The toneless pinyin phrase Wu Li in the title is most accurately rendered 物理 in Chinese characters, one Chinese translation of the word "physics" in the light of the book's subject matter. Although it explores empirical topics in modern physics research, The Dancing Wu Li Masters gained attention for leveraging metaphors taken from eastern spiritual movements, in particular the Huayen school of Buddhism with the monk Fazang's treatise on the Golden Lion, to explain quantum phenomena and has been regarded by some reviewers as a New Age work, although the book is mostly concerned with the work of pioneers in western physics down through the ages. National Book Award in category of Science. The Dancing Wu Li Masters is a 1979 book by Gary Zukav, a popular science work exploring modern physics, and quantum phenomena in particular.
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Thousands of people died, and though the conflict officially ended in 1998, the society is still sensitive to its ramifications. Now, it’s a seemingly conflict-free place, but for three decades it was the site of the open, violent struggle that we’ve come to call the Troubles, which tore apart Northern Irish society, and divided cities by religious and political leanings. Brexit and the surrounding political turmoil immediately threw into relief exactly why Keefe would go on to spend more than four years thinking about Northern Ireland: the contentious border that splits the island into two. Patrick Radden Keefe, a staff writer at The New Yorker, was just about to finish a draft of his third book, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, when the Brexit referendum passed in June 2016. Her other books for young adults include the acclaimed fantasy Book of a Thousand Days, the sci-fi adventure Dangerous, and genre-bending comedy Kind of a Big Deal. After nineteen years of writing and many rejections, she published The Goose Girl, the first book in her award-winning Books of Bayern series. New York Times best selling author Shannon Hale started writing books at age ten and never stopped, eventually earning an MFA in Creative Writing. They live with their four children near Salt Lake City, Utah. She co-writes books with her husband Dean Hale, like the Eisner-nominated graphic novel Rapunzel's Revenge, books for DC Comics about young Wonder Woman, and best-selling illustrated chapter book series The Princess in Black. One of her novels for the adult crowd, Austenland, was made into movie starring Keri Russell. Shannon Hale is the New York Times best-selling author of over forty books for all ages, including graphic novel memoirs Real Friends, Best Friends, and Friends Forever, and multiple award winners The Goose Girl, Book of a Thousand Days, and Newbery Honor recipient Princess Academy. They duel, and Ardolph fatally stabs the Marchese. One year later, the Marchese encounters Ardolph in the streets of Venice. After Laurina elopes, Leonardo disappears from Venice without explanation, leaving only Victoria and her father in the palazzo. Ardolph, who takes pleasure in destroying the reputations of virtuous women and breaking up their marriages, appeals to Laurina's vanity and he seduces her away from her husband. They live in happiness until the Marchese's friend, Count Ardolph, visits from Germany. Victoria, her brother Leonardo, and her parents reside in a palazzo in Venice, Italy. Victoria de Loredani is the beautiful, spoiled daughter of the Marchese di Loredani and his wife, Laurina. At the time of publication, the novel was heavily criticised for its provocative subject matter, especially its religious and racial themes. Zofloya was published in three parts, and later collected into a single volume. Zofloya or, The Moor: A Romance of the Fifteenth Century, often shortened to Zofloya, is an 1806 English Gothic novel by Charlotte Dacre under the nom de plume Rosa Matilda. In The Cave of Time you are a kid, apparently with no name, on a hike. Struck with a touch of insomnia (I'm finally building my deck tomorrow and oddly it feels like Christmas!) I thought, what better time to read the classic first volume of the Choose Your Own Adventure series? In 2005, Choose Your Own Adventure books once again began to be published, but none of Edward Packard's titles have yet been included among the newly-released books. Edward Packard was the author of many of these books, though a substantial number of other authors were included as well. Eventually, one hundred eighty-four Choose Your Own Adventure books would be published before production on new entries to the series ceased in 1998. In 1979, the first book to be released in the series was "The Cave of Time", a fantasy time-travel story that remained in print for many years. The first such book that Edward Packard wrote in the Choose Your Own Adventure series was titled "Sugarcane Island", but it was not actually published as the first entry in the Choose Your Own Adventure Series. He was one of the first authors to explore the idea of gamebooks, in which the reader is inserted as the main character and makes choices about the direction the story will go at designated places in the text. Edward Packard attended and graduated from both Princeton University and Columbia Law School. As I said, it feels more like a thriller, though there are some genuinely chilling moments that really capture your childhood fear of what may be hiding in the dark, or under your bed. I read this in just two sittings, and finished feeling satisfied, if not entirely scared. The e-book edition was trimmed by the author by about 75 pages, leaving a very taught and fast-paced ride full of action that keeps you hooked until the end. If you are a Harry Potter fan, the image of the Dementors may come to mind, a malevolent flying darkness that sucks your life essence through a kiss. In this case, instead of a serial killer or human psychopath, the villain is an ancient spirit called the runa that steals your souls. But you can see the thriller writer in bloom here, as it feels more like a thriller than a horror. Michael Prescott is mostly known for his crime thrillers, but this is one of his earlier works when he was publishing horror under the moniker Douglas Borton (which I think is his real name). Dean Butler portrayed Laura's husband, Almanzo Wilder. Victor French portrayed long-time friend Mr. Michael Landon starred as Charles Ingalls, Karen Grassle played Caroline Ingalls, Melissa Gilbert played Laura Ingalls, Melissa Sue Anderson played Mary Ingalls, and the twins Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush (credited as Lindsay Sidney Greenbush) played Carrie Ingalls. Some storylines were borrowed from Wilders' later books but were portrayed as having taken place in the Plum Creek setting. The show was a loose adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie semi-autobiographical novel series, although the namesake book was represented in the premiere only the ensuing television episodes primarily followed characters and locations from the follow-up book, On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937), although the continuity of the television series greatly departed from this book as well. The television series Little House on the Prairie aired on the NBC network from 1974 to 1983. I absent mindedly took in the image of the rushing beast, without ascribing any very great importance to it. People emerged from their hiding places and gathered in groups which watched the rhinoceros disappear into the distance, made some comments on the incident and then dispersed. It was all over like a flash of lightning. A housewife uttered a cry of terror, her basket dropped from her hands, the wine from a broken bottle spread over the pavement, and some pedestrians, one of them an elderly man, rushed into the shops. People in the street stepped hurriedly aside to let it pass. We were sitting outside the caf? my friend Jean and I, peacefully talking about one thing and another, when we caught sight of it on the opposite pavement, huge and powerful, panting noisily, charging straight ahead and brushing against market stalls?a rhinoceros. Radiolab is on YouTube! Catch up with new episodes and hear classics from our archive. _Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today. You can find Eugene Thacker's 'In The Dust Of the Planet' at Zero Books How? We talk nihilism with Eugene Thacker & Simon Critchley, leather jackets with June Ambrose, climate change with David Victor, and hope with the father of Transcendental Black Metal - Hunter Hunt Hendrix of the band Liturgy.Īlso, check out WNYC Studio's _On the Media _episode Staring into the Abyss, in it Brooke Gladstone and Jad Abumrad continue their discussion of nihilism and its place in history. It’s an academic treatise about the horror humanity feels as we realize that we are nothing but a speck in the universe. Jad’s brother-in-law wrote a book called 'In The Dust of This Planet'. Horror, fashion, and the end of the world … In this episode, first aired in 2014, but maybe even more relevant today, things get weird as we explore the undercurrents of thought that link nihilists, beard-stroking philosophers, Jay-Z, and True Detective. The sports trophy looks exactly like one who disappeared from the home of a young man who was killed two years ago. Finally, he has found some stability and peace.īut when they meet the neighbors next door, that calm begins to erode when they see a familiar object shown on the shelf in the husband's office. Hen (short for Henrietta) is an illustrator and works in a close study, and has found the right medications to control her bipolar disorder. Hen and her husband Lloyd have settled in a quiet life in a new house on the outskirts of Boston, Massachusetts. From the enormously talented author of The Kind Worth Killing comes an exquisitely chilling story of a young suburban wife with a story of psychological instability whose fears about her new neighbor could lead them both to murder. |