![]() ![]() ![]() Physicist Gerald Holton's Einstein, History, and Other Passions focuses more on the political and academic attacks on science that have led to federal budget cuts in research funding and driven many PhDs from particle physics to careers as stockbrokers. In The Demon-Haunted World, the late astronomer Carl Sagan writes in defense of science and reason in a world he sees as darkened by ignorance, superstition, pseudoscience, deceitful advertising and mindless television. Yet three recent books, from the heart of the scientific establishment, raise serious doubts about the future of science and explore the reasons for its apparent fall from grace. ![]() From Newton to the astronauts, from Darwin to the genetic engineers, from Einstein to artificial intelligence, the search for scientific knowledge has produced stunning intellectual advances and applied technologies that have shaped our culture and our lives. Science and progress have seemed like synonyms for more than a century. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Classy is when a woman has everything but doesn’t show off.Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see a shadow.I’m actually much greater than I think I am. When nothing goes right, go left instead.Morning coffee, because anything else is worthless.Let’s wait and just start as strangers.Treat me like a joke, and I’ll leave you like it’s funny.Sorry if I offended you with my common sense.Classy is when you have something to say but choose to remain silent. ![]() Chocolate is more affordable than therapy.It’s better to be a lonely lion than a popular sheep.A champion is someone who gets up when they can’t.A real girl isn’t perfect, and an ideal girl isn’t real.Aside from gravity, nothing else can keep me down.In the world of locked doors, a man with the key is the king. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Everything was suddenly up for discussion - why not question where we lived too? Moving Out Of The City To The Country In that storm of change, it felt strangely natural to be out of our regular surroundings. Other hometowns seem too slow, too calm, too complacent when compared with the city’s relentless pace and capacity for novelty.Īnd maybe I wouldn’t have left if it hadn’t been for the pandemic, and specifically the timing of the pandemic, when I was five months pregnant and already displaced by the renovation of our apartment, awash in change and facing an unknowable reality. New Yorkers like to tell themselves that other place could measure up. Where else am I going to get a real bagel? How will I live without having three bodegas within walking distance of my apartment? What would I do if I couldn’t order Nepalese takeout at 2am? Even though I grew up just outside the city and my memories were threaded with trips to the Natural History Museum and Zabar’s and the playground outside my uncle’s place near NYU, I wasn’t a real New Yorker until I moved there in my late 20s.Įven then, people told me it took ten years before you could officially consider yourself a New Yorker.īy the time I’d attained that milestone, leaving seemed unfathomable.There’s no city quite like New York, and its extremes breed a kind of clinginess among its residents. It’s a common attitude among New Yorkers, who seem to live and die by their status as natives. I used to think I would never leave the city. ![]() ![]() ![]() “A Colorful Journey Through the Land of Talking Letters” is a delightful book. Judge, 23rd Annual Writer’s Digest Self-published Book Awards.” Judge’s Commentary: 12/21/15 ![]() finalist in 2015 Beverly Hills Book Awards in Picture Books-Ages 4-8. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.ġst place winner in 2015 "Purple Dragonfly Book Awards" in Best Illustrations category-by Five Star Publications, Inc. School teachers, parents, and anyone else who has ever struggled with teaching their little ones the ins and outs of the English language are guaranteed to find A Colorful Journey Through the Land of Talking Letters an essential tool for launching a lifelong love of reading. From "Ahoy! My name is A!" to "Zelda the Zebra," each fun ditty will make learning to read a snap. Penned by a lifelong language-lover who was in search of a book to help teach her granddaughter to read, the stories in this illustrated volume star a charming cast of animated letters who incorporate a handful of simple rules to teach their different sounds. ![]() Now there's a phonics tool to ease the introduction to reading: A Colorful Journey Through the Land of Talking Letters. The twenty-six letters of the alphabet make a variety of sounds, depending on which words they comprise, often leading to confusion for beginning readers. When it comes to reading, "The Alphabet Song" can only take you so far. ![]() ![]() He is well respected for his financial acumen and his work ethic, but he is not well liked. ![]() Nineteen years later, Henchard, now a successful grain merchant, is the eponymous Mayor of Casterbridge, known for his staunch sobriety. When he realizes that his wife and daughter are gone, probably for good, he swears not to touch liquor again for as many years as he has lived so far (21). Once sober the next day, he is too late to recover his family, particularly since his reluctance to reveal his own bad conduct keeps him from conducting an effective search. Spurred by alcohol, he decides to auction off his wife and baby daughter, Elizabeth-Jane, to a sailor, Mr. Michael Henchard, a young hay trusser, overindulges in rum-laced furmity and quarrels with his wife, Susan. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy is a tragic novel set in the fictional town of Casterbridge. ![]() ![]() ![]() By 1979, monthly comic book circulation was its lowest since the early ‘40s.” This state of things-comics being immature, unpopular, and creatively stagnant-makes the maturation of the form represented by Miller, Spiegelman, Moore, and others look almost heroic. Comics, in other words, were for kids, and increasingly few of them. In Jeremy Dauber’s fascinating book American Comics: A History, he notes two crucial-and seemingly related-points about the comics industry in the late ‘70s: at the time, “Scholars pegged the reading level of twenty popular comic book titles as ranging from 1.8 to 6.4. Phase Five of the MCU Is Just Beginning.What Do Marvel and Faulkner Have In Common?.Marvel Cinematic Universe Movies, Ranked. ![]() ![]() But what befalls them all is carefully chronicled upon these pages for you to peruse. ![]() My son says I must convey how the story tells also of July's mama Kitty, of the negroes that worked the plantation land, of Caroline Mortimer the white woman who owned the plantation and many more persons besides - far too many for me to list here. She was there when the Baptist War raged in 1831, and she was also present when slavery was declared no more. July is a slave girl who lives upon a sugar plantation named Amity and it is her life that is the subject of this tale. ![]() As your storyteller, I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Imprisoned for the murder of the vampiric king, Gabriel’s tale spans from his youth in the monastery of San Michon, to the forbidden love that spelled his undoing, and the betrayal that saw his order annihilated. This novel tells the story of Gabriel de León, last of the Silversaints, a holy order dedicated to defending realm and church from the vampiric “coldbloods”. He sold the novel with the description of it being “the bastard lovechild of Interview with the Vampire, The Road and The Name of the Wind,” so it has high hopes riding on it (which early reviews support). ![]() Empire of the Vampire is the first book in a new illustrated dark fantasy series for author Jay Kristoff, who is best known for his popular Nevernight series. ![]() ![]() Exotic Chinese and Africans are used as backdrops. Then I read the book, a strange combination of genuinely sexy and often beautiful writing, affected prose and naive Freudianism. It sounds good, and when I read this in the foreword to Delta of Venus I agreed wholeheartedly. You have taught us more than anyone I know how wrong it is not to mix it with emotion, hunger, desire, lust, whims, caprices, personal ties, deeper relationships that change its color, flavor, rhythms, intensities. Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession. ![]() At one point Nin wrote him a letter which said in part:ĭear Collector: We hate you. ![]() Concentrate on sex." The impoverished writers who, along with Nin, wrote for the old man to pay their bills, resented this commandment greatly. The preface of Delta of Venus tells the rueful tale of the cold voice over the telephone with its directive, "Leave out the poetry. The paperback edition has gone through four printings, and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, knowing a good thing when they see it, have recently brought out a second volume, beautifully printed as the first and likewise bound in real cloth-quite a tribute these days, especially for stories originally written for an anonymous dirty old man at a dollar a page. ![]() "THIRTY-FIVE YEARS ago, Anais Nin created the female language for sexuality." So says the blurb on the back of Delta of Venus, the first posthumous volume of Anais Nin's erotic writing. ![]() ![]() At last we see him as he was: protean multitasker, decisive, surprisingly willing to forgive his enemies and his errant wife Josephine. ![]() Andrew Roberts's Napoleon is the first one-volume biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon's thirty-three thousand letters, which radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation. Like George Washington and his own hero Julius Caesar, he was one of the greatest soldier-statesmen of all times. The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of War -winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography and the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoleon Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest in history, but Napoleon Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and astute leader of men. ![]() |