Now, with lively wit and humor, she takes us on a mind-bending tour through five of the cosmos’s possible finales: the Big Crunch, Heat Death, the Big Rip, Vacuum Decay (the one that could happen at any moment!), and the Bounce. This revelation set her on the path toward theoretical astrophysics. Katie Mack has been contemplating these questions since she was a young student, when her astronomy professor informed her the universe could end at any moment, in an instant. But what happens to the universe at the end of the story? And what does it mean for us now?ĭr. With the Big Bang, it expanded from a state of unimaginable density to an all-encompassing cosmic fireball to a simmering fluid of matter and energy, laying down the seeds for everything from black holes to one rocky planet orbiting a star near the edge of a spiral galaxy that happened to develop life as we know it. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY * THE WASHINGTON POST * THE ECONOMIST * NEW SCIENTIST * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY * THE GUARDIANįrom one of the most dynamic rising stars in astrophysics, an “engrossing, elegant” ( The New York Times) look at five ways the universe could end, and the mind-blowing lessons each scenario reveals about the most important concepts in cosmology.
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We Are Water is a disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy, from Wally Lamb, the New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed and I Know This Much Is True.Īfter 27 years of marriage and three children, Anna Oh-wife, mother, outsider artist-has fallen in love with Viveca, the wealthy Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her success. Watch the trailer here, or click the link: HarperCollins will release the novel in hardcover, eBook, audiobook, and large print editions on its Harper imprint on November 22, 2016, with an announced first printing of 250,000.įollow this in the App Store to purchase the Metabook: egb.i In addition to the full text of the novel, the I’ll Take You There Metabook will include a full-cast audio dramatization of the book, an original soundtrack, short films, 360° galleries, shareable images and more. Metabook, the title’s original publisher, will release I’ll Take You There as a multimedia app for iPad and iPhone on November 20, 2016. Lamb’s stunning new novel stands as a testament to the power of family, the resilience of love, and the enduring magic of movies. Against a kaleidoscopic convergence of Hollywood iconography and one family’s shared secrets, I’ll Take You There tells a deeply affecting, generations-spanning story of one man’s life-and of the remarkable women who impacted it. The Lincoln County Circuit Clerk’s Office confirmed Sparkman was served a criminal summons on Jan. A court date had not been scheduled for Sparkman, 52, of Waynesburg, as of Wednesday morning. According to court records, Spurlock, 50, of Crab Orchard, and Hasty, 51, of Stanford, are both scheduled to appear in Lincoln County District Court Feb. Last week, the three employees were charged with second-degree criminal abuse, a class D felony in Kentucky, and served criminal summons to appear in court. It was a decision by the Lincoln County School Board to terminate two assistant teachers and relocate one teacher after they were charged with the alleged abuse of an autistic student that stirred Krystal Freeman to organize the protest.įreeman, a Lincoln County resident and mother of a nine-year-old, non-verbal autistic son, said she was outraged when she learned that the teacher, Rebecca Spurlock, had not been terminated along with the two instructional assistants, Janie Hasty and Teresa Sparkman. STANFORD - A small group of protesters stood outside of the Lincoln County Student Support Center Tuesday as cars passed and occasionally obliged a sign that read “Honk for autism.” The group gathered Tuesday to express their concerns about the Lincoln County School Board's response to the alleged abuse inside a special-needs classroom at LIncoln County High School. With the Lincoln County Student Support Center behind them, Charity Phillips, Joey Wren and his son, and Carla Thompson stand in protest. I glance up at the picture of the brown-skinned boy on the wall behind Principal Merritt’s desk and frown. In the first four pages, there’s only one hint of backstory. Backstory Through Traditional MethodsĪlston starts his novel fully in the present, with the main character, Amari, in trouble at school. Fortunately, Alston gives a masterclass in how to provide readers with the information they need when they need it, through slow and big reveals using both traditional and creative techniques. No reader wants a big info dump at the beginning of the book to set the stage. In this post, I’ll concentrate on one specific thread: Amari’s brother and his mysterious job and equally mysterious disappearance. In Amari and the Night Brothers, Alston has multiple threads that require information from the past. It’s an inventive, fast-paced adventure fantasy. I highly recommend reading the novel before you dive into this analysis. Alston is an excellent mentor text for how to interweave backstory, using multiple techniques, without slowing down the story one bit. He explained his motivation for writing the book in the introduction: "Defending Stalin's work, essentially defending Marxism-Leninism, is an important, urgent task in preparing ourselves for class struggle under the New World Order." In 1994, Martens published Another View of Stalin, a history of the Soviet Union under Stalin that challenges in particular the dominant view of collectivization in the USSR and the Great Purge. Martens wrote on the political history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he has lived and traveled extensively. In 1968 he founded the Maoist group "Alle macht aan de arbeiders" (All Power to the Workers), which in 1979 became the Workers' Party of Belgium. He is also the chairman of the Workers' Party of Belgium. Ludo Martens is a Belgian historian noted for his work on francophone Africa and the Soviet Union. "Three thousand of my neighbours were murdered. In a post on his website dated September 23, Miller unapologetically defended Holy Terror as a piece of "naked propaganda", but propaganda in a "virtuous" sense. It's unfortunate that Islamophobia is becoming mainstream," said Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington-based Muslim civil-rights group. "We are witnessing a growing industry of information and fear-mongering, and this work fits in the centre. Originally envisioned as a Batman tale after September 11 attacks on the US, the comic features heroes The Fixer, and thief-come-love interest, Natalie, as they join forces to stop an Al Qaeda plot on Empire City, a thinly veiled New York City.įor some, the best-seller underlines a worrying shift in American entertainment. Any nuance, however, is all but absent in his latest work. His stories, which include the famous Batman mini-series, The Dark Knight Returns, and comics-to-film 300 and Sin City, regularly explore the darker corners of society amid shades of moral grey. From there the jingoism, violence and Islamophobia take off. The book opens with the quote: "If you meet the infidel, kill the infidel", which Mr Miller attributes to the Prophet. WASHINGTON // There is nothing subtle about Frank Miller's newest graphic novel, Holy Terror. Jim Thorpe: Super athlete, Olympic gold medalist, Native American Expertly told by three-time National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin, it’s the story of a group of young men who came together at that school, the overwhelming obstacles they faced both on and off the field, and their absolute refusal to accept defeat. government’s violent persecution of Native Americans and the school that was designed to erase Indian cultures. Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team is an astonishing underdog sports story-and more. “Sheinkin has made a career of finding extraordinary stories in American history.” - The New York Times Book ReviewĪ Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Honor Book A great American sport and Native American history come together in this true story for middle grade readers about how Jim Thorpe and Pop Warner created the legendary Carlisle Indians football team, from New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Award recipient Steve Sheinkin. With the feel of a modern classic, This Tender Land is an enthralling, big-hearted epic that shows how the magnificent American landscape connects us all, haunts our dreams, and makes us whole. Over the course of one unforgettable summer, these four orphans will journey into the unknown and cross paths with others who are adrift, from struggling farmers and traveling faith healers to displaced families and lost souls of all kinds. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call their own. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O’Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent’s wrath. This is the first book by this author that I have read and it was so enjoyable. Minnesota-the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for This Tender Land. A magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression, from the bestselling author of Ordinary Grace. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for This Tender Land. With over a quarter of a million copies sold in its various editions since 1963, Interaction of Color remains an essential resource on color, as pioneering today as when Albers first created it.įifty years after Interaction’s initial publication, this anniversary edition presents a significantly expanded selection of close to sixty color studies alongside Albers’s original text, demonstrating such principles as color relativity, intensity, and temperature vibrating and vanishing boundaries and the illusion of transparency and reversed grounds. Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a limited silkscreen edition with 150 color plates, Interaction of Color first appeared in paperback in 1971, featuring ten color studies chosen by Albers, and has remained in print ever since. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this influential book presents Albers’s singular explanation of complex color theory principles. Josef Albers’s classic Interaction of Color is a masterwork in art education. With these ambitious stories, Yanagihara flips American history on its head in examining the past, present, and future, both real and imagined. And Yanagihara paints a dystopian portrait of America and New York City in 2093, a city beset with plagues and a totalitarian regime, seemingly anything but paradise. The AIDS epidemic is running rampant when Hawaiian paralegal David Bingham falls for an older senior partner in 1993. The book follows wealthy Washington-Square resident David Bingham, who weighs love against the finer things in a land of plenty.īooks two and three present characters with the same names as those in book one, who navigate New York City, love, and life in 19, respectively. Throughout, Yanagihara tackles notions of shame, class, inequity, illness, consequence, and America itself.īook one takes place in an idealized America in 1893, where there are “free states” and “the colonies.” New York City is one of the free, where same-sex couples can marry, but that doesn’t make love any easier. In To Paradise, the highly acclaimed author of A Little Life and The People in the Trees, tells three distinct stories that take place in New York City, each told 100 years apart. Hanya Yanagihara’s latest novel is actually three tales of New York. |