The Edge of Nowhere Tome 4 : Les lumières de l'île
Extraits
Policiers
The Edge of Nowhere Tome 4 : Les lumières de l'île
Désireuse d'échapper à l'emprise de son beau-père, Becca s'enfuit sur l'île de Whidbey afin de s'y cacher. Recherchant désespérément sa mère, elle doit redoubler d'efforts pour ne pas être démasquée. Becca pourra-t-elle se cacher encore longtemps ? Il est peut-être temps de réapparaître et de retrouver ses amis. D'autant que ces derniers ont plus que jamais besoin d'elle.
11/2018
Policiers
The edge of nowhere Tome 2 : L'Ile de Nera
Tous les ans, à la même date, les habitants de Whidbey assistent avec émotion à un événement incroyable : l'arrivée sur l'île d'un phoque baptisé Nera, dont la particularité est d'être entièrement noir. Cet animal étrange suscite l'hystérie collective, mais aussi l'intérêt de la communauté scientifique. Anny Taylor, biologiste marine, est venue spécialement du continent pour étudier ce spécimen unique. Sa théorie ? Nera serait le fruit d'une mutation, conséquence d'une marée noire ayant eu lieu 17 ans auparavant. Elle encourage Jenn Daniels, l'ennemie jurée de Becca , à prendre des cours de plongée afin de l'assister dans ses recherches. De son côté, Ivar Thorndyke, président de l'association des observateurs de phoques, demande la même chose à Becca. Contre toute attente, les deux jeunes filles, que tout oppose, vont se rapprocher autour de cet animal mystérieux dont elle ne tardent pas à découvrir qu'il est bien plus qu'un simple phoque...
10/2013
Policiers
The Edge of Nowhere Tome 1 : Saratoga Woods
Depuis toute petite, Hannah Armstrong entend des murmures. Ils sont en fait des bribes de pensées des gens se tenant près d'elle. Un jour, elle surprend le monologue intérieur de son beau-père et comprend qu'il vient d'assassiner son associé. Dès lors, sa mère, Laurel, la pousse à fuir. Elle l'envoie sous la nouvelle identité de Rebecca Dolores King sur l'île de Whitbey, où une vieille amie doit la recueillir. Mais, quand elle arrive, l'amie en question est morte et le téléphone portable de Becca, son seul lien avec sa mère, ne passe nulle part. Plus seule que jamais, Becca fait pourtant des rencontres décisives : Seth, garçon à la mauvaise réputation, Debbie, gérante d'un motel décrépi, et Derric, star de son nouveau lycée, qui la prend sous son aile. Alors que Becca pense être à l'abri, la jeune fille comprend que ses nouveaux "amis" lui cachent des choses et que cette île n'a rien de paisible...
02/2013
Policiers
The Edge of Nowhere Tome 3 : Les flammes de Whidbey
Voilà un an que Becca s'est installée sur l'île de Whidbey, après avoir fui son dangereux beau-père. Elle espère toujours des nouvelles de sa mère, partie chercher un endroit où elles pourraient, ensemble, tout recommencer. En attendant, elle mène une vie normale de lycéenne avec Derric, son petit copain, et Jenn, sa meilleure amie. Une vie normale, ou presque. Depuis quelques semaines une série d'incendies criminels fait rage et la jeune fille a des soupçons sur l'identité du coupable. Mais, pour obtenir des preuves suffisant à son arrestation, elle va devoir apprendre à mieux contrôler son pouvoir, qui semble prendre une direction inattendue : elle entendait jusque-là des " murmures ", elle a maintenant des visions... Entre recherches, enquêtes et secrets, le quotidien de Becca n'a jamais été si mouvementé.
10/2015
Internet
Edge Networking. Internet des Edges
L'Internet des Edges est un nouveau paradigme dont l'objectif est de garder les données à traiter tout près de l'utilisateur. Cette solution attire de nombreuses entreprises par sa simplicité, sa sécurité, son temps de traitement rapide et sa minimisation de l'énergie dépensée. Edge Networking présente les différents niveaux de l'Edge : MEC (Multi-access Edge Computing), Fog et Far Edge appelés parfois Mist ou Skin. Il étudie également les réseaux participatifs dans lesquels les équipements des utilisateurs fournissent les ressources du réseau Edge. L'interconnexion de ces réseaux Edge, qui peuvent être déconnectés de l'Internet central, forme I'Internet des Edges. Cet ouvrage analyse d'une façon détaillée les caractéristiques de ces réseaux et montre leur capacité à remplacer les imposants Clouds installés dans les coeurs de réseau en apportant de nombreuses améliorations sur les temps de latence, la sécurisation des données ou la dépense énergétique.
01/2022
Roman d'amour, roman sentiment
Curves Rock Tome 2 : Somewhere in the middle of nowhere
Si elle apprenait à lâcher prise, jusqu'où oserait-elle aller ? Après la trahison de Dan et de Jax, Stones pense ne jamais pouvoir les pardonner et fuit dans un pays lointain avec son meilleur ami Jake. Alors qu'elle ne veut plus y penser, Jake tente de la faire parler pour l'aider. Mais si en parler la faisait revenir en arrière et remettre en question tout ce qu'elle a toujours haï ? De leur côté, Dan et Jax prennent conscience à quel point Stones est importante pour eux. Ils décident alors de tout faire pour la retrouver Toutefois, la retrouver est la partie facile, la reconquérir un peu moins. Qu'adviendra-t-il lorsqu'ils la reverront ? Leur pardonnera-t-elle ? Comment feront-ils lorsqu'elle sera face à un choix ? Retrouvez Jax, Dan, Stones et Jake dans ce deuxième tome encore plus hot et addictif. CE QU'EN PENSE LA CRITIQUE "OK j'ai adoré et je vais dévorer le tome 2. La plume de l'auteur est accessible et très addictive, je ne voyais absolument pas le temps passer en le lisant, " - labookiste, Instagram "J'ai aimé cet univers rock, la musique, le style vestimentaire des personnages, clairement j'étais dans mon monde". - sandy8000, Intagram "Du rock, du peps et un triangle amoureux ! J'ai beaucoup aimé l'univers musical dans lequel nous plonge l'auteure. Les personnages sont touchants avec leurs caractères bien trempés". - lectureencours, Instagram A PROPOS DE L'AUTEURE Après avoir exploré une partie du monde, Amy Nightbird a décidé de se poser dans une petite ville de Belgique quand elle a trouvé quelqu'un d'aussi singulier et original qu'elle. Elle a fait de sa passion pour le voyage un métier. Habitante de la planète rock, elle aime passer des heures à écouter Biffy Clyro, Metallica, Fall out Boy et tant d'autres artistes, parfois avec son petit rockeur de presque trois ans. Amy prend plaisir à raconter l'histoire de personnages cultivant leurs différences et failles, toujours avec une part d'ombre et une touche d'humour.
09/2021
Informatique
Flash .Net. Dynamic content for designers with Flash remoting MX and ASP.NET
Flash.NET is the book which is your ticket to the future of application design. Two cutting-edge technologies, joined in union to provide the perfect marriage.
Macromedia Flash MX really excels when it comes to presenting graphical, interactive content. It's a superb tool for building user interfaces and for presenting content that changes over time.
Microsoft's NET Framework is a suite of tools for building powerful applications, both on and off the Web.
Put them together, and a whole raft of new possibilities opens up for both: powerful logic and functionality with a rich, flexible interface on the front. Put them together, and you get Flash.NET.
In this book, a team of expert designers and developers show you how to add dynamic NET content and turbocharged server-side functionality to your Flash MX projects.
In short, you need this book if you're a Flash designer who wants a cutting-edge advantage and doesn't want to get left behind when ail the cool people have started utilizing the power of NET with their applications.
To run the examples in this book for yourself, you'll need:
• Microsoft Windows 2000/XP
• Macromedia Flash MX
• Microsoft NET Framework SDK (free download from Microsoft)
The book also covers Macromedia Flash Remoting MX
11/2002
BD tout public
Edge of Sky Tome 1
Planète Albion. Cataclysmes et guerres ont rendu sa surface inhabitable depuis plusieurs siècles. Les habitants, contraints de bâtir des villes au-dessus des nuages, ont finalement prospéré. Une jeune femme au desseins mystérieux décide pourtant d'aller à la surface, au péril de sa vie. Ce qu'elle découvrira changera définitivement le sort de la planète...
03/2018
BD tout public
Edge of Sky Tome 2
On dit que ta surface de la planète Albion est inhabitable depuis plusieurs siècles, et qu'il est impossible de franchir les Red Clouds sans perdre la vie. Nadia et ses amis choisissent pourtant de braver l'inconnu... Feront-ils voler des croyances en éclats, ou confirmeront-ils des vérités ?
09/2018
Mondes fantastiques
Stranger Things - Darkness on the Edge of Town - version poche
Black-out sur la ville qui ne dort jamais... La préquelle de la série événement Stranger Things, exclusivement en roman ! Fêtes de fin d'année, Hawkins, 1984. Jim Hopper, chef de la police locale, n'a qu'une envie : profiter tranquillement de son premier Noël en compagnie de celle qui est désormais sa fille adoptive. Mais la jeune Onze a d'autres projets. Malgré les protestations de son père, elle remonte de la cave un carton étiqueté " New York " et l'assaille de questions. En dépit de ses réticences, le policier entame donc le récit de l'affaire la plus étrange qu'il lui ait été donné de traiter - celui de cette fameuse nuit où tout a changé... Eté 1977. Hopper, revenu quelques années plus tôt du Vietnam, s'installe avec sa femme et sa petite fille dans la Grosse Pomme, où l'attend un poste d'enquêteur au NYPD... Tout semble aller à merveille jusqu'à une série de meurtres étranges, très ritualisés : soudain, à la demande du FBI, on lui retire le dossier. Furieux, le jeune homme décide de continuer l'enquête en secret et infiltre sous couverture un gang des rues. Mais bientôt, une immense panne de courant plonge la ville entière dans le noir... des ténèbres bien plus profondes que ce qu'aurait pu imaginer Hopper.
06/2022
Comics Super-héros
Edge of Spider-Verse
L'avenir du Spider-Verse se dessine... et il est loin d'être joyeux ! Les plus grands Spider-héros du Multivers se mobilisent, ce qui nous donne l'occasion de découvrir de nouvelles têtes. On fait ainsi la connaissance de l'étonnant Spider-Rex, de la nouvelle Spider-UK, du minuscule Mini-Spidey, du mystérieux Night-Spider et de bien d'autres qui n'attendent que de se présenter. Les plus grands scénaristes et dessinateurs de Marvel s'amusent à inventer de nouvelles versions de Spider-Man, alors que Spider-Man : Across the Spider-Verse a envahi les cinémas. Parmi eux, les incontournables Dan Slott (Superior Spider-Man), Mark Bagley (Ultimate Spider-Man) ou encore Paco Medina (Deadpool), mais aussi Phil Lord et Chris Miller, qui ont imaginé les aventures de Miles Morales sur grand écran !
05/2023
Science-fiction
The aumakua. The great white shark novel
Just as I finished grabbing it, a sharp pain suddenly was erupting on the inside edge of my lair ! Simultaneously, a tension as unbearable as it was horrifying blocked me trying to pull me towards the surface. The kanakäs had just intercepted me through this lethal decoy ! So, with all my mass and was arching my body with all my strength in the opposite direction, I was regained some slack on this terribly resistant link, feeling all the mass of the platform preventing me from probing like the dontokä before. However, I was determined to show them which of us would be most worthy of remaining in the Incompressible, when with a devastating lateral movement, I severed with a sharp blow the lethal and imperceptible tether ! By this counter blow, I was as if immediately ejected : the perfidious artifact still embedded in my lair lying painfully like a relic of this ubiquitous creature of the System.
09/2023
Monographies
Hilma af Klint. The Five Notebook 1
In 1896, Hilma af Klint and four other like-minded women artists left the Edelweiss Society and founded the "Friday Group", also known as "The Five". They met every Friday for spiritual meetings, including prayers, studies of the New Testament, meditation and séances. The medium exercised automatic writing and mediumistic drawing. Eventually they established contact with spiritual beings whom they called "The High Ones". In 1896, the five women began taking meticulous notes of the mediumistic messages conveyed by the spirits. In time, Hilma af Klint felt she had been selected for more important messages. After ten years of esoteric training with "The Five", aged 43, Hilma af Klint accepted a major assignment, the execution of The Paintings for the Temple. This commission, which engaged the artist from 1906 to 1915, changed the course of her life. In 1908, Rudolf Steiner, leader of the German Theosophical Society, held several lectures in Stockholm. He also visited af Klint's studio and saw some of the early Paintings for the Temple. In 1913, Steiner founded the Anthroposophical Society, which af Klint joined in 1920 and remained a member for the rest of her life.
01/2022
Non classé
The Intruder in Modern Drama
The Intruder is a dramatic character who appears suddenly on stage, seemingly from nowhere, unknown to the other characters, thrusting himself upon them and upsetting the status quo. The study compares twelve plays by ten major modern dramatists (Arden, Betti, Bond, Brecht, Dürrenmatt, Frisch, Gombrowicz, Ionesco, Pinter, Williams). In all the plays, as a result of the intrusion, there is a mood of uneasiness, impending social change which disturbs the socio-political equilibrium.
12/1980
Littérature française
Te Pito Kura. L’île de lumière
Marcello, pêcheur de Sabiduría, l'île de la Sagesse, part à la recherche de son ami Antonio qui a disparu. Il prend la mer vers le nord pour une destination inconnue au coeur de l'océan Pacifique. Il débarque sur Rapa Nui, une île volcanique mystérieuse au passé tragique, et découvre une civilisation où dominent l'argent, le pouvoir, la corruption et la modernité. Mais certains îliens luttent encore pour conserver leurs terres et leurs traditions. La beauté de l'île, sa nature sauvage, son énergie l'aideront-elles à retrouver son ami ? Te Pito Kura, la pierre de Lumière, lui apportera-t-elle la réponse ? C'est l'histoire de ce récit.
12/2020
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
The Undergrowth of Science. Delusion, self-deception and human frailty
Walter Gratzer's themes in the stories he relates in The Undergrowth of Science are collective delusion and human folly. Science is generally seen as a process bound by rigorous rules, which its practitioners must not transgress. Deliberate fraud occasionally intrudes, but it is soon detected, the perpetrators cast out and the course of discovery barely disturbed. Far more interesting are the outbreaks of self-delusion that from time to time afflict upright and competent researchers, and then spread like an epidemic or mass-hysteria through a sober and respectable scientific community. When this happens the rules by which scientists normally govern their working lives are suddenly suspended. Sometimes these episodes are provoked by personal vanity, an unwillingness to acknowledge error or even contemplate the possibility that a hard-won success is a will o' the wisp; at other times they stem from loyalty to a respected and trusted guru, or even from patriotic pride; and, worst of ail, they may be a consequence of a political ideology which imposes its own interpretation on scientists' observations of the natural world. Unreason and credulity supervene, illusory phenomena are described and measured, and theories are developed to explain them - until suddenly, often for no single reason, the bubble bursts, leaving behind it a residue of acrimony, recrimination, embarrassment and ruined reputations.
Here, then, are radiations, measured with high precision yet existing only in the minds of those who observed them; the Russian water, which some thought might congeal the oceans: phantom diseases which called for heroic surgery; monkey testis implants that restored the sexual powers of ageing roués and of tired sheep; truths about genetics and about the nature of matter, perceptible only to Aryan scientists in the Third Reich or Marxist ideologues in the Soviet Union; and much more. The Undergrowth of Science explores, in terms accessible to the lay reader, the history of such episodes, up to our own time, in ail their absurdity, tragedy and pathos.
01/2000
Sciences de la terre et de la
Theoretical Astrophysics. Volume 1, Astrophysical Processes
Graduate students and researchers in astrophysics and cosmology need a solid understanding of a wide range of physical processes. This clear and authoritative textbook has been designed to help them to develop the necessary toolkit of theory. Assuming only an undergraduate background in physics and no detailed knowledge of astronomy, this book guides the reader step by step through a comprehensive collection of fundamental theoretical topics. The book is modular in design, allowing the reader to pick and chose a selection of chapters, if necessary. It can be used alone, or in conjunction with the forthcoming accompanying two volumes (covering stars and stellar systems, and galaxies and cosmology, respectively). After reviewing the basics of dynamics, electromagnetic theory, and statistical physics, the book carefully develops a solid understanding of all the key concepts such as radiative processes, spectra, fluid mechanics, plasma physics and MHD, dynamics of gravitating systems, general relativity, and nuclear physics. Each topic is developed methodically from undergraduate basic physics. Throughout, the reader's understanding is developed and tested with carefully structured problems and helpful hints. This welcome volume provides graduate students with an indispensable introduction to and reference on all the physical processes they will need to successfully tackle cutting-edge research in astrophysics and cosmology.
01/2000
Littérature française
Handicapped
The mere fact of existing is already a battle of every moment, but that of being born a woman is seen as the most arduous of battles, in a society that considers women not only less than men, but below men. The simple attributes devolved to human being are sometimes denied to them, under the indifferent eye of the society. Who is to blame for this general contemptuous attitude vis-à-vis the woman ? The man ? Society ? Or the woman herself ? Woman parenthood, excision, rape, sexual harassment, the prison, early marriages and widowhood are core points tackled in the seven short stories of this book where the main characters ; Micheline, Amina, Jenaëlle, Ann-Lise, Lucie, Violet and Bernadette shall each take the reader through their stories using their own words. Based on true stories, these fictions are a personal move to throw more light on the stumbling blocks faced by the woman in her struggle for optimal fulfillment. Through the life stories clearly depicted in this book, most readers can picture their own lives, the lives of a mother, a sister, a friend or a daughter. Two objectives constitute the backbone of this book ; draw attention on the way the woman is perceived by the African society and Cameroon in particular and raise awareness in the woman so that she can come to understand that the key to her destiny lies within herself and nowhere else. Hence the need to portray womanhood as society sees it : a handicap.
10/2020
Anglais apprentissage
Tales from Longpuddle
Tony Kytes is a favourite with the girls but he's not terribly clever. If you meet an old girlfriend and she asks fora ride home in your wagon, do you say yes? And then if you meet the girl you are planning to marry, what do you do? Very soon, Tony is in a great muddle, and does not know how to escape from it. These stories are set in an English country village of the nineteenth century, but Hardy's tales of mistakes and muddles and marriages belong in any place, at any time.
07/2010
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
WHY SEX MATTERS. A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior
Why are men, like other primate usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? Why is killing infants routine in some cultures, but forbidden in others? Why is incest everywhere taboo? Bobbi Low ranges from ancient Rome to modern America, from the Amazon to the Arctic, and from single-celled organisms to international politics to show that these and many other questions about human behavior largely come down to evolution and sex. More precisely, as she shows in this uniquely comprehensive and accessible survey of behavioral and evolutionary ecology, they come down to the basic principle that all organisms evolved to maximize their reproductive success and seek resources to do so.
Low begins by reviewing the fundamental arguments and assumptions of behavioral ecology: selfish genes, conflicts of interest, and the tendency for sexes to reproduce through different behaviors. She explains why in primate species-from chimpanzees and apes to humans-males seek to spread their genes by devoting extraordinary efforts to finding mates, while females find it profitable to expend more effort on parenting. Low illustrates these sexual differences among humans by showing that in places as diverse as the parishes of nineteenth-century Sweden, the villages of seventeenth-century China, and the forests of twentieth-century Brasil, men have tended to seek power and resources, from cattle to money, to attract mates, while women have sought a secure environment for raising children. She makes it clear, however, they have not done so simply through individual efforts or in a vacuum, but that men and women act in complex ways that involve cooperation and coalition building and that are shaped by culture, technology, tradition, and the availability of resources. Low also considers how file evolutionary drive to
acquire resources leads to environmental degradation and warfare and asks whether our behavior could be channeled in more constructive ways.
Why Sex Matters is a compelling work of biology, sociology, and anthropology and a penetrating study of the deep motivations that underlie individual and social behavior.
01/2000
Littérature française
Mehersthan Memoir (Meher Baba)
Mehersthan Memoir (Meher Baba) This book is dedicated to the unique One who has assumed a form and name to lead the play of universal existence. He throbs in our loving heart ; He breathes in our living soul. He sings in our fervent spirit and he thinks in our purified mind. That infinite Ancient One from his supernal height, bends towards us to embrace us in his love, and to feed our soul with the nectar of his bliss. Blessed are they that have the mind to know him, the heart to feel him and the love to live in his consciousness ! He may have been born to human parents in Poona, studied in a college, played cricket, left home, have seen great souls, sat alone silent, spoken in gestures, written books - but that is not his history. Many live such a life ; many scholars write books ; many saints sit in contemplation ; many monks leave home for mountain resorts ; but they cannot be one like him. Millions of bulbs challenge in vain the darkness of night. One sun rises and the night dissolves into his golden light. One sun rises and the night dissolves into his golden light. We have seen monks, yogins and saints. Some live alone for peace. Some open Ashrams and collect donations to run them. Some comercialise their name and form. Some display miracles to surprise human minds ; some offer boons ; some predict the future ; some curse you when you do not offer them what they want. Some seek pleasure and treasure. But who seeks God and finds God in the self to awaken God-awareness in other men and women ? Who says "I am God and you are God too"? Who rises above the prattle of words, the rattle of weapons and battle of ideologies to the lofty peace of supersonic silence and pours his blessings from the dizzy height of the soul in tune with God ? Who is he that embraces all in the heart and awakens the soul which has none of the human creations of caste, religion, race, pedigree nor colour ? Editions ASSA, Christian Piaget
07/2017
Sciences politiques
The Structure of Political Communication in the United Kingdom, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany
Political Communication in The United Kingdom, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany differs in terms of what the peoples expect to take issue with, how they are prepared to talk about them, which choices they can make to solve problems and, finally, whom or which organizations they delegate to resolve them. This comparative media study of The Economist, Time and Der Spiegel attempts to extract the differences in politics of the three societies.
11/1987
Manga
Strobe edge Tome 9
Ninako est une jeune fille fraîche et naïve qui ne s'est jamais intéressée aux garçons... Jusqu'au jour où elle fait la connaissance de Ren, l'idole de l'école ! Mais, alors que les sentiments de Ninako s'éveillent, Daiki, son ami d'enfance, lui fait sa déclaration. Les malentendus s'enchaînent... La jeune fille devra faire un choix, mais elle risque de perdre son meilleur ami...
09/2012
Manga
Strobe edge Tome 2
Ninako est une jeune fille fraîche et naive ne s'est jamais intéressée aux garçons... Jusqu'au jour où elle fait la connaissance de Ren, l'idole de l'école ! Mais, alors que les sentiments de Ninako s'éveillent, Daiki, son ami d'enfance, lui fait sa déclaration ! Les malentendus s'enchaînent... La jeune fille devra faire un choix, mais elle risque de perdre son meilleur ami...
07/2011
Musique classique
Songs of Love. 12 Romances. 12 Lieder. Soprano (tenor) and piano.
Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky's piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, she emerged as a virtuoso pianist and composer in the romantic tradition. She was associated with some of the great musicians of her day, including Balakirev and Auer. She performed in both Germany and the UK in the 1900s, but her career petered out after 1920. Songs of Love was first published in 1904. No evidence survives of any public performance in Kashperova's lifetime although it is very likely that they were performed at her regular 'musical evenings at home on Tuesdays' mentioned in her Memoirs. The transparency of the piano writing strongly suggests that she would accompany herself singing. Kashperova, by all accounts, possessed a fine voice, and in the summer of 1906 she decided 'to learn from the artistry', as she put it, of the tenor Raimond von Zur-Mühlen who was widely celebrated for having developed (with Clara Schumann) the Lieder-Abend tradition. His summer-schools on the Baltic coast were frequented by aspiring singers from all over Europe, even Japan and India. Kashperova herself was responsible for the poetic lyrics of Songs of Love (in both Russian and German), which may well have emerged from her own bittersweet experience of life and love ; she was not to marry until 1916 at the age of forty-four. That Kashperova is the author of both the music and the lyrics of Songs of Love would suggest that they express very personal sentiments. Instrumentation : soprano (tenor) and piano
12/2023
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
Thinking about Physics
Physical scientists are problem solvers. They are comfortable "doing" science: they find problems, solve them, and explain their solutions. Roger Newton believes that his fellow physicists might be too comfortable with their roles as solvers of problems. He argues that physicists should spend more time thinking about physics. If they did, he believes, they would become even more skilled at solving problems and "doing" science. As Newton points out in this thought-provoking book, problem solving is always influenced by the theoretical assumptions of the problem solver. Too often, though, he believes, physicists haven't subjected their assumptions to thorough scrutiny. Newton's goal is to provide a framework within which the fundamental theories of modem physics can be explored, interpreted, and understood.
"Surely physics is more than a collection of experimental results, assembled to satisfy the curiosity of appreciative experts," Newton writes. Physics, according to Newton, has moved beyond the describing and naming of curious phenomena, which is the goal of some other branches of science. Physicists have spent a great part of the twentieth century searching for explanations of experimental findings. Newton agrees that experimental facts are vital to the study of physics, but only because they lead to the development of a theory that can explain them. Facts, he argues, should undergird theory.
Newton's explanatory sweep is both broad and deep. He covers such topics as quantum mechanics, classical mechanics, field theory, thermodynamics, the role of mathematics in physics, and the concepts of probability and causality. For Newton the fundamental entity in quantum theory is the field, from which physicists can explain the particle-like and wave-like properties that are observed in experiments. He grounds his explanations in the quantum field.
Although this is not designed as a standalone textbook, it is essential reading for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, professors, and researchers. This is a clear, concise, up-to-date book about the concepts and theories that underlie the study of contemporary physics. Readers will find that they will become better-informed physicists and, therefore, better thinkers and problem solvers, too.
01/2000
Indépendants
Nowhere Girl
Voici l'histoire d'une jeune fille des années quatre-vingt-dix, un peu perdue entre l'enfance et l'adolescence, d'une phobie scolaire et d'une passion salvatrice pour les Beatles. Magali a 11 ans. Elle aime les Beatles, dans la catégorie "passionnément" ou "à la folie". Ce qu'elle aime moins, c'est l'école, surtout depuis qu'elle est au collège. Elle qui pensait être une élève comme les autres éprouve soudainement une peur panique à l'idée d'aller au collège. Telle une "Alice au pays des merveilles", elle se réfugie alors dans l'univers parallèle des Beatles nourri de leur musique et de couleurs éclatantes. Une bande dessinée autobiographique, sensible et drôle, en dépit de la gravité du sujet, la phobie scolaire.
03/2021
Critique littéraire
To catch the sun in the water
Marie was born around the end of World War II in a small village near Chaveniac-Lafayette where General Lafayette lived. It is the mountainous region of Auvergne known as the heart of France. Take Marie's hand and she will guide you through her humble childhood. Through her eyes you will see what it was like to live in the country in France. With Marie's many brothers end sisters you will participate in hay making, harvesting... At this time, they used traditional methods and tools. Her parents will demonstrate the making of bread, butter and cheese... It's here that you meet Mathias, a boy her age, who becomes her best friend. Later, their love story unfolds... Just after the war, it was a time when the French countryside was populated with farmers that still lived in economic self-sufficiency. In the story, the author makes these peasants from depths of France come alive. The feeling, the candor, and the authenticity of the book will remind you of the Little House on the Prairie
07/2001
Ethnologie et anthropologie
The Wolves Rise Again. New elites born out of chaos
The successive shocks that strike our time have acted as an indicator of men : the bland elites of yesteryear, suddenly rejected by the masses, went back silently into the void where they had first come from. This opportunist plutarchy, that maintained itself so far, thanks to the industry of lying, the targeted elimination of creative people, will soon be engulfed. Around these illusionists with no audience, the hidden alphas will begin to rise. Within a few months, alphas, forged in a new metal, invaded public space. How can it be explained ? In troubled times, the hierarchies of peacetime had left, suddenly, a place to the atomisation of individuals. Chaos then allows the individual alphas to rise to power. Like a pack of wolves, these alphas quickly take the lead of small human groups organising themselves into rival packs. The French Revolution is a striking example of this evolution : the masters of yesterday were relegated because of their unsuitability.
06/2022
Josei/femme
The Ice Guy & The Cool Girl Tome 4
"Ne détourne pas le regard et regarde-moi dans les yeux ! " D'un côté, nous avons Himuro, descendant des temps modernes de la célèbre femme des neiges. De l'autre, Fuyutsuki, sa collègue aussi gentille qu'unique... Mais aussi frais qu'ils puissent paraître, aucun des deux n'est doué en relations amoureuses. Entre le shopping pour la fête d'Halloween organisée par leur boîte, la visite du Jour de l'an au sanctuaire et la sortie par une nuit étoilée, Himuro serait-il en train de devenir bien plus qu'un simple collègue pour Fuyutsuki ? ! Dans tous les cas, entre elle et lui, la glace est définitivement brisée !
01/2023
