Who has ever dreamt of taking a lover, a friend, or a casual acquaintance and transforming her into the woman of your dreams? Of doing your own "makeover" until she is the eager, responsive and appreciative babe you've wanted since you figured out what wanting is all about?

Bi-monthly architecture magazine Mark is stark and unapologetically contemporary. Featuring more than 200 pages, it offers architectural designs from all over the world that often pay little attention to convention. It’s an intelligent yet accessible title with a broad appeal that proves rewarding reading to almost anyone with an interest in architecture and the built environment.

Around 1820 the son of a California nobleman comes home from Spain to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On the one hand he plays the useless fop, while on the other he is the masked avenger Zorro.

The Quine-Putnam indispensability argument in the philosophy of mathematics urges us to place mathematical entities on the same ontological footing as other theoretical entities essential to our best scientific theories. Recently, the argument has come under serious scrutiny, with many influential philosophers unconvinced of its cogency.