Marlene MacCallum’s latest artist’s books remind me of Claude Monet’s two series of paintings of the Rouen Cathedral’s façade and a field of haystacks. The series were influenced by Japaneseukiyo-eprints (“pictures of the floating world”). Rather than changing vantage points on Mt. ...
mechanics; relativistic spacetime; special relativity; general relativity; tensor calculus; cosmology; Einstein’s field equations; dark matter; dark energy; and black holes.This accessible edition delivers helpful and engaging additions to the role and importance of physics in cosmology and relativity. ...
Like all of Edith’s books, this is extremely easy to read, despite the subject matter. It oscillates between dark personal memoir and really illuminating discussions of passages of ancient Greek tragedy.” Read more... The Best Philosophy Books of 2024 Nigel Warburton, Philosopher Buy now ...
I can’t recall anything particular about this book, my entire note on it was “meh” The Golem and the Jinni by Helen Wecker This book sat on my TRB pile FOREVER and I finally had to force myself to pick it up but unlike some of the other books in this list it was a pleasant ...
The Spanish and English versions of Blanco’s text shape, and are shaped by, the bilateral symmetry of the letter X and the codex form of the book. Spanish on the left, English on the right: the imposition of type and the ghostly images of the X play with one another. The two texts...
She put her books on the desk just now. (改为否定句)She ___ ___ her books on the desk just now. 免费查看参考答案及解析 题目: There ___ a number of books in our school library, and the number of them ___ growing larger and larger. A.is, areB.are, isC.have, is 免费查看...
This is a less well-known story to English readers than the battlefields of France and Belgium, and the focus on the war from the point of view of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires makes for very interesting reading. Russia lost more than 2.3 million soldiers in the war; the Austro...
“Someone needs to tell him that the lines on maps are not supposed to be this entertaining.”Drew Gallagher reviewsJonn Elledge’sBrief History of the World in 47 Bordersin theWashington Independent Review of Books. “Throughout, Elledge’s writing is equal parts insightful and amusing, and ...
It is likely to be overwhelmed by literal floods and fires arising from climate change. And likely to become easy pickings for its enemies both at home and overseas. To quote from the Sermon on the Mount in the gospel according to Matthew, a house built on sand cannot stand. A house ...
One of his colleagues on the Graphic, Frank Mallen, later wrote that, “He never liked anything about it. As a matter of fact, he didn’t know why in hell he ever got tangled up in it.” After tendering his resignation, Weitzenkorn boarded a ship for France and decided to work out...