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Elementary: The Periodic Table Explained

James M. Russell · 2022

Chemistry's most significant chart, the Periodic Table, and its 118 elements, is laid bare in this lively, accessible and compelling expose. The periodic table, created in the early 1860s by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, marked one of the most extraordinary advances in modern chemistry. This basic visual aid helped scientists to gain a deeper understanding of what chemical elements really were and the role they played in everyday life. Here, in the authoritative Elementary, James Russell uses his engaging narrative to explain the elements we now know about. From learning about the creation of the first three elements, hydrogen, lithium and helium, in the big bang, through to oxygen and carbon, which sustain life on earth – along with the many weird and wonderful uses of elements as varied as fluorine, arsenic, krypton and einsteinium – even the most unscientifically minded will be enthralled by this fascinating subject. This is the story of the building blocks of the universe, and the people who identified, isolated and even created them. Perfect for: • Readers interested in learning more about the elements in an accessible, engaging manner • Chemistry students

The Friend: A Novel

Sigrid Nunez · 2018

<b><b><b>WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION<br><br>ONE OF <i>THE NEW YORK TIMES</i>’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY<br><br>NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING NAOMI WATTS<br></b><br></b>“A beautiful book . . . a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love.” <i>—Wall Street Journal</i><br><br><b>“</b>A penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory . . . Nunez has a wry, withering wit.” <i>—NPR</i><br><br><b>“</b>Dry, allusive and charming . . . the comedy here writes itself.” <b><i>—</i></b><i>The New York Times</i><br><br>The <i>New York Times</i> bestselling story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog.</b><br><br>When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building.<br><br>While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time. Isolated from the rest of the world, increasingly obsessed with the dog's care, determined to read its mind and fathom its heart, she comes dangerously close to unraveling. But while troubles abound, rich and surprising rewards lie in store for both of them.<br><br>Elegiac and searching, <i>The Friend</i> is both a meditation on loss and a celebration of human-canine devotion.

Кубик

Саша Козлов · 2024

Admiring Silence

Abdulrazak Gurnah · 2016

Stay True: A Memoir

Hua Hsu · 2022

The Mushroom at the End of the World

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing · 2021

"A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, The Mushroom at the End of the World follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. Here, we witness the varied and peculiar worlds of matsutake commerce: the worlds of Japanese gourmets, capitalist traders, Hmong jungle fighters, industrial forests, Yi Chinese goat herders, Finnish nature guides, and more. These companions also lead us into fungal ecologies and forest histories to better understand the promise of cohabitation in a time of massive human destruction."--Publisher's description.

Russian Colonialism 101

Максима Еріставі · 2023

For years, Ukrainian journalist Maksym Eristavi has been mainstreaming the global awareness about the legacy of Russian colonialism. A few days before Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he started a Twitter thread listing all Russian colonial invasions over the last century and highlighting one specific pattern that they all went by. The post has gone viral and is now dubbed the "mother of all Russian colonialism tweets". Together with a group of Ukrainian artists, Eristavi transformed it into an illustrated pocket guide to the 48 most recent invasions of Russian colonialism — to bring everyone’s attention to a pattern of serial behavior by the largest colonial empire. <br/> <br/> <br/>Publication is prepared with the support of the MOCA NGO and the Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund in collaboration with the Sigrid Rausing Trust. Some illustrations created during the illustrative workshop for the book Russian Colonialism 101 have been donated to the Ukrainian Museum of Contemporary Art (UMCA).

А комусь ще подобаються міста? Екологія проти модернізації

Брюно Латур, Рем Колгас, Албена Янева, Ізабель Стенґерс, Анна Цзин, Нільс Бубандт, Ксенія Гнилицька · 2021

Перформування спільного міста. На перетині мистецтва, політики й громадського життя

Паскаль Ґілен · 2019

Креативність та інші фундаменталізми

Паскаль Ґілен · 2019

Терор з повітря

Петер Слотердайк · 2023

Культура в підмурках громадянського суспільства

Паскаль Ґілен, Тайс Ляйстер · 2018

Культура під тиском від ООО/ОООО

Борис Філоненко · 2024

All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries

Martha Wells · 2017

The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century

Olga Ravn · 2023

Klara and the Sun: A novel (Vintage International)

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2022

Is Maths Real?

Eugenia Cheng · 2023

Why is -(-1) = 1?<br/>Why do odd and even numbers alternate?<br/>What's the point of algebra?<br/><br/>Is maths even real?<br/><br/>From imaginary numbers to the perplexing order of operations we all had drilled into us, Eugenia Cheng - mathematician, writer and woman on a mission to rid the world of maths phobia - brings us maths as we've never seen it before, revealing how profound insights can emerge from seemingly unlikely sources.<br/><br/>Written with intelligence and passion, Is Maths Real? is a celebration of the true, curious spirit of the discipline.

The Order of Time

Carlo Rovelli · 2019

One of TIME’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade "Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book." --The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander comes a concise, elegant exploration of time. Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike. For most readers this is unfamiliar terrain. We all experience time, but the more scientists learn about it, the more mysterious it remains. We think of it as uniform and universal, moving steadily from past to future, measured by clocks. Rovelli tears down these assumptions one by one, revealing a strange universe where at the most fundamental level time disappears. He explains how the theory of quantum gravity attempts to understand and give meaning to the resulting extreme landscape of this timeless world. Weaving together ideas from philosophy, science and literature, he suggests that our perception of the flow of time depends on our perspective, better understood starting from the structure of our brain and emotions than from the physical universe. Already a bestseller in Italy, and written with the poetic vitality that made Seven Brief Lessons on Physics so appealing, The Order of Time offers a profoundly intelligent, culturally rich, novel appreciation of the mysteries of time.

Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

Werner Heisenberg · 2007

The seminal work by one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, Physics and Philosophy is Werner Heisenberg's concise and accessible narrative of the revolution in modern physics, in which he played a towering role. The outgrowth of a celebrated lecture series, this book remains as relevant, provocative, and fascinating as when it was first published in 1958. A brilliant scientist whose ideas altered our perception of the universe, Heisenberg is considered the father of quantum physics; he is most famous for the Uncertainty Principle, which states that quantum particles do not occupy a fixed, measurable position. His contributions remain a cornerstone of contemporary physics theory and application.

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Carlo Rovelli · 2016

The New York Times bestseller from the author of The Order of Time and Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander<br/><br/>“One of the year’s most entrancing books about science.”—The Wall Street Journal<br/><br/>“Clear, elegant...a whirlwind tour of some of the biggest ideas in physics.”—The New York Times Book Review<br/><br/>This playful, entertaining, and mind-bending introduction to modern physics briskly explains Einstein's general relativity, quantum mechanics, elementary particles, gravity, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, and the role humans play in this weird and wonderful world. Carlo Rovelli, a renowned theoretical physicist, is a delightfully poetic and philosophical scientific guide. He takes us to the frontiers of our knowledge: to the most minute reaches of the fabric of space, back to the origins of the cosmos, and into the workings of our minds. The book celebrates the joy of discovery. “Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and the beauty of the world,” Rovelli writes. “And it’s breathtaking.”

Bite-size Science: Everything You Need To Know About Science In Small, Easily-digestible...

Robert Dinwiddie · 2011

Heart: A History

Sandeep Jauhar · 2019

The bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tick<br/><br/>For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in Heart: A History, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that have changed the way we live.<br/><br/>Deftly alternating between key historical episodes and his own work, Jauhar tells the colorful and little-known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ. He introduces us to Daniel Hale Williams, the African American doctor who performed the world’s first open heart surgery in Gilded Age Chicago. We meet C. Walton Lillehei, who connected a patient’s circulatory system to a healthy donor’s, paving the way for the heart-lung machine. And we encounter Wilson Greatbatch, who saved millions by inventing the pacemaker―by accident. Jauhar deftly braids these tales of discovery, hubris, and sorrow with moving accounts of his family’s history of heart ailments and the patients he’s treated over many years. He also confronts the limits of medical technology, arguing that future progress will depend more on how we choose to live than on the devices we invent. Affecting, engaging, and beautifully written, Heart: A History takes the full measure of the only organ that can move itself.

The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary Edition (Oxford Landmark Science)

Richard Dawkins · 2016

The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages.<br/><br/>As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their replication. This imaginative, powerful, and stylistically brilliant work not only brought the insights of Neo-Darwinism to a wide audience, but galvanized the biology community, generating much debate and stimulating whole new areas of research. Forty years later, its insights remain as relevant today as on the day it was published.<br/><br/>This 40th anniversary edition includes a new epilogue from the author discussing the continuing relevance of these ideas in evolutionary biology today, as well as the original prefaces and foreword, and extracts from early reviews.<br/><br/>Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari · 2015

This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

Daniel Levitin · 2019

The New York Times bestselling book which examines how humans experience music and unravels the mystery of our perennial love affair with it<br/>Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience.<br/>Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, even more fundamental to our species than language. In This Is Your Brain On Music Levitin offers nothing less than a new way to understand it, and its role in human life.

Усе, що ви хотіли знати про українську літературу. Романи

Тетяна Трофименко · 2023

22 ЕСЕЇ ПРО УКРАЇНСЬКІ РОМАНИ ВІД КУЛІША ДО КАРПИ Книга Тетяни Трофименко, літературної критикині, або ж критикиці, як її називають у літсередовищі, присвячена знаковим романам, які відображали реалії доби й фіксували стильові й світоглядні зміни в мистецтві. Романи, які розповідають нам про життя й головні проблеми українців від ХІХ до першої третини ХХІ сторіччя. Авторка осмислює твори Івана Нечуя-Левицького, Панаса Мирного, Ольги Кобилянської, Валер’яна Підмогильного, Івана Багряного, Ірини Вільде, а також романи Юрія Андруховича, Сергія Жадана, Оксани Забужко, Марії Матіос, Олександра Ірванця, Ірени Карпи та інших. Це не канон, не есеї для підготовки до ЗНО, а насамперед спроба поговорити про жанр, про те, як ідеології та суспільний процес впливають на творчість, а також про те, чому й досі точаться дискусії про «великий український роман».

Слово про будинок «Слово»

Володимир Куліш · 2024

Letter From An Unknown Woman

Stefan Zweig · 2019

Letter From An Unknown Woman

When We Cease to Understand the World

Labatut Benjamin · 2021

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE<br/><br/>A GUARDIAN FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR<br/><br/>'A monstrous and brilliant book' Philip Pullman<br/><br/>'Wholly mesmerising and revelatory... Completely fascinating' William Boyd<br/><br/>Sometimes discovery brings destruction<br/><br/>When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain.<br/><br/>Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled minds we are thrust as they grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate friends and lovers, they descend into isolated states of madness. Some of their discoveries revolutionise our world for the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear.<br/><br/>With breakneck pace and wondrous detail, Benjamín Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to break open the stories of scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible.

I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman · 2019

<p><b>SISTERHOOD. SECRETS. SURVIVAL.</b><br> <br> <b>Discover the haunting, heart-breaking post-apocalyptic TikTok sensation.</b><br> <br> Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus?<br> <br> Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. But, as the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone an outcast in the corner.<br> <br> Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground. The woman who will never know men.<br> <br> <b>WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE MACKINTOSH, BOOKER PRIZE-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF THE <i>WATER CURE</i><br> <br> **<i>Orlanda</i>, the next sensation from Jacquline Harpman, is available now**</b></p>

Poetics

Aristotle · 2019

Published Circa 335 Bc, Poetics Is The First Surviving Work To Reflect On Dramatic And Literary Theory. Enormously Influential Through The Centuries, It Is Still Inspiring Writers Today.

Women Without Men

Shahrnush Parsipur · 2000

Recitatif

Toni Morrison · 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Nobel Prize winner—for the first time in a beautifully produced stand-alone edition, with an introduction by Zadie Smith “A puzzle of a story, then—a game.... When [Morrison] called Recitatif an ‘experiment’ she meant it. The subject of the experiment is the reader.” —Zadie Smith, award-winning, best-selling author of White Teeth In this 1983 short story—the only short story Morrison ever wrote—we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only later to find each other again at a diner, a grocery store, and again at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and at each other's throats each time they meet, the two women still cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them. Another work of genius by this masterly writer, Recitatif keeps Twyla's and Roberta's races ambiguous throughout the story. Morrison herself described Recitatif, a story which will keep readers thinking and discussing for years to come, as "an experiment in the removal of all racial codes from a narrative about two characters of different races for whom racial identity is crucial." We know that one is white and one is Black, but which is which? And who is right about the race of the woman the girls tormented at the orphanage? A remarkable look into what keeps us together and what keeps us apart, and how perceptions are made tangible by reality, Recitatif is a gift to readers in these changing times.

Bluets

Maggie Nelson · 2009

What Is Metaphysics?

Martin Heidegger · 2018

Martin Heidegger Was A German Philosopher And A Seminal Thinker In The Continental Tradition And Philosophical Hermeneutics. According To The Internet Encyclopedia Of Philosophy, He Is Widely Acknowledged To Be One Of The Most Original And Important Philosophers Of The 20th Century. Heidegger Is Best Known For His Contributions To Phenomenology And Existentialism, Though As The Stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy Cautions, His Thinking Should Be Identified As Part Of Such Philosophical Movements Only With Extreme Care And Qualification.

Heaven: A Novel

Mieko Kawakami · 2022

Regarding the Pain of Others

Susan Sontag · 2004

Simple Passion

Annie Ernaux

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE<br/><br/>A New York Times Notable Book<br/><br/>In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion.<br/><br/>Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her 2 year relationship with a married foreigner where every word, event, and person either provides a connection with her beloved or is subject to her cold indifference.<br/><br/>With courage and exactitude, she seeks the truth behind an existence lived entirely for someone else, and, in the pieces of its aftermath, she is able to find it.

The Glass Bees

Ernst Junger. 1957

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.<br/>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.<br/>Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.<br/>We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Арабески

Микола Хвильовий · 2018

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera · 2005

Levels of Life

Julian Barnes · 2013

An NPR Best Book of the Year<br/>A Daily Candy Best Book of the Year<br/><br/>Julian Barnes, author of the Man Booker Prize–winning novel The Sense of an Ending, gives us his most powerfully moving book yet, beginning in the nineteenth century and leading seamlessly into an entirely personal account of loss—making Levels of Life an immediate classic on the subject of grief.<br/><br/>Levels of Life is a book about ballooning, photography, love and loss; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded Barnes the 2011 Booker Prize described him as “an unparalleled magus of the heart.” This book confirms that opinion.<br/><br/>“Spare and beautiful...a book of rare intimacy and honesty about love and grief. To read it is a privilege. To have written it is astonishing.” —Ruth Scurr, The Times of London<br/><br/>“A remarkable narrative that is as raw in its emotion as it is characteristically elegant in its execution.” —Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times

Ідентичність

Milan Kundera, Мілан Кундера · 2023

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley · 2020

Жанна батальйонерка

Ґео Шкурупій · 2023

Life Is Elsewhere

Milan Kundera · 2000

"I will say no more about this lacerating book except to urge it upon all who care about literature in our difficult era." — Boston Globe<br/>"A sly and merciless lampoon of revolutionary romanticism. . . Kundera commits some of the funniest literary savaging since Evelyn Waugh polished off Dickens in A Handful of Dust."— Time<br/>Milan Kundera initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to him, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry.<br/>Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made him a poet and accompanies him (figuratively) to his love bed and (literally) to his deathbed. A ridiculous and touching character, horrifying and totally innocent ("innocence with its bloody smile"!), Jaromil is at the same time a true poet. He's no creep, he's Rimbaud. Rimbaud entrapped by the communist revolution, entrapped in a somber farce.

THE PLAGUE

Albert Camus · 2020

The people of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror.An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, and a timeless story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence.