![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of the questions we will address include: How did Einstein come up with his ideas? What was the nature of his genius? What is the meaning of relativity? What’s “special” about the special theory of relativity? Why did the theory initially seem to be dead on arrival? What does it mean to say that time is the “fourth dimension”? Can time actually run more slowly for one person than another, and the size of things change depending on their velocity? Is time travel possible, and if so, how? Why can’t things travel faster than the speed of light? Is it possible to travel to the center of the galaxy and return in one lifetime? Is there any evidence that definitively confirms the theory, or is it mainly speculation? Why didn’t Einstein win the Nobel Prize for the theory of relativity?Ībout the instructor: Dr. Our goal will be to go behind the myth-making and beyond the popularized presentations of relativity in order to gain a deeper understanding of both Einstein the person and the concepts, predictions, and strange paradoxes of his theory. ![]() In this course we will seek to “understand Einstein,” especially focusing on the special theory of relativity that Albert Einstein, as a twenty-six year old patent clerk, introduced in his “miracle year” of 1905. ![]()
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Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() MOST IMPORTANTLY, there must have been a significant group who "at the time" pointed out, correctly, why the action in question was folly (i.e., no Monday morning quarterbacking or 20/20 hindsight). The actions must be conducted by a number of individuals, not just one deranged maniac andĤ. The actions must be conducted over a period of time, not just in a single burst of irrational behavior ģ. The actions must be clearly contrary to the self-interest of the organization or group pursuing them Ģ. To qualify as "folly" for this book, Tuchman explains that actions need to meet all four of the following criteria:ġ. ![]() Honestly, how often can you truly say that you've overdosed on happy reading a history book. You're so interested that you just glide along the pages, absorbed in her narrative web, while she's filling your brain with smarts. You see, Babs writes history in such a colorful, engaging manner that you don't notice she's shoveling mounds of knowledge into your memory muscle. This is the second gem by Barbara Tuchman that I've tackled, after the stellar The Guns of August), and the impressiveness of her work has led to my developing rather intense, and possibly inappropriate, feelings for her. Babs is one crafty, talented instructor and this ranks highly among the BEST history books I've had the pleasure of reading. ![]() ![]() ![]() He's, reluctantly, in the company of two men, strangers, both hard-looking. The novel opens on a scene of Mungo being led away from his tenement home as his mother, drinking a tea mug of fortified wine, watches impassively from a window. What's different about Stuart's new novel is its form: The outer frame here is a suspense story a story not just of innocence lost, but slaughtered.Īuthor Interviews 'Shuggie Bain' Will Lift You Up - And Tear You Up The two characters, in fact, share some crucial similarities: like Shuggie, 15-year-old Mungo Hamilton is gay and Mungo's mother is also an alcoholic. ![]() ![]() Reading it is like peering into the apartment of yet another broken family whose Glasgow tenement might be down the road from Shuggie Bain's. Young Mungo, like its predecessor, is a nuanced and gorgeous heartbreaker of a novel. It's tough to follow such a success story, but if Stuart was cowed, his latest novel doesn't betray any artistic hesitations. Such a tale is not an easy sell, which is why Douglas Stuart's debut novel, Shuggie Bain, was initially turned down by over 30 publishers before finding an audience and eventually winning the Booker Prize in 2020. A coming-of-age story about a gay, working-class boy set in 1980s Glasgow, in which the characters sometimes speak in Scots dialect. ![]() ![]() From number one New York Times best-selling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It. Among the youngsters in the Institute are a pair of girl twins, which are reminiscent of the characters of “some old horror movie”. A 2020 Thriller/Suspense Audie Award winner A New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2019 selection. ![]() There’s even a sense here that he’s having fun. If you are now thinking of the recent Netflix show Stranger Things, don’t forget that King got there first: he’s been writing about psychic children and conspiracies since the Sixties. King’s latest novel, The Institute, belongs to this second category, and is as consummately honed and enthralling as the very best of his work. ![]() Hidden in the depths of the American forest, the organisation known as “the Institute” sends out special forces to kidnap children (having first dispatched their families), and subjects them to all kinds of horrific tests in order to bring out their developing psychic powers. His new book, The Institute, concerns a sinister government facility, operational since the Second World War. ![]() There’s no question about it: Stephen King is a past master at casting an eerie shade on familiar fictional materials. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But it is every bit as engrossing, populated with fascinating and fully realized characters. The Murderbot Diaries series is science fiction Witch King is fantasy. It is not an exaggeration to say that her Murderbot Diaries series helped me get through the pandemic with my sanity intact. But why was Kai imprisoned in the first place? What has changed in the world since his assassination? And why does the Rising World Coalition appear to be growing in influence? Kai will need to pull his allies close and draw on all his pain magic if he is to answer even the least of these questions. From the publisher: After being murdered, his consciousness dormant and unaware of the passing of time while confined in an elaborate water trap, Kai wakes to find a lesser mage attempting to harness Kai’s magic to his own advantage. ![]() ![]() ![]() For how can she deliver Death’s vengeance upon a target who, against her will, has stolen her heart? Ismae’s most important assignment takes her straight into the high court of Brittany-where she finds herself woefully under prepared-not only for the deadly games of intrigue and treason, but for the impossible choices she must make. To claim her new life, she must destroy the lives of others. If she chooses to stay at the convent, she will be trained as an assassin and serve as a handmaiden to Death. Here she learns that the god of Death Himself has blessed her with dangerous gifts-and a violent destiny. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Why be the sheep, when you can be the wolf? Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Related Posts: Dark Triumph (His Fair Assassin #2), Mortal Heart (His Fair Assassin #3) Genres: Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Mythology, Young Adultįind it on the web: Buy from Amazon // Goodreads Date Completed: July 21, 2012 Title: Grave Mercy (His Fair Assassin #1) ![]() ![]() ![]() Together this collection of lost treasures offers a glimpse into other readers' lives that they never intended for us to see. Sure, there are actual bookmarks, but there are also pictures and ticket stubs, old recipes and notes, valentines, unsent letters, four-leaf clovers, and various sordid, heartbreaking, and bizarre keepsakes. If you, like me, love marginalia and the secret histories of second-hand books, you’ll find yourself enamored with Forgotten Bookmarks: A Bookseller’s Collection of Odd Things Lost Between the Pages the latest addition to the web’s blog-turned-book success stories based on the wonderful site of the same name by used bookstore owner Michael Popek. Forgotten Bookmarks is a scrapbook of Popek's most interesting finds. By night, he's the voyeuristic force behind where he shares the weird objects he has found among the stacks at his store.Forgotten Bookmarks is a scrapbook of Popek's most interesting finds. ![]() By night, he's the voyeuristic force behind where he shares the weird objects he has found among the stacks at his store. What stories could they tellBy day, Michael Popek works in his family's used bookstore. But what becomes of those forgotten bookmarks? What stories could they tell? By day, Michael Popek works in his family's used bookstore. He seems to find something fascinating every day at his. Eventually the book finds its way into the world-a library, a flea market, other people's bookshelves, or to a used bookstore. Michael Popek, bookseller and author of the new book, Forgotten Bookmarks, has many such stories. It could be a train ticket, a letter, an advertisement, a photograph, or a four-leaf clover. It's happened to all of us: we're reading a book, something interrupts us, and we grab the closest thing at hand to mark our spot. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While shells reveal how humans have altered the climate and the sea-down to its very chemistry-they are also sentinels of hope for coastal adaptation for climate change, alternative energy and other solutions that lie beneath the waves. ![]() Traveling from Florida to the Bahamas to the Maldives, West Africa, and beyond, Barnett uncovers the ancient history of shells as global currency, their use as religious and luxury objects, and the rarely appreciated but remarkable creatures that make them. In the 1950s, the nation burned with a shell-collecting fever only a Florida beach vacation could cure. The human fascination with seashells is primal. Tickets for this talk are available at the TSS website. This presentation is sponsored by the Tallahassee Scientific Society as part of their Horizons 2023 speaker series. CYNTHIA BARNETT is an author and environmentalist based in Gainesville, Florida. ![]() ![]() ![]() The inconsistency is so flagrant and glaring, that it would seem to cast a doubt on the doctrine of the innate moral sense of mankind. We execrate and hang the wretch guilty of this crime on the coast of Guinea, while we respect and applaud the guilty participators in this murderous business on enlightened shores of the Chesapeake. What a world of inconsistency, as well as of wickedness, is suggested by the smooth and gliding phrase, AMERICAN SLAVE TRADE and how strange and perverse is that moral sentiment which loathes, execrates, and brands as piracy and as deserving of death the carrying away into captivity men, women, and children from the African coast but which is neither shocked nor disturbed by a similar traffic, carried on with the same motives and purposes, and characterized by even more odious peculiarities on the coast of our MODEL REPUBLIC. Know ye not Who would be free, hemselves must strike the blow. ![]() ![]() Oh, where's the slave so lowly Condemn'd to chains unholy, Who could he burst His bonds at first Would pine beneath them slowly? Moore. ![]() |