books about: gravity
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Gravity
Defying Gravity: The Creative Career of Stephen Schwartz, from Godspell to Wicked
Carol de Giere
Applause Books
, 2008
An Amazing Analysis...
Carol de Giere delivers an Amazing analysis of Stephen Schwartz. No one has done this, and de Giere's analysis is fascinating. She talks about "Godspell,", and "Pippin," and "The Magic Show," and "The Baker's Wife", and "Working," and "Rags", and finally, and most ...
Head First Physics: A Learner's Companion to Mechanics and Practical Physics (Head First)
Heather Lang
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
, 2008
Wouldn't it be great if there were a physics book that showed you how things work instead of telling you how? Finally, with Head First Physics , there is. This comprehensive book takes the stress out of learning mechanics and practical physics by providing a fun and engaging experience, especially for students who "just don't get it." Head ...
Going Under (Quantum Gravity, Book 3)
Justina Robson
Pyr
, 2008
A very special dark urban fantasy
Males are a pain in her metallic butt so special agent Lila Black thinks, but women even ones with robotic gizmos inside her body needs these blackguards though she is not sure why at the moment. Still Lila wonders if two spouses is one, two or three too many as she ...
Gravity: A Novel of Medical Suspense
Tess Gerritsen
Pocket
, 2000
Great book.
I got this book out of the library as it looked interesting. I was soon caught in the book and couldn't put it down. It is a great book and I really enjoyed reading it.
Forces Make Things Move (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
HarperTrophy
, 2005
nice book
my elder son (4 1/2) loves these books. they are fun, simple and educational. these books provide little experiments you can do at home.
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
Penguin (Non-Classics)
, 2000
Fear and Loathing in Peenemunde
This is the mother of all post-modern novels. Much has been said about Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow; even more written about it since it was published 35 years ago. There are a myriad of threads running through this novel. I have read Gravity's Rainbow four times ...
The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next
Lee Smolin
Mariner Books
, 2007
This is a VERY good book
about the sociology of science, and I agree completely with what it says about it, and on the need to parcel funds and scientists more equably among the several possible approaches (for example, to fundamental physical theories). The trouble is that men are not angels, ...
Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Thomas Pynchon
Penguin Classics
, 2006
The Mother of All War Novels
If you have not experienced Pynchon before, getting ready to have your life taken over for a while. I bought this book when I was a freshman in college at the suggestion of my Political Science professor and, after several unsuccessful initial attempts, it remained ...
The Everything Kids' Science Experiments Book: Boil Ice, Float Water, Measure Gravity-Challenge the World ...
Tom Robinson
Adams Media
, 2001
Best fun we had
product provided hours of fun for grandkids. especailly the list for things to make a science kit. Now we don't have to look for the things to have fun with. Good book.
String Theory Demystified
David McMahon
McGraw-Hill Professional
, 2008
A Definite Improvement over Others in this Series
As one of the reviewers who has criticized many of the others in the Demystified series, I wanted desperately this time to find something good I could say about the current volume. And although there is "different news" to report on this volume, it too still is not ...
Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
Lee Smolin
Basic Books
, 2002
A theory of quantum gravity by 2015!
Lee Smolin's promise of a full theory of quantum gravity by 2015 concludes this book. Along the way to that conclusion Smolin takes the reader on a comprehensible and lucid tour the current state of the search for a unified theory of quantum gravity. In this way, ...
Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity
James B. Hartle
Benjamin Cummings
, 2003
Des Canyons aux Etoiles
The SOED describes the word "miracle" as "a marvelous event not ascribable to human or natural agency, and therefore attributed to the intervention of a supernatural agent [...]" and "an act demonstrating control over nature, serving as evidence that the agent is ...
Conferring with Readers: Supporting Each Student's Growth and Independence
Jennifer Serravallo
, Gravity Goldberg
Heinemann
, 2007
Using it for high school students -- it's been amazing!
I teach classes for struggling and reluctant readers at a suburban high school. The program is geared for younger students, so I have had to make a few adjustments. It's modeled after Writer's Workshop. We've been at it for a week, and the kids are actually reading. ...
Selling Out (Quantum Gravity, Book 2)
Justina Robson
Pyr
, 2007
Delirious fun
Justina Robson's "Selling Out," the second in her Quantum Gravity series, sends human-cyborg special agent Lila Black back into action. This time her clueless leader, Cara Delaware, dispatches her on a mission to the land of Demonia where, as you might well suppose, ...
Keeping It Real (Quantum Gravity, Book 1)
Justina Robson
Pyr
, 2007
Great fantasy-suspense tale: cyborgs, elves, magic...
A Quantum explosion in 2015 changes the universe and opens gateways to five other realities; a realm of elementals, Alfheim of the elves, Demonia, Thanatopia--requiring one to be dead to enter and Faery. On Earth, called Otopia since the Q-Bomb went off, Lila Black, a ...
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