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Author : Charles Sheffield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780450431166
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Proteus Unbound written by Charles Sheffield and published by . This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Silvan S. Schweber
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067403452X
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Einstein and Oppenheimer written by Silvan S. Schweber and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer, two iconic scientists of the twentieth century, belonged to different generations, with the boundary marked by the advent of quantum mechanics. By exploring how these men differed—in their worldview, in their work, and in their day—this book provides powerful insights into the lives of two critical figures and into the scientific culture of their times. In Einstein’s and Oppenheimer’s philosophical and ethical positions, their views of nuclear weapons, their ethnic and cultural commitments, their opinions on the unification of physics, even the role of Buddhist detachment in their thinking, the book traces the broader issues that have shaped science and the world. Einstein is invariably seen as a lone and singular genius, while Oppenheimer is generally viewed in a particular scientific, political, and historical context. Silvan Schweber considers the circumstances behind this perception, in Einstein’s coherent and consistent self-image, and its relation to his singular vision of the world, and in Oppenheimer’s contrasting lack of certainty and related non-belief in a unitary, ultimate theory. Of greater importance, perhaps, is the role that timing and chance seem to have played in the two scientists’ contrasting characters and accomplishments—with Einstein’s having the advantage of maturing at a propitious time for theoretical physics, when the Newtonian framework was showing weaknesses. Bringing to light little-examined aspects of these lives, Schweber expands our understanding of two great figures of twentieth-century physics—but also our sense of what such greatness means, in personal, scientific, and cultural terms.
Author : A. Bartlett Giamatti
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300030747
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Exile and Change in Renaissance Literature written by A. Bartlett Giamatti and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mihoko Suzuki
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150173234X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Metamorphoses of Helen written by Mihoko Suzuki and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mihoko Suzuki sheds light on a literary tradition that seemingly holds Helen of Troy and her descendants responsible for causing epic conflicts, while it appropriates the woman's perspective as a source of insight and poetic power.
Author : David Langford
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1592240550
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (922 download)
Download or read book Up Through an Empty House of Stars written by David Langford and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last, _Up Through an Empty House of Stars_ brings together the best of the never before collected SF reviews and articles that helped build David Langford's towering reputation since 1980. Complementing the review columns collected in _The Complete Critical Assembly_ and the knockabout essays and squibs in _The Silence of the Langford_, this volume's 100 glittering selections mix serious critical insight with the inimitable Langford wit. In 2002 David Langford won his sixteenth Hugo award as Best Fan Writer, for critical and humorous commentary on SF. In the same year his occasionally scandalous SF newsletter _Ansible_ won its fifth Hugo. Langford also received the 2001 Hugo for best short story, and the 2002 Skylark Award. Here he shines a unique light on classics like Ernest Bramah, G.K. Chesterton, Robert Heinlein and Jack Vance, and analyses major SF -- and major clunkers, and minor eccentrics -- of the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s, continuing to the latest by such current stars as Gene Wolfe and China Mi, ville. Plus witty asides on crime fiction and its SF links, gleeful examination of writing so bad it's almost good, and (even at his most serious) turns of phrase to make you laugh aloud
Author : Sarah Jackson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748685332
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Tactile Poetics written by Sarah Jackson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new critical perspective on the relationship between text and tact in 20th- and 21st-century literature and theory
Author : Michael A. Seidel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400856906
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Epic Geography written by Michael A. Seidel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In proposing that places, movements, and directions are deeply implicated in the narrative structure of Ulysses, Michael Seidel contends that Joyce recreates in Dublin the significant epic geography of the Odyssey. The author demonstrates how Joyce adjusts the spaces of Ulysses to accommodate the three theaters of Homeric action as mapped by Victor Berard's Lex Pheniciens et I'Odyssee. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : A. Bartlett Giamatti
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393306316
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Play of Double Senses written by A. Bartlett Giamatti and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A balanced, coherent reading that is both enlightening and full of delight. --Choice
Author : Charles Sheffield
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 057508393X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Proteus Unbound written by Charles Sheffield and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were problems with the Form Change process. One or two malfunctions at first: people emerging from the tanks in an incorrect form or completely unchanged. For three years it had been getting worse. Now there had been deaths, and on the Space Farms panic was setting in. People were refusing to go into the tanks. Yet out in the Cloudlands, they needed continuous small form corrections just to stay effective. As the faults increased, their society was on an exponential curve to disaster. Behrooz Wolf, down in the Inner System, was sent for. But far gone in despair, he was in no state to help. He himself was going mad. Like a hallucination, the Dancing Man would come capering across his field of vision. Dressed in skin-tight scarlet, he danced up to him, mouthing gibberish, then skipping backwards, tantalisingly, out of sight. While, hidden in the Kernel Ring, Black Ransone bided his time, waiting for the disintegration of the empires, waiting to inherit the universe.
Author : Sae Hoon Chung
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Proteus Unbound written by Sae Hoon Chung and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine G. Martin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429595506
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Milton in the New Scientific Age written by Catherine G. Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milton and the New Scientific Age represents significant advantages over all previous volumes on the subject of Milton and science, as it includes contributions from top scholars and prominent beginners in a broad number of fields. Most of these fields have long dominated work in both Milton and seventeenth-century studies, but they have previously not included the relatively new and revolutionary topic of early modern chemistry, physiology, and medicine. Previously this subject was confined to the history of science, with little if any attention to its literary development, even though it prominently appears in John Milton’s Paradise Lost, which also includes early "science fiction" speculations on aliens ignored by most readers. Both of these oversights are corrected in this essay collection, while more traditional areas of research have been updated. They include Milton’s relationship both to Bacon and the later or Royal Society Baconians, his views on astronomy, and his "vitalist" views on biology and cosmology. In treating these topics, our contributors are not mired in speculations about whether or not Milton was on the cutting edge of early science or science fiction, for, as nearly all of them show, the idea of a "cutting edge" is deeply anachronistic at a time when most scientists and scientific enthusiasts held both fully modern and backward-looking beliefs. By treating these combinations contextually, Milton’s literary contributions to the "new science" are significantly clarified along with his many contemporary sources, all of which merit study in their own right.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Magill's Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature: Lest darkness fall written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These four volumes cover 791 books or series, 238 of them published during the 1980s and 1990s. the entries are 1,000 words long for single books and 1,500 for series, with a one-sentence summary beginning each entry followed by bibliographical information ... Volume 4 contains an extensive bibliography of critical works on science fiction and fantasy, a list of major award winners, a genre index." Booklist.
Author : James Nohrnberg
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400856256
Total Pages : 895 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Analogy of The Faerie Queene written by James Nohrnberg and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 895 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines an analysis of The Faerie Queene's, total form with an exposition of its allegorical content. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Alastair Fowler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317865731
Total Pages : 745 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Milton: Paradise Lost written by Alastair Fowler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the great works of literature, of any time and in any language. Marked by Milton's characteristic erudition it is a work epic both in scale and, notoriously, in ambition. For nearly 350 years it has held generation upon generation of scholars, students and readers in rapt attention and its profound influence can be seen in almost every corner of Western culture. First published in 1968, with John Carey's Complete Shorter Poems, Alastair Fowler's Paradise Lost is widely acknowledged to be the most authoritative edition of this compelling work. An unprecedented amount of detailed annotation accompanies the full text of the first (1667) edition, providing a wealth of contextual information to enrich and enhance the reader's experience. Notes on composition and context are combined with a clear explication of the multitude allusions Milton called to the poem's aid. The notes also summarise and illuminate the vast body of critical attention the poem has attracted, synthesizing the ancient and the modern to provide a comprehensive account both of the poem's development and its reception. Meanwhile, Alastair Fowler's invigorating introduction surveys the whole poem and looks in detail at such matters as Milton's theology, metrical structure and, most valuably, his complex and imaginary astronomy. The result is an enduring landmark in the field of Milton scholarship and an invaluable guide for readers of all levels.
Author : Douglas Brooks-Davies
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719009549
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Mercurian Monarch written by Douglas Brooks-Davies and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isabel Gamble MacCaffrey
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400870240
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Spenser's Allegory written by Isabel Gamble MacCaffrey and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isabel MacCaffrey contends that, in allegory, the mind makes a model of itself, and she shows that The Faerie Queene, mirroring as it does the mind's structure, is both a treatise on and an example of the central role that imagination plays in human life. Viewing the poem as a model of Spenser's universe, the author investigates the poet's theory of knowledge and the role of imagination in the construction of cosmic models. She begins with a survey of theories of the imagination and the creation of fictions, establishing a context in which allegorical images may be understood throughout the European allegorical tradition to which The Faerie Queene belongs. Isabel MacCaffrey's new readings show that insofar as Spenser's poem concerns modes of knowledge, it offers the reader an anatomy of its own composition, an analysis of imagination in its varied relations to the world. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Mark Somos
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004209573
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Secularisation and the Leiden Circle written by Mark Somos and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Leiden Circle pioneered the systematic exclusion of theologically grounded argument in areas of thought from the natural sciences to international relations. Somos uses richly contextualised portraits of Scaliger, Heinsius, Cunaeus and Grotius to develop a new model of secularisation.
