The Wave Theory Of Angels
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The Wave Theory Of Angels
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Author : Alison MacLeod
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2006-08-31
The Wave Theory Of Angels written by Alison MacLeod and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-31 with Fiction categories.
The Wave Theory of Angels is Alison MacLeod's compelling mixture of thriller and philosophical exploration. Two widowed fathers named Giles. The first, woodcarver Giles of Beauvais in thirteenth-century France, whose unearthly skill leads the medieval Church to suspect him of heresy. The second, maverick twenty-first-century physicist Giles Carver, who risks his reputation and livelihood for a heretical theory. Both Gileses have daughters named Christina who each fall into a strange coma from which they will not wake. And in their dreams both girls struggle to return to the world that they left behind - a reality which seems to be turning away from them. Are the memories they cling to real? Is the lover they both dream of a protector - or a more sinister presence? And are the men who claim to be their fathers actually someone else entirely 'Part thriller, part philosophical treatise. Quite wonderful' Time Out 'Weaves science with mystery, justified faith with prejudice . . . an unfolding thriller in which the big question is whether one can die of an excess of emotion' Independent on Sunday 'A daring investigation of medieval philosophy, modern-day physics, and the relation of both to faith and desire . . . a novel with a passion for ideas. MacLeod has an engaged delight in the stuff of life' The Times Literary Supplement 'Utterly delightful, beautifully written' Alberto Manguel Alison MacLeod was raised in Canada and has lived in England since 1987. She is the author of three novels, The Changeling, The Wave Theory of Angels and Unexploded, and of a collection of stories, Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction. Unexploded was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2013. Alison MacLeod is Professor of Contemporary Fiction at Chichester University and lives in Brighton.
Wave Theory Of Angels
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Author : Alison MacLeod
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2005-07-05
Wave Theory Of Angels written by Alison MacLeod and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-05 with Fiction categories.
EVERY STORY IS THE STORY OF A SECRET This is a story that unfolds across two far-flung centuries, across two worlds. In each, the lives of a father and his two daughters are about to be catapulted into crisis. France. 1284. In the heat of an August night, Christina-sister of Marguerite, daughter of the heretic sculptor Giles of Beauvais-struggles to keep a secret. The year is also 2001. We're in Chicago, where Christina Carver, daughter of rebel physicist Dr Giles Carver, also keeps a secret, even from her sister Maggie. When a bell rings for matins-when a telephone rings in the middle of the night-Christina will fail to wake and all six lives will change forever. The Wave Theory of Angels is a story of attractions, both cosmic and earthly. The riddles of magic, metaphysics and modern-day science transport the reader from the enchantment of the thirteenth century to the disenchantment of the twenty-first and back again. Through it all, one question persists: What is the real force of the imagination?
All The Beloved Ghosts
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Author : Alison MacLeod
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-03-09
All The Beloved Ghosts written by Alison MacLeod and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-09 with Fiction categories.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARDS Acutely observed, evocative collection of short stories from the Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of Unexploded, blending fiction, biography and memoir Hovering on the border of life and death, these stories form a ground-shifting collection, taking us into history, literature and the hidden lives of iconic figures. In 1920s Nova Scotia, as winter begins to thaw, a woman emerges from mourning and wears a new fur coat to a dance that will change everything. A teenager searches for his lover on a charged summer evening in 2011, as around him London erupts in anger. A cardiac specialist lingers on the edge of consciousness as he awaits a new heart – and is transported to an attic room half a century ago. In an ancient Yorkshire churchyard, the author visits Sylvia Plath's grave and makes an unexpected connection across time. On a trip to Brighton, reluctant jihadists face the ultimate spiritual test. And at Charleston, Angelica Garnett, child of the Bloomsbury Group, is overcome by the past, all the beloved ghosts that spring to life before her eyes. Precise, playful and evocative, these exquisitely crafted stories explore memory, the media and mortality, unfolding at the line between reality and fiction. Written with vigorous intelligence and delicate insight, this collection captures the surprising joys, small tragedies and profound truths of existence.
Quantum Theory And The Flight From Realism
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Author : Christopher Norris
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-11-01
Quantum Theory And The Flight From Realism written by Christopher Norris and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-01 with Philosophy categories.
This book is a critical introduction to the long-standing debate concerning the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics and the problems it has posed for physicists and philosophers from Einstein to the present. Quantum theory has been a major infulence on postmodernism, and presents significant problems for realists. Keeping his own realist position in check, Christopher Norris subjects a wide range of key opponents and supporters of realism to a high and equal level of scrutiny. With a characteristic combination of rigour and intellectual generosity, he draws out the merits and weaknesses from opposing arguments. In a sequence of closely argued chapters, Norris examines the premises of orthodox quantum theory, as developed most influentially by Bohr and Heisenberg, and its impact on varous philosophical developments. These include the ideas developed by W.V Quine, Thomas Kuhn, Michael Dummett, Bas van Fraassen, and Hilary Puttnam. In each case, Norris argues, these thinkers have been influenced by the orthodox construal of quantum mechanics as requiring drastic revision of principles which had hitherto defined the very nature of scientific method, causal explanati and rational enquiry. Putting the case for a realist approach which adheres to well-tried scientific principles of causal reasoning and inference to the best explanation, Christopher Norris clarifies these debates to a non-specialist readership and scholars of philosophy, science studies and the philosophy of science alike. Quantum Theory and the Flight From Realism suggests that philosophical reflection can contribute to a better understanding of these crucial, current issues.
The Pari Dialogues
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Author : F. David Peat
language : en
Publisher: Pari Dialogues
Release Date : 2008-04
The Pari Dialogues written by F. David Peat and has been published by Pari Dialogues this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04 with Literary Collections categories.
The first in a series of essays contributed by experts in their fields who reflect the philosophy of, and the discussions held at, the Pari Center for New Learning. While the essays have been divided into the areas of Science and Religion, Society, and the Arts, they form a unified volume since each one enriches and informs the others.
Cosmic Wave Theory
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Author : Francis Mlaga
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-10-25
Cosmic Wave Theory written by Francis Mlaga and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-25 with Science categories.
The most energy packed physics book to ever exist. Filled with great geniuses and philosophies. This book is needed for everybody's history and everyone going to the future.
Music Of Matter
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Author : Stanislav Tregub
language : en
Publisher: STANISLAV TREGUB
Release Date : 2020-08-08
Music Of Matter written by Stanislav Tregub and has been published by STANISLAV TREGUB this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-08 with Science categories.
In physics, as a branch of science that studies energy and matter, the central problem has always been the question of the mechanisms of energy interactions and the formation of material structures. There is a growing consensus that this may be the same mechanism as matter is a form of energy. But from this point, the disagreements start. Thus, the unified model of fundamental interactions (‘theory of everything’) remains out of reach. The two currently leading theories, the Standard Model of elementary particle physics and the General Theory of Relativity, separately cover only part of the interactions. Moreover, they are incompatible since they proceed from hypotheses about different mechanisms. However, as they are considered impeccable dogmas that are both right, generations of physicists tried to unify them without any success. The thought that they may be both wrong is alien to the current mainstream of theoretical physics. The author of the book breaks this taboo. He shows the fallacy of both models and suggests that trying to unify them is a meaningless pursuit. But criticism alone is not enough, and we need to find a way out. Instead of unifying old theories, we can build a new theory that unifies physical phenomena. In the first volume of the “Symphony of Matter and Mind” series, the author begins to develop a model of a universal mechanism operating at all levels of matter and in all types of energy interactions, thus indicating a way out of the impasse of theoretical physics.
Lectures On The Wave Theory Of Light
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-02-24
Lectures On The Wave Theory Of Light written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-24 with History categories.
Lectures On The Wave Theory Of Light
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Author : Humphrey Lloyd
language : en
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Release Date : 2019-02-21
Lectures On The Wave Theory Of Light written by Humphrey Lloyd and has been published by Wentworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-21 with History categories.
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The Melencolia Manifesto
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Author : David Finkelstein
language : en
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Release Date : 2017-01-01
The Melencolia Manifesto written by David Finkelstein and has been published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-01 with Science categories.
Few artworks have been the subject of more extensive modern interpretation than Melencolia I by renowned artist, mathematician, and scientist Albrecht Dürer (1514). And yet, did each of these art experts and historians miss a secret manifesto that Dürer included within the engraving? This is the first work to decrypt secrets within Melencolia I based not on guesswork, but Dürer's own writings, other subliminal artists that inspired him (i.e., Leonardo da Vinci), the Jewish and Christian Bibles, and books that inspired Dürer (De Occulta Philosophia and the Hieorglyphica). To read the covert message of Melencolia I is to understand that Dürer was a humanist in his interests in mathematics, science, poetry, and antiquity. This book recognizes his unparalleled power with the burin, his mathematical skill in perspective, his dedication to precise language, and his acute observation of nature. Melencolia I may also be one of the most controversial (and at the time most criminal) pieces of art as it hid Dürer's disdain for the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, the Kaiser, and the Holy Roman Empire from the general public for centuries. This book closely ties the origins of philosophy (science) and the work of a Renaissance master together, and will be of interest for anyone who loves scientific history, art interpretation, and secret manifestos.