer The New York Times says, “even the most skeptical and finicky reader—even the healthy reader, even the healthy male reader—will not put this book down.”

    wwnorton:

    “Have you ever heard of a debulked woman? Have you ever seen one? I am one such living, breathing, debulked woman, though no one ever explained to me how such a being comes about, what such a condition means, or how it would feel, so I’m still finding my own debulked ways of being in a decidedly bulky world.”

    -Susan Gubar, from Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer

    The New York Times says, “even the most skeptical and finicky reader—even the healthy reader, even the healthy male reader—will not put this book down.”

    #covers  #Memoir of a Debulked Woman  #Susan Gubar  #lines 
    2 weeks ago  /  5 notes
  10. Ron Rash, The Cove Ron Rash, The Cove
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    Ron Rash, The Cove

    (Source: niven, via sweatingpitcher)

    #Ron Rash  #The Cove  #covers 
    3 weeks ago  /  69 notes

  11. TED :: Chip Kidd: Designing books is no laughing matter.  Ok, it is.

    #covers  #concepts 
    3 weeks ago  /  2 notes

  12. High Resolution

    (Source: c-rawley, via bibliofiliac)

    #covers  #Ian McEwan  #Atonement 
    4 weeks ago  /  51 notes

  13. (via booklover)

    #covers  #J. D. Salinger  #The Catcher in the Rye 
    4 weeks ago  /  551 notes

  14. “Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”

    (Source: glasgows, via keremmermutlu)

    #covers  #John Green  #David Levithan  #Paper Towns  #Will Grayson Will Grayson  #Looking for Alaska  #The Fault in Our Stars  #An Abundance of Katherines  #authors  #literature 
    4 weeks ago  /  5,767 notes
  15. thingsorganizedneatly: SUBMISSION: Penguin Book Cover Re-Design #9, By Mahshed Hooshmand

    thingsorganizedneatly:

    SUBMISSION: Penguin Book Cover Re-Design #9, By Mahshed Hooshmand

    #covers  #Homer  #The Odyssey  #poetry  #E. V. Rieu  #submission 
    4 weeks ago  /  624 notes