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.
In Darkness
Title | In Darkness PDF eBook |
Author | Nick Lake |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Gangs |
ISBN | 1408819953 |
In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, 15-year-old Shorty, a poor gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in the rubble of a ruined hospital, and as he grows weaker he has visions and memories of his life of violence, his lost twin sister, and of Toussaint L'Ouverture, who liberated Haiti from French rule in the 1804.
The Lake
Title | The Lake PDF eBook |
Author | Natasha Preston |
Publisher | Bonnier Zaffre Ltd. |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2024-09-26 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 1471418111 |
Get ready for another heart-racing, twist-filled thriller from the #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author NATASHA PRESTON. WHAT WOULD YOU DO TO KEEP A SECRET SAFE? Esme and Kayla were once campers at Camp Pine Lake. Now they're back as counsellors-in-training. Esme loves the little girls in her cabin and thinks it's funny how scared they are of everything - the woods, the bugs, the boys . . . even swimming in the lake. It reminds her of how she and Kayla used to be all those years ago. Because Esme and Kayla have kept a terrible secret. They vow that this summer will be awesome: two months of sun, s'mores, and flirting with the cute boy counsellors. Until they receive a stark message: THE LAKE NEVER FORGETS. The secret they've kept buried for so many years is about to resurface.
Views from on High
Title | Views from on High PDF eBook |
Author | Adirondack Mountain Club Staff |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2017-06-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780996116848 |
The Haunted Lake
Title | The Haunted Lake PDF eBook |
Author | P. J. Lynch |
Publisher | Candlewick |
Pages | 49 |
Release | 2020-09-08 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1536200131 |
In famed author-illustrator P.J. Lynch’s gorgeous tale, he creates two worlds—underwater and above—to tell an epic and haunting love story. Jacob and his father are the only people who fish Lake Spetzia, which was formed when the river was dammed and their town was flooded. The villagers say the lake is haunted, but Jacob and his father don’t want to leave, because Jacob’s mother is buried in the cemetery below the water. As Jacob grows up, a village girl named Ellen falls in love with him, and he with her. But before they are married, Jacob disappears—lured underwater by the ghosts who inhabit the sunken village. Years go by, with Jacob held captive by the watery spirits and Ellen never giving up hope that she will find him, until a fateful night when Jacob sees the light of Ellen’s boat floating above. Can he break free and reach the surface? Masterful illustrations alive with achingly expressive characters and eerie underwater light bring readers into acclaimed creator P.J. Lynch’s rich world of love, loss, and hope.
The Spirits of Lakeviews
Title | The Spirits of Lakeviews PDF eBook |
Author | Lina Parry |
Publisher | Buku Prima |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Children's literature |
ISBN | 9789833669967 |
The House by the Lake: The True Story of a House, Its History, and the Four Families Who Made It Home
Title | The House by the Lake: The True Story of a House, Its History, and the Four Families Who Made It Home PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Harding |
Publisher | Candlewick Studio |
Pages | 49 |
Release | 2020-09-08 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1536212741 |
History comes home in a deeply moving, exquisitely illustrated tale of a small house, taken by the Nazis, that harbors a succession of families—and becomes a quiet witness to a tumultuous century. The days went around like a wheel. The sun rose, warming the walls of the house. On the outskirts of Berlin, Germany, a wooden cottage stands on the shore of a lake. Over the course of a hundred years, this little house played host to a kind Jewish doctor and his family, a successful Nazi composer, wartime refugees, and a secret-police informant. During that time, as a world war came and went and the Berlin Wall arose just a stone’s throw from the back door, the house filled up with myriad everyday moments. And when that time was over, and the dwelling was empty and derelict, the great-grandson of the man who built the house felt compelled to bring it back to life and listen to the story it had to tell. Illuminated by Britta Teckentrup’s magnificent illustrations, Thomas Harding’s narration reads like a haunting fairy tale—a lyrical picture-book rendering of the story he first shared in an acclaimed personal history for adult readers.