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Einstein's Monsters

Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Random House
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446401439

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An ex-circus strongman, veteran of Warsaw, 1939, and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and 'Einsteinian' destiny; maximum boredom and minimum love-making are advised in a 2020 epidemic; a virulent new strain of schizophrenia overwhelms the young son of a 'father of the nuclear age'; evolution takes a rebarbative turn in a Kafkaesque love story; and the history of the earth is frankly discussed by one who has witnessed it all. The stories in this collection form a unity and reveal a deep preoccupation: '"Einstein's Monsters" refers to nuclear weapons but also to ourselves,' writes Amis in his enlightening introductory essay, 'We are Einstein's monsters: not fully human, not for now.'

Einstein's Monsters

Author : Chris Impey
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : SCIENCE
ISBN : 1324000937

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Reveals how our comprehension of black holes is intrinsically linked to how we make sense of the universe and our place within it

Einstein's Monsters: The Life and Times of Black Holes

Author : Chris Impey
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781324000945

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Einstein's Monsters: The Life and Times of Black Holes by Chris Impey Pdf

The astonishing science of black holes and their role in understanding the history and future of our universe. Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe, and yet they are ubiquitous. Every massive star leaves behind a black hole when it dies, and every galaxy harbors a supermassive black hole at its center. Frighteningly enigmatic, these dark giants continue to astound even the scientists who spend their careers studying them. Which came first, the galaxy or its central black hole? What happens if you travel into one—instant death or something weirder? And, perhaps most important, how can we ever know anything for sure about black holes when they destroy information by their very nature? In Einstein’s Monsters, distinguished astronomer Chris Impey takes readers on an exploration of these and other questions at the cutting edge of astrophysics, as well as the history of black holes’ role in theoretical physics—from confirming Einstein’s equations for general relativity to testing string theory. He blends this history with a poignant account of the phenomena scientists have witnessed while observing black holes: stars swarming like bees around the center of our galaxy; black holes performing gravitational waltzes with visible stars; the cymbal clash of two black holes colliding, releasing ripples in space-time. Clear, compelling, and profound, Einstein’s Monsters reveals how our comprehension of black holes is intrinsically linked to how we make sense of the universe and our place within it. From the small questions to the big ones—from the tiniest particles to the nature of space-time itself—black holes might be the key to a deeper understanding of the cosmos.

Monsters

Author : Edward Regis
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780465061600

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"Oh, the humanity!" Radio reporter Herbert Morrison's words on witnessing the destruction of the Hindenburg are etched in our collective memory. Yet, while the Hindenburg -- like the Titanic -- is a symbol of the technological hubris of a bygone era, we seem to have forgotten the lessons that can be learned from the infamous 1937 zeppelin disaster. Zeppelins were steerable balloons of highly flammable, explosive gas, but the sheer magic of seeing one of these behemoths afloat in the sky cast an irresistible spell over all those who saw them. In Monsters, Ed Regis explores the question of how a technology now so completely invalidated (and so fundamentally unsafe) ever managed to reach the high-risk level of development that it did. Through the story of the zeppelin's development, Regis examines the perils of what he calls "pathological technologies" -- inventions whose sizeable risks are routinely minimized as a result of their almost mystical allure. Such foolishness is not limited to the industrial age: newer examples of pathological technologies include the US government's planned use of hydrogen bombs for large-scale geoengineering projects; the phenomenally risky, expensive, and ultimately abandoned Superconducting Super Collider; and the exotic interstellar propulsion systems proposed for DARPA's present-day 100 Year Starship project. In case after case, the romantic appeal of foolishly ambitious technologies has blinded us to their shortcomings, dangers, and costs. Both a history of technological folly and a powerful cautionary tale for future technologies and other grandiose schemes, Monsters is essential reading for experts and citizens hoping to see new technologies through clear eyes.

Hopeful Monsters

Author : Nicholas Mosley
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448209910

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This Whitbread Book of The Year Award winner for 1990 is the final novel of the "Catastrophe Practice" series. Set in the 1920s and 30s it tells the story of two young radicals, Max and Eleanor, who meet, love, separate and come together again during the maelstrom of the Spanish Civil War.

London Fields

Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307743978

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A blackly comic late 20th-century murder mystery set against the looming end of the millennium, in which a woman tries to orchestrate her own extinction—from "one of the most gifted novelists of his generation" (TIME). “Lyrical and obscene, colloquial and rhapsodic." —The New York Times First published in 1989, London Fields is set ten years into a dark future, against a backdrop of environmental and social decay and the looming threat of global cataclysm. As the dreaded Y2K approaches, Nicola Six, a “black hole” of sex and self-loathing, has chosen her thirty-fifth birthday, November 5, 1999, as the date of her own murder. Whom to manipulate into killing her is the question; her choice wavers between violent lowlife Keith Talent, who is obsessed with winning a darts tournament, and a dimly romantic banker named Guy Clinch. When Samson Young—a writer suffering from a long bout of writer’s block—stumbles upon these three, he believes he has found a story that will write itself. A highly unusual mystery with an unexpected twist at the end, London Fields is also a corrosively funny narrative of pyrotechnic complexity and scalding moral vision.

Final Theory

Author : Mark Alpert
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471105517

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'Einheitliche Feldtheorie'. The final words of his dying mentor will change David Swift's life forever. Within hours of hearing those words, David is arrested, interrogated and almost assassinated. But he's too busy running for his life to work out what it all means. Has he accidentally inherited Einstein's Unified Theory -- a set of equations with the power to destroy the world? Einstein died without discovering the theory. Or did he? Teaming up with his ex-girlfriend and an autistic teenager addicted to video games, David must ensure he survives long enough to find out the truth -- and deal with the terrifying consequences.

The Fate of the Earth and The Abolition

Author : Jonathan Schell
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804737029

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The Fate of the Earth and The Abolition by Jonathan Schell Pdf

These two books, which helped focus national attention on the movement for a nuclear freeze, are published in one volume.

American Ground Zero

Author : Carole Gallagher
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Nuclear weapons
ISBN : 9780262071468

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American Ground Zero by Carole Gallagher Pdf

One photojournalist's decade-long commitment, a gripping collection of portraits and interviews of those whose lives were crossed by radioactive fallout.

Time's Arrow

Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 014016779X

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Time's Arrow by Martin Amis Pdf

In this novel a man's life is portrayed backwards, from death to birth, as are some of the scenes - for example, sex begins with climax, moves through foreplay and exhausts itself on flirtation. The plot is about a doctor whose story begins with his death. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Other People

Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Random House
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446401378

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Other People by Martin Amis Pdf

'Other People had me purring with pleasure' The Times Like a ghost or a fugitive, Mary roams through London - pursuing and pursued by memory and forgetting, by the compelling Amy Hide and the charming Mr Wrong... Martin Amis sustains an unnervingly high degree of suspense as Mary and the reader yearn to grasp what has happened to Mary's past and ponder what its loss has gained her. Unfolding is a metaphysical thriller where jealousy guarded secrets jostle with startling insights. Other People is ambitious and accomplished, heralding for Amis an unexpected new direction as a novelist and for the rest of us an experience not to be missed.

Frank Einstein and the Electro-Finger (Frank Einstein series #2)

Author : Jon Scieszka,Brian Biggs
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781613127582

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Frank Einstein and the Electro-Finger (Frank Einstein series #2) by Jon Scieszka,Brian Biggs Pdf

In this second book in the series, Frank Einstein (kid-genius scientist and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, along with Klink (a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity) and Klank (a mostly self-assembled artificial almost intelligence entity), once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival—this time in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of energy. Frank is working on a revamped version of one of Nikola Tesla’s inventions, the “Electro-Finger,” a device that can tap into energy anywhere and allow all of Midville to live off the grid, with free wireless and solar energy. But this puts Frank in direct conflict with Edison’s quest to control all the power and light in Midville, monopolize its energy resources, and get “rich rich rich.” Time is running out, and only Frank, Watson, Klink, and Klank can stop Edison and his sentient ape, Mr. Chimp!

The Einstein Prophecy

Author : Robert Masello
Publisher : Sterling Mystery Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Historical fiction
ISBN : 1628999969

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"Modern science and primordial supernatural powers collide as war rages in 1944. Struggling to decipher the contents of a sarcophagus from an Egyptian tomb, Lucas and Simone unwittingly release forces for both good and unmitigated evil. The fate of the world hangs on Professor Einstein's secret research and on Lucas's ability to defeat an unholy adversary"--

Our World Is Relative

Author : Julia Sooy
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781250750396

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Our World Is Relative by Julia Sooy Pdf

A fun and engaging picture book from author Julia Sooy and illustrator Molly Walsh explaining Einstein's theory of relativity. Size, speed, weight, direction, distance We think of space and time as fixed and measurable. But these measurements—our experience of space and time—they are relative. Our world is relative. With simple, engaging text and vibrant art imbued with light and movement, Our World Is Relative offers a child's-eye view of time, space, and the vast role that relativity plays in comprehending our world. It's an introduction to Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, perfect for any curious young scientist.

The Monster Book of Manga

Author : Estudio Joso,Fernando Casaus
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780062117977

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The Monster Book of Manga by Estudio Joso,Fernando Casaus Pdf

The popularity of manga continues to row, inspiring interest in learning how to draw in this exciting style of comics. Estudio Joso creates the ultimate guide to illustration—384 pages of manga instruction. The Monster Book of Manga is divided into sections focusing on the most figures and themes—Girls, Boys, Samurais, Monsters, and more. Each illustration is broken down into six stages accompanied by step-by-step instructions, taking the artist from initial back-and-white sketches to the final color piece. They are all accompanied by practical suggestions, hints, and tips.