![]() ![]() He became the President of the Royal Society in 1778. It’s a BBC series waiting to happen!īanks’ most important contribution to science was arguably his devotion to supporting the work of other scientists. The book provides plenty of entertaining details about his friendships and his love life. Someone alert Aidan Turner about this, please. Happily, this book includes a lot of illustrations. ![]() In this book, Banks comes across as an incredibly engaging and occasionally baffling character. By framing the story in chapters about individual scientists, and tying their scientific efforts to the Romantic Movement in the arts, the book stays entertaining and exciting.Īge of Wonder starts with the first voyage of Joseph Banks, a naturalist who sailed to Tahiti and Australia with Captain James Cook in 1766. It covers the Georgian Era in England and ends at the beginning of the Victorian. Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science is a nonfiction book that combines science, history, biography, and a dollop of poetry to cover an amazing era of scientific discovery and artistic innovation. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() When whispers of a coveted magical substance, called the nectar, start buzzing louder, Brexley’s strange bond to the fae book leads her on an unexpected journey. ![]() The more she tries to untangle the link between Warwick and her, the thicker it wraps around them both, entwining them in a world between life and death, where brutal passion and fury collide. If her life wasn’t complicated enough, her relationship with the infamous legend is growing stronger. Here dangerous associations and meticulous plots are far more dangerous and cutthroat than any game she survived in Halálház. Reunited with old acquaintances and an uncle she never knew, Brexley is thrown into the vicious world of politics, where human and fae leaders will do anything to come out on top. Kidnapped by the notorious rebel group, Provstat, Brexley finds her connection goes deeper than she ever imagined. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, lines blur between heroes and villains. In this book, gone are the docile women and male saviors. Through her gorgeous reimagining of fairytale classics and spellbinding original tales, she dismantles the old-fashioned tropes that have been ingrained in our minds. ![]() Traditional fairytales are rife with cliches and gender stereotypes: beautiful, silent princesses ugly, jealous, and bitter villainesses girls who need rescuing and men who take all the glory.īut in this rousing new prose and poetry collection, Nikita Gill gives Once Upon a Time a much-needed modern makeover. ![]() Poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of fairytales poetically retold for a new generation of women. ![]() ![]() Caught between their conflicting worlds, Lucas and Sascha must remain bound to their identities-or sacrifice everything for a taste of darkest temptation… But he soon discovers that this ice-cold Psy is very capable of passion-and that the animal in him is fascinated by her. ![]() Lucas is determined to find the Psy killer who butchered his packmate, and Sascha is his ticket into their closely guarded society. After centuries of uneasy coexistence, these two races are now on the verge of war over the brutal murders of several Changeling women. ![]() To reveal them would be to sentence herself to the horror of “rehabilitation”-the complete psychic erasure of everything she ever was…Both human and animal, Lucas Hunter is a Changeling hungry for the very sensations the Psy disdain. ![]() ![]() THE FIRST PSY/CHANGELING NOVEL from the New York Times bestselling author of Shards of Hope, Shield of Winter, and Heart of Obsidian.The book that Christine Feehan called "a must-read for all of my fans."In a world that denies emotions, where the ruling Psy punish any sign of desire, Sascha Duncan must conceal the feelings that brand her as flawed. ![]() ![]() ![]() My latest literary insight is that in most novels, especially thrillerish ones, the protagonist has no friends. Willynilly is another of my favourite words. My own favourite word is GALLIMAUFRY but you don’t see me shoehorning it into every review willynilly. If you had a shot of vodka each time he uses the word CHUNK you’d be dead of severe alcoholic poisoning before page 90. This humble word is Harry Harrison’s absolute favourite. You wouldn’t want to even visit it for ten minutes. You wouldn’t want to live in this version of New York City. But pretty much everything is now scarce because Americans in the 30 years between 19 ate everything and used up everything whilst all having ten kids who then had another ten kids each, it seems. There are meateasies! This is because you can get your meat but you have to know where. The whole damn country has kind of collapsed. It’s New York City and the population has skyrocketed to 35 million. ![]() The main guy who is a cop gets to be really happy for about two pages and after that it’s back to worrying about absolutely everything. Here is a 1966 novel about 1999 which is good, honest, miserable fun. ![]() ![]() " International Differences in Productivity? Coal and Steel in America and Britain Before World War I," in McCloskey, ed., Essays on a Mature Economy (1971), Chapter 8, pp." Discussion" (of William Kennedy and William Phillips), Journal of Economic History 42 (Mar 1982): 117-118. ![]() 119-126 in McCloskey, Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain 1981. " A Counterfactual Dialogue with William Kennedy on Late Victorian Failure or the Lack of It," pp." No It Did Not: A Reply to Craft " Economic History Review 32 (Nov 1979): 538-41." Victorian Growth: A Rejoinder ," Economic History Review 27 (May 1974): 275-77.Twentieth-Century Economic History: Critical Concepts in Economics (Oxford: Routledge). ![]() Did Victorian Britain Fail?" Economic History Review 23 (Dec 1970): 446-59.Review of Birch's British Iron and Steel, Business History Review 43 (Fall 1969): 412-14. ![]()
![]() ![]() Gareth Hinds brings The Odyssey to life in a masterful blend of art and storytelling. With bold imagery and an ear tuned to the music of Homer's epic poem, Gareth Hinds reinterprets the ancient classic as it's never been told before. Reading Level: 5.1 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 3.0 Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.76" W x 10.28" (2.12 lbs) 256 pagesįeatures: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Productīulletin of Ctr for Child Bks - Book Of Special Distinction Young Adult Fiction | Comics & Graphic Novels - General Young Adult Fiction | Legends, Myths, Fables - Greek & Roman ![]() WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guaranteeīinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Contributor(s): Hinds, Gareth (Author), Hinds, Gareth (Illustrator) ![]() ![]() Summary by Phil Chenevertįor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. Along with the Frogman, they leave their mountain in Winkie Country to find the pan. Meanwhile, Cayke the Cookie Chef discovers that her magic dishpan (on which she bakes her famous cookies) has been stolen. Most of this delightful book covers Dorothy and the Wizard's efforts to find her. When Princess Ozma mysteriously disappears, four search parties are sent out, one for each of Oz's four countries. Along the way, they explore regions never. The whole kingdom of OZ is upset and our heroes must set out to brave many dangers and adventures to search for their beloved girl ruler. Frank Baum (1856 - 1919) LibriVox Arts 5.0 1 Rating Who is stealing all the magic in Oz Dorothy and her friends set out to comb all of Oz, not only for magic stolen from Glinda and the Wizard, but also for the kidnapped princess, Ozma. Oh My Goodness !!! Princess Ozma is missing and no one can find her. LibriVox recording of The Lost Princess of Oz by L. ![]() ![]() We just have to accept that there is more than one of us in the universe. Putting his professional reputation on the line with this audacious yet entirely reasonable book, Carroll says that the crisis can now come to an end. Academics discourage students from working on the "dead end" of quantum foundations. Science popularizers keep telling us how weird it is, how impossible it is to understand. Quantum mechanics has always had obvious gaps-which have come to be simply ignored. Most physicists haven't even recognized the uncomfortable truth: physics has been in crisis since 1927. His reconciling of quantum mechanics with Einstein's theory of relativity changes, well, everything. Already hailed as a masterpiece, Something Deeply Hidden shows for the first time that facing up to the essential puzzle of quantum mechanics utterly transforms how we think about space and time. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world's most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of 20th century physics. Carroll argues that the refusal to face up to the mysteries of quantum mechanics has blinded people, and that spacetime and gravity naturally emerge from a deeper reality called the wave function.tion.īook Synopsis INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERĪs you read these words, copies of you are being created. ![]() About the Book The holy grail of modern physics is reconciling quantum mechanics with Einstein's general relativity-his theory of curved spacetime. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story is told from the perspective of 16-year-old Frank Cauldhame. The Irish Times called it "a work of unparalleled depravity." Plot The book sold well, but was greeted with a mixture of acclaim and criticism, due to its gruesome depiction of violence. ![]() Frank observes many shamanistic rituals of his own invention, and it is soon revealed that Frank killed three children before he reached the age of ten himself. The Wasp Factory is written from a first person perspective, told by 16-year-old Francis Cauldhame ("Frank"), describing his childhood and all that remains of it. Following the success of The Wasp Factory, Banks began to write full-time. According to Banks, this allowed him to treat the story as something resembling science fiction – the island could be envisaged as a planet, and Frank, the protagonist, almost as an alien. Banks decided to try a more mainstream novel in the hopes that it would be more readily accepted, and wrote about a psychopathic teenager living on a remote Scottish island. ![]() Before the publication of The Wasp Factory, Banks had written several science fiction novels that had not been accepted for publication. The Wasp Factory is the first novel by Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 1984. ![]() |