Space Struck

Space Struck
Author: Paige Lewis
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2019-10-08
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1946448451

This astonishing, self-assured debut leads us on an exploration to the stars and back, begging us to reconsider our boundaries of self, time, space, and knowledge. The speaker writes, “...the universe/is an arrow/without end/and it asks only one question;/How dare you?” Zig-zagging through the realms of nature, science, and religion, one finds St. Francis sighing in the corner of a studio apartment, tides that are caused by millions of oysters “gasping in unison,” an ark filled with women in its stables, and prayers that reach God fastest by balloon. There’s pathos: “When my new lover tells me I’m correct to love him, I/realize the sound isn’t metal at all. It’s not the coins rattling/ on concrete, but the fingers scraping to pick them up.” And humor, too: “...even the sun’s been sighing Not you again/when it sees me.” After reading this far-reaching, inventive collection, we too are startled, space struck, our pockets gloriously “filled with space dust.”

The Women's Room

The Women's Room
Author: Marilyn French
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 558
Release: 2011-07-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0748132147

ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL AND BESTSELLING NOVELS OF THE MODERN FEMINIST MOVEMENT 'It was about the need to change things from top to bottom; it was a declaration of independence' OBSERVER 'The first and last international bestseller of the women's movement' GUARDIAN 'They said this book would change lives - and it certainly changed mine' JENNI MURRAY, BBC RADIO 4 A landmark in feminist literature, The Women's Room is a biting social commentary of a world gone silently haywire. Written in the 1970s but with profound resonance today, this is a modern allegory that offers piercing insight into the social norms accepted blindly and revered so completely. It follows the transformation of Mira Ward and her circle as the women's movement begins to have an impact on their lives. A biting social commentary on an emotional world gone silently haywire, The Women's Room is a modern classic that offers piercing insight into the social norms accepted so blindly and revered so completely. Marilyn French questions those accepted norms and poignantly portrays the hopeful believers looking for new truths.

I Just Asked for Assistance

I Just Asked for Assistance
Author: Baibai Kamara
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2023-01-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1662472587

Baibai Kamara leads a simple conservative life working on finishing his doctoral dissertation. His love for education and the environment brought him to Prince William County, Virginia, to pursue his doctoral education at George Mason University. Baibai has the same routine when he is on campus. He ordered the same menu of food (Panda) and the same mountain dew drink every lunch he has on campus. Baibai is happy and content with the little he has. Nothing is worrying about life except the difficulty of pursuing a doctoral degree and being underpaid in this region of a higher cost of living (DMV). One request for assistance for his children is about to interrupt his life and threaten to send him to prison and eventually destroy his education career and provision for his family. The walls that he created were about to collapse from a very boisterous county investigator, a county police detective, and county assistant prosecutor (Jennifer Yowell, Det. Kevin Rule, and Prosecutor Sara Bernin), respectively. He is about to learn how to navigate in fighting these diabolic, hateful county officials whom for them cruelty is the point and beat back these forces of darkness that he's avoided all his life. A story about the very worst of humanity, government officials abusing their power to inflict pain and sufferings with false and imaginary crime, but also the best of humanity from defense counsel to save the day.

An Adventure in Multidimensional Space

An Adventure in Multidimensional Space
Author: Koji Miyazaki
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1986
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This lavishly illustrated volume provides a strikingly visual approach to geometric shapes and transformations in 2- ,3- , and 4-dimensional space. Invoking Plato's polygons, Kepler's polyhedra, and Fuller's polytopes, the author presents, by means of hundreds of beautiful illustrations (100 of them in full color), many complex designs which may be found in nature or which may be produced by computer graphics programs. This self-contained work reveals how polygons, polyhedra, and polytopes are effective tools or hieroglyphs with which we may investigate and describe the macro, medio, and micro worlds or the multi-dimensional world without any telescope or microscope and without requiring guidance from others. Forewards by Buckminster Fuller and H. S. W. Coxeter.