The Grand Design

Author : Stephen Hawking,Leonard Mlodinow
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780553907070

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The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking,Leonard Mlodinow Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Is the apparent “grand design” of our universe evidence of a benevolent creator who set things in motion—or does science offer another explanation? In this startling and lavishly illustrated book, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow present the most recent scientific thinking about these and other abiding mysteries of the universe, in nontechnical language marked by brilliance and simplicity. According to quantum theory, the cosmos does not have just a single existence or history. The authors explain that we ourselves are the product of quantum fluctuations in the early universe, and show how quantum theory predicts the “multiverse”—the idea that ours is just one of many universes that appeared spontaneously out of nothing, each with different laws of nature. They conclude with a riveting assessment of M-theory, an explanation of the laws governing our universe that is currently the only viable candidate for a “theory of everything”: the unified theory that Einstein was looking for, which, if confirmed, would represent the ultimate triumph of human reason.

Author : Stephen W. Hawking,Stephen Hawking,Leonard Mlodinow
Publisher : Random House
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780553819229

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The Grand Design by Stephen W. Hawking,Stephen Hawking,Leonard Mlodinow Pdf

Relativity physics.

Author : John Daniel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0927022419

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The Grand Design Exposed by John Daniel Pdf

"A Little One Amidst the Shadows" tells of three episodes in the life of a man: one night in the young boy's life, one day in the old man's death, and a passion week in between. Along with this little one, the reader peers within the darkness and through the valley of shadows. Who are the three visitors? Why is there such suffering and so much pain? Where is God?

Author : Joy Callaway
Publisher : Harper Muse
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400234387

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The Grand Design by Joy Callaway Pdf

She has one last chance to prove she chose the right course for her life. In 1908, young Dorothy Tuckerman chafes under the bland, beige traditions of her socialite circles. Only the aristocracy’s annual summer trips to The Greenbrier resort in West Virginia spark her imagination. In this naturally beautiful place, an unexpected romance with an Italian racecar driver gives Dorothy a taste of the passion and adventure she wants. But her family intervenes, sentencing Dorothy to the life she hopes to escape. Thirty-eight years later, as World War II draws to a close, Dorothy has done everything a woman in the early twentieth century should not: she has divorced her husband—scandalous—and established America’s first interior design firm—shocking. Now, Dorothy returns to The Greenbrier with the assignment to restore it to something even greater than its original glory. With her beloved company’s future hanging in the balance and brimming with daring, unconventional ideas, Dorothy has one more chance to give her dreams wings or succumb to her what society tells her is her inescapable fate. Based on the true story of famed designer Dorothy Draper, The Grand Design is a moving tale of one woman’s quest to transform the walls that hold her captive. “Five Stars!” —Carleton Varney, president of Dorothy Draper & Company, Inc. “As captivating and confident as the heroine at its center.” —Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Veil “Full of luscious details of fashion and luxury!” —Kelly O’Connor McNees, author of The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott “A dazzling, intimate portrait.” —Louise Claire Johnson, author of Behind the Red Door “Historical fiction at its finest!” —Elyssa Friedland, author of Last Summer at the Golden Hotel Historical novel centered around America’s first female interior designer Stand-alone novel Book length: 109,000 words Includes discussion questions for book clubs

Author : Ed Piskor,Chris Claremont
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781302514778

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X-Men by Ed Piskor,Chris Claremont Pdf

Collects X-Men: Grand Design - X-Tinction #1-2 - plus the classic Uncanny X-Men (1981) #268, masterfully recolored by Ed. Presented in the same dynamic, oversized format of the best-selling Hip Hop Family Tree. The series that has critics and fans raving returns for its final installment! The fall and rise of the X-Men revisited! Relive the now-classic storylines of the 1980s - including the Mutant Massacre, the Fall of the Mutants, Inferno and the X-Tinction Agenda! And it's out with the old and in with the blue and gold as the X-Men enter the '90s! An explosive era of X-Men history is revisited, expanded and polished for a new generation - including the debuts of such 1990s mainstays as Jubilee, Gambit, Psylocke, Mister Sinister and more! The final chapter of this best-selling prestige series caps off the first three decades of X-Men lore in one neat package - all of it brought to life by the master of graphic fiction himself, Ed Piskor!

Author : P. C. W. Davies
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1993-03-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780671797188

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Mind of God by P. C. W. Davies Pdf

Exploration of whether modern science can provide the key that will unlock all the secrets of existence.

Author : Owen Strachan,Gavin Peacock
Publisher : Christian Focus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Men
ISBN : 1781917647

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The Grand Design by Owen Strachan,Gavin Peacock Pdf

The world has gone gray-fuzzy, blurry, gender-neutral gray. In a secularist culture, many people today are confused about what it means to be a man or a woman. Owen Strachan and Gavin Peacock clear away the confusion and open up the Scriptures.

Author : John Marco
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804180856

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The Grand Design by John Marco Pdf

From John Marco comes the epic sequel to his thrilling debut military fantasy, The Jackel of Nar. An infamous warrior is once again caught between two irrexixtible forces, and his choice may change the world... Prince Richius Vantran, the Jackal of Nar, has fled into exile. Meanwhile, Nar has exploded in civil war. The conflict is being waged between the religious fanatics of Bishop Herrith, who follow the Light of God, and the ruthless followers of Count Biagio and his Black Renaissance. As the terrifying slaughter mounts, fueled by the development of hideous new war machines, Vantran is offered a chance to ally with a third faction and take his revenge against his ancient enemy Biagio. But Biagio, a master of deception and intrigue, has a grand design to gain total power that involves luring Vantran's new allies into a deadly trap. As for Vantran, Biagio has a special punishment: to strike the warrior-prince's only weakness...Vantran's innocent daughter. And Vantran himself will unwittingly seal the young girl's fate.

Author : John Dos Passos
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504015462

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The Grand Design by John Dos Passos Pdf

John Dos Passos’s literary response to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, The Grand Design critiques the gargantuan growth of bureaucracy in Washington during the Great Depression and World War II. The satiric novel conveys the author’s frustration with federal overreach and the hollow rhetoric that sells it to the people. “War is a time of Caesars,” writes Dos Passos as he laments the death of idealistic, intelligent enterprises at the desks of elitist administrators. After witnessing the Spanish Civil War claim so many well-intentioned men, he advises caution for America’s New Dealers: “Some things we have learned, but not enough; there is more to learn. Today we must learn to found again in freedom our republic.”

Author : Donald Stoker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199752560

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The Grand Design by Donald Stoker Pdf

Despite the abundance of books on the Civil War, not one has focused exclusively on what was in fact the determining factor in the outcome of the conflict: differences in Union and Southern strategy. In The Grand Design, Donald Stoker provides for the first time a comprehensive and often surprising account of strategy as it evolved between Fort Sumter and Appomattox. Reminding us that strategy is different from tactics (battlefield deployments) and operations (campaigns conducted in pursuit of a strategy), Stoker examines how Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis identified their political goals and worked with their generals to craft the military means to achieve them--or how they often failed to do so. Stoker shows that Davis, despite a West Point education and experience as Secretary of War, ultimately failed as a strategist by losing control of the political side of the war. Lincoln, in contrast, evolved a clear strategic vision, but he failed for years to make his generals implement it. And while Robert E. Lee was unerring in his ability to determine the Union's strategic heart--its center of gravity--he proved mistaken in his assessment of how to destroy it. Historians have often argued that the North's advantages in population and industry ensured certain victory. In The Grand Design, Stoker reasserts the centrality of the overarching plan on each side, arguing convincingly that it was strategy that determined the result of America's great national conflict.

Author : Sally Foy
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Nature
ISBN : UVA:X000869323

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Author : STEPHEN HAWKING
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Mathematical physics
ISBN : 9780553840919

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The Grand Design by STEPHEN HAWKING Pdf

In this illustrated book, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow present the scientific thinking about mysteries of the universe, in nontechnical language. According to quantum theory, the cosmos does not have just a single existence or history. The authors explain that human beings are the product of quantum fluctuations in the early universe, and show how quantum theory predicts the 'multiverse' - the idea that ours is just one of many universes that appeared spontaneously out of nothing, each with different laws of nature. They conclude with an assessment of M-theory, an explanation of the laws governing the universe.

Author : Sean Michael Lucas
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433524455

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God's Grand Design by Sean Michael Lucas Pdf

Jonathan Edwards was a preacher, pastor, revivalist, and theologian. This volume unpacks his magnificent theological vision, which starts with God’s glory and ends with all creation returning to that glory. Sean Michael Lucas has converted his years of teaching on Edwards into this valuable work, which places Edwards’s vision in an accessible, two-part framework. Part one focuses on Edwards’s understanding of redemption history—God’s cosmic, grand work from eternity past to eternity future, where all things are united in Christ. Part two examines Edwards’s perspective on “redemption applied”—how that gracious, divine work unfolds in space and time to personally transform individuals, stirring their affections, illuminating their minds, and moving their wills to form new habits and practices. This overview of Edwards’s theology will prove to be a thought-provoking, encouraging guide to contemporary believers at every stage of their spiritual journey.

Author : John C. Lennox
Publisher : Lion Books
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780745955490

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God and Stephen Hawking by John C. Lennox Pdf

'The Grand Design', by eminent scientist Stephen Hawking, is the latest blockbusting contribution to the so-called New Atheist debate, and claims that the laws of physics themselves brought the Universe into being, rather than God. In this swift and forthright reply, John Lennox, Oxford mathematician and author of 'God's Undertaker', exposes the flaws in Hawking's logic. In lively, layman's terms, Lennox guides us through the key points in Hawking's arguments - with clear explanations of the latest scientific and philosophical methods and theories - and demonstrates that far from disproving a Creator God, they make his existence seem all the more probable.

Author : Tim Donovan
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-12
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781952269868

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The Alien Grand Design by Tim Donovan Pdf

The Alien Grand Design weaves all aspects of UFOlogy and history into a coherent picture. It is based on the author’s research and insights since the 1970s. The book explains everything alien enthusiasts want to know. • What are aliens really up to? • How and why do they deceive us? • What is their ultimate goal? With unparalleled insight and frankness, the author describes what the long-term impact of the phenomenon will be. The Alien Grand Design will be of great interest to anyone curious about the future.