![]() A wonderful slice of history with full charm and spin. ![]() The concepts of mathematics and theoretical physics glides effortlessly for both layman and science majors I would state with high probability even if Einstein adheres to his belief that God does not play dice. All the difficulties of Einstein not acheiving the all extensive unified theory or accepting quantum mechanics is handled most smoothly without recourse to detailed theory. The book maintains ones interest without a mistep. One never chokes on a difficult english sentence and the continuity over time moves well throughout. By comparision we know little as to where George Washington slept The translation from German is exellent. ![]() From this one source I believe one can determine where Einstein slept for each of his 27500 days on earth. The book body extends from birth to death to 740 pages of wondrous facts concerning earthly locations and salary details interwoven wonderfully without pain for most readers. Congratulations to Folsing and his superb detailing of the life story of the greatest man of our era. ![]()
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![]() ![]() There are so many references to the early days of rock and roll and heavy metal that you won’t be able to get them all. And so I was on a much firmer ground here. So in a sense, you can think of this as the musical counterpart to the Moving Pictures book. Rocks have a huge thematic prominence for whatever reason. Music full of guitars, drums and people wearing weird dresses. In the meantime, a strange new kind of music appears and starts taking over the world. It follows Suzan, the daughter of Isabelle and Mort from the first Death book taking over the family business as Death (her grandfather) takes another leave of absence. I had high hopes for this one, and they were mostly fulfilled, but not entirely. This review was originally posted at Goodreads and imported here later with next to no spell/grammar checking. ![]() Soul Music by Terry Pratchett - Aimlessly Going Forward Aimlessly Going Forward ![]() ![]() ![]() Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow – the third book so far in the series – was no different. Full of adventure, magic, friendship, and a good dose of absurdity, the Nevermoor series has kept me hooked from the very moment I cracked open the first book. I love Jessica Townsend’s Nevermoor series and I could not be more thrilled to be a part of the Hollowpox book tour! There are few book series that I have loved as much as this one. Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readersįormats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, Audiobookįind it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, Audible, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, ![]() Title: HOLLOWPOX: THE HUNT FOR MORRIGAN CROW ![]() ![]() ![]() And Solnit’s own memoirs of wandering on foot across the hills of California and England and down the busy streets of Europe’s great capitals-and, in a particularly inspired turn, along the Las Vegas Strip-offer inspiration and succor to anyone who rails against the soulless supremacy of automobiles in the modern age. Walking, she observes, is good for us humans, and not only for the exercise it affords it also “allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them.” Her portraits of famous walkers of city streets and rural byways alike-Henry Thoreau, John Muir, Aristotle, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Charles Baudelaire among them-suggest that the best thinking is indeed done, as Saint Jerome observed, by walking around the author’s remarks on the history of pilgrimage show the importance of peregrination in contemplative spiritual traditions. ![]() “Moving with ease from discussions of early hominid skeletal structure to the place of wandering on foot in the development of the Romantic poetic sensibility, Solnit embraces nature and culture alike in this vigorous look at all things peripatetic. She’s one of our favourite intellectuals and oddballs: ![]() The Kirkus brilliantly summarises what makes Solnit such a capacious writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Em finds herself stuck in a romantic triangle between Nikki's ex, Brandon Stark, and musician Gabriel Luna. Em goes home to Nikki's place and her roommate, Lulu, a celebrity's daughter who is not the brightest girl in town. If Em doesn't do as she is told, her parents will be fined 2 million dollars and possibly brought up on criminal charges. Em has been declared dead, and she is now responsible for fulfilling Nikki's Stark contractual obligations. Their disruption causes a giant TV screen to crush Em just as the face of Stark, model Nikki Howard, passes out.Įm wakes up to find that her brain has been transplanted into Nikki's body. Protesters called the ELF disrupt the store's opening, complaining that the megastore is forcing out local businesses. As Frida fawns over the celebrities, Em and Christopher spend time making fun of them. Em and Christopher take Frida to the opening of a Stark Megastore so she can see her current celebrity crush, British musician Gabriel Luna. Em's sister is into popular culture and fashion magazines. Kids like Whitney Robertson, a member of what Em and Christopher refer to as the Walking Dead. Em and her best friend, Christopher, like playing video games and making fun of the popular kids at school. Emerson and her sister, Frida, are the daughters of professors. ![]() ![]() Emerson Watts is a not-so-normal 16 year old who attends Tribeca Alternative high School in New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the help of many fascinating true stories of successful attacks on business and government, he illustrates just how susceptible even the most locked-down information systems are to a slick con artist impersonating an IRS agent. Now, in The Art of Deception, the world's most notorious hacker gives new meaning to the old adage, "It takes a thief to catch a thief."įocusing on the human factors involved with information security, Mitnick explains why all the firewalls and encryption protocols in the world will never be enough to stop a savvy grifter intent on rifling a corporate database or an irate employee determined to crash a system. Since his release from federal prison, in 1998, Mitnick has turned his life around and established himself as one of the most sought-after computer security experts worldwide. ![]() ![]() Kevin Mitnick's exploits as a cyber-desperado and fugitive form one of the most exhaustive FBI manhunts in history and have spawned dozens of articles, books, films, and documentaries. The world's most infamous hacker offers an insider's view of the low-tech threats to high-tech security ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Only when the two women meet does Beth realize how much more to her father there is to know, all the ways in which his heart still breaks, and the closure he needs to heal it. In a nearby private care home is a fragile German-born woman with her own past to share. Ahead of them lay a dangerous romance, a dream of escape, and a destiny over which neither had control.īut Max isn’t alone in his haunting remembrances of war. Together, she and Max were willing to risk everything for what they believed was right. It was 1944 when Max was drawn into the underground resistance by the fearless German wife of a Nazi officer. Then, among his wartime souvenirs, Beth finds a photograph of her father with an adoring and beautiful stranger-a photograph worth a thousand questions. His only request of his daughter is to go through the long-forgotten box of memorabilia from his days as a medic on the western front. ![]() A woman unlocks the mystery of her father’s wartime past in a moving novel about secrets, sacrifice, and the power of love by the bestselling author of Daughters of the Night Sky.īeth Cohen wants to make the most of the months she has left with her elderly father, Max. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Spinning Silver begins in a vaguely Eastern European village in which Miryem’s father is the local moneylender, kind but far too softhearted to make much headway collecting payments that are owed to him (though the risk of inflaming the always hazardous anti-Semitism of the locals may play a role as well). On the one hand, it’s literally a song of ice and fire on the other, it’s basically the story of two really bad marriages. ![]() Part of the fascination in reading the novel comes from the skillful manner in which Novik gradually modulates and expands the scope of her tale from its modest beginnings (essentially that original story) into a full-blown epic, without losing sight of the economic and social realities that ground it in human terms. Now Novik has expanded Spinning Silver into an ambitious novel that evokes not only the original fairy tale, but a whole panoply of fantasy spectacles ranging from elemental nature spirits to hints of Disney movies like Frozen or Moana (with one of those lava monsters that have also become ubiquitous in games and films like Wrath of the Titans). One of the highlights of Navah Wolfe & Dominic Parisien’s The Starlit Wood a couple of years ago was Naomi Novik’s “Spinning Silver”, a shrewd deconstruction of the Rumpelstiltskin tale, which highlighted, among other things, the anti-Semitic undertones of the original, a point which Jane Yolen and others have previously noted. ![]() ![]() ![]() Every technique, every strategy, and every tip has been tested and proven to work in real-life situations. Now, in Way of the Wolf, Belfort is ready to unleash the power of persuasion to a whole new generation, revealing how anyone can bounce back from devastating setbacks, master the art of persuasion, and build wealth. Until now this revolutionary program was only available through Jordan's $1,997 online training. Jordan Belfort-immortalized by Leonardo DiCaprio in the hit movie The Wolf of Wall Street-reveals the step-by-step sales and persuasion system proven to turn anyone into a sales-closing, money-earning rock star.įor the first time ever, Jordan Belfort opens his playbook and gives you access to his exclusive step-by-step system-the same system he used to create massive wealth for himself, his clients, and his sales teams. ![]() ![]() Deep beneath them in the caves of the Cove an evil has returned, an evil which threatens to destroy everything they believed to be true about the world. When Peter and George visit Peter's Granddad's amazing mansion in Campbell's Cove for the summer holidays they had no idea it would change their lives forever. The evil was gone, and Campbell's Cove was safe again. ![]() The Viking succeeded and everything returned to normal. That was until, centuries ago, a Viking warrior came to Campbell's Cove and vowed to rid it of all evil, and claim the prize offered by the mysterious church elders. ![]() Aided by the hideous monster, Tolldruck there seemed no stopping their evil plan. The history of the Cove tells us of dragons, trolls, goblins and the evil Master who stole children, livestock and, strangest of all, eggs from the Cove every year. Campbell's Cove is a small town surrounded in mystery and intrigue. That's the reality Peter must face in this award-winning middle Grade adventure, The Viking's Apprentice. ![]() What would you do if you discovered nothing was as you thought, and the fate of your friends, perhaps even the world was in your hands? #1 Books for Boys who Hate Reading on Goodreads “Voted #1 'Smart Novels to Read Your Kids' on Goodreads ![]() |