The reader learns of the equivalence of the effects of gravity and acceleration, of the absolute speed limit of the speed of light, of the relativity of time to the frame of reference of the observer and the fantastic distortions of space and time as the speed of light is approached by any object. She describes how only advances in technology from the late 19th century onward have made it possible to prove Einstein's work, with plain language accounts of how experiments to make the proof were conducted. She emphasizes the breakthrough his discoveries made, superceding Newton's famous laws. Necia Apfel must have had this in mind when she wrote this delightful book aimed at young people but enjoyable to all, as your elderly reviewer can testify.īased on Einstein's special and general theories of relativity, Apfel seeks to explain their meaning without using math doing so using simple diagrams and thought experiments that I have no doubt Albert would have approved. Einstein said that it should be possible to explain anything in physics to a high school student.
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The novel follows the movements of William Bradshaw, its narrator, who meets a nervous-looking man named Arthur Norris on a train going from the Netherlands to Germany. The book was critically and popularly acclaimed but years after its publication Isherwood denounced it as shallow and dishonest. Isherwood began work on a much larger work he called The Lost before paring down its story and characters to focus on Norris. In 1985 the actor David March won a Radio Academy Award for Best Radio Actor for his performance in a dramatisation of the novel for BBC Radio 4. Inspiration for the novel was drawn from Isherwood's experiences as an expatriate living in Berlin during the early 1930s, and the character of Mr Norris is based on Gerald Hamilton. It is frequently included with Goodbye to Berlin, another Isherwood novel, in a single volume, The Berlin Stories. Norris) is a 1935 novel by the British writer Christopher Isherwood. Mr Norris Changes Trains (published in the United States as The Last of Mr. The earth seen from Apollo 17 ‘The world is extraordinarylook how beautiful it is’ 50 years ago this summer, 600 million people watched Neil Armstrong take mankind’s giant step on to the moon. It is through films and other archives that we will tell the story of Kessel and browse his astonishing biography. The Lion, forty years after: remembering Joseph Kessel. He did it all with panache, with no fear of death, and survived everything: war, drugs, alcohol… If many reporters have made him their reference, it is because Joseph Kessel is the bearer of universal values and a personal talent, making for great men and great stories. Through all those years Kessel had worked, had fun and loved, in a whirlwind of wild passions. At the age of 60 he became the author of one of the greatest best-sellers of the 20th century, "The Lion". With an innate sense of drama, the one they called "Jef" created his life as an adventure film, a life where fantasy and reality intermingled, a haunting waltz around characters that resembled him, like a film with himself as the hero. He doesn’t go on stage, but turns his life into a novel. Special correspondent, writer, resistant, Joseph Kessel has known both wealth and glory.Īt the age of 17 he dreamt of being an actor, but the suicide of his brother made him give up that dream. “Good idea, I love where you’re going with that. OMG, I love Dan! He’s absolutely hilarious! Despite their circumstances, he’s constantly joking around, he’s completely irreverent and he’s a total horn-bag who wants Ali bad and has no problem with saying it how it is. It’s been too long since he’s been with a woman, and he’s determined to have her. Of course Dan is motivated by the need to survive, but he’s also heavily influenced by his hormones, and from the moment he sees Ali, he wants her. Daniel is craving human companionship, and convinces Ali that they have a better chance of survival if they stick together, so they team up and head off to search for help. Ali has been hiding in her neighbour’s attic since the world went to hell, and while she is out scavenging for food she literally runs into Daniel – a fellow survivor. Set in post-apocalyptic Australia, it’s been 8 weeks since civilisation collapsed after a virus turned most of the population into flesh eating zombies. Who would have thought that the zombie apocalypse could be so damn sexy?! I’m a huge fan of Kylie Scott’s Stage Dive series, so I was really keen to read this one. All aboard for a smut-tastic romp through the zombie apocalypse! Now, with the memories of his in-laws magnificent fifty-year love affair as his guide, Wilson struggles to find his way back into the heart of the woman he adores.". 2003 First Printing: September 2003 stated Warner Books publishers hardbound with baby blue boards and silver lettering on. Wilson is sure of one thing his love for his wife has only deepened and intensified over the years. A successful estate attorney, he has provided well for his family, but now, with his daughter s upcoming wedding, he is forced to face the fact that he and Jane have grown apart and he wonders if she even loves him anymore. Despite the shining example of Allie and Noah s marriage, Wilson is himself a man unable to easily express his emotions. This love story, which has been described as the sequel to The Notebook, follows the life of a couple as. Desperate to win back his wife, Jane s, heart, he must figure out how to make her fall in love with him again. The Wedding (English, Paperback, Sparks Nicholas). From the #1 New York Times Bestselling Author: "After thirty years of marriage, Wilson Lewis, son-in-law of Allie and Noah Calhoun (of The Notebook), is forced to admit that the romance has gone out of his marriage. In Fine and Signed by Author Nicholas Sparks on the Title Page. Its description of how one woman finds her way back from the edge of despair seems absolutely perfect. An astonishing book that ought to put Barbara Kingsolver in the first ranks of fiction writers." - Cosmopolitan "Animal Dreams literally bursts with life. A novel in which humor, passion, and superb prose conspire to seize a reader by the heart and by the soul." - New York Daily News "A novel full of aching sadness-as well as joy, humor, insight and wonderful writing." - Arizona Daily Star "Animal Dreams is a novel that feel closer to the truth about modern lives than anything I've read in a long time. This one will be with us for a long time." - Washington Post Book World "An emotional masterpiece. This is a sweet book, full of bitter pain a beautiful weaving of the light and the dark. Animal Dreams is rich fodder for our own sweet, satisfying dreams." - Denver Post "Rich, complex, witty. It’s from this strange old man that Jack learns about The Territories: a fantastical alternate universe that exists parallel to his own reality. While it ultimately proved too challenging to make The Talisman as a feature, it’s a novel that’s perfectly suited to become a streaming service series, and fans should only be rejoicing in the wake of the news. When you factor in elements including the scope and structure of the story, and how Netflix typically operates when it comes to original programming, this is a match made in fiction heaven, and should result in the best possible adaptation of an incredible book. It’s a significant shake-up after nearly four decades, but also a genuinely perfect one. While Steven Spielberg and fellow filmmakers have struggled for years figuring out how to squeeze the epic novel into a two hour feature, recent developments have seen that idea abandoned in favor of a better one: rather than becoming a big blockbuster, the book is instead now being turned into a Netflix series, with Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer attached as executive producers, and Stranger Things writer/producer Curtis Gwinn on-board as showrunner. Now, however, things are totally different – and the principal reason is that the concept of how to properly adapt The Talisman has evolved. Brother hissed in Merle’s ear, “Don’t come any closer or I’ll break his neck.” Then the giant turned to Brother Two, who still held his arm painfully around Merle’s throat. Sweet Face held up his hands, and Sasquatch nodded with a smile more appropriate to a kindergarten class than a beach brawl. Merle would have cheered if his neck wasn’t breaking. The dude staggered back and fell on his ass. Only the smallest interface between that huge hand and Ritchie’s chin signaled bye-bye, Ritchie. He stopped his forward momentum and snapped a fist at Ritchie, who was staggering back to join the fray. It had to be-this huge man, easily six foot six, dressed in what might be a pink puffer jacket, with a shock of curly, dark hair flying around his face. Standing behind where Brother One had stood was-Sasquatch. Brother One pulled back a fist-and suddenly flew through the air, practically knocking Merle and his captor off their feet. Merle staggered backward as the brother tightened his grip and the other sibling from hell moved in to do more damage. Who the fuck wants to die on the beach in a tuxedo? White bursts of light flashed in front of his eyes and a river of burning bile filled his mouth, oozing around the pressure of the big asshole’s arm on his neck. Excerpt – Fool of Main Beach by Tara Lain His paintings both refer to the past through their subject matter and the manner in which they are depicted, and are rooted in the contemporary, by their very recent act of destruction. Far from it, he then puts his destroyed masterpieces on display. Yet he is neither an artist who is precious about his paintings, nor a Victor Frankenstein, who seeks to destroy because he is horrified by what he has created. The gallery’s press release states that Samorì examines obsession, one aspect of which is the obsession of the artist with his own work. I imagine the artist labouriously painting for weeks or maybe months, building up layer upon layer of paint, and then one day turning around and destroying these creations in which he has invested so much. The act of their destruction being all the more perverse because it is carried out on paintings which have been carefully rendered with art historical references and technique. His show, Guarigione Dell’Ossesso at Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, was described to me as perfect baroque-style paintings that the artist then destroys so it naturally piqued my interest.Īnd what destruction! The paintings are gouged, pierced, flecked, scratched, scrunched, shrouded and pummeled. I am writing it in Bologna about an Italian artist, Nicola Samorì, who studied here and whose work I saw the day before I left Berlin. This post serves, I hope, as a good bridge between my time in Berlin and the next few weeks that I will spend in Italy. Under this clever pseudonym, I am an English academic: I completed my Ph.D. This is also the blog of Steven Mollmann. Under this name I have also published a number of pieces of fiction, most notably the Star Trek novel A Choice of Catastrophes. My reading tastes are dominated by comic books, science fiction and fantasy, Star Trek and Doctor Who novels, and literary fiction, especially Victorian and neo-Victorian. I cross-post most of my reviews to my LibraryThing account. I review books and comics and sometimes films on Mondays and Wednesday, and also provide monthly lists of all the books I've read and purchased. I started this blog in November 2011 as a way of chronicling my reading (importing some, but not most, of the posts from an old LiveJournal). |