"Tapestry of Unity: Journey Toward Diversity and Faith" explores the rich and complex interplay between diverse cultures and faith traditions, emphasizing the beauty and strength found in unity. The book navigates through various narratives, each standing for different parts of the world, including Africa, Germany, Russia, and China. Through personal stories, historical accounts, and philosophical discussions, it delves into how these diverse backgrounds converge to form a unified tapestry of human experience. Highlighting the challenges and triumphs of intercultural and interfaith dialogues, the book advocates for understanding, respect, and collaboration. It underscores the idea that diversity enriches faith communities, making them more resilient and compassionate. The journey depicted in the book is not just geographical but also spiritual, inviting readers to reconsider their perspectives on faith, identity, and the shared humanity that binds us all. "Tapestry of Unity" is a compelling call to embrace diversity as a pathway to greater unity and a deeper, more inclusive faith.

This easy-to-read 2010 book demonstrates how a simple geometric idea reveals fascinating connections and results in number theory, the mathematics of polyhedra, combinatorial geometry, and group theory. Using a systematic paper-folding procedure it is possible to construct a regular polygon with any number of sides. This remarkable algorithm has led to interesting proofs of certain results in number theory, has been used to answer combinatorial questions involving partitions of space, and has enabled the authors to obtain the formula for the volume of a regular tetrahedron in around three steps, using nothing more complicated than basic arithmetic and the most elementary plane geometry. All of these ideas, and more, reveal the beauty of mathematics and the interconnectedness of its various branches. Detailed instructions, including clear illustrations, enable the reader to gain hands-on experience constructing these models and to discover for themselves the patterns and relationships they unearth.

Combinatorics, or the art and science of counting, is a vibrant and active area of pure mathematical research with many applications. The Unity of Combinatorics succeeds in showing that the many facets of combinatorics are not merely isolated instances of clever tricks but that they have numerous connections and threads weaving them together to form a beautifully patterned tapestry of ideas. Topics include combinatorial designs, combinatorial games, matroids, difference sets, Fibonacci numbers, finite geometries, Pascal's triangle, Penrose tilings, error-correcting codes, and many others. Anyone with an interest in mathematics, professional or recreational, will be sure to find this book both enlightening and enjoyable. Few mathematicians have been as active in this area as Richard Guy, now in his eighth decade of mathematical productivity. Guy is the author of over 300 papers and twelve books in geometry, number theory, graph theory, and combinatorics. In addition to being a life-long number-theorist and combinatorialist, Guy's co-author, Ezra Brown, is a multi-award-winning expository writer. Together, Guy and Brown have produced a book that, in the spirit of the founding words of the Carus book series, is accessible “not only to mathematicians but to scientific workers and others with a modest mathematical background.”

In the year 2150, the megacity of Neotropolis thrived on technological marvels, overshadowed by the oppressive rule of the Central Authority. Dr. Samuel Mercer, a renegade scientist, made a groundbreaking discovery that could reshape the destiny of humanity. However, before he could unveil his findings, he mysteriously vanished.

This illustrated volume is a comprehensive survey of 17th century European tapestry. It features some of the finest surviving examples from many international collections, as well as a number of related designs and oil sketches.