![]() ![]() ![]() Before joining the Reed College, Oregon, faculty in 2007, Schroeter taught at both Swarthmore College and Occidental College. (2002) from Stanford University where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Schroeter is a condensed matter theorist. ![]() He is the author of over fifty articles and four books: Introduction to Electrodynamics(4th edition, Cambridge, 2013), Introduction to Elementary Particles (2nd edition, 2008), Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (2nd edition, Cambridge, 2016), and Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Physics (Cambridge, 2012). was in elementary particle theory, his recent research is in electrodynamics and quantum mechanics. ![]() He has spent sabbaticals at SLAC, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and University of California, Berkeley. In 1997 he was awarded the Millikan Medal by the American Association of Physics Teachers. Griffiths is a Consulting Editor of The American Journal of Physics, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In 2001-02 he was visiting Professor of Physics at the Five Colleges (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Smith, and Hampshire), and in the spring of 2007 he taught Electrodynamics at Stanford. He taught at Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, and Trinity College before joining the faculty at Reed College in 1978. ![]()
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![]() By the end, readers have been on a ride that will challenge their assumptions of both physics and metaphysics. Along the way, we encounter exiled pioneers and desperate detectives, lunar colonies and future pandemics, impossible machines and time-space paradoxes. Mandel’s narrative instincts are in full bloom with her latest novel, Sea of Tranquility, which starts on Vancouver Island in 1912, then moves forward in controlled leaps to the years 2020, 2203, 2401…and back again. Her stories unfold effortlessly, each disclosure and thematic element in place, even as she transports readers through vast leaps in time and distance. Whether on the sentence level or the chapter level, Mandel writes with an innate sense of structure and precise sequencing. Plenty of writers can make that claim, but Mandel moves words around with intuitive storytelling grace. ![]() ![]() The initiative alone was a fascinating, unknown part of history, but having it mostly women-driven made it more unique. ![]() Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration (WPA), as an effort to put women to work by bringing books and reading material to the poorest and most isolated areas in eastern Kentucky. It would be almost twenty years until the service was revived under President Franklin D. But a year later the program expired when Mayo died. Mayo, to subsidize a mounted library service to reach people in poor and remote areas. Kim Michele Richardson: It was actually in 1913 when the Kentucky Federation of Women’s Clubs convinced a local coal baron, John C. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, I recommend mostly following publication order, which I explain below. I know some people like to read authors’ works in chronological order, but that may not be the best approach with Tolkien. ![]() And that led me to wonder how I would recommend newcomers to approach Tolkien’s work. ![]() Most recently, I wondered if The Fall of Gondolin would make sense to anyone who hadn’t read The Silmarillion or perhaps even The Children of Húrin. As I’ve been reading Christopher Tolkien’s new releases of his father’s work over the past couple years, I’ve been repeatedly struck by the notion that the books are really for Tolkien fans and not so much for Tolkien newcomers. ![]() ![]() The participants then moved to the Nicholson Fieldhouse where they were able to participate in drills that included taking handoffs, passing, blocking, receiving, covering, tackling, rushing the passer and other fundamentals of the game. ![]() The four-hour event included sessions on equipment, athletic training, offensive and defensive strategy as well as special teams. "You can tell everyone was having a good time and hopefully we will see a lot of these ladies come out to the new stadium and enjoy the 2007 season." ![]() ![]() "This is a really fun event and for the second straight year we had a great turnout," UCF head coach George O'Leary said. (- More than 100 UCF football fans turned out for the 2007 edition of the UCF Football Women's Clinic: Football 201 on Saturday at the Wayne Densch Sports Center.įor the second consecutive year, the UCF football staff was able to give an inside glimpse of the program to an eager group of females wanting to learn more about the game of football. ![]() ![]() We’re “shown” how well Karter meshes with each of these men, but there’s little thought process behind it other than a need to fulfill desire. ![]() Outside of the feeding and sexual dynamics (which are sometimes separate, sometimes together), the romance element isn’t emphasized too much. Alepoú depicts Karter very much as a “werewolf,” and the vampires are bloodthirsty monsters (with various definitions of monster), rather than humans who can turn into a wolf and prefer red wine with dinner. ![]() ![]() I imagine it all depends on how much a reader can suspend their disbelief in sharing headspace with a protagonist who only looks human on the outside (and then only sometimes). Depending on your tolerance level, a significant portion of the sex in this book isn’t very sexy either. However, is it wrong to wish that the book had included more of the worldbuilding and plot than romance-related drama? As much as I enjoyed meeting Karter and the vampire den to whom he finds himself in service, so many details dropped about the “outside” world intrigued me a lot more than how Karter came to enjoy his place with Weston’s crew of vampires.Ī strong warning for tentative readers: Karter is there as a source of food for the vampires, and that’s not always sexy. This paranormal romance story includes a cast of intriguing characters and plenty of sexy bits. ![]() ![]() Nevertheless, it was very, very pleasurable for a light read on a sleepy slightly hungover Sunday afternoon, in the bath. The plot is the weak point : I love inconsequential books about character development and 'learning how to live' but somehow this didn't quite hold itself together well enough. ![]() There's a fascinating description of the publishing industry - again, not romanticised. However, back to the book: this does a better job than almost any book I've ever read of making the reader feel the pleasure of living in a contemporary but historical city, and top marks to MR for celebrating its people as much as its buildings and not as cockney stereotypes. How ironic when our museums are all free - but then museums get a government subsidy and churches don't. ![]() Beautiful evocation of London, which made me long to rush out and see all the Wren churches, and also made me seethe with the fact that most of them by now charge quite high admission charges - no chance of popping into St Pauls to see the view from the west door right down to the altar at the far end when you'#d have to pay nearly £20 as an adult to do so. ![]() ![]() ![]() Older and wiser now, he has his own reasons for wanting the land, his own losses to mourn, and his own secrets to hide. ![]() But days before the contract signing, Duncan Jamieson makes a counteroffer that blows hers out to sea.ĭuncan still finds Sophie as appealing as he had during boyhood vacations to the lake. Not far from Blue Moon Lake and her father's kayak business, this is where Sophie grew up, fell in love, and experienced a tragic loss. ![]() For her, it's not just a beautiful piece of land, but an important part of her past. Journalist Sophie Shaw is about to realize her dream of owning a vineyard in Northbridge, Connecticut. Rivals for a New England vineyard find a second chance love worth fighting for in this "h eart-tugging small-town romance with real emotion" (Laura Drake, author of The Sweet Spot). ![]() ![]() ![]() The revenue granted to the monarch by Parliament fell short of the amount actually needed in order to run the country, and the Anglo-Dutch wars of 1664-4 – coupled with Charles’s extravagant lifestyle – were a further drain on his income. ![]() It begins with an account of Pepys shaving and setting off on his daily business, but goes on to focus on an issue of immense political concern: the acute financial shortages that were a feature of Charles II’s reign. Pepys’ diary entry for 22 February 1664 is typical of his blending of domestic details with affairs of state. It was written in shorthand, and is now housed at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Pepys was an extremely observant commentator and his diary is an important historical document. Begun in January 1660 and finishing in May 1669, it offers a richly detailed account of some of the most turbulent events of the nation’s history, including the coronation of King Charles II, the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London. ![]() The Diary of Samuel Pepys is probably the most famous diary in the English language. ![]() Blessed be God, at the end of the last year I was in very good health, without any sense of my old pain. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Oliver agrees to fake date Luc and they plan a second date. It’s the same with sex–it has to mean something. Luc kisses Oliver who recoils, claiming he only kisses men he likes. Luc and Oliver have dinner at a restaurant. Luc had met Oliver a while back and they hadn’t gotten off on the right foot. Bridget, a friend, sets Luc up with the only other gay man she knows named Oliver. It’s been five years since Luc has been in a proper relationship and it hadn’t ended well (his boyfriend sold him out to the press). One of them tells him to get a fake boyfriend. Luc’s colleagues urge him to get a respectable boyfriend. The leader tells him that lots of donors are backing out because of what they had read about Luc in the press. Luc works at a dung beetle charity called CRAPP. Still, he’s in the paparazzi quite often. He’s the son of a famous musician named John Flemming who abandoned Luc and his mother when he was young. Twenty-eight-year-old Lucien “Luc” O’Donnell is photographed on the side of the road, passed out from drunkenness, after kissing a journalist and freaking out about it. Enter Oliver Blackwood, the perfect man for the job. Luc needs a fake boyfriend to boost his public image. ![]() |