Lake Views
Title | Lake Views PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Weinberg |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2012-07-30 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0674071999 |
Just as Henry David Thoreau “traveled a great deal in Concord,” Nobel Prize–winning physicist Steven Weinberg sees much of the world from the window of his study overlooking Lake Austin. In Lake Views Weinberg, considered by many to be the preeminent theoretical physicist alive today, continues the wide-ranging reflections that have also earned him a reputation as, in the words of New York Times reporter James Glanz, “a powerful writer of prose that can illuminate—and sting.” This collection presents Weinberg’s views on topics ranging from problems of cosmology to assorted world issues—military, political, and religious. Even as he moves beyond the bounds of science, each essay reflects his experience as a theoretical physicist. And as in the celebrated Facing Up, the essays express a viewpoint that is rationalist, reductionist, realist, and secular. A new introduction precedes each essay, explaining how it came to be written and bringing it up to date where necessary. As an essayist, Weinberg insists on seeing things as they are, without despair and with good humor. Sure to provoke his readers—postmodern cultural critics, enthusiasts for manned space flight or missile defense, economic conservatives, sociologists of science, anti-Zionists, and religious zealots—this book nonetheless offers the pleasure of a sustained encounter with one of the most interesting scientific minds of our time.
Lake View
Title | Lake View PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Nickerson with a Foreword by Norman J. Dinkel Jr. |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1467111198 |
The Lake View neighborhood, located on Chicago s north side, is known today for its celebrities, million-dollar homes, and Wrigley Field, but it was once a very different community. The English language now rules where shopkeepers once risked rebuke if they did not speak German. Expensive restaurants stand where America s celery capital once thrived. Pricey homes sell where a Chicago sausage king once committed a grisly murder. This chronicle memorializes boxing and Bishop Bernard Sheil at St. Andrew Parish, meals at Kuhn s Deli on Lincoln Avenue, the corner stores of the Terra Cotta neighborhood, and the snowstorm of 1967, capturing the spirit that helped Lake View endure troubled times to become one of Chicago s most iconic neighborhoods."
A View of the Lake
Title | A View of the Lake PDF eBook |
Author | Beryl Singleton Bissell |
Publisher | Lake Superior Port Cities |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Ex-nuns |
ISBN | 9780942235746 |
Cleveland's Lake View Cemetery
Title | Cleveland's Lake View Cemetery PDF eBook |
Author | Marian J. Morton |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780738532301 |
Cleveland's Lake View Cemetery reveals the profound effects the cemetery and the City of Cleveland had on one another. Founded in 1869, this garden cemetery served as an escape and a model for Cleveland parks and suburbs, such as University Circle, Little Italy, East Cleveland, and Cleveland Heights. Lake View is home to cultural, economic, and political leaders and thousands of others from all classes, races, and religions. This rich diversity is manifested in the natural and man-made landscape, which features the President James Garfield Monument, the Wade Chapel, and the John D. Rockefeller obelisk.
Seattle's Totem Poles
Title | Seattle's Totem Poles PDF eBook |
Author | Viola Edmundson Garfield |
Publisher | |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Tlingit sculpture |
ISBN | 9780962193545 |
Milo, Brownville, and Lake View
Title | Milo, Brownville, and Lake View PDF eBook |
Author | Milo Historical Society |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 2009-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780738564586 |
Hidden History of Ravenswood and Lake View
Title | Hidden History of Ravenswood and Lake View PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Butler |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 154 |
Release | 2013-03-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1614238707 |
It's easy to get caught up in the hidden history of Ravenswood and Lake View, like the Harm's Park picnic that lasted fifty-four years or the political gimmickry of the "Cowboy Mayor" of Chicago. Who can resist a double take over folk like the "Father of Ravenswood," who kept Chicago from falling to the Confederacy, or the "North Side's Benedict Arnold," who was sent to the electric chair during World War II? If you want to visit the days when the Cubs were the Spuds or debate whether Ravenswood is an actual neighborhood or just a state of mind, do it with longtime North Side journalist Patrick Butler in this curio shop of forgotten people and places.