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To see objects that live in the fourth dimension we humans would need to add a fourth dimension to our three-dimensional vision. An example of such an object that lives in the fourth dimension is a hyper-sphere or “3-sphere.” The quest to imagine the elusive 3-sphere has deep historical roots: medieval poet Dante Alighieri used a 3-sphere to convey his allegorical vision of the Christian afterlife in his Divine Comedy. In 1917, Albert Einstein visualized the universe as a 3-sphere, describ...

A lusty parable filled with hearty surprises, LY A Lunatic Love Life takes the reader on an emotional and intellectual romp through a strange parallel universe and an achingly lovely romance. First-time author Stephen Leon White has created a foreign landscape with its own set of rules that nevertheless seems as familiar as the streets we live on.A young man of twenty-one distracted by daydreams of love, Oliver Sandwich suddenly finds himself in a pickle as he tries to jam a "ladde...

Set in the 1950s, the protagonist, cal, cannot find a direction for his life. At home with his mother and brother, he feels lost as he heads into his senior year of high school. During the summer, his mother continues to compare his failures with his younger brother's successes, making Cal question her love for him.Encouraged by her brother, she encourages Cal to attend a military school in Texas in order to gain a sharper focus on his future. Reluctantly he agrees, approaching it ...

Not only is Marion Maloney lonely after a bitter divorce, unfulfilled teaching English to rich boarding-school boys, and angry at her runaway ex for leaving her with tax debts-she's also being stalked and sexually harassed on campus by someone too well-connected to name. Marion takes some comfort in a platonic friendship with fellow teacher Sam Field, but her nerves are pushed to the brink by her stalker, and she takes a leave of absence, checking in to a country inn an hour away. Marion i...

Half the fun of Farmington River is getting to know the quirks of the characters who inhabit Avon Old Farms and Ethel Walker schools. There's the cranky headmaster whose favorite pastime is bedding his students' mothers; the Cuban soccer coach who sees all and speaks his mind; the wisecracking boys at Avon; the best friends at Walker's who finish each other's sentences and know more than they wish they did; Sam Field, the young teacher, coach and amateur sleuth trying to stay prof...

"Darkly funny and brilliantly unhinged" — Kirkus Reviews"A chaotic black comedy about a man with a messiah complex." — Kirkus ReviewsIf Fight Club, Money, and The Motorcycle Diaries had a three-way, Novelty would be their web-toed, mutant lovechild.Finn Balor is a depraved billionaire and polymath with a vendetta against fate and an insatiable appetite for hedonism. Obsessed with the idea that free will is a fallac...

In 2017-18, the trustees of the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Mass., decided to "deaccession" (sell) some of its most valuable artworks, including a painting by Norman Rockwell appraised at $25 million. The proposed sales broke long-established norms of museum collection oversight and sent shock waves through both the Berkshire community and the national art world. The broad outline of the events and alliances leading up to the sales form the nonfictional backdrop to this novel, an other...

There remains an urgent need for a deeper discussion of the theoretical, political and federal dimensions of the European codification project. While much valuable work has already been undertaken, the chapters in this volume take as their starting point the proposition that further reflection and critical thought will enhance the quality and efficacy of the on-going work of the various codification bodies. The volume contains chapters by representatives of the Common Frame of Reference, t...

Cisplatin, the first member of the family of platinum-containing chemotherapeutic agents, was discovered by Barnett Rosenberg in 1965 and approved by the FDA for marketing in 1978. After 30 years of use in the clinic, cisplatin remains a central element of many treatment regimens. Cisplatin is still an irreplaceable component of a regimen that produces high cure rates in even advanced nonseminomatous germ-cell cancers, and is widely used in the treatment of ovarian cancers and other gyneco...

An odometer measures the distance that you have traveled. This odometer measures moments with poems dispersed across life like mile markers. They begin when the poet was a college student of 20 in 1966 and end with the last poem written when he was 78 in 2023. This is 58 years of poetry that runs the gamut of life and transcends the gauntlet of emotions from youth to older adult. There are 403 poems scattered over 20,842 days and they begin on September 5, 1966, with this first line on day...

This adventure story is about an African-American pioneer who experienced hardships in a strange, new Promised Land while searching for Americas soul. It is a love story about a man and his race who gave up American only to rediscover it and eventually reclaim it. It is an epic of human strength and colorless passion, capturing the Black Fever that gripped our nation in the early 1800s and is still echoed in the debate over immigration today.

Life is a Circle Life isnt stagnant. Life doesnt stand still. Life is a constant car-ou-sel. Everything changes for better or for worse Life turns in circlesin our universe. Light breaks darkness and heat warms cold War ends peace and youth turns old Food cures famine and water quenches thirst Rain follows sunshine and luck ends a curse If life were so predictable it wouldnt be much fun Cause anything can happen thats under the sun Love and hate are cousins of the heart Human nature is the...