![]() ![]() That is how distance is calculated spatially. Now if that theater were in outer space, the time it took for the light to reach you would be slightly longer than the other person, but the speed at which it reached both of you would be the same. Your perspective is different, but the laws regarding that movement remain the same. ![]() The light then moves up and down, crossing back and forth across the stage.īoth you and the other person watching will see the light movement. ![]() You’re sitting further away from the stage. You are on one side of it and someone else is on the other side. Imagine that you’re sitting in a dark theater. The second is that the speed of light, when placed in a vacuum environment, is the same for all observers, no matter what their relative motion may be or where the source of light originated. The first is that the laws of physics are the same for every observer who is in relative motion to one another. It is based on two ideas that seem to be at odds with one another. The theory of special relativity gives structure to the concept of time. It is an explanation of how gravitation laws relate to the other forces that occur in nature.Īll realms are included in this theory, including cosmology, astrophysics, and astronomy. That’s where general relativity comes to help. It describes what happens in the physical world, with the exception of gravity. Special relativity involves how the basic particles of the universe interact with one another. ![]() Einstein’s theory of relativity incorporates two components: special relativity and general relativity. ![]()
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![]() “In Segel’s reading, we get many versions of him – bellowing villain, hissing snakes, exhausted dad and wisecracking stepmom… exudes an exuberant joy in the telling and an absence of cynicism that suits a writer of middle-grade fiction.”- New York Times And he’s going to need all the help he can get, or it might just be lights-out for Charlie Laird. Nightmares can ruin a good night’s sleep, but when they start slipping out of your dreams and into the waking world-that’s a line that should never be crossed.Īnd when your worst nightmares start to come true.well, that’s something only Charlie can face. What Charlie doesn’t know is that his problems are about to get a whole lot more real. He had to move into her purple mansion, which is NOT a place you want to find yourself after dark.ģ.He can’t remember the last time sleeping wasn’t a nightmarish prospect. His dad married a woman he is sure moonlights as a witch.Ģ. ![]() Jason Segel, multitalented actor, writer, and musician, teams up with New York Times bestselling author Kirsten Miller for the hilariously frightening, middle-grade novel Nightmares!, the first audiobook in a trilogy about a boy named Charlie and a group of kids who must face their fears to save their town. ![]() A New York Times Bestseller written and narrated by Jason Segel! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first half of the book keeps new revelations coming at us, each arriving like a bombshell that churns up the landscape of what we know so far. And there’s also an enemy, a sort of literal Death figure. There are others, who are dealing with their own grief. As it turns out, though, Seth isn’t alone in this mysterious afterlife. He’s had to deal with guilt over a terrible incident involving his younger brother, which he feels responsible for, two distant parents, homosexuality, and estrangement from his friends. As we learn from Seth’s flashbacks while he wanders the desolate, otherworldly place, which he dubs “hell”, his short life was rough. Except the town appears to have been abandoned for many years, and Seth seems to be alone. He wakes up, if that’s the right term, in his childhood town in England. In the opening pages, teenage Seth is dying in the ocean, broken against rocks. More Than This is a book that mixes weighty issues with a Twilight Zone-esque premise and a narrative that turns at right angles, keeping the reader guessing. That series explored some pretty dark, serious themes (adults lying to kids, religious craziness, manipulation, war) and had some interesting twists, so I thought I’d check out his latest novel. I was a fan of Patrick Ness’s harrowing young adult science fiction novel, The Knife of Never Letting Go. ![]() ![]() ![]() Anam emerges as a native writer from the shell of her diasporic identity while dealing with the suffering of Bangladeshi people in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War against Pakistan turning three million people dead, thirty thousand women brutally raped and millions others migrated. Such traditional representation of the exploitation of women’s body in history has been deconstructed by Bangladeshi diasporic novelist Tahmima Anam in her debut novel A Golden Age (2007). Women had always been portrayed as exploited figures in the war history where the brutality of war and the suffering of nation are measured with the number of victimised and raped women of that particular nation. ![]() ![]() ![]() What was an early experience where you learned that language had power? ![]() It’s the country’s oldest continuously family-owned and operated bookstore. Tell us about your favorite indie bookstore? She’ll have 3 games in a row (6 hours!) and it’s peaceful out there away from the umps and crazy parents. I do like reading in the outfield of my daughter’s softball games. What is your ideal reading setting?Īny setting! I bring a book with me wherever I go. ![]() Speak, Okinawa by Elizabeth Miki Brina Do you bookmark or dogear your page in a book?īookmark. Where the Wild Things Are was torture for me, and my parents thought it was hilarious to read it because I would sob, “but where’s his mommy?” (they’re great parents, I promise!) What books are on your bedside table right now? I was obsessed with the Sweet Valley High series in middle school. I’ll read the occasional YA or rom-com as well. But I do like biographies and especially memoirs on audiobook. I like to read across a variety of genres, mostly contemporary and historical fiction. A Prayer for Owen Meany was probably the last one I re-read. Very rarely, unless it’s a book that I loved when I was much younger (high school/college). Do you re-read books? And if yes, what was your last re-read? ![]() ![]() I recommend the book to anybody who has any doubt about the existence of God. God is indeed sovereign and truly exists as con tained in the Bible. What I never realized was that there could be an edition of the book that is so old and this goes further to tell us that the book has a long history and that some predictions of the Bible have even been coming through before we were born. Searching through the internet, I found the book and ordered it out. ![]() What I did not, however, believe was that I could found the book and if found at all could be so cheap! ![]() Ever since then I have been longing to have a thorough reading and reflection over the book. This immediately arouse my curiosity about some Bible predictions coming to pass in my life time. ![]() I did, not however have the opportunity of reading it, I only glance through the pages. I first came across the book in paperback form 24years ago. ![]() ![]() 《我爱我的脏鞋子》Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes Unlike many other world classics that lost their essence when translated into Chinese, this Pete the Cat set, co-translated by the renowned children's book author and translator 彭懿 (péng yì), is rich with lively Chinese language especially suitable for young children. For readers already familiar with and interested in the Pete the Cat series in English, these Chinese books serves as a logical next step in a scaffolded learning framework. ![]() Repetitive language builds reading confidence and aids in reinforcing common grammatical sentence structures. These Chinese Pete the Cat 皮特猫 ( pí tè māo) books are perfect for children who are beginning to read in Chinese. ![]() By: Eric Litwin (Author), James Dean (Illustrator), 彭懿、杨玲玲 (translator) ![]() ![]() They are often described as beautiful but Pinsker also knows that the heart wants what the heart wants and that is not always right, or easy. They feature runaways, fiddle-playing astronauts, and retired time travelers they are weird, wired, hopeful, haunting, and deeply human. In this collection, Pinsker weaves music, memory, technology, history, mystery, love, loss, and even multiple selves on generation ships and cruise ships, on highways and high seas, in murder houses and treehouses. Pinsker has shot like a star across the firmament with Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea. ![]() "This beautiful, complex debut collection assembles some of Nebula winner Pinsker's best stories into a twisting journey that is by turns wild, melancholic, and unsettling." ― Publishers Weekly (starred review) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As revealed by Confessions and three volumes of memoirs, Magee’s life was as rich and varied as his writing.īorn in 1930 to an East End shopkeeping family, he won a scholarship to Christ’s Hospital and then attended Keble College, Oxford, where he took degrees in history and in philosophy, politics and economics, and became president of the Union. But it’s not just this timeless body of work that makes him so fascinating. When Magee died in July 2019, aged 89, he left 22 books to posterity, ranging from poetry, travel and fiction to acclaimed works on Wagner and Schopenhauer. Far from being a fusty academic discipline with no relevance to the ‘real’ world, philosophy was, for him, an existential matter of immediate importance. Magee spent the rest of his life like this, wrestling with the mysteries inherent in everyday experience. Try as he might, he can never experience himself crossing the threshold from wakefulness into unconsciousness, a conundrum that keeps him in a state of ‘active mystification’. A history of western philosophy told through the story of the author’s relationship with it, it opens with a three- or four-year old Magee trying to catch himself falling asleep every night. When I was a philosophy student at King’s College London in my early twenties, I came across a book called Confessions of a Philosopher by Bryan Magee. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Taschenbuch. ![]() In the ten years since the trend began it has expanded to a number of cities including Tokyo and now boasts many thousands of devotees who dedicate their lives to creating ever more flamboyant and bizarre variations on the Gothic theme. The origin of the movement was in Osaka in the mid 1990s when young teenagers adopted Gothic fashion in response to the clothes worn and promoted by Japanese Gothic rock bands. The majority of girls in the scene are teenagers and most usually stop dressing and behaving this way by the age of eighteen. The psychological characteristics of the average Japanese Goth is one of introversion and exclusivity. ![]() Influenced by Western fashion trends from the mid 1980s, young teenagers, predominately adolescent girls, congregate in the urban centres of Harajuku, Akihabara and a number of underground clubs in and around Tokyo, dressed head-to-toe in gothic costumes and late-Victorian dress. Gothic & Lolita charts the trend of Gothic street fashion that has swept Japan over the last decade. ![]() |
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