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The end of everything by katie mack5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() What stands out most is Mack's pure enjoyment of physics, and it is contagious. Like an animated discussion with your favourite quirky and brilliant professor. Read moreĪ rollicking tour of the wildest physics. ![]() Amid stellar explosions and bouncing universes, Mack shows that even though we puny humans have no chance of changing how it all ends, we can at least begin to understand it. This fascinating, witty story of cosmic escapism examines a beautiful but unfamiliar physics landscape while sharing the excitement a leading astrophysicist feels when thinking about the universe and our place in it. ![]() Our universe could collapse in upon itself, or rip itself apart, or even - in the next five minutes - succumb to an inescapable expanding bubble of doom. Drawing on cutting edge technology and theory, as well as hot-off-the-presses results from the most powerful telescopes and particle colliders, astrophysicist Katie Mack describes how small tweaks to our incomplete understanding of reality can result in starkly different futures. The End of Everything is a unique exploration of the destruction of the cosmos. So too, our Sun will eventually shine its last. When will it take place? How is it likely to happen? How do scientists know? An acclaimed theoretical astrophysicist explores the end of the Universe. ![]()
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![]() When National Geographic magazine publicized the discovery of the Gospel of Judas early in 2006, the magazine claimed that the document presented a loyal, sensitive and, perhaps, misunderstood Judas. “So the gospel mocks the apostolic Christians and criticizes the doctrine of atonement and the Eucharist or communion.” He was also a Gnostic who did not get along with the apostolic or mainstream Christians,” DeConick told Baptist Press. Gnostics also believed that all flesh was evil, and the goal of human salvation was to have one’s spirit reunited with the one true God. Jesus, they taught, had come from the one true God to share this knowledge with human beings, who had been created by an evil and inferior God, Jehovah, the God of the Old Testament and one of multiple deities. Gnostics taught that salvation came by obtaining secret knowledge, or gnosis (from the Greek). ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, April DeConick, a professor of biblical studies at Rice and author of “The Thirteenth Apostle: What the Gospel of Judas Really Says,” notes that the document actually calls Judas a “thirteenth demon.” That translation of the ancient Coptic text conforms fairly well to what biblical scholars have said of Judas for centuries as well as ancient commentaries from the church fathers who regarded Gnosticism as heresy. HOUSTON (BP)–A new book by a biblical scholar at Rice University refutes the claims of the National Geographic Society in 2006 that a third- or fourth-century fragment of the Gospel of Judas depicted “the son of perdition” as a hero. ![]()
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The jackal jr ward5/13/2023 ![]() And as the Black Dagger Brotherhood is called upon for help, and Rhage discovers he has a half-brother who's falsely imprisoned, a devious warden plots the deaths of them all. United by a passion they can't deny, they work together on an escape plan for Nyx- even though their destiny is to be forever apart. After she discovers what happened to her sister, getting her back out becomes a deadly mission for them both. Trapped by circumstances out of his control, he helps Nyx because he cannot help himself. The Jackal has been in the camp for so long, he cannot recall anything of the freedom he once knew. Embarking on a journey under the earth, she learns a terrible truth- and meets a male who changes everything, forever. When a freak accident provides Nyx clues to where her sister may still be doing time, she becomes determined to find the secret subterranean labyrinth. The location of the glymera's notorious prison camp was lost after the raids. ![]() The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Sinner brings another hot adventure of true love and ultimate sacrifice ![]() ![]() 'Hot, sexy, unique, intriguingly wicked' Christine Feehan ![]() 'Utterly absorbing and deliciously erotic' Angela Knight ![]()
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The queen of dirt5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() They gather around the kitchen table to smoke and talk and drink tea, and in the process help us understand our own lives just that little bit better. His seventh novel follows the lives of four generations of the Aylwards, a family of strong Irish women whose men have either died or absconded. Ryan won the Guardian first book award in 2013 for The Spinning Heart, set in rural Ireland after the collapse of the Celtic Tiger. Between those events lies a coming-of-age story that explores the challenges of growing up in a tight rural community in 1980s Ireland, and the broader landscape of prejudice, misogyny and family conflict. It begins with an ending – the abrupt loss of a character we have only just met – yet concludes with a hope for the people he left behind. ![]() D onal Ryan’s latest novel is a book of opposing forces. ![]()
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Under a white sky by elizabeth kolbert5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() In Chicago, more than a century after the dredging of a canal – “the biggest public works project of its time” – accidentally “upended the hydrology of roughly two-thirds of the United States”, engineers struggle to contain the spread of voracious species of carp introduced to gobble propeller-tangling weeds. She jets across continents, visiting laboratories and warehouse-sized scale models of damaged ecosystems through which scientists traipse like giants. She plays a wry and melancholy Virgil touring varied sterile hells, savouring ironies even when they hurt. Kolbert’s reporting is, as always, skilful and subtle. ![]() By the end of the book, as the zany twists into the full-on apocalyptic, you are left reeling, with little hope to spare. Ever grander interventions ensue, which bring fresh calamities, which require still cleverer interventions. Grand, Promethean interventions of the sort of which modernity’s boosters were once so proud – a river’s flow reversed to carry waste to a more convenient location, an aquifer tapped to grow alfalfa in the desert, coal and oil extracted from great depths and burned to move machines – spawn unforeseen disasters. In Under a White Sky, she tracks the spiralling absurdity of human attempts to control nature with technology. ![]() ![]() Kolbert’s most recent book evokes another disquieting sensation, a novel breed of vertigo. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Second, two of the three novels to which Tanner devotes entire chapters, Rousseau’s Julie, or the New Heloise and Goethe’s Elective Affinities, are not strictly speaking novels of adultery. ![]() First, it sets out a range of ideas on the subject in a lengthy general introduction. Since the book runs to nearly 400 pages, the word ‘prolonged’ is no understatement and it is a prologue in three main ways. ![]() 1 This feature is ‘the role played by the transgressive act of adultery in fiction’ (xi). In the Preface, he outlines his enterprise as follows: ‘a kind of prolonged prologue (or preliminary discourse) to the discussion of what I take to be one of the most important features of the development of the novel as we know it, or knew it’ (xii). Adultery in the Novel is only the first part of what Tanner intended as an even larger project, which he never completed. ![]()
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Don't Make Me Smile by Barbara Park5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() What’s interesting about this was that I had absolutely no experience at all as a writer. And although being the class clown in high school didn’t seem like much to base a career on, I decided to write “something funny” and see what happened. I’m embarrassed to admit that the only thing I came up with was the fact that I’d always had a rather “odd” sense of humor. It was then that I – still unsure of what I wanted to be when I grew up – sat myself down and tried to figure out what my true talents really were. I didn’t start writing until I was almost thirty. So the idea that I somehow became a children’s author is a constant source of amusement. In fact (if I’m going to be completely honest here), when I was in school, a writing assignment was (for me) about as much fun as a trip to the dentist. As an author, one of the questions I’m asked most often is, “When did you start writing?” I have to admit I always hesitate a minute before answering this one, because unlike many other authors I have met, I didn’t always have a burning desire to be a writer. ![]()
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Franny and zooey review5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() That observation is true enough, too-all member of the Glass family are over the top, theatrical, flamboyant, chock full of ego. ![]() Narrator Buddy Glass (the family writer-in-residence and Salinger’s alter ego) describes he and his siblings during their daily appearances on a radio program, “It’s a Wise Child”, from 1927 to 1943 as “insufferably ‘superior’ little bastards that should have been drowned or gassed at birth”. ![]() Franny is the youngest Glass, and Zooey is the second youngest of seven uniquely gifted children born from 1920s Vaudevillian parents. ![]() It’s two stories in a narrative series of stories about the Glass family that takes place in 1955 New York City’s upper east side. Both of these assessments are true.įranny and Zooey is really two stories published together in one book. Some critics suggested it was an "appallingly bad story", stagey and self indulgent, but that it also showed Salinger's "evolving beliefs”. Every time I read it, it affects me differently-depending where I am in my life. This current reading, I’m looking at the theme of intellectual entitlement.Īt once both a mystical story and a love story, at its publication in 1961, it was described both as a modern Zen tale and as a metaphor for modern society. I usually re-read it in the spring to set my compass for the rest of the year, spring being the time of renewal. Without exaggeration, I have read Franny and Zooey every year since I was in college, so about 40 times. ![]()
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![]() She then became a junior high-school English teacher but in 1971 realized that she wanted to be an author. After traveling to Missouri, Patricia attended Webster University and graduated with an M.A. While attending Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State University, now known as the Tennessee State University, Patricia met up with a childhood friend, Fredrick McKissack, who would later become her husband. Patricia and her siblings grew up in the south and they all remember the poetry her mother told by Paul Laurence Dunbar. ![]() The characters in these stories were always smart and brave, characteristics present in Patricia’s later works. Her father’s stories usually included the names of her and siblings Nolan and Sarah. She was inspired to be a writer by her mother who always read her poetry and also by her grandparents who told her many stories. Patricia L’Ann Carwell was born to civil servant parents Robert and Erma Carwell in Smyrna, Tennessee. ![]() Patricia L’Ann Carwell McKissack (Aug– April 7, 2017) was a children’s author who chronicled African American history and Southern folklore in more than 100 early reader and picture books. ![]() ![]() Mckissack is a 4-Time Bestselling Author ![]()
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A Sudden Crush by Camilla Isley5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() When her dream honeymoon turns into a hilarious tropical nightmare, Joanna's first thought is survival. Why are they alone on this forsaken island? What happened to Joanna's husband? Even more so when their flight is caught in the perfect storm and Joanna wakes up stranded on a desert island with Connor, the very man she hoped she would never have to see again. So it's just a misfortune they have to sit next to each other for a six hour plane ride. He is a country boy who has a no-nonsense approach to life, more scars than he'd like to admit, and he hates city girls. She loves her job as a book editor, she just married Liam, high profile bestselling author and the man of her dreams, and she's headed to the Caribbean to enjoy two weeks of paradise for her luxurious honeymoon.Ĭonnor Duffield is a gruff, grumpy rancher from the Midwest. Joanna Price is a city girl with the perfect life. ![]() |