![]() ![]() ![]() Our universe could collapse in upon itself, or rip itself apart, or even - in the next five minutes - succumb to an inescapable expanding bubble of doom. Guiding us through major concepts in quantum mechanics, cosmology, string theory and much more, she describes how small tweaks to our incomplete understanding of reality can result in starkly different futures. But what happens at the end of the story?With lively wit and wry humour, astrophysicist Katie Mack takes us on a mind-bending tour through each of the cosmos' possible finales: the Big Crunch, Heat Death, Vacuum Decay, the Big Rip and the Bounce. From one of the most dynamic rising stars in astrophysics, an eye-opening look at five ways the universe could end, and the mind-blowing lessons each scenario reveals about the most important ideas in cosmologyWe know the universe had a beginning. ![]()
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The situation as I see it is absolutely unique. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was then hired by Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, where he taught courses in political economy and data analysis while publishing three quantitatively inclined political science books. ![]() ![]() His dissertation, completed in 1968, was titled The Civil Rights Movement and Its Opposition. He received a BS and MS in statistics from Stanford University and a PhD in political science from Yale. He grew up in Beverly Hills, California, where his father was a longtime city official, and he graduated from Beverly Hills High School. Biography Įdward Rolf Tufte was born in 1942 in Kansas City, Missouri, to Virginia Tufte (1918–2020) and Edward E. He is noted for his writings on information design and as a pioneer in the field of data visualization. The Civil Rights Movement and Its Opposition (1968)Įdward Rolf Tufte ( / ˈ t ʌ f t i/ born March 14, 1942), sometimes known as " ET", is an American statistician and professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. ![]() ![]() ![]() Grant proclaimed Reconstruction in Texas over and readmitted Texas into the United States. Only in 1870 would the Texas legislature ratify the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments then, at last, President Ulysses S. The newly elected Eleventh Texas Legislature refused to ratify either the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, or the Fourteenth Amendment, which granted citizenship to Black Americans. Though Travis and his family live in a rural community and are largely insulated from the politics of the time, the mid-to-late 1860s saw great unrest throughout the state of Texas. ![]() During the events of the book, Travis Coates’s Texas is in a period of Reconstruction. ![]() Old Yeller is set in the late 1860s, soon after the end of the Civil War in 1865. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.It's heresy, he freely admits, but the heresy of the true believer. In the afterword, he asks you to forgive him. ![]() First, Dibdin shows you that he can capture the flavor of the old Arthur Conan Doyle stories perfectly then, not content with merely imitating, he adds some disturbing new elements to the legend. "Looking through the other reviews, I can see that either you love this book or you hate it. The adventures of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective and his faithful companion Dr Watson are given a new and thrilling treatment by Michael Dibdin. To calm the public outcry, Scotland Yard approaches London's most eminent detective, Sherlock Holmes, and asks him to investigate the mystery. Three women have been savagely murdered by Jack the Ripper. In the late seventies an extraordinary document came to light which for fifty years had been held on deposit by the bankers of the deceased John Herbert Watson MD - better known to devotees of Conan Doyle as Dr Watson.Ī continuous narrative in the doctor's own hand, the story opens in the East End of London in 1888. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, the sparks between them are undeniable, tempting Kate to turn their professional relationship into a personal one. Though his athlete’s body is honed to perfection, he refuses to move on with his life-and besides, he’s her boss. Kate Francis usually keeps men like Zack at a distance. But while the nerdy new nanny wins his son’s heart, Zack isn’t sure he’s ready for a woman’s touch-even after getting a glimpse of the killer curves she’s hiding under those baggy clothes. ![]() Back on the road with the Carolina Cold Fury and still crippled by emotional baggage, he’s in need of some serious help with his son. Rising star Zack Grantham has been stuck in a downward spiral of grief ever since the car accident that left him a single dad and put his career on hold. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Most of the volume will go to India, despite China having started buying Australian coal again in February after unofficially banning such imports in October 2020.Ĭhina's coking coal imports have peaked, according to the Australian government's latest Resources and Energy Quarterly issued April 3.Īustralian producers would prefer a long-term offtake contract with a steelmaker in India over one in China, which stopped trading with them during the unofficial ban period, AME Research Managing Director Lloyd Hain said in an interview. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience.Īustralia's resource and energy export revenue is forecast to hit a record A$464 billion ($310 billion) in fiscal 2022-23 (July-June), A$5 billion higher than the government forecast in December, due to an anticipated lift in metallurgical coal and iron ore earnings and a weaker-than-expected exchange rate against the US dollar.Īfter both metallurgical and thermal coal prices rode the surge in energy prices in 2022 stemming from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Australian government sees its metallurgical coal exports rising to 172 million mt by FY 2027-28 from 163 million mt in FY 2021-22. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite Tom’s disapproval, the two begin a courtship and marry in a big ceremony at the Brangwen’s farm.Īlthough Will and Anna share an idyllic honeymoon in their cottage, their relationship quickly sours and soon they are fighting like Tom and Lydia before them. As Anna ages, she remains headstrong and solitary until she meets William, the nephew of Tom. ![]() ![]() She is described as being a fiercely independent and hearty young girl who adores her step-father and feels distant from her mother. In the third chapter, the focus of the novel shifts to Anna. While much of the start of the novel is dedicated to depicting the anger shared between Tom and Lydia, they proceed to have two of their own children: Tom and Fred. Still, he grows close to Anna, the daughter she had from her previous marriage. The marriage between Tom and Lydia is marked by the feeling that “they were so foreign to each other,” as Tom struggles to make sense of the life that Lydia lived before immigrating to England. The novel begins on the Brangwen’s Marsh Farm and first follows Tom Brangwen as he courts and marries a Polish widow named Lydia. Through the Bragnwen’s, Lawrence traces the broader social, cultural, and technological changes happening in England at the same time. The Rainbow follows the intergenerational development of the Brangwens-a family of farmers living near Ilkeston in the East Midland region of England-from the 1840s to the early twentieth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() I can feel myself going off on a rant here. ![]() I guess I was naive enough to believe that such. What I was not aware of is the fact that it could be portrayed in such a cliche and disappointing plot arc in any media other than a modern Shonen Manga. Speculative Fiction By Alec Nevala-Lee I saac Asimov loved large numbers. ![]() I was aware that the hero's journey is came into existence long before the the first novel. Now the second book written, The Stars Like Dust, oh, that is a completely different story (I stand by my puns). ![]() SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimovs iconic masterpiece. I can't say that I hated it, but I definitely would not introduce my friends to Asimov with it. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire, the story of Hari. I sat down to read the first book, and it was okay. I had just recently finished the final book of the original Foundation trilogy and was ready to move on to 4th one, being Foundation's Edge, when I realized that I had skipped 3 books in the in the series in terms of publishing date, which are known to the reader of this post as the Galactic Empire series. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire, the story of Hari Seldons two. What I refer to when I reference the Galactic Empire series is Pebble In The Sky, The Stars Like Dust, and The Currents Of Space. 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