![]() ![]() Newton's discovery of calculus at age twenty-three Why gravity, one of the greatest human insights of all time, was in fact a hunch and how it actually works Why it took Newton twenty years after his discovery to reveal to the world the secret of gravity and planetary motion Just a few of the big ideas covered here are: Today, we know that gravity keeps our feet on the ground, but how many of us know how Newton's greatest discovery really works? In Newton & Gravity, Paul Strathern encapsulates several of Newton's more mind-expanding discoveries, explaining in lively prose their cultural context as well as Newton's early obsession with science (bordering on dementia) that made his revolutionary vision possible. ![]() His theory of gravity offered his contemporaries their first glimpse of how the universe actually works, and his mathematics enabled later generations to walk on the moon. ![]() A good case can be made for Isaac Newton being the finest mind humanity has yet produced. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() “Pick your poison,” reads the shop’s version of a cocktail menu, which lists such ’dos as the neat Manhattan and the full-bodied Southern Comfort. ![]() Just blowouts.”ĭrybar’s hair styles are named after stiff drinks. Drybar offers only one service: having someone wash and dry your hair. It was a combination of the Cosmopolitan and the Mai Tai, two of the six looks offered by the salon, at forty dollars a pop. Her long dark locks had been styled, with a giant curling iron that Rossi called “the big boy,” into loose curls that resembled Gisele’s. “Don’t take this the wrong way,” Mitchell Rossi, a stylist at Drybar, a new hair salon near Union Square, said to Laurie Cole one recent evening, as he swivelled her toward the mirror to show her his handiwork, “but you look like an un-Botoxed, natural version of Kyle on ‘The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.’ ”Ĭole, a spinning instructor, wasn’t insulted by the comparison. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Manga Carta is available for download from the festival website since mid-August 2015. revelatory autobiographical graphic novel The Spiral Cage by Al Davison. Īs part of the 10-day Festival800, which took place in Lincoln from 28 August to 6 September 2015, he has been commissioned to create Manga Carta – a 10-page, 30-panel graphic tale of the journey and impact of the 800-year-old Magna Carta. Soon, the thing that makes her different also transforms her into El Deafo. He is the subject of a documentary, also called The Spiral Cage, directed by Paul W. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+. The Spiral Cage featured in Tony Isabella's 1000 Comic Books You Must Read. See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Al Davison. He is most famous for his autobiographical graphic novel The Spiral Cage (Renegade Press, 1988, longer version Titan Books, 1990, Absolute edition from Active Images, 2003), which describes his lifelong struggle with spina bifida and his rise to successful comic book creator, martial arts instructor, film maker, and performer. He now resides in Coventry, where he runs The Astral Gypsy, his studio and comic shop in Fargo Village, Far Gosford Street, with his wife Maggie. 'Born with severe spina bifida, doctors considered Al Davison a hopeless case, condemned to the spiral cage of his own DNA. Country of Publication: United States Publisher: Los Angeles, CA. ![]() Al Davison is an English comic book writer and artist from Newcastle, England. Author(s): Davison,Al,1960- Title(s): The spiral cage : diary of an astral gypsy/ an autobiography by Al Davison. ![]() ![]() ![]() He selflessly sponsors Lydia for a season on London's marriage market, but she keeps her sights on the man she loves. Rhys is stunned by the wit and beauty of his brother's stepdaughter, but the former "Gentleman Seducer" feels as though his lurid, scandalous past holds too many terrible secrets for him to pursue a relationship with her. She's pretty sure she can snag him, too, because she's brought her trusted guidebook, Blunders in Behavior Corrected, to help her deal with the many rules of London society. Grayson's 20-year-old stepdaughter, Lydia, is quite taken with Rhys. With the duke's oldest legitimate son dead, Rhys, the second son, stands to inherit the title. ![]() Fourteen years have passed since his exile to Fortune, Texas, and now he's been called back to his father's ancestral home to be at his deathbed. *Starred Review* Grayson Rhodes, bastard son of a duke and an actress, was first introduced in A Rogue in Texas (1999). ![]() ![]() ![]() Icelanders had done a good job of ignoring the existence of many immigrant groups up until now, he told me, referring to the Poles and Germans who had arrived in the second half of the last century. These were the voices of immigrant writers, or writers who were the sons and daughters of immigrants. Sjón was interested to tell me about Iceland’s experiments in diversity, particularly the emergence of some, a few, new voices on the literary scene. Some of you here may know him, for he is the President of PEN in Iceland. The day before I had dined with a group of artists, the hosts were friends of mine, and I had been seated next to an Icelandic writer of some repute. I was in Iceland, a country of writers, land of the Sagas and Norse myths. They chimed with me, because I had been thinking and discussing just such matters in the days before. ![]() Some weeks ago I was reading Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Nobel address to the Swedish Academy, which took place in December last year, when I came across these words. ![]() ![]() “What makes people, apparently small in stature, feel assured in themselves regardless of the disdain of others?” The following remarks were delivered as a part of the PEN World Voices Festival opening night. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Trust me, I’ve been home for the past few weekends-I needed this night out.” It’s more appropriate for a bonfire or night at home than a college party, and when Tessa shoots me that sympathetic face-lips turned down at the corners, eying me skeptically-I manage a soft laugh. Tessa-a girl I lived next door to in the dorms freshman and sophomore year and remained friends with-flips her perfectly coifed hair, eyeing up my soft sweater, the one I always wear when I’m getting over a cold, or sick, because it’s cozy, oversized, and comforting. ![]() “No offense, Scarlett, but if you didn’t feel good when I invited you to come with us tonight, you should have said something. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the above copyright owner of this book.įor more information about Sara Ney and her books, visit: To Alina. The publication/ use of these trademarks is not authorized, associated with, or sponsored by the trademark owners.Ĭopyright © 2018 by Sara Ney All rights reserved. The author acknowledges the trademarked status and trademark owners of various products referenced in this work of fiction, which have been used without permission. Names, characters, places, brands, media, and incidents are either the product of the author?s imagination or are used fictitiously. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She has been nominated for Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Awards five times, winning in 1999 for My False Heart. All of her novels are considered historical romance and they are all loosely linked by characters who are either related or acquainted. In 1998 they bought two novels from her, publishing the first, My False Heart, in 1999. Although that work did not sell, Pocket Books was interested in seeing more of her work. She finished the novel within two months and attempted to find a publisher for it. She did not begin writing until December 1996 when she was between jobs. She spent much of her career working in Human Resources and Labor Relations in the chemical and automotive industries however. Liz Carlyle (Susan Tatum Woodhouse) attended college on a Scripps Howard writing scholarship and majored in journalism. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, as High Queen of the Fae, Mac faces her greatest challenge yet: ruling the very race she was born to hunt and kill-a race that wants her dead yesterday, so they can put a pure-blooded Fae queen on the throne.īut challenges with her subjects are the least of her concerns when an ancient, deadly foe resurfaces, changing not only the rules of the game but the very game itself, initiating a catastrophic sequence of events that have devastating consequences and leave Mac questioning everything she’s ever learned and everyone she’s ever loved. The matter of who’s good and who’s evil can be decided by the answer to a single question: Whose side are you on? ![]() From the moment MacKayla Lane arrived in Dublin to hunt her sister’s murderer, she’s had to fight one dangerous battle after the next: to survive, to secure power, to keep her city safe, to protect the people she loves. ![]() ![]() ![]() Obviously, this isn’t the dynamic we envisioned or wanted when we had more than one child. When our more reactive, less helpful responses are knee-jerk and repetitive, they can create insecurity, cause siblings to identify as “bad” or “inept”, and even instill lifelong resentments toward one another. Or, alternatively, they can fuel and intensify it. The choices we make when dealing with situations of conflict between siblings can calm fears, build confidence, and help to ease sibling rivalry. In that exasperating moment when our toddler or preschooler is acting aggressively toward the baby, or when our child (of any age) is picking on a younger sibling, it is certainly challenging to temper our emotions and understand. It is natural for the older child to want to control, dominate, and take out frustration on this person that rocked their world. I commented: The question for me: why wouldn’t they? The younger child ripped the older one’s life apart. A parent recently posed this question in a Facebook discussion group: Why do older siblings sometimes hurt younger ones? Take toys from them? I don’t really understand… ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Constant Drachenfels hasn't been mentioned in the background for years, having long since been displaced by Nagash the Great Necromancer as the setting's necromantic Big Bad. It occupies a bizarre place in the Warhammer canon, suffering from a huge, setting-wide case of Characterization Marches On. ![]() What Could Possibly Go Wrong?ĭrachenfels is a Warhammer novel by Kim Newman under his Jack Yeovil pen name, first published back in 1989. The surviving members of the original band who traveled with Oswald are reunited for the play's premiere, a one-time performance staged in the very walls of Drachenfels' abandoned fortress, attended by all the nobility of the Empire. ![]() Oswald, the aforementioned brave prince, has a simple proposition for Detlef: he wants to produce a play about his defeat of the Great Enchanter Drachenfels, and he wants Detlef to write and star in it. Twenty-five years later, Detlef Sierck, the Empire's greatest playwright, is rescued from debtor's prison by the Crown Prince Oswald. One by one they fall to his minions and his Death Traps, until only the brave prince remains to fight the sorcerer and vanquish him at last. A Ragtag Bunch of Misfits travel to the Haunted Castle of the Evil Overlord Constant Drachenfels. ![]() |