A Naked Singularity

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226141802
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Book Synopsis A Naked Singularity by : Sergio de la Pava

Download or read book A Naked Singularity written by Sergio de la Pava and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-04-09 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Propulsive . . . The novel’s chaotic sprawl, black humor and madcap digressions make it a thrilling rejoinder to the tidy story arcs [of] most crime fiction.” —The Wall Street Journal Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Best Debut Novel Named a Best Book of the Year in the Wall Street Journal, Houston Chronicle, and Philadelphia City Paper A Naked Singularity tells the story of Casi, born to Colombian immigrants, who lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as a public defender—one who, tellingly, has never lost a trial. Never. In the book, we watch what happens when his sense of justice and even his sense of self begin to crack—and how his world then slowly devolves. A huge, ambitious novel in the vein of DeLillo, Foster Wallace, Pynchon, and even Melville, it’s told in a distinct, frequently hilarious voice, with a striking human empathy at its center. Its panoramic reach takes readers through crime and courts, immigrant families and urban blight, media savagery and media satire, scatology and boxing, and even a breathless heist worthy of any crime novel. If Infinite Jest stuck a pin in the map of mid-90s culture and drew our trajectory from there, A Naked Singularity does the same for the feeling of surfeit, brokenness, and exhaustion that permeates our civic and cultural life today. In the opening sentence of William Gaddis’s A Frolic of His Own, a character sneers, “Justice? You get justice in the next world. In this world, you get the law.” A Naked Singularity reveals the extent of that gap, and lands firmly on the side of those who are forever getting the law. “A great American novel.” —Toronto Star

A Naked Singularity

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Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 178206656X
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book A Naked Singularity written by Sergio De La Pava and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING JOHN BOYEGA, OLIVIA COOKE AND BILL SKARSGÅRD "The Wire written by Voltaire" Sunday Times "Crime and Punishment as reimagined by the Coen Brothers" The Millions Casi is a hotshot public defender working on the front line of America's War on Drugs. So far he's on the winning side. He's never lost a case. But nothing lasts forever, and pride like his has a long way to fall. Funny, smart and always surprising, A Naked Singularity speaks a language all of its own and reads like nothing else ever written. Casi's beautiful mind and planetary intelligence make him an inimitable and unforgettable narrator. In De La Pava's hands, the labyrinthine miseries of the New York Justice System are as layered and diabolical as Dante's nine circles of Hell. But the Devil doesn't hog the best lines. There are plenty here to go around.

The Story of Collapsing Stars

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199686769
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Book Synopsis The Story of Collapsing Stars by : Pankaj S. Joshi

Download or read book The Story of Collapsing Stars written by Pankaj S. Joshi and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book journeys into one of the most fascinating intellectual adventures of recent decades - understanding and exploring the final fate of massive collapsing stars in the universe. The issue is of great interest in fundamental physics and cosmology today, from both the perspective of gravitation theory and of modern astrophysical observations. This is a revolution in the making and may be intimately connected to our search for a unified understanding of the basic forces of nature, namely gravity that governs the cosmological universe, and the microscopic forces that include quantum phenomena. According to the general theory of relativity, a massive star that collapses catastrophically under its own gravity when it runs out of its internal nuclear fuel must give rise to a space-time singularity. Such singularities are regions in the universe where all physical quantities take their extreme values and become arbitrarily large. The singularities may be covered within a black hole, or visible to faraway observers in the universe. Thus, the final fate of a collapsing massive star is either a black hole or a visible naked singularity. We discuss here recent results and developments on the gravitational collapse of massive stars and possible observational implications when naked singularities happen in the universe. Large collapsing massive stars and the resulting space-time singularities may even provide a laboratory in the cosmos where one could test the unification possibilities of basic forces of nature.

Frolic of His Own

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439125473
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis Frolic of His Own by : William Gaddis

Download or read book Frolic of His Own written by William Gaddis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling fourth novel by the author of The Recognitions, Carpenter’s Gothic, and JR uses his considerable powers of observation and satirical sensibilities to take on the American legal system.

Elle

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Publisher : Lost in the Multiverse
ISBN 13 : 9781734693027
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Elle by : M. W. Kelly

Download or read book Elle written by M. W. Kelly and published by Lost in the Multiverse. This book was released on 2020-05-02 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elle, the Naked Singularity is science fiction spiked with magical realism, a story in which a college student finds herself lost in the multiverse. Twenty-year-old Elle Akamu slips from 21st century Earth through spacetime into a parallel universe in the 1970s British Hawaiian Islands. She befriends a transgender social worker, a teenage orphan, and a POW survivor in her quest to return home. Lost in the multiverse, she discovers life is about accepting her past, choosing a future, and finding love in her new world. A fusion of science and Buddhism, the story explores racism, gay rights, and gender inequality in the 1970s through the eyes of a 21st century time traveler. A stranger in a strange land, Elle wrestles with our oldest questions-what is the nature of the universe? And how do our relationships shape our world?The Wizard of Oz gets a fresh perspective in this second installment in the Lost in The Multiverse series. Elle's story proves that thoughtful science fiction can rise to new heights of beauty, meaning, and compassion.

Naked Singularity

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504012275
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Naked Singularity by : Victoria N. Alexander

Download or read book Naked Singularity written by Victoria N. Alexander and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hali’s father asks her to help him commit suicide to spare the family the misery of a long illness, she reluctantly agrees. Hali’s family insists on letting “God’s will” decide. Hali, brooding upon the idea of predetermination and an afterlife in a way that is both challenging and deeply moving, is ultimately unable to do what her father wishes. She is forced to accept the help of a manipulative male nurse, adding further complications and a slow and painful end.

Lost Empress

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525436219
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (254 download)

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Book Synopsis Lost Empress by : Sergio De La Pava

Download or read book Lost Empress written by Sergio De La Pava and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM THE PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF A NAKED SINGULARITY Led by a renegade young owner out for revenge against her traitorous family, the Paterson Pork—New Jersey’s only Indoor Football League franchise—is challenging the Dallas Cowboys for championship glory. Meanwhile, a brilliant and lethal mastermind has gotten himself intentionally thrown into prison on Rikers Island with plans to commit the most audacious crime of all time. And is the world ending? Maybe. Filled with impossible triumphs and grave injustices, Lost Empress is another brilliant, hilarious, and eccentric masterpiece from Sergio de la Pava: a vibrant exultation of a novel, populated by a cast of unforgettable characters—immigrants, exiles, and outsiders—who will have you rooting for them, right up until the end.

Personae

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022607904X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Book Synopsis Personae by : Sergio de la Pava

Download or read book Personae written by Sergio de la Pava and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Personae is not an easy read . . . But as a meditation on literature, it is playful, ambitious, and full of imagination, a 21st-century novel-of-some-kind.” —Daily Beast Sergio De La Pava’s A Naked Singularity was one of the most highly praised debut novels in decades. The Wall Street Journal called it “a propulsive, mind-bending experience,” and named it one of the ten best books of the year. This book is nothing like that one. Just look at it: A Naked Singularity was a brick of a book, 678 pages, and this one’s slim—lean and focused. A Naked Singularity locked us into the unforgettable voice of its protagonist, Casi, while Personae shimmers and shifts among different perspectives, locations, and narrative techniques. But sharp readers will quickly see that the two books are the work of the same hand. The sheer energy of De La Pava’s sentences, his eye for absurd humor, his commitment to the idea of justice—all will be familiar here as they carry us from the tale of an obsessive, damaged psychic detective consumed by a murder case, into a Sartrean drama that raises questions (and jokes) about responsibility, fate, death, and more. And when De La Pava eventually returns us to the investigation, this time seen from the other side, the lives and deaths bound up in it feel all the more real, and moving, even as solid answers slip away into mist. In some ways, despite its brevity, Personae is even more surprising and challenging than A Naked Singularity—and, in its ambition and fierce intelligence, it’s proof that Sergio De La Pava is here to stay.

Singularity

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Publisher : Perfection Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780812449037
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Singularity written by William Sleator and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 1995-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old identical twins Harry and Barry Krasner stumble across a gateway to another universe where a distortion in time and space causes a dramatic change in their relationship.

Singularity Sky

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780441011797
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (117 download)

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Book Synopsis Singularity Sky by : Charles Stross

Download or read book Singularity Sky written by Charles Stross and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-06-29 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a technologically suppressed future, information demands to be free in the debut novel from Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross. In the twenty-first century, life as we know it changed. Faster-than-light travel was perfected, and the Eschaton, a superhuman artificial intelligence, was born. Four hundred years later, the far-flung colonies that arose as a result of these events—scattered over three thousand years of time and a thousand parsecs of space—are beginning to rediscover their origins. The New Republic is one such colony. It has existed for centuries in self-imposed isolation, rejecting all but the most basic technology. Now, under attack by a devastating information plague, the colony must reach out to Earth for help. A battle fleet is dispatched, streaking across the stars to the rescue. But things are not what they seem—secret agendas and ulterior motives abound, both aboard the ship and on the ground. And watching over it all is the Eschaton, which has its own very definite ideas about the outcome...

Singularity

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Publisher : WordFire +ORM
ISBN 13 : 1614756260
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (147 download)

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Book Synopsis Singularity by : Bill DeSmedt

Download or read book Singularity written by Bill DeSmedt and published by WordFire +ORM. This book was released on 2018-06-23 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A swift, gripping novel with a goose-pimple mix of scary science and near-future action.” —Greg Bear, New York Times–bestselling, Hugo & Nebula Award–winning author of The Unfinished Land June 30th, 1908—In Siberia’s remote Tunguska river basin, the most devastating cosmic collision ever recorded flattens hundreds of square miles with a blast a thousand times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Yet, more than a hundred years later, the cause of the cataclysm remains shrouded in mystery. Maverick astrophysicist Jack Adler thinks he’s figured it out: a submicroscopic black hole, smaller than an atom, more massive than a mountain, made impact with the earth. Jack believes that this fantastic object is still deep inside the Earth, burrowing through its mantle in an orbit that will end only when it has devoured the entire planet. Meanwhile, secret agent Marianna Bonaventure enlists the help of Jonathan Knox, an analyst with an uncanny ability to find hidden relationships between seemingly disparate people and events, to search for three missing scientists and infiltrate the floating headquarters of a Russian industrialist. Together, these three must battle a global conspiracy intent upon exploiting the awesome power of the back hole--a power that can transform the world—or end it. “A swift, gripping novel with a goose-pimple mix of scary science and near-future action” —Greg Bear, New York Times–bestselling, Hugo & Nebula Award–winning author of The Unfinished Land “An action-packed thriller into perilous realms of black hole physics.” —David Brin, New York Times–bestselling, Hugo & Nebula Award–winning author of Colony High

Gravitational Collapse and Spacetime Singularities

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107405363
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Gravitational Collapse and Spacetime Singularities written by Pankaj S. Joshi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physical phenomena in astrophysics and cosmology involve gravitational collapse in a fundamental way. The final fate of a massive star when it collapses under its own gravity at the end of its life cycle is one of the most important questions in gravitation theory and relativistic astrophysics, and is the foundation of black hole physics. General relativity predicts that continual gravitational collapse gives rise to a space-time singularity. Quantum gravity may take over in such regimes to resolve the classical space-time singularity. This book investigates these issues, and shows how the visible ultra-dense regions arise naturally and generically as an outcome of dynamical gravitational collapse. It will be of interest to graduate students and academic researchers in gravitation physics, fundamental physics, astrophysics, and cosmology. It includes a detailed review of research into gravitational collapse, and several examples of collapse models are investigated in detail.

Black Holes in Higher Dimensions

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107013453
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Black Holes in Higher Dimensions by : Gary T. Horowitz

Download or read book Black Holes in Higher Dimensions written by Gary T. Horowitz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book devoted to black holes in more than four dimensions, for graduate students and researchers.

Contact

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 150117231X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Contact by : Carl Sagan

Download or read book Contact written by Carl Sagan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize-winning author and astronomer Carl Sagan imagines the greatest adventure of all—the discovery of an advanced civilization in the depths of space. In December of 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who—or what—is out there? In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future—and our own.

Philosophy of Physics

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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0444515607
Total Pages : 1481 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (445 download)

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Book Synopsis Philosophy of Physics by : Jeremy Butterfield

Download or read book Philosophy of Physics written by Jeremy Butterfield and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ambition of this volume is twofold: to provide a comprehensive overview of the field and to serve as an indispensable reference work for anyone who wants to work in it. For example, any philosopher who hopes to make a contribution to the topic of the classical-quantum correspondence will have to begin by consulting Klaas Landsman's chapter. The organization of this volume, as well as the choice of topics, is based on the conviction that the important problems in the philosophy of physics arise from studying the foundations of the fundamental theories of physics. It follows that there is no sharp line to be drawn between philosophy of physics and physics itself. Some of the best work in the philosophy of physics is being done by physicists, as witnessed by the fact that several of the contributors to the volume are theoretical physicists: viz., Ellis, Emch, Harvey, Landsman, Rovelli, 't Hooft, the last of whom is a Nobel laureate. Key features - Definitive discussions of the philosophical implications of modern physics - Masterly expositions of the fundamental theories of modern physics - Covers all three main pillars of modern physics: relativity theory, quantum theory, and thermal physics - Covers the new sciences grown from these theories: for example, cosmology from relativity theory; and quantum information and quantum computing, from quantum theory - Contains special Chapters that address crucial topics that arise in several different theories, such as symmetry and determinism - Written by very distinguished theoretical physicists, including a Nobel Laureate, as well as by philosophers - Definitive discussions of the philosophical implications of modern physics - Masterly expositions of the fundamental theories of modern physics - Covers all three main pillars of modern physics: relativity theory, quantum theory, and thermal physics - Covers the new sciences that have grown from these theories: for example, cosmology from relativity theory; and quantum information and quantum computing, from quantum theory - Contains special Chapters that address crucial topics that arise in several different theories, such as symmetry and determinism - Written by very distinguished theoretical physicists, including a Nobel Laureate, as well as by philosophers

Novel Explosives

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Publisher : Zerogram Press
ISBN 13 : 9781953409027
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Novel Explosives written by Jim Gauer and published by Zerogram Press. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's an otherwise ordinary week in April, the week after Easter, 2009. Late in the week, a man wakes up in Guanajuato, Mexico, with his knowledge intact, but with no memory of who he is, or how he came to live in Guanajuato. Early in the week, a venture capitalist sits at his desk in an office tower in Los Angeles, attempting to complete his business memoirs, but troubled by the fact that a recent deal appears to be some sort of money-laundering scheme. And in the middle of the week, just before dawn on April 15, two gunmen arrive at an El Paso motel to retrieve a duffel bag stuffed full of currency, and eliminate the man who brought it to El Paso. Thus begins the three-stranded narrative of Novel Explosives, a fiendishly funny search for identity that travels through the worlds of venture finance, the Juarez drug wars, and the latest innovations in thermobaric weaponry, a joyride of a novel with only one catch: the deeper into the book you go, the more dangerous it gets. At the palpitating heart of the novel, at its roiling fundamental core, lies an agonizing reappraisal of the way the U.S behaves in the world, a project that grows more urgent by the day.

Singularity Station

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Publisher : D A W Books, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780879970888
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Singularity Station written by Brenda Jackson and published by D A W Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 1973-12-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: