Author: David Lindley
Publisher: Basic Book
Keywords: strange, think, mechanics, quantum, weirdness
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 1997-03-20
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0465067867
ISBN-13: 9780465067862
Few revolutions in science have been as far-reaching and as little-understood as the quantum revolution in physics. Everyday experience cannot prepare us for the strangeness of the subatomic world, where particles can look like waves, electrons lose their identity, and photons appear to be in two places at once. The author of The End of Physics explains how physicists are finally discovering an answer to the question of how a Newtonian world can arise from quantum foundations.Few revolutions in science have been more far-reaching -- but less understood -- than the quantum revolution in physics
Author: George Pelecanos
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Keywords: strange, derek, novels, novel, rain, right
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2011-02-23
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0316099295
ISBN-13: 9780316099295
Derek Strange is a black ex-cop in Washington D.C. who now makes a living running his own private detective agency. He is hired to investigate the killing of an off-duty black policeman by a white police officer -- a killing that was supposedly accidental, but that has opened difficult questions about racism on the force. In the course of that investigation the white officer, Terry Quinn, becomes Strange’s friend and then his partner. Together they try to uncover what really happened that night, when Quinn came upon a confusing and treacherous crime scene. Along the way they confront the
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Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: brew, strange
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-07-07
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0312383363
ISBN-13: 9780312383367
Todays hottest urban fantasy authors come together in this delicious brew that crackles and boils over with tales of powerful witches and dark magic!In Charlaine Harris ?Bacon, a beautiful vampire joins forces with a witch from an ancient line to find out who killed her beloved husband. In ?Seeing Eye by Patricia Briggs, a blind witch helps sexy werewolf Tom Franklin find his missing brother?and helps him in more ways than either of them ever suspected. And in Jim Butchers ?Last Call, wizard Harry Dresden takes on the darkest of dark powers?the ones who dare to mess with this favorite b
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Publisher: Waterfront Productions
Keywords: holmes, case, strange
Number of Pages: 430
Published: 2008-06-23
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0975918516
ISBN-13: 9780975918517
"The Strange Case of Dr. H.H. Holmes" contains three fully illustrated, unabridged primary source books, plus Holmes’ published confession as originally documented shortly before his execution. For the first time in over a century, these materials are again available - and all in one book. HOLMES’ OWN STORY by Herman W. Mudgett - 1895 In this autobiography, Holmes recounts his childhood years, and life’s trials and tribulations. THE HOLMES-PITEZEL CASE by Detective Frank Geyer - 1896 Included are rare court transcripts, expert witness testimony, and in-depth criminal an
Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter
Publisher: Basic Book
Keywords: loop, strange
Number of Pages: 436
Published: 2008-07-08
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0465030793
ISBN-13: 9780465030798
Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, ??I? arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the ??strange loop???a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains. The most central and complex symbol in your brain is the one called ??I.? The ??I? is the nexus in our brain, one of many symbols seeming to have free will and to have gained the paradoxical ability to push particles around, rather than the reverse. How can a mysterious abstra
Author: Gilbert Sorrentino
Publisher: Coffee House Pre
Keywords: commonplace, strange
Number of Pages: 154
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1566891825
ISBN-13: 9781566891820
“Sorrentino [is] a writer like no other. He’s learned, companionable, ribald, brave, mathematical, at once virtuosic and somehow without ego. Sorrentino’s books break free of the routine that inevitably accompanies traditional narrative and through a passionate renunciation shine with an unforgiving, yet cleansing, light.”Jeffrey Eugenides “For decades, Gilbert Sorrentino has remained a unique figure in our literature. He reminds us that fiction lives because artists make it. To the noveleveryone’s novelSorrentino brings honor, tradition, and relentless
Author: Derek Strange
Publisher: Oxford University Pre
Keywords: reading, start
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 1989-11-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0194224759
ISBN-13: 9780194224758
This is a series of six books to develop reading comprehension skills.
