Author : Govert Schilling
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674971663
A spacetime appetizer -- Relatively speaking -- Einstein on trial -- Wave talk and bar fights -- The lives of stars -- Clockwork precision -- Laser quest -- The path to perfection -- Creation stories -- Cold case -- Gotcha -- Black magic -- Nanoscience -- Follow-up questions -- Space invaders -- Surf's up for Einstein wave astronomy
Author : Lincoln Cole
Publisher : Lincoln Cole Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 25,56 MB
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1945862041
Calvin Greenwood is a family man in his eighties. He is alone for the first time in over sixty years: his wife, Emily, just passed away and he isn't taking her loss well. He doesn't remember how to be alone, and he isn't sure if he can forgive himself for the mistakes he made while she was alive. Edward White is a long time family friend who knows something is wrong with Calvin. He comes to check on him during his time of need and make sure he isn't planning to do anything reckless. Edward understands just how dangerous things are for someone struggling the way Calvin is, and he hopes talking to him can settle things back down. He just hopes he isn't too late to help. Help, however, isn't the easiest thing to give, and it can be even more difficult to accept... Love, loss, and forgiveness weave through this human tale of friendship and hope.
Author : Paul Wesselmann
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,25 MB
Release : 2019-12-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781734099560
Author : Alex Prud'homme
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 30,86 MB
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1439168490
AS ALEX PRUD’HOMME and his great-aunt Julia Child were completing their collaboration on her memoir, My Life in France, they began to talk about the French obsession with bottled water, which had finally spread to America. From this spark of interest, Prud’homme began what would become an ambitious quest to understand the evolving story of freshwater. What he found was shocking: as the climate warms and world population grows, demand for water has surged, but supplies of freshwater are static or dropping, and new threats to water quality appear every day. The Ripple Effect is Prud’homme’s vivid and engaging inquiry into the fate of freshwater in the twenty-first century. The questions he sought to answer were urgent: Will there be enough water to satisfy demand? What are the threats to its quality? What is the state of our water infrastructure—both the pipes that bring us freshwater and the levees that keep it out? How secure is our water supply from natural disasters and terrorist attacks? Can we create new sources for our water supply through scientific innovation? Is water a right like air or a commodity like oil—and who should control the tap? Will the wars of the twenty-first century be fought over water? Like Daniel Yergin’s classic The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power, Prud’homme’s The Ripple Effect is a masterwork of investigation and dramatic narrative. With striking instincts for a revelatory story, Prud’homme introduces readers to an array of colorful, obsessive, brilliant—and sometimes shadowy—characters through whom these issues come alive. Prud’homme traversed the country, and he takes readers into the heart of the daily dramas that will determine the future of this essential resource—from the alleged murder of a water scientist in a New Jersey purification plant, to the epic confrontation between salmon fishermen and copper miners in Alaska, to the poisoning of Wisconsin wells, to the epidemic of intersex fish in the Chesapeake Bay, to the wars over fracking for natural gas. Michael Pollan has changed the way we think about the food we eat; Alex Prud’homme will change the way we think about the water we drink. Informative and provocative, The Ripple Effect is a major achievement.
Author : David Blair
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 1999-04-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780738201375
Most people live and work entirely oblivious to the fact that a myriad of ghostly ripples are passing through them all the time. Generated in the depths of space by colliding stars and black holes, exploding supernovas and quasars, these so-called gravitational waves are literally ripples in the fabric of space itself. Sweeping across the cosmos at the speed of light, they encode vital clues about the exotic systems that produced them. Predicted by Einstein over eighty years ago, but never detected in the laboratory, gravitational waves have proven elusive to scientists. In the first book for a general reader on these amazing waves, Blair and McNamara weave a thrilling tale about the race to build the first gravitational wave antenna—a challenge that has prompted physicists and astronomers to devise some of the most breathtaking technology the world has ever seen. What these scientists find will allow us to listen to the explosion of stars, the creation of black holes, even the sound of the Big Bang itself, and will undoubtedly chart a new course for astronomy in the coming millennium.
Author : L a Casey
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 27,25 MB
Release : 2021-01-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781521077740
Escaping Earth for twenty-one year old Levi meant fleeing a monster who caged her, and abandoning a mother who loved her. Elation and misery were her constant companions. Bred a slave, hardship is all Levi has ever known ... but now she is on Ealra, home to the Maji species that saved her, and many human women like her.She is no longer a slave, she has protection, a home, friendship, a purpose ... but everything seems too good to be true, especially with a member of the royal family takes a keen interest in Levi.Existing from day to day for the past few decades has become the norm for Ezah. Ever since he failed to protect his intended from a vicious beast, he allowed himself to drift into misery. Born a prince, Ezah has had everything he has ever wanted ... but the one being he truly wanted was dead, and it was his fault.He is still a prince, and still has everything he could ever need ... but then life takes a strange turn, and just when Ezah thought he heart was dead and buried, a brown skinned human female made it beat again. Protecting, and loving, Levi is all Ezah wants to do, and when her very life is threatened, he vows to not make the same mistake as he had done before.He would protect Levi, even if he has to lay down his life to do so.
Author : Damian Knight
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,30 MB
Release : 2018-03-13
Category :
ISBN : 9781985778870
After altering the past on the night of Christmas Eve, reluctant time-traveller Sam Rayner finds himself trapped in a new timeline in which he has no recollection of the last month. Although Sam and his friends are now safe, he has lost the girl he loves and remains no closer to reversing the plane crash that has torn his family apart. As he struggles to make sense of this new reality, Sam sets out to obtain a new supply of Tetradyamide, the drug that enhances his ability, and finds himself pursued by forces of both good and evil as he is sucked into a conspiracy that runs far deeper than he could ever have imagined.
Author : Dede Montgomery
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,8 MB
Release : 2019-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781945805967
How might a small decision you make, an action you take, a phone call you initiate change your path? Impact other lives? Months after spying a bottle wedged into a fallen cottonwood snag in the Columbia River, Ernest pulls it from the river. The bottle's note connects Ernest, an old man living in a tiny Oregon town, to teenage Annie, provoking a mysterious and sudden friendship between Ernest's daughter Amelia with Sarah, the daughter of the most recent resident of the home Annie once occupied. The two middle-aged women's quest to learn more about Annie and her secret introduces readers to stories about family members through backstory, and introduces new characters, all connected through the finding of the bottle. Together, Amelia and Sarah explore their unfinished business with their mothers, intimate relationships, and regrets over life choices as they embark on their personal searches for something bigger in their very different lives.
Author : Jim Cosgrove
Publisher : Steerforth
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 33,38 MB
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 158642324X
“Riveting... a personal and highly original work of true-crime storytelling.” — John Douglas, former FBI criminal profiling pioneer and co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Mindhunter A chilling investigation into the unsolved “boy in the woods” murder; journalist Jim Cosgrove chronicles his decades-long struggle to uncover the truth of a family friend’s disappearance and death — perfect for fans of I'll be Gone in the Dark and Memorial Drive. For nine years, South Carolina officials struggled to identify “the boy in the woods,” a young man whose body had been discovered just south of Myrtle Beach in a fishing village called Murrells Inlet. Meanwhile, 1,200 miles away in Kansas City, Missouri, Frank McGonigle's family searched for him at Grateful Dead concerts and in the face of every long-haired hitchhiker they passed. Consumed by guilt for how they'd treated him, Frank's eight siblings slowly came to understand that — like Jerry Garcia sang — he's gone and nothin's gonna bring him back. Frank McGonigle was finally found — and identified as “the boy in the woods.” Four years later, the case still unsolved, Jim Cosgrove, a McGonigle family friend and investigative journalist, picked up the trail of Frank’s cold case and began uncovering connections to a ruthless local crime boss and blunders by the threadbare sheriff’s department. When his research began to stall, a chance meeting with the soft-hearted, straight-talking “energy reader” Carol Williams provided a metaphysical spark that reignited Jim's resolve. Although his work as a journalist trained him to be skeptical, Cosgrove found himself starting to become a believer when Carol provided details about Frank’s murder that turned out to be freakishly accurate. In 2019, Cosgrove returned to Murrells Inlet with one of Frank’s brothers to dredge up some old leads and settle Frank’s case once and for all…
Author : Cassandra Jamison
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 20,90 MB
Release : 2020-02-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781658731010
Is it possible to fall in love with somebody who no longer exists? Tess Corbin, a modern-day American heiress, stumbles into the year 1900 where she meets the infamous Heywood Paxton. She never expected to fall in love, but soon finds herself torn between the obligation to her fiancé back home and a taboo romance with this dairy farmer from another century. After discovering her way back to the future, Tess realizes that she has changed the past and Heywood's life has been brutally cut short by a new serial killer - a killer who did not exist until her time travels. Now Tess must find her way back to Heywood and hunt down this century old murderer to stop the killings before they begin. The only question is how long can Tess remain in a time that is not hers, and will it be enough to change history again?
