What can be said about The Spiral Mirror that you don't already know? Answering that question could prove to be difficult since you already know everything there is to know... By that I mean you are the spiral mirror, as am I. Each of our lives is an interwoven, interdependent, double helix reflecting back at one another. Existing beneath breathable water, with its distorted images, gazing into this constantly changing, shape shifting apparatus known as life, looking deeply into ourselves and our experiences, only begins the journey of self discovery, a journey that cannot be contained in one lifetime, much less this one book. I've come slightly beyond the beginning of my journey, and am now sharing that beginning with you.

Spiral Mirror is a science fiction thriller and passionate love story based on tapes recorded by a college professor, Karl Grayland, while trapped at the foot of Mt. St. Helens in 1980 as it is about to erupt. This event brings him into the jaws of death for the love of two women: Laura Russell, a young attorney who on their journey to Seattle reveals to Karl that she is pregnant with his child; and Ariel, a sprite of a girl whom they rescue along the way only to be lured by her to Mt. St. Helens on that fateful day in May. With the web of time shredded by the convulsing mountain, Karl, led by Arial, is thrust through a magic mirror fifty years into a future in which mankind's fate comes to rest squarely on him. He learns from his captors how he in a spectral guise can invade the minds of their rivals and control or destroy them at will. Karl soon discovers that his godlike powers come with a compelling need to deploy them. While on the attack, Karl finds a dying Laura and a daughter he never knew, and enlists them to help his captors protect the Spiral Mirror and with it access to all human history. Only after his bloodlust is spent, leaving untold death in its wake, does Karl come to grips with the enormity of his deeds and what it truly means to be human. After learning the true purpose of his ordeal, Karl is returned home by his captors where he and Laura must again face the Mountain's mighty blow.

It was a warm summer day in 1951 when Rose Pottinger and Mrs. Zimmermann entered the tunnel. When they had emerged, it was snowing...and the year was 1828. Mrs. Zimmermann had felt that the ghost of Granny Wetherbee, who had taught Mrs. Zimmermann witchery, was in trouble and needed help. So she and Rose Rita had traveled to Pennsylvania where Granny had lived. They never dreamed that they would also journey back to a time long ago where they would encounter a sorcerer more terrifying than either could have imagined. Books by John Bellairs: The Doom of the Haunted Opera The Figure In the Shadows The Ghost in the Mirror The House With a Clock In Its Walls The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring The Mansion in the Mist The Specter From the Magician's Museum The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn The Vengeance of the Witch-Finder

This thorough and detailed exposition is the result of an intensive month-long course on mirror symmetry sponsored by the Clay Mathematics Institute. It develops mirror symmetry from both mathematical and physical perspectives with the aim of furthering interaction between the two fields. The material will be particularly useful for mathematicians and physicists who wish to advance their understanding across both disciplines. Mirror symmetry is a phenomenon arising in string theory in which two very different manifolds give rise to equivalent physics. Such a correspondence has significant mathematical consequences, the most familiar of which involves the enumeration of holomorphic curves inside complex manifolds by solving differential equations obtained from a ``mirror'' geometry. The inclusion of D-brane states in the equivalence has led to further conjectures involving calibrated submanifolds of the mirror pairs and new (conjectural) invariants of complex manifolds: the Gopakumar-Vafa invariants. This book gives a single, cohesive treatment of mirror symmetry. Parts 1 and 2 develop the necessary mathematical and physical background from ``scratch''. The treatment is focused, developing only the material most necessary for the task. In Parts 3 and 4 the physical and mathematical proofs of mirror symmetry are given. From the physics side, this means demonstrating that two different physical theories give isomorphic physics. Each physical theory can be described geometrically, and thus mirror symmetry gives rise to a ``pairing'' of geometries. The proof involves applying $R\leftrightarrow 1/R$ circle duality to the phases of the fields in the gauged linear sigma model. The mathematics proof develops Gromov-Witten theory in the algebraic setting, beginning with the moduli spaces of curves and maps, and uses localization techniques to show that certain hypergeometric functions encode the Gromov-Witten invariants in genus zero, as is predicted by mirror symmetry. Part 5 is devoted to advanced topi This one-of-a-kind book is suitable for graduate students and research mathematicians interested in mathematics and mathematical and theoretical physics.

Offering a critical analysis of Smithson's view of time, it provides comprehensive case studies of three of his most influential projects: "The Monuments of Passaic," a sardonic tour of a decaying New Jersey city conducted in the wake of the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act; "Incidents of Mirror-Travel in the Yucatan," a textual-sculptural-photographic travelogue that coincided with a series of revolutionary discoveries about Maya history; and the Spiral Jetty."--BOOK JACKET.

"Lutz Koepnick's The Dark Mirror provides one of the finest, most compelling and suggestive accounts to date of the multiple locations of German cinema between Hitler and Hollywood. Charting the shifting relationships between institutional contexts and individual acts of reception, Koepnick persuasively shows how the German cinema and its filmmakers—both in exile and in Nazi Germany—contributed to a fragile, stratified, indeed, "nonsynchronous" public sphere."—Patrice Petro, author of Aftershocks of the New: Feminism and Film History "Lutz Koepnick's brilliant study debunks the received wisdom concerning Nazi German and Hollywood film of the 1930s and 40s. Using detailed analyses of 8 films, with special focus on sound and music, he insists upon the disjointed contexts and uneven relationships of American and German filmmaking. Historically nuanced and theoretically savvy, this remarkable book offers something for everyone: Americanists, Germanists, historians, students of cinema sound and music, those interested in debates between art and popular forms, and European and Hollywood production."—Caryl Flinn, author of Strains of Utopia