Beauty And The Geek

Author : Sidney Bristol
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1544195907

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Beauty and the Geek by Sidney Bristol Pdf

Professor Steven Kipper is used to the stares, the muttered insults. Monster. Disgusting. Gross. It's all he's ever known. Relationships suck when his date won't even go out in public with him, which is why he hasn't bothered. That is until her. The woman on the internet who gets his every quirk. He's hooked on a person he's never met. The way she gets his jokes, the uninhibited sexuality and...just talking to her. She's everything he's ever wanted, only she's a stranger. Unless he can convince her they should unplug and take their virtual relationship off-line. Tamara Roh has heard all the insults from slut to whore and they bore her. She refuses to let other people define her. Life's tough in the gaming industry, and if she can't handle a few insults the haters will chew her up and spit her out. Her only haven is with her friends and in one very explicit chat room. On-line she can be anyone she wants to, even the normal girl-next-door who just happens to get off on dirty talk, erotic gifs and video chats from the neck down. She might not be able to trust guys in real life to see past the Hot Asian Girlfriend stereotype, but with her internet beau anonymity is her safety net. The only problem is...she's falling for a man who thinks she's someone else.

Author : Anastasia Elise
Publisher : Psicom Publishing Inc
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Beauty and the Geek by Anastasia Elise Pdf

Beauty and the Geek Author: Anastasia Elise Textserye Published by: Psicom Publishing Inc. Pages: 256 Language: Filipino, English Genre: Romance Boy: Niyaya mo akong mag-lunch? Girl: Yup :) Later ? Boy: You're insane. I don't eat with strangers. Girl : My treat! :) Girl: Hey Girl: Ano ba? Treat ko na nga e! Girl: Ay wow. Seener si pogi. Seen 9:33 pm

Author : Vikram Chandra
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781555973261

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Geek Sublime by Vikram Chandra Pdf

The nonfiction debut from the author of the international bestseller Sacred Games about the surprising overlap between writing and computer coding Vikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In this extraordinary new book, his first work of nonfiction, he searches for the connections between the worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with elegance and style, just as writers are, but do the words mean the same thing to both? Can we ascribe beauty to the craft of writing code? Exploring such varied topics as logic gates and literary modernism, the machismo of tech geeks, the omnipresence of an "Indian Mafia" in Silicon Valley, and the writings of the eleventh-century Kashmiri thinker Abhinavagupta, Geek Sublime is both an idiosyncratic history of coding and a fascinating meditation on the writer's art. Part literary essay, part technology story, and part memoir, it is an engrossing, original, and heady book of sweeping ideas.

Author : Kathryn E. Lane
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319657448

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Age of the Geek by Kathryn E. Lane Pdf

This collection examines the nerd and/or geek stereotype in popular culture today. Utilizing the media—film, TV, YouTube, Twitter, fiction—that often defines daily lives, the contributors interrogate what it means to be labeled a “nerd” or “geek.” While the nerd/geek that is so easily recognized now is assuredly a twenty-first century construct, an examination of the terms’ history brings a greater understanding of their evolution. From sports to slasher films, Age of the Geek establishes a dialogue with texts as varied as the depictions of “nerd” or “geek” stereotypes.

Author : Vikram Chandra
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789351180203

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Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra Pdf

WINNER OF THE HUTCH CROSSWORD BOOK AWARD 2006 FOR BEST WORK IN ENGLISH FICTION Seven years in the making, Sacred Games is an epic of exceptional richness and power. Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the life of Inspector Sartaj Singh, and into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. This is a sprawling, magnificent story of friendship and betrayal, of terrible violence, of an astonishing modern city and its dark side. Drawing on the best of Victorian fiction, mystery novels, Bollywood movies and Chandra's years of first-hand research on the streets of Mumbai, Sacred Games reads like a potboiling page-turner but resonates with the intelligence and emotional depth of the best of literature.

Author : Ayana Carter,Scholastic Inc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Dating (Social customs)
ISBN : 0545059798

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Beauty and the Geek by Ayana Carter,Scholastic Inc Pdf

Mia's plan to use Diego to meet his brother Jorge has some unexpected results.

Author : Sherrie A. Inness
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1403979022

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Geek Chic by Sherrie A. Inness Pdf

Using popular culture as a fertile environment for challenging the stereotype that the most brilliant geeks or nerds must be men, the essays in this book demonstrate how the popular media repeatedly affirms stereotypes of femininity while paradoxically challenging the stigmatization of smart women. Contributors salute a wide range of popular characters and real female role models, from Daria to Hillary Rodham Clinton, weaving in references to television shows like Gilmore Girls and analyses of classic icons like Sabrina.

Author : Mark Henderson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781446438848

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The Geek Manifesto by Mark Henderson Pdf

Whether we want to improve education or cut crime, to enhance public health or to generate clean energy, we need the experimental methods of science - the best tool humanity has yet developed for working out what works. Yet from the way we're governed to the news we're fed by the media we're let down by a lack of understanding and respect for its insights and evidence. In The Geek Manifesto Mark Henderson explains why and how we need to entrench scientific thinking more deeply into every aspect of our society. A new movement is gathering. Let's turn it into a force our leaders cannot ignore. This edition includes an appendix: 'A Geek Manifesto for America' by David Dobbs.

Author : S. Inness
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137084217

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Geek Chic by S. Inness Pdf

Mainstream society has often had a deeply rooted fear of intelligent women. Why do brilliant women make society ill at ease? Focusing on the US, Sherrie Inness and contributors explore this question in the context of the last two decades, arguing that more intelligent women are appearing in popular culture than ever before.

Author : Deborah Burnes
Publisher : Rockridge Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 164152359X

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The Beauty Geek's Guide to Skin Care by Deborah Burnes Pdf

Everything Every Beauty Geek Needs to Know About Skin Care When it comes to finding the perfect formula for dewy and healthy skin, knowledge is power. That’s why skin care guru Deborah Burnes shares everything you need to know about essential ingredients in this book—so that you can give your skin exactly what it needs to glow. Whether you’re making products for your own use or trying to figure out which brands work best for you, The Beauty Geek’s Guide to Skin Care has all the latest insider info on 1,000 of the beauty industry’s most commonly used ingredients. Plus, you’ll learn the best practices and lifestyle habits to make healthy skin an everyday reality. The Beauty Geek’s Guide to Skin Care features: 1,000 Ingredient Profiles—Learn the origin, uses, and benefits of the most popular natural and chemical ingredients. Skin Care 101—Get the lowdown on basic beauty practices and lifestyle hacks for best skin. DIY Beauty Recipes—Make your own cleansers, toners, masks, scrubs, and more with these easy-to-follow recipes for your very own signature products. Knowledge is powerful and beautiful—especially when it comes to your skin. Get in the know with The Beauty Geek’s Guide to Skin Care.

Author : Roni Adams
Publisher : Champagne Rose
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1601541597

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Beauty and the Geek by Roni Adams Pdf

Author : Katherine Dunn
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307794482

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Geek Love by Katherine Dunn Pdf

National Book Award Finalist • Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities--with the help of amphetamines, arsenic, and radioisotopes. Their offspring include Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious—and dangerous—asset. As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.

Author : Brent Weeks
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316040228

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The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks Pdf

From NYT bestselling author Brent Weeks comes the first novel in his breakout fantasy trilogy in which a young boy trains under the city's most legendary and feared assassin, Durzo Blint. For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art -- and he is the city's most accomplished artist. For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he's grown up in the slums, and learned to judge people quickly -- and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint. But to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life and embrace a new identity and name. As Kylar Stern, he must learn to navigate the assassins' world of dangerous politics and strange magics -- and cultivate a flair for death.

Author : Mark C. Chu-Carroll
Publisher : Pragmatic Bookshelf
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781680503609

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Good Math by Mark C. Chu-Carroll Pdf

Mathematics is beautiful--and it can be fun and exciting as well as practical. Good Math is your guide to some of the most intriguing topics from two thousand years of mathematics: from Egyptian fractions to Turing machines; from the real meaning of numbers to proof trees, group symmetry, and mechanical computation. If you've ever wondered what lay beyond the proofs you struggled to complete in high school geometry, or what limits the capabilities of computer on your desk, this is the book for you. Why do Roman numerals persist? How do we know that some infinities are larger than others? And how can we know for certain a program will ever finish? In this fast-paced tour of modern and not-so-modern math, computer scientist Mark Chu-Carroll explores some of the greatest breakthroughs and disappointments of more than two thousand years of mathematical thought. There is joy and beauty in mathematics, and in more than two dozen essays drawn from his popular "Good Math" blog, you'll find concepts, proofs, and examples that are often surprising, counterintuitive, or just plain weird. Mark begins his journey with the basics of numbers, with an entertaining trip through the integers and the natural, rational, irrational, and transcendental numbers. The voyage continues with a look at some of the oddest numbers in mathematics, including zero, the golden ratio, imaginary numbers, Roman numerals, and Egyptian and continuing fractions. After a deep dive into modern logic, including an introduction to linear logic and the logic-savvy Prolog language, the trip concludes with a tour of modern set theory and the advances and paradoxes of modern mechanical computing. If your high school or college math courses left you grasping for the inner meaning behind the numbers, Mark's book will both entertain and enlighten you.

Author : Kathy Ceceri,Corrina Lawson,Jenny Williams
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780823085927

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Geek Mom by Kathy Ceceri,Corrina Lawson,Jenny Williams Pdf

The editors of GeekMom, sister site to Wired's GeekDad blog, offer a range of cool projects and parenting advice centered around raising kids in the tech age.