5/27/2023 0 Comments Contact carl sagan sparknotes![]() ![]() The unprecedented success of Cosmos ushered in a dramatic increase in visibility for science-themed literature. ![]() In 1981, it received the Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book. Spurred in part by the popularity of the TV series, Cosmos spent 50 weeks on the Publishers Weekly best-sellers list and 70 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list to become the best-selling science book ever published at the time. Sagan also believed the television was one of the greatest teaching tools ever invented, so he wished to capitalize on his chance to educate the world. ![]() One of Sagan's main purposes for both the book and the television series was to explain complex scientific ideas in a way that anyone interested in learning can understand. Just a few of the ideas explored in Cosmos include the history and mutual development of science and civilization, the nature of the Universe, human and robotic space exploration, the inner workings of the cell and the DNA that controls it, and the dangers and future implications of nuclear war. Each of the book’s 13 illustrated chapters corresponds to one of the 13 episodes of the television series. It was published in 1980 as a companion piece to the PBS mini-series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage with which it was co-developed and intended to complement. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in SpaceĬosmos is a popular science book written by astronomer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sagan. ![]() Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science ![]()
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5/27/2023 0 Comments Nerd by cambria hebert![]() ![]() Transposition and arrangement not applicable ![]() And never fall in love with anyone on the outside Member ofĪccompanying matter technical information on music Cataloging source TEFOD Hebert, Cambria Dewey number 813/.6 Form of composition not applicable Format of music not applicable LC call number PS3608.E247 LC item number N47 2015eab Literary text for sound recordings fiction Music parts not applicable PerformerNote Read by Chandra Skyye and Eric Michael Summerer The rules are clear and simple: Stick to your circle. But when you're a victim of your status, there is no room for anything real. But that's about to change.It starts with a dare. ![]() Language eng Summary An awkward alliance doesn't even begin to cover Rimmel and Romeo's relationship. Label #Nerd Title #Nerd Statement of responsibility Cambria Hebert Title variation Hashtag Nerd Creator ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments On dublin street series![]() ![]() ![]() She even determines what men to date by how much they can provide for her brother and her, not on whatever sparks may-or may not-fly.īut with Cameron MacCabe, the attraction is undeniable. With an absent father and a useless mother, she's been making decisions based on what's best for Cole for as long as she can remember. It has always been up to Johanna to care for her family, particularly her younger brother, Cole. The stubborn Scotsman is intent on truly knowing her.down to the very soul.Ī woman used to taking charge is about to meet a man who'll make her lose control in this novel from the New York Times bestselling author of On Dublin Street. ![]() He knows she has a past, one that has made her skittish about getting into a relationship, so he proposes an arrangement that will satisfy their intense attraction without any strings attached.īut after an intrigued Jocelyn accepts, Braden decides he won't be satisfied with just mind-blowing passion. A woman hiding from her past has all of her secrets laid bare in this New York Times and USA Today bestselling sensation that enraptured readers everywhere.īraden Carmichael is used to getting what he wants, and he's determined to get Jocelyn into his bed. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Salvage the bones book![]() ![]() These aren't popular, I guess, with a lot of, you know, readers. WARD: I thought that the subject matter was too gritty and I thought that the people that I write about and the place that I write about, you know, where they come from. Because of the subject matter? Do you think that the subject matter, you thought, was just too gritty? MARTIN: But did you think that you were a - God, I hate the term "dark horse," but I'll use it just for now. I'm very hesitant to assume that good things are going to come to me, so beforehand, I kept preparing myself for losing, you know, and I thought, well, I will prepare myself to be happy for whoever wins and clap. You know, I just did not think that I was going to win. You were so surprised that you almost couldn't talk. MARTIN: What about the award? I'm told that you were very surprised. Welcome, and congratulations on this really significant honor. ![]() "Salvage the Bones" recently won the National Book Award for fiction and Jesmyn Ward joins us now. It's all seen through the eyes of the 15-year-old narrator named Esch. Extreme poverty, sexual abuse, routine violence and survival. In her novel, "Salvage the Bones," Jesmyn Ward tells the story of how one family on the Mississippi Gulf Coast endured Hurricane Katrina.īut it also tells the story of what they were enduring before the storm. Sometimes, the stories of life's biggest triumphs and tragedies are best told, not in the headlines or in a cable news crawl, but in literature. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Weird stories charlotte riddell![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Accident had thrown us together, and accident had driven us under the minister’s hospitable roof. We were seated, an incongruous company of ten persons, in the best room of an old manse among the Scottish hills. On the occasion in question, however, we had donned our best behaviour, a garment which did not sit ungracefully on some of us and our host, who was about to draw out from the stores of memory one narrative for our entertainment, was scarcely the person before whom even Jack Hill, the sceptic, would have cared to express his cynical and unbelieving views. “We quite understand that,” said the sceptic of our party, who was wont, in the security of friendly intercourse, to characterise all such prefaces as mere introductions to some tremendously exaggerated tale. “Before commencing my story, I wish to state it is perfectly true in every particular.” ![]() ![]() ![]() His point of view coincides in many aspects with Boethius as he was Christian too and Chaucer was considered a “supremely philosophical poet” as in medieval times poetry was not distinguished from philosophy. In the 15th century Chaucer’s translation of this work was one of his most popular compositions. ![]() It was understood as the paragon of Christianity, although few voices did see the more philosophical elements as superficial. “The Consolation of Philosophy” was one of the most translated works in history and therefore it must have been of great significance. This thesis will deal with the role of fortune in Boethius’ “Consolation of Philosophy” in comparison with two stories of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, namely “The Knight’s Tale” and “The Tale of Melibee”. ![]() “The Tale of Melibee” and “The Consolation of Philosophy” “The Knight’s Tale” and “The Consolation of Philosophy”Ĥ. Boethius’ “Consolation of Philosophy” and the role of fortuneģ. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments Why You Like It by Nolan Gasser![]() Gasser teaches music fans how to become engaged listeners and provides them with the tools to enhance their musical preferences. Using easy-to-follow notated musical scores, Dr. ![]() He sheds light on why babies can clap along to rhythmic patterns and reveals the reason behind why different cultures around the globe identify the same kinds of music as happy, sad, or scary. ![]() Gasser delves into the science, psychology, and sociology that explains why humans love music so much how our brains process music and why you may love Queen but your best friend loves Kiss. Nolan Gasser-a composer, pianist, and musicologist, and the chief architect of the Music Genome Project, which powers Pandora Radio-breaks down what musical taste is, where it comes from, and what our favorite songs say about us. But what is it that makes music so universally beloved and have such a powerful effect on us? In this sweeping and authoritative book, Dr. ![]() From the chief architect of the Pandora Radio's Music Genome Project comes a definitive and groundbreaking examination of why we respond to music the way we do.Everyone loves music. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments Vengeance by Jon J. Muth![]() ![]() In a 1960 paper, Muth answered the question: for what stochastic process for y will adaptive expectations as postulated by Cagan and Friedman be the optimal forecast of y*. Phillip Cagan, Milton Friedman and others used the ad hoc updating rule which they labeled adaptive expectations to forecast the hidden state y* (e.g., permanent income). Rationalization of Friedman's adaptive expectations model ![]() ![]() Muth asserted that expectations "are essentially the same as the predictions of the relevant economic theory." Although he formulated the rational expectations principle in the context of microeconomics it has subsequently become associated with macroeconomics and the work of Robert Lucas, Jr., Finn E. He was a full professor at Michigan State University from 1964 to 1969 and a full professor at Indiana University from 1969 until his retirement in 1994. He was affiliated with Carnegie Mellon as a research associate from 1956 until 1959, as an assistant professor from 1959 to 1962, and as an associate professor without tenure from 1962 to 1964. Muth earned his PhD in mathematical economics from Carnegie Mellon University, and was in 1954 the first recipient of the Alexander Henderson Award. He is "the father of the rational expectations revolution in economics", primarily due to his article "Rational Expectations and the Theory of Price Movements" from 1961. John Fraser Muth ( / m j uː θ/ Septem– October 23, 2005) was an American economist. Carnegie Mellon University, Michigan State University, Indiana University ![]() ![]() ![]() “We’re not lost,” she snaps, taking a right turn and entering a residential area. “I think we’re lost.” That or she’s taking me to the middle of nowhere so she can kill me and bury my body. I spot a sign that reads “Welcome to Silver Springs.” “Are you sure you’re going the right way?” “I’m sure,” she says, her hands tightening on the steering wheel. Thunder echoes around us, and lightning flashes up ahead, illuminating the empty country road. Some vivid memories, wide expanses of nothingness, and too many black holes. A planet surrounded by the empty void of nothingness that is the galaxy. My memories are kind of like my name-Venus. Not that either of those things is particularly unusual. I barely know the girl, and I can’t actually remember saying I would go… or getting into the car. I’m not even sure why I agreed to go on this road trip with her. She lets out an exasperated sigh but doesn’t reply. WHERE ARE WE GOİNG AGAİN?” I ask Neptune as she pulls off the highway. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments Only time will tell book![]() ![]() ![]() He strikes me as a somewhat melancholy figure by the end of his life, a fallen hero who had endured far too much bad luck and disappointment.Football was never the be-all and end-all to him. Certainly if it wasn't for George Petchey's painstaking care at Orient Cunningham would not have become the player we all know, but having spent his latter years playing for so many different clubs, and not staying for long, who knows where he'd have gone once the football ended.I don't think he would have turned to coaching as so many players do. It would be nice to think he might have ended his career where it all began at Leyton Orient and he hinted as much in a newspaper interview in 1979 when he was bound for Real Madrid. ![]() When he died in 1989 at the age of thirty three Cunningham probably had a couple of seasons left in the game. ![]() Following the good news that the house in Finsbury Park where Laurie Cunningham spent a large part of his childhood is to receive a blue plaque later this year, Leyton Orient FC and Waltham Forest Council announced a joint campaign yesterday to raise funds for a Cunningham statue to be placed in Coronation Gardens in Leyton where his career began.The anouncement is well timed as today would have been Laurie's sixtieth birthday. ![]() |
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