The Crack In Space

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547601182

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The Crack in Space by Philip K. Dick Pdf

The discovery of mysterious gateway leads to a new world full of dangerous possibilities in this science fiction tale from an iconic author. When a repairman accidentally finds a parallel universe, everyone sees it as an opportunity, whether as a way to ease Earth’s overcrowding, set up a personal kingdom, or hide an inconvenient mistress. But when a civilization is found already living there, the people on this side of the crack are sent scrambling to discover their motives. Will these parallel humans come in peace, or are they just as corrupt and ill-intentioned as the people of this world? “Dick’s best books always describe a future that is both entirely recognizable and utterly unimaginable.”—The New York Times Book Review

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307428349

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The Crack in Space by Philip K. Dick Pdf

In The Crack in Space, a repairman discovers that a hole in a faulty Jifi-scuttler leads to a parallel world. Jim Briskin, campaigning to be the first black president of the United States, thinks alter-Earth is the solution to the chronic overpopulation that has seventy million people cryogenically frozen; Tito Cravelli, a shadowy private detective, wants to know why Dr Lurton Sands is hiding his mistress on the planet; billionaire mutant George Walt wants to make the empty world all his own. But when the other earth turns out to be inhabited, everything changes. Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Philip K. Dick,Chris Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1980-09-11
Category : Life on other planets
ISBN : 0417058306

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The Crack in Space by Philip K. Dick,Chris Moore Pdf

Author : Michael Lawrence
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780060724795

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A Crack in the Line by Michael Lawrence Pdf

Sixteen-year-old Alaric discovers how to travel to an alternate reality, where his mother is alive and his place in the family is held by a girl named Naia.

Author : Peter Grego
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : 1781715556

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My Little Book of Space by Peter Grego Pdf

What is the sun? Where does Earth fit into the solar system? Which planet is 1321 times the size of Earth? Learning about space has never been so easy with this compact book of all things space. The interesting facts will have even the most reluctant readers hooked. Learn why Saturn is the only planet surrounded by rings, and how many years it takes the farthest planet to orbit the sun!

Author : Avi Sagi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031273919

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Light Through the Crack by Avi Sagi Pdf

An epidemic such as COVID-19 challenges life’s very order and meaning, interferes in our relations with others, and breaks apart our routine. It raises many questions in the realms of ethics, politics, theology, psychology, and beyond. Perhaps more than anything else, it prompts us to ponder: what does this encounter with widespread anguish and distress imply about the human self-perception as sovereign rulers of Earthly life? In this book, renowned thinker Avi Sagi explores the existential matters brought to the philosophical fore by the pandemic. He shows how we, when thrown into the terror of a crisis, carry the traditions, values, ideals, hopes, failures, and habits that constitute our lives, all shaping the way we grapple with questions seemingly resolved. We may then find that the crack that opens up at times of sorrow can also be a moment of discovery. Sagi analyzes various ways of confronting the crack now at the heart of our existence. What emerges is a clear normative statement: We are not only what we were but also what we can be, and we can create a world of meaning by standing together with others.

Author : H. M. Bouwman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780399545207

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A Crack in the Sea by H. M. Bouwman Pdf

An enchanting historical fantasy adventure perfect for fans of Thanhha Lai's Newbery Honor-winning Inside Out and Back Again No one comes to the Second World on purpose. The doorway between worlds opens only when least expected. The Raft King is desperate to change that by finding the doorway that will finally take him and the people of Raftworld back home. To do it, he needs Pip, a young boy with an incredible gift—he can speak to fish; and the Raft King is not above kidnapping to get what he wants. Pip’s sister Kinchen, though, is determined to rescue her brother and foil the Raft King’s plans. This is but the first of three extraordinary stories that collide on the high seas of the Second World. The second story takes us back to the beginning: Venus and Swimmer are twins captured aboard a slave ship bound for Jamaica in 1781. They save themselves and others from a life of enslavement with a risky, magical plan—one that leads them from the shark-infested waters of the first world to the second. Pip and Kinchen will hear all about them before their own story is said and done. So will Thanh and his sister Sang, who we meet in 1978 on a small boat as they try to escape post-war Vietnam. But after a storm and a pirate attack, they’re not sure they’ll ever see shore again. What brings these three sets of siblings together on an adventure of a lifetime is a little magic, helpful sea monsters and that very special portal, A Crack in the Sea.

Author : Lionel Shriver
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062328274

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The Motion of the Body Through Space by Lionel Shriver Pdf

In Lionel Shriver’s entertaining send-up of today’s cult of exercise—which not only encourages better health, but now like all religions also seems to promise meaning, social superiority, and eternal life—an aging husband’s sudden obsession with extreme sport makes him unbearable. After an ignominious early retirement, Remington announces to his wife Serenata that he’s decided to run a marathon. This from a sedentary man in his sixties who’s never done a lick of exercise in his life. His wife can’t help but observe that his ambition is “hopelessly trite.” A loner, Serenata disdains mass group activities of any sort. Besides, his timing is cruel. Serenata has long been the couple’s exercise freak, but by age sixty, her private fitness regimes have destroyed her knees, and she’ll soon face debilitating surgery. Yes, becoming more active would be good for Remington’s heart, but then why not just go for a walk? Without several thousand of your closest friends? As Remington joins the cult of fitness that increasingly consumes the Western world, her once-modest husband burgeons into an unbearable narcissist. Ignoring all his other obligations, he engages a saucy, sexy personal trainer named Bambi, who treats Serenata with contempt. When Remington sets his sights on the legendarily grueling triathlon, MettleMan, Serenata is sure he’ll end up injured or dead. And even if he does survive, their marriage may not. The Motion of the Body Through Space is vintage Lionel Shriver written with psychological insight, a rich cast of characters, lots of verve and petulance, an astute reading of contemporary culture, and an emotionally resonant ending.

Author : George C. Sih
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401722605

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Methods of Analysis and Solutions of Crack Problems by George C. Sih Pdf

It is weH known that the traditional failure criteria cannot adequately explain failures which occur at a nominal stress level considerably lower than the ultimate strength of the material. The current procedure for predicting the safe loads or safe useful life of a structural member has been evolved around the discipline oflinear fracture mechanics. This approach introduces the concept of a crack extension force which can be used to rank materials in some order of fracture resistance. The idea is to determine the largest crack that a material will tolerate without failure. Laboratory methods for characterizing the fracture toughness of many engineering materials are now available. While these test data are useful for providing some rough guidance in the choice of materials, it is not clear how they could be used in the design of a structure. The understanding of the relationship between laboratory tests and fracture design of structures is, to say the least, deficient. Fracture mechanics is presently at astandstill until the basic problems of scaling from laboratory models to fuH size structures and mixed mode crack propagation are resolved. The answers to these questions require some basic understanding ofthe theory and will not be found by testing more specimens. The current theory of fracture is inadequate for many reasons. First of aH it can only treat idealized problems where the applied load must be directed normal to the crack plane.

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811219716

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The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald Pdf

A self-portrait of a great writer 's rise and fall, intensely personal and etched with Fitzgerald's signature blend of romance and realism. The Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined recovery. Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after F. Scott Fitzgerald's death, this revealing collection of his essays—as well as letters to and from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, John Dos Passos—tells of a man with charm and talent to burn, whose gaiety and genius made him a living symbol of the Jazz Age, and whose recklessness brought him grief and loss. "Fitzgerald's physical and spiritual exhaustion is described brilliantly," noted The New York Review of Books: "the essays are amazing for the candor."

Author : Seung Seok Lee,Dong Jin Yoon,Joon Hyun Lee,Sekyung Lee
Publisher : Trans Tech Publications Ltd
Page : 2524 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783035706345

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Advances in Nondestructive Evaluation by Seung Seok Lee,Dong Jin Yoon,Joon Hyun Lee,Sekyung Lee Pdf

The aim of this 3-volume set is to bring together the expertise of scientists and engineers, in academia and industry, who are active in the field of non-destructive testing and evaluation. Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). The papers cover activities which include analytical techniques as well as experimental case studies.

Author : D. V. Kapanadze,Bert-Wolfgang Schulze
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9789401703239

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Crack Theory and Edge Singularities by D. V. Kapanadze,Bert-Wolfgang Schulze Pdf

Boundary value problems for partial differential equations playa crucial role in many areas of physics and the applied sciences. Interesting phenomena are often connected with geometric singularities, for instance, in mechanics. Elliptic operators in corresponding models are then sin gular or degenerate in a typical way. The necessary structures for constructing solutions belong to a particularly beautiful and ambitious part of the analysis. Cracks in a medium are described by hypersurfaces with a boundary. Config urations of that kind belong to the category of spaces (manifolds) with geometric singularities, here with edges. In recent years the analysis on such (in general, stratified) spaces has become a mathematical structure theory with many deep relations with geometry, topology, and mathematical physics. Key words in this connection are operator algebras, index theory, quantisation, and asymptotic analysis. Motivated by Lame's system with two-sided boundary conditions on a crack we ask the structure of solutions in weighted edge Sobolov spaces and subspaces with discrete and continuous asymptotics. Answers are given for elliptic sys tems in general. We construct parametrices of corresponding edge boundary value problems and obtain elliptic regularity in the respective scales of weighted spaces. The original elliptic operators as well as their parametrices belong to a block matrix algebra of pseudo-differential edge problems with boundary and edge conditions, satisfying analogues of the Shapiro-Lopatinskij condition from standard boundary value problems. Operators are controlled by a hierarchy of principal symbols with interior, boundary, and edge components.

Author : John Holloway
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745330088

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Crack Capitalism by John Holloway Pdf

Crack Capitalism, argues that radical change can only come about through the creation, expansion and multiplication of weak points, or "cracks" in the capitalist system. John Holloway's previous book, Change the World Without Taking Power, sparked a world-wide debate among activists about the most effective methods of resisting capitalism. Now Holloway rejects the idea of a disconnected plurality of struggles and finds a unifying contradiction -- the opposition between the time we spend working as part of the system and our excess "doing" where we revolt and refuse to be subsumed. Clearly and accessibly presented in the form of 33 theses, Crack Capitalism is set to reopen the debate among radical scholars and activists seeking to break capitalism.

Author : D.A. Hills,P.A. Kelly,D.N. Dai,A.M. Korsunsky
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401586481

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Solution of Crack Problems by D.A. Hills,P.A. Kelly,D.N. Dai,A.M. Korsunsky Pdf

This book is concerned with the numerical solution of crack problems. The techniques to be developed are particularly appropriate when cracks are relatively short, and are growing in the neighbourhood of some stress raising feature, causing a relatively steep stress gradient. It is therefore practicable to represent the geometry in an idealised way, so that a precise solution may be obtained. This contrasts with, say, the finite element method in which the geometry is modelled exactly, but the subsequent solution is approximate, and computationally more taxing. The family of techniques presented in this book, based loosely on the pioneering work of Eshelby in the late 1950's, and developed by Erdogan, Keer, Mura and many others cited in the text, present an attractive alternative. The basic idea is to use the superposition of the stress field present in the unfiawed body, together with an unknown distribution of 'strain nuclei' (in this book, the strain nucleus employed is the dislocation), chosen so that the crack faces become traction-free. The solution used for the stress field for the nucleus is chosen so that other boundary conditions are satisfied. The technique is therefore efficient, and may be used to model the evolution of a developing crack in two or three dimensions. Solution techniques are described in some detail, and the book should be readily accessible to most engineers, whilst preserving the rigour demanded by the researcher who wishes to develop the method itself.

Author : Héctor Jaimes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319627168

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The Mexican Crack Writers by Héctor Jaimes Pdf

This book provides a rich and cutting-edge analysis of one of the most prominent literary groups in Latin America: the Mexican Crack Writers. The first part explores the history of the group and its relation to the Latin American literary tradition, while the second part is devoted to the critical analysis of the works of each of the authors: Ricardo Chávez Castañeda, Ignacio Padilla, Pedro Ángel Palou, Eloy Urroz and Jorge Volpi. The volume is further enriched by the inclusion, in the appendix, of the two manifestos of the group: the Crack Manifesto and the Crack Postmanifesto (1996-2016). It will be of great interest to students and scholars focusing on contemporary Latin American literature.