The Half-Life

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 159691887X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Book Synopsis The Half-Life by : Jon Raymond

Download or read book The Half-Life written by Jon Raymond and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Cookie Figowitz, the cook for a party of volatile fur trappers trekking through the Oregon Territory in the 1820s, joins up with the refugee Henry Brown, the two begin a wild ride that takes them from the virgin territory of the West all the way to China and back again. One hundred and sixty years later, Tina Plank, an unhappy teenager, meets Trixie, a girl with a troubled past, and the two become fast friends. But when two skeletons are accidentally unearthed from their common ground, the lives of Tina and Trixie, Cookie and Henry are brought together in unexpected and startling ways. Jonathan Raymond attended Swarthmore College. He was an editor at Plazm magazine and received his M.F.A. from New School University. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. "A marvelous novel...a mystery as rich as the history of the Oregon territory itself."-Vanity Fair "Raymond nimbly interweaves these parallel tales and manages to surprise...[a] subtle portrait of friendship and loss...[from] an astute, patient observer."-Entertainment Weekly "Raymond's debut novel teems with carefully researched period details, intrigue...yet it never feels overstuffed."-Washington Post "With The Half-Life, [Raymond] has come home prospecting for literary gold ...Oregon has given him something back."-San Francisco Chronicle "Quietly stunning...Raymond is a kind of stealth bomber of the epic."-Newsday "Terrific...The Half-Life gazes upon those fierce but ephemeral attachments that evade the history books. Multiple plots elegantly veer across the sprawling terrain."-Village Voice

The Half-Life of Facts

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 159184651X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (918 download)

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Book Synopsis The Half-Life of Facts by : Samuel Arbesman

Download or read book The Half-Life of Facts written by Samuel Arbesman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New insights from the science of science Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that the brontosaurus was a real dinosaur. In short, what we know about the world is constantly changing. Samuel Arbesman shows us how knowledge in most fields evolves systematically and predictably, and how this evolution unfolds in a fascinating way that can have a powerful impact on our lives. He takes us through a wide variety of fields, including those that change quickly, over the course of a few years, or over the span of centuries.

Half-Life of a Zealot

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822338758
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (387 download)

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Book Synopsis Half-Life of a Zealot by : Swanee Hunt

Download or read book Half-Life of a Zealot written by Swanee Hunt and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-04 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autobiography by Swanee Hunt, daughter of the legendary oil magnate H. L. Hunt, Bill Clinton's Ambassador to Austria, and internationally renowned philanthropist.

Half Life

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062969897
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Book Synopsis Half Life by : Jillian Cantor

Download or read book Half Life written by Jillian Cantor and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The USA Today bestselling author of In Another Time reimagines the pioneering, passionate life of Marie Curie using a parallel structure to create two alternative timelines, one that mirrors her real life, one that explores the consequences for Marie and for science if she’d made a different choice. In Poland in 1891, Marie Curie (then Marya Sklodowska) was engaged to a budding mathematician, Kazimierz Zorawski. But when his mother insisted she was too poor and not good enough, he broke off the engagement. A heartbroken Marya left Poland for Paris, where she would attend the Sorbonne to study chemistry and physics. Eventually Marie Curie would go on to change the course of science forever and be the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.But what if she had made a different choice? What if she had stayed in Poland, married Kazimierz at the age of twenty-four, and never attended the Sorbonne or discovered radium? What if she had chosen a life of domesticity with a constant hunger for knowledge in Russian Poland where education for women was restricted, instead of studying science in Paris and meeting Pierre Curie? Entwining Marie Curie’s real story with Marya Zorawska’s fictional one, Half Life explores loves lost and destinies unfulfilled—and probes issues of loyalty and identity, gender and class, motherhood and sisterhood, fame and anonymity, scholarship and knowledge. Through parallel contrasting versions of Marya’s life, Jillian Cantor’s unique historical novel asks what would have happened if a great scientific mind was denied opportunity and access to education. It examines how the lives of one remarkable woman and the people she loved – as well as the world at large and course of science and history—might have been irrevocably changed in ways both great and small.

Half Life

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1761100807
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (611 download)

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Book Synopsis Half Life by : Jillian Cantor

Download or read book Half Life written by Jillian Cantor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant sliding-doors reimagining of the passionate life of the first woman to win a Nobel Prize – and the life Marie Curie might have led if she had chosen love over science. Poland, 1891. Marie Curie (then Marya Sklodowska) was engaged to a budding mathematician, Kazimierz Zorawski. But when his mother insisted Marya was not good enough, he broke off the engagement. A heartbroken Marya left Poland for Paris to study chemistry and physics at the Sorbonne. Marie would go on to change the course of science forever and become the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. But what if Marie had made a different choice? What if she had stayed in Poland, married Kazimierz, and never attended the Sorbonne or discovered radium? What if Marie had chosen her first love and a life of domesticity, still ravenous for knowledge in Russian Poland where education for women was restricted, instead of studying science in Paris and meeting Pierre Curie? Seamlessly entwining the lives of Marya and Marie, Half Life is a powerful story of love and friendship, motherhood and sisterhood, fame and anonymity – and a woman destined to change the world.

Half Life

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1780745826
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)

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Book Synopsis Half Life by : Frank Close

Download or read book Half Life written by Frank Close and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memo landed on Kim Philby's desk in Washington, DC, in July 1950. Three months later, Bruno Pontecorvo, a physicist at Harwell, Britain's atomic energy lab, disappeared without a trace. When he re-surfaced six years later, he was on the other side of the Iron Curtain. One of the most brilliant scientists of his generation, Pontecorvo was privy to many secrets: he had worked on the Anglo-Canadian arm of the Manhattan Project, and quietly discovered a way to find the uranium coveted by nuclear powers. Yet when he disappeared MI5 insisted he was not a threat. Now, based on unprecedented access to archives, letters, surviving family members and scientists, award-winning writer and physics professor Frank Close exposes the truth about a man irrevocably marked by the advent of the atomic age and the Cold War.

The Half-Life of Everything

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ISBN 13 : 9781610882330
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (823 download)

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Book Synopsis The Half-Life of Everything by : Deborah Carol Gang

Download or read book The Half-Life of Everything written by Deborah Carol Gang and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fiftysomething, happily married man loses his wife to illness. She's alive but she's gone. He finally starts to wonder: What's a married widower supposed to do? Happiness enters his life again--but with complications.

Half Life

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Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1466836814
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis Half Life by : Hal Clement

Download or read book Half Life written by Hal Clement and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2000-06-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In about two hundred years, the human race on Earth is perhaps facing extinction due to the rapid evolution of disease. A crew of young men and women travel to the moons of Saturn, to Titan, to investigate the biochemistry of the pre-life conditions there in the slim hope of discovering something that might save Earth. The whole story runs at high-speed, as they race to find answers across the surface of an alien landscape with death close behind . . . and gaining. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Half/Life: New & Selected Poems

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Publisher : Alice James Books
ISBN 13 : 194857960X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (485 download)

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Book Synopsis Half/Life: New & Selected Poems by : Jeffrey Thomson

Download or read book Half/Life: New & Selected Poems written by Jeffrey Thomson and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The quirky and macabre [ninth] book from Thomson is rich with breathtaking juxtaposition. ... These elegant poems are full of surprising and moving revelations.” —Publishers Weekly

Half Lives

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643137492
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Book Synopsis Half Lives by : Lucy Jane Santos

Download or read book Half Lives written by Lucy Jane Santos and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating, curious, and sometimes macabre history of radium as seen in its uses in everyday life. Of all the radioactive elements discovered at the end of the nineteenth century, it was radium that became the focus of both public fascination and entrepreneurial zeal. Half Lives tells the fascinating, curious, sometimes macabre story of the element through its ascendance as a desirable item – a present for a queen, a prize in a treasure hunt, a glow-in- the-dark dance costume – to its role as a supposed cure-all in everyday twentieth-century life, when medical practitioners and business people (reputable and otherwise) devised ingenious ways of commodifying the new wonder element, and enthusiastic customers welcomed their radioactive wares into their homes. Lucy Jane Santos—herself the proud owner of a formidable collection of radium beauty treatments—delves into the stories of these products and details the gradual downfall and discredit of the radium industry through the eyes of the people who bought, sold and eventually came to fear the once-fetishized substance. Half Lives is a new history of radium as part of a unique examination of the interplay between science and popular culture.

Half a Life

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Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307370593
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis Half a Life by : V. S. Naipaul

Download or read book Half a Life written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the finest living writers in the English language, V. S. Naipaul gives us a tale as wholly unexpected as it is affecting, his first novel since the exultantly acclaimed A Way in the World, published seven years ago. Half a Life is the story of Willie Chandran, whose father, heeding the call of Mahatma Gandhi, turned his back on his brahmin heritage and married a woman of low caste—a disastrous union he would live to regret, as he would the children that issued from it. When Willie reaches manhood, his flight from the travails of his mixed birth takes him from India to London, where, in the shabby haunts of immigrants and literary bohemians of the 1950s, he contrives a new identity. This is what happens as he tries to defeat self-doubt in sexual adventures and in the struggle to become a writer—strivings that bring him to the brink of exhaustion, from which he is rescued, to his amazement, only by the love of a good woman. And this is what happens when he returns with her—carried along, really—to her home in Africa, to live, until the last doomed days of colonialism, yet another life not his own. In a luminous narrative that takes us across three continents, Naipaul explores his great theme of inheritance with an intimacy and directness unsurpassed in his extraordinary body of work. And even as he lays bare the bitter comical ironies of assumed identities, he gives us a poignant spectacle of the enervation peculiar to a borrowed life. In one man’s determined refusal of what he has been given to be, Naipaul reveals the way of all our experience. As Willie comes to see, “Everything goes on a bias. The world should stop, but it goes on.” A masterpiece of economy and emotional nuance, Half a Life is an indelible feat of the imagination.

Half Life

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061744816
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Book Synopsis Half Life by : Shelley Jackson

Download or read book Half Life written by Shelley Jackson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ingenious, sensual, gleeful. . . . It demands of its readers only imagination, and rewards them with hilarity, terror, and marvels.”—Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn Nora and Blanche are cojoined twins. Nora, the dominant twin, thirsts for love and adventure, while Blanche has been asleep for nearly 30 years. Determined to shed herself of her her sister’s dead weight, Nora leaves for London in search of the mysterious Unity Foundation, which promises to make two one. But once Nora arrives in London, the past begins to surface, forcing her into a most reluctant voyage into memory—a search for meaning and understanding, that will push Nora to the brink of insanity. Grotesque, funny, and dazzlingly told, Shelley Jackson’s first novel is an imaginative and touching portrait of two lives in a cleft world yearning for wholeness.

The Half Life of Molly Pierce

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062231197
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Book Synopsis The Half Life of Molly Pierce by : Katrina Leno

Download or read book The Half Life of Molly Pierce written by Katrina Leno and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intricately woven debut psychological mystery and a profound coming of age story for fans of Made You Up by Francesca Zappia and All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven. “Introduces a fierce new presence.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “5 out of 5 bright, beautiful stars.” —Teenreads.com “A fascinating debut...something original indeed. Readers will absolutely need to know the end of this unique inward-facing mystery.” —ALA Booklist For all of her seventeen years, Molly feels like she’s missed bits and pieces of her life. Her memory is perforated with holes and gaps. But then a horrible accident changes everything. Now she’s starting to remember her own disturbing secrets. And bit by bit, Molly uncovers the separate life she seems to have led—and the love that she can’t let go.

Life and a Half

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253222877
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)

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Book Synopsis Life and a Half by : Sony Labou Tansi

Download or read book Life and a Half written by Sony Labou Tansi and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This crisp translation by Alison Dundy maintains the fast-paced action and bitingly satiric tone of the original.

The Call

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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 0822229951
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (222 download)

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Book Synopsis The Call by : Tanya Barfield

Download or read book The Call written by Tanya Barfield and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annie and Peter decide to adopt, setting their sights on a child from Africa. But, when they receive surprising news from the adoption agency, their marriage is put to the test, secrets of the past are exposed, and this couple approaching midlife is left with an unexpected choice. Politically charged, funny and tack-sharp, THE CALL is a startling portrait of cultural divide, casting global issues into the heart of an American home.

Half a Life

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Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 1101905484
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Half a Life by : Jill Ciment

Download or read book Half a Life written by Jill Ciment and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jill Ciment weaves an unforgettable tale of survival, compassion, and courage, in this haunting recollection of a child surrounded by confusion and madness, and her struggle to find an identity. Half a Life traces Jill Ciment's family from Toronto to the California desert—a landscape and culture so alien to her father that the last vestiges of sanity leave him. As madness engulfs him he becomes increasingly brutal and the family, grasping at survival, throws him out the door. Having no understanding that he has done anything wrong, he first lives in his car at the end of the driveway, waiting to be invited back in, before exiting completely from their lives. Poor and fatherless, Ciment spends the years from age fourteen to seventeen, as a gang girl, a professional forger, a stripper, a corporate spy, and finally, a high school dropout who by age eighteen has seduced her art teacher, a man nearly three decades her senior and bluffed her way into college in an effort to shape a future. Ciment is cutting, insightful and clearly unapologetic as she details the confusion and bravado of a child heroine whose dreams and tenacity allow her finally, to create the life she has been so desperately seeking.

The Half-Life of Deindustrialization

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472053795
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis The Half-Life of Deindustrialization by : Sherry Lee Linkon

Download or read book The Half-Life of Deindustrialization written by Sherry Lee Linkon and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how contemporary American working- class literature reveals the long- term effects of deindustrialization on individuals and communities