'The Idiosyncrasies of life' narrates the experiences, observations and imaginations of a curious being, that aims to correlate with all the seekers in the world. The essence of life is to make something out of everything and anything that life puts on your table; especially and specifically anything that seems out of sync. Human minds and actions are predominantly asynchronous and disparate. This concise collection of stories, poems, articles and narrations by the author just aims to compile the diversity of the human thought-process, and to subsequently showcase how it can be the same for all yet completely different. Note from the Author: I urge you to shed all inhibitions and start sharing.. Share the joy you have experienced, the pain you have felt, the love you have lost and the one that you've gained, the friendship that has stood the test of time and the one which died too soon. Maybe reading this book would help you share your own life, further motivating someone else to do the same. This is the only way that we can break the shackles of society and make a better place for you and for me.

An exhilarating, elegant memoir and a significant polemic on how computers and algorithms shape our understanding of the world and of who we are Bitwise is a wondrous ode to the computer lan­guages and codes that captured technologist David Auerbach’s imagination. With a philoso­pher’s sense of inquiry, Auerbach recounts his childhood spent drawing ferns with the pro­gramming language Logo on the Apple IIe, his adventures in early text-based video games, his education as an engineer, and his contribu­tions to instant messaging technology devel­oped for Microsoft and the servers powering Google’s data stores. A lifelong student of the systems that shape our lives—from the psy­chiatric taxonomy of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual to how Facebook tracks and profiles its users—Auerbach reflects on how he has experienced the algorithms that taxonomize human speech, knowledge, and behavior and that compel us to do the same. Into this exquisitely crafted, wide-ranging memoir of a life spent with code, Auerbach has woven an eye-opening and searing examina­tion of the inescapable ways in which algo­rithms have both standardized and coarsened our lives. As we engineer ever more intricate technology to translate our experiences and narrow the gap that divides us from the ma­chine, Auerbach argues, we willingly erase our nuances and our idiosyncrasies—precisely the things that make us human.

Kids may say the darndest things, but adults do them. Outrageous, outlandish and downright ridiculous eccentricities exhibited (and confessed to) by otherwise normal people. From hilarious bathroom behavior to funny money and unconventional clothing habits to eating and sleeping peculiarities to germ-a-phobia and more. Collected from real, live, actual human beings!

Despite the history that divides them, Hinduism and Orthodox Christianity have much in common. In The Human Icon, Christine Mangala Frost explores how both religions seek to realise the divine potential of every human being, and the differences in their approach. Frost, who has experienced both the extraordinary riches and the all-too-human failings of Hinduism and Orthodox Christianity from the inside, is perfectly placed to examine the convergences and divergences between the two faiths. Inspired by a desire to clear up the misunderstandings that exist between the two, The Human Icon is a study in how two faiths, superficially dissimilar, can nevertheless find meeting points everywhere. The powerful intellectual and spiritual patristic traditions of Orthodox Christianity offer a rare tool for revitalising too-often stalled dialogue with Hinduism and present the chance for a broader and more diverse understanding of the oldest religion in the world. Tracing the long history of Orthodox Christianity in India, from the Thomas Christians of ancient times to the distinctive theology of Paulos Mar Gregorios and the Kottayam School, Frost explores the impact of Hindu thought on Indian Christianity and considers the potential for confluence. With a breadth of interest that spans Hindu bhakti, Orthodox devotional theology, Vedanta and theosis, as well as meditational Yoga and hesychastic prayer, Frost offers a fresh perspective on how the devotees of both faiths approach the ideal of divinisation, and presents a thoughtful, modern methodology for a dialogue of life.

Eva Anderson Becht Guyton (10/20/16-1/27/10) was an American painter and artist. Her husband Bill Guyton (6/29/23-12/21/12) wrote this very touching and sweet memoir of her life before he died. It was edited by their grandchildren Daniel Guyton and Kate Guyton, and includes photos, artwork, and some wonderful stories of her life and times. She was a beautiful woman, and her artwork was just as lovely.

"Idiosyncracies" is a medical journal by Sir Humphry Rollestone, who served as physician to King George V of the United Kingdom. Sir Rollestone looks at the medical condition of 'Idiosyncracies' defined variously as, "(1) a physical constitution peculiar to an individual, now only in medical use, (2) the mental constitution peculiar to a person or class of persons; a view or feeling, a liking or aversion, and (3) a mode of expression peculiar to an author." He posits that the abnormal reactions of idiosyncracy may be either on the one hand greatly exaggerated or on the other hand greatly diminished; more briefly it may be described as an unusual physiological personal equation. The various manifestations of the condition give rise to the chapters of the book: psychological ideosyncracies, physiological ideosyncracies, Food ideosyncracies, Drug ideosyncracies, as well as conditions such as Hay Fever, Asthma and other allergenic diseases that are a subset of the condition.