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Author | : Gary R. Kirby |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2011-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1462067913 |
Caution: you are entering a world of chaos, seemingly smoothed by cosmos and culture. It is a world where time twists reality, where a tenth of a second makes all the difference. A small link in time joins to all other times determining who lives and who dies. Fate? Choice? God? Chance? Did the past determine? Do futures change? A brilliant biologist in one car and a twisted pervert in the other car, who has trapped a young mother, both hurtle into the intersection, raising the deep questions of life, of origins and ends, of the knowledge of the tree of life and death -- questions that can make your living sweeter, the green greener, the blue brighter, the wine bolder, the kisses warmer, the climax higher, and the hugs tighter from lovers, kids, moms, dads, and friends.
Author | : Jimena Canales |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2010-01-15 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0226093204 |
In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn’t until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was profound. Revealing the history behind this infinitesimal interval, A Tenth of a Second sheds new light on modernity and illuminates the work of important thinkers of the last two centuries. Tracing debates about the nature of time, causality, and free will, as well as the introduction of modern technologies—telegraphy, photography, cinematography—Jimena Canales locates the reverberations of this “perceptual moment” throughout culture. Once scientists associated the tenth of a second with the speed of thought, they developed reaction time experiments with lasting implications for experimental psychology, physiology, and optics. Astronomers and physicists struggled to control the profound consequences of results that were a tenth of a second off. And references to the interval were part of a general inquiry into time, consciousness, and sensory experience that involved rethinking the contributions of Descartes and Kant. Considering its impact on much longer time periods and featuring appearances by Henri Bergson, Walter Benjamin, and Albert Einstein, among others, A Tenth of a Second is ultimately an important contribution to history and a novel perspective on modernity.
Author | : Delia Ephron |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2022-04-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0316268879 |
The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-life love story in her "resplendent memoir," complete with a tragic second act and joyous resolution (Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Good Left Undone). Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She’d lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer. Several months after Jerry’s death, she decided to make one small change in her life—she shut down his landline, which crashed her internet. She ended up in Verizon hell. She channeled her grief the best way she knew: by writing a New York Times op-ed. The piece caught the attention of Peter, a Bay Area psychiatrist, who emailed her to commiserate. Recently widowed himself, he reminded her that they had shared a few dates fifty-four years before, set up by Nora. Delia did not remember him, but after several weeks of exchanging emails and sixties folk songs, he flew east to see her. They were crazy, utterly, in love. But this was not a rom-com: four months later she was diagnosed with AML, a fierce leukemia. In Left on Tenth, Delia Ephron enchants as she seesaws us between tears and laughter, navigating the suicidal lows of enduring cutting-edge treatment and the giddy highs of a second chance at love. With Peter and her close girlfriends by her side, with startling clarity, warmth, and honesty about facing death, Ephron invites us to join her team of warriors and become believers ourselves. A "Most Anticipated Book of 2022" by TIME, Bustle, Parade, Publishers Weekly, Boston.com A "Best Memoir of 2022" by Marie Claire A "Best Memoir of April" by Vanity Fair
Author | : George Saunders |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2013-01-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1408837358 |
The prize-winning, New York Times bestselling short story collection from the internationally bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo 'The best book you'll read this year' New York Times 'Dazzlingly surreal stories about a failing America' Sunday Times WINNER OF THE 2014 FOLIO PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2013 George Saunders's most wryly hilarious and disturbing collection yet, Tenth of December illuminates human experience and explores figures lost in a labyrinth of troubling preoccupations. A family member recollects a backyard pole dressed for all occasions; Jeff faces horrifying ultimatums and the prospect of Darkenfloxx(TM) in some unusual drug trials; and Al Roosten hides his own internal monologue behind a winning smile that he hopes will make him popular. With dark visions of the future riffing against ghosts of the past and the ever-settling present, this collection sings with astonishing charm and intensity.
Author | : Kate Constable |
Publisher | : Allen & Unwin |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2005-03-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 174115653X |
This is the third and final book of the Chanters of Tremaris series, a dramatic fantasy saga of adventure and magic, for readers 12+.
Author | : United States. Census Office. 10th census, 1880 |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1028 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Census Office. 10th Census, 1880 |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1056 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Patrick Carman |
Publisher | : Scholastic Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Human-animal communication |
ISBN | : 9780439700986 |
The Land of Elyon has begun to fail, poisoned by the evil that creeps across the Dark Hills and into Bridewell. As she moves toward a thrilling conclusion, Alexa must find a way to overcome the Lonely Sea, rescue Yipes from the clutches of Victor Grindall, and unlock the mystery of the Tenth City. But can she find the answers she needs in time to save the Land of Elyon?
Author | : Sara Faring |
Publisher | : Imprint |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2019-09-24 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250304512 |
A haunted Argentinian mansion. A family curse. A twist you'll never see coming. Welcome to Vaccaro School. Simmering in Patagonian myth, The Tenth Girl is a gothic psychological thriller with a haunting twist. At the very southern tip of South America looms an isolated finishing school. Legend has it that the land will curse those who settle there. But for Mavi—a bold Buenos Aires native fleeing the military regime that took her mother—it offers an escape to a new life as a young teacher to Argentina’s elite girls. Mavi tries to embrace the strangeness of the imposing house—despite warnings not to roam at night, threats from an enigmatic young man, and rumors of mysterious Others. But one of Mavi’s ten students is missing, and when students and teachers alike begin to behave as if possessed, the forces haunting this unholy cliff will no longer be ignored... and one of these spirits holds a secret that could unravel Mavi’s existence. An Imprint Book "Layered and challenging, and full to bursting with intelligence, while at the same time exuberantly bizarre, like it’s having the best time on its own and daring you to join in." —Rory Power, New York Times–bestselling author of Wilder Girls "This book envelops the reader with sweeping beauty and tingling mystery from the very first page." —Nova Ren Suma, New York Times-bestselling author of The Walls Around Us
Author | : Sir William Osler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1250 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Medicine |
ISBN | : |