Book Description
An examination of Carroll's books about Alice explores the contextual knowledge of the time period in which it was written, addressing such topics as time, games, mathematics, and taxonomies.
Author : Gillian Beer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 21,94 MB
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226041506
An examination of Carroll's books about Alice explores the contextual knowledge of the time period in which it was written, addressing such topics as time, games, mathematics, and taxonomies.
Author : Malcolm S. Longair
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 39,88 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Science
ISBN :
Longair (Astronomer Royal, Scotland; Lewis Carroll fan) explains the nature, capabilities, and mission of the Hubble Space Telescope, scheduled for launch into Earth orbit in 1990. Suitable for junior high and high school. Well illustrated. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Alice Gorman
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,56 MB
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1742244491
Going boldly forth as a pioneer in the fledgling field of space archaeology, Dr Alice Gorman (aka Dr Space Junk) turns the common perception of archaeology as an exploration of the ancient on its head. Her captivating inquiry into the most modern and daring of technologies spanning some 60 years — a mere speck in cosmic terms — takes the reader on a journey which captures the relics of space forays and uncovers the cultural value of detritus all too readily dismissed as junk. In this book, she takes a physical journey through the solar system and beyond, and a conceptual journey into human interactions with space. Her tools are artefacts, historical explorations, the occasional cocktail recipe, and the archaeologist’s eye applied not only to the past, but the present and future as well. Erudite and playful, Dr Space Junk reveals that space is not as empty as we might think. And that by looking up and studying space artefacts, we learn an awful lot about our own culture on earth. She makes us realise that objects from the past — the material culture produced by the Space Age and beyond — are so significant to us now because they remind us of what we might want to hold onto into the future. ‘As charming as it is expert, as gripping as it is surprising, Dr Space Junk vs The Universe deftly threads together the cosmic and the personal, the stupendousness of space with the lived experience of human beings down here.’ — Adam Roberts, author of Gradisil
Author : Gillian Beer
Publisher :
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 29,42 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Fantasy fiction, English
ISBN :
Author : Alex Alice
Publisher : First Second
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1250187575
In search of the mysterious element known as aether, Claire Dulac flew her hot air balloon toward the edge of our stratosphere—and never returned. Her husband, genius engineer Archibald Dulac, is certain that she is forever lost. Her son, Seraphin, still holds out hope. One year after her disappearance, Seraphin and his father are delivered a tantalizing clue: a letter from an unknown sender who claims to have Claire’s lost logbook. The letter summons them to a Bavarian castle, where an ambitious young king dreams of flying the skies in a ship powered by aether. But within the castle walls, danger lurks—there are those who would stop at nothing to conquer the stars. In Castle in the Stars, this lavishly illustrated graphic novel, Alex Alice delivers a historical fantasy adventure set in a world where man journeyed into space in 1869, not 1969.
Author : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 843 pages
File Size : 19,86 MB
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442486643
It's Alice's senior year in high school, and this three-book compilation chronicles every minute. Includes "Alice in Charge, Incredibly Alice, " and "Alice on Board."
Author : Gillian Beer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 18,16 MB
Release : 2018-01-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 022656469X
An examination of Carroll's books about Alice explores the contextual knowledge of the time period in which it was written, addressing such topics as time, games, mathematics, and taxonomies.
Author : Taylor Johnson
Publisher : Alice James Books
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1948579782
Inheritance is a black sensorium, a chapel of color and sound that speaks to spaciousness, surveillance, identity, desire, and transcendence. Influenced by everyday moments of Washington, DC living, the poems live outside of the outside and beyond the language of categorical difference, inviting anyone listening to listen a bit closer. Inheritance is about the self’s struggle with definition and assumption.
Author : Christine Lorre-Johnston
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 49,24 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1640140204
New essays engaging with the developing field of literary geography to devote attention to the "regional" settings of Munro's stories and how they affect her characters' development or stasis.
Author : Rosebud Ben-Oni
Publisher : Alice James Books
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 23,8 MB
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1948579499
A fascinating blend of poetry and science, Ben-Oni’s poems are precisely crafted, like a surgeon sewing a complicated stitch. The speaker of the collection falls ill, and takes comfort in exploring the idea of “Efes” which is “zero” in Modern Hebrew, using that nullification to be a means of transformation.