The Humorous Stories of Nasreddin's Series meets the requirements
Is maths making you miserable? Are you vacant about volume and anxious about area? Do you ever feel you're one gram short of a kilo? Then it's time to take 'Desperate Measures'. Find out why a horse needs hands, how measurements can defeat an alien invasion from Planet Zog, and meet streaking Archimedes - a mathematician with principles. Meanwhile, Dolly Snowlips despairs as the gangsters get t…
"I suppose I might call you Dear Mr. Girl-Hater. Only that’s sort of insulting to me. Or Dear Mr. Rich-Man, but that’s insulting to you. But at least you will stay tall all your life! So I’ve decided to call you Dear Daddy-Long-Legs. I hope you won’t mind."
I wanted to climb to the summit of challenges, attack my way through hardships as solid as granite, tempt all sorts of peril, and break through mysteries with science. I longed to inhale all sorts of experience and then explore the labyrinthine ins and outs of life that in the end cannot be guessed. I yearned for possibilities that react with each other, like the collision of uranium molecules:…