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Time S Arrow
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Author : Martin Amis
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 1992
Time S Arrow written by Martin Amis and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with English fiction categories.
In this novel a man's life is portrayed backwards, from death to birth, as are some of the scenes - for example, sex begins with climax, moves through foreplay and exhausts itself on flirtation. The plot is about a doctor whose story begins with his death. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Time S Arrow Time S Cycle
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Author : Stephen Jay Gould
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1988-01-01
Time S Arrow Time S Cycle written by Stephen Jay Gould and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-01-01 with Science categories.
Rarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and enjoys most. But such is Stephen Jay Gould’s command of paleontology and evolutionary theory, and his gift for brilliant explication, that he has brought dust and dead bones to life, and developed an immense following for the seeming arcana of this field. In Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle his subject is nothing less than geology’s signal contribution to human thought—the discovery of “deep time,” the vastness of earth’s history, a history so ancient that we can comprehend it only as metaphor. He follows a single thread through three documents that mark the transition in our thinking from thousands to billions of years: Thomas Burnet’s four-volume Sacred Theory of the Earth (1680–1690), James Hutton’s Theory of the Earth (1795), and Charles Lyell’s three-volume Principles of Geology (1830–1833). Gould’s major theme is the role of metaphor in the formulation and testing of scientific theories—in this case the insight provided by the oldest traditional dichotomy of Judeo-Christian thought: the directionality of time’s arrow or the immanence of time’s cycle. Gould follows these metaphors through these three great documents and shows how their influence, more than the empirical observation of rocks in the field, provoked the supposed discovery of deep time by Hutton and Lyell. Gould breaks through the traditional “cardboard” history of geological textbooks (the progressive march to truth inspired by more and better observations) by showing that Burnet, the villain of conventional accounts, was a rationalist (not a theologically driven miracle-monger) whose rich reconstruction of earth history emphasized the need for both time’s arrow (narrative history) and time’s cycle (immanent laws), while Hutton and Lyell, our traditional heroes, denied the richness of history by their exclusive focus upon time’s arrow.
Past
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Author : Tom DeFalco
language : en
Publisher: Berkley
Release Date : 1998
Past written by Tom DeFalco and has been published by Berkley this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Heroes categories.
Spider Man and the X-Men discover that someone has shot four time "arrows" into the past that could wipe out dozens of timelines, and they must go to the past to save the present.
Time S Arrow
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Author : Martin Amis
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-04-06
Time S Arrow written by Martin Amis and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-06 with Fiction categories.
In this icy, knife’s-edge story of a life that progresses backward through time, unfolding into one of the darkest episodes of the 20th century, Amis (“at his intriguing, heedful, and powerful best” —Time Out), finds a chillingly original approach to the Holocaust in fiction • From the acclaimed author of Zone of Interest "The narrative moves with irresistible momentum.... [Amis is] a daring, exacting writer willing to defy the odds in pursuit of his art." —Newsday Tod. T. Friendly is living his life in reverse. Doctor Friendly has just died, but he moves “out of blackest sleep” to find himself surrounded by doctors and on the deathbed of a man in whose body he is imprisoned. After weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colors existence in suburban America. As Friendly breaks up with his lovers in a prelude to seducing them and mangles his patients before he sends them home, his life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense. From the fresh-cut lawns of his retirement to the hustle of New York, and then back to the boat which reverses his course to the war-torn Europe Friendly came from, Amis brings the steeliest nerve to the job of realizing the novel’s inevitable logic. Trapped in his body from grave to cradle, Friendly’s consciousness can only watch as he struggles to make sense of the good doctor’s most ambitious project yet—the final solution.
Time S Arrow
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Author : Martin Amis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
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The Future
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Author : Tom DeFalco
language : en
Publisher: Berkley
Release Date : 1998
The Future written by Tom DeFalco and has been published by Berkley this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Heroes categories.
Kang's machinations have led to timelines collapsing at a great rate--the X-Men and Spider-Man must take the battle to the Conqueror if they are to keep him from becoming the master of time. But in order to find Kang, they must face alternate futures that may be more than they can bear.
Time S Arrow And Archimedes Point
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Author : Huw Price
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1997-12-04
Time S Arrow And Archimedes Point written by Huw Price and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-12-04 with Philosophy categories.
Why is the future so different from the past? Why does the past affect the future and not the other way around? What does quantum mechanics really tell us about the world? In this important and accessible book, Huw Price throws fascinating new light on some of the great mysteries of modern physics, and connects them in a wholly original way. Price begins with the mystery of the arrow of time. Why, for example, does disorder always increase, as required by the second law of thermodynamics? Price shows that, for over a century, most physicists have thought about these problems the wrong way. Misled by the human perspective from within time, which distorts and exaggerates the differences between past and future, they have fallen victim to what Price calls the "double standard fallacy": proposed explanations of the difference between the past and the future turn out to rely on a difference which has been slipped in at the beginning, when the physicists themselves treat the past and future in different ways. To avoid this fallacy, Price argues, we need to overcome our natural tendency to think about the past and the future differently. We need to imagine a point outside time -- an Archimedean "view from nowhen" -- from which to observe time in an unbiased way. Offering a lively criticism of many major modern physicists, including Richard Feynman and Stephen Hawking, Price shows that this fallacy remains common in physics today -- for example, when contemporary cosmologists theorize about the eventual fate of the universe. The "big bang" theory normally assumes that the beginning and end of the universe will be very different. But if we are to avoid the double standard fallacy, we need to consider time symmetrically, and take seriously the possibility that the arrow of time may reverse when the universe recollapses into a "big crunch." Price then turns to the greatest mystery of modern physics, the meaning of quantum theory. He argues that in missing the Archimedean viewpoint, modern physics has missed a radical and attractive solution to many of the apparent paradoxes of quantum physics. Many consequences of quantum theory appear counterintuitive, such as Schrodinger's Cat, whose condition seems undetermined until observed, and Bell's Theorem, which suggests a spooky "nonlocality," where events happening simultaneously in different places seem to affect each other directly. Price shows that these paradoxes can be avoided by allowing that at the quantum level the future does, indeed, affect the past. This demystifies nonlocality, and supports Einstein's unpopular intuition that quantum theory describes an objective world, existing independently of human observers: the Cat is alive or dead, even when nobody looks. So interpreted, Price argues, quantum mechanics is simply the kind of theory we ought to have expected in microphysics -- from the symmetric standpoint. Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point presents an innovative and controversial view of time and contemporary physics. In this exciting book, Price urges physicists, philosophers, and anyone who has ever pondered the mysteries of time to look at the world from the fresh perspective of Archimedes' Point and gain a deeper understanding of ourselves, the universe around us, and our own place in time.
Time S Arrow
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Author : Michael C. Mackey
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2011-11-30
Time S Arrow written by Michael C. Mackey and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-30 with Science categories.
Exploration of Second Law of Thermodynamics details fundamental dynamic properties behind the construction of statistical mechanics. Geared toward physicists and applied mathematicians; suitable for advanced undergraduate, graduate courses. 1992 edition.
Time S Arrow
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Author : Martin Amis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-12-23
Time S Arrow written by Martin Amis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-23 with categories.
Time S Arrow
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Author : Tom DeFalco
language : en
Publisher: Berkley
Release Date : 1998
Time S Arrow written by Tom DeFalco and has been published by Berkley this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Heroes categories.
Spider-Man and Bishop have been lost in the timestream. With the Time Displacement Core damaged, the X-Men have no way to retrieve them! To make matters worse, Kang has sent three more time arrows to wreak havoc on the timestream--this time to the present! The X-Men must fight through Kang's mercenaries to get to the time arrows, all the while repairing the TDC so that their friends can be rescued.