With powerful renderings of the obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagosaki, Fetter-Vorm unflinchingly chronicles the bomb's far-reaching effects. Robert Oppenheimer - who built the bomb and wrestled with the knowledge that they had irreversibly thrust the world into a new and terrifying age. His focus is the brilliant scientists-led by the enigmatic J. In this sweeping narrative, Fetter-Vorm traces the spark of invention from the laboratories of nineteenth-century Europe to the massive efforts of the Manhattan Project, transporting the reader into the science of a nuclear reaction and to the top-secret test site where the first atomic bomb was detonated. TRINITY- the debut graphic book by the gifted illustrator Jonathan Fetter-Vorm - depicts in vivid detail the dramatic history of the race to build and the decision to drop the first atomic bomb.
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They offer Port a ride in their car to Boussif, leaving Kit and Tunner to take the train. Lyle, an obnoxious mother and son from Australia. In Oran, the Moresby's make the acquaintance of Eric and Mrs. Port suspects this, and one night he excuses himself to take a walk, ending up in bed with an Arab girl who robs him. Tunner is largely along for the ride, and he hopes to seduce Kit. Port prides himself on his commitment to his nomadic existence, but Kit is plagued by fear that every odd occurrence on their journey is an omen of impending doom. Port and Kit Moresby and George Tunner have just arrived in Oran, Algeria. They find themselves cut off from the certainties of home and are all but destroyed by what they experience. It follows three American travelers as they move farther from "civilization" in post-war Africa. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles is a story of innocents abroad in an unfamiliar land. The study also approaches the influence of Poe on Romanian literature by highlighting new critical perspectives on Romanian writers’ interests in the American author’s works.Įdgar Allan Poe’s writings were translated into Romanian and became known relatively early, but not through direct translation, but by means of Charles Baudelaire’s French translations. The paper specifically focuses on the particular conditions of translations published in areas in East-Central Europe that were inhabited by Romanians. This paper discusses the re-analysis of these Romanian translations, the plurality of which suggests an on-going interest in Poe’s literature. At the beginning of the 20th century a great number of direct translations into Romanian became available, many of these being found in Transylvania and the Banat. Poe’s work, translated from French, was published in various Romanian language publications during the second half of the nineteenth century. Although his writings were eventually translated into Romanian, his work had become known earlier through French translations by Charles Baudelaire. This study presents a new integrative image of the reception of Edgar Allan Poe in Romanian literature, especially in the second part of the nineteenth century, and offers new perspectives on translations of his work into Romanian. I thus situate this discussion of the sirens in the contexts of Adorno's aesthetic project and of Forkel and Burney's Enlightenment-era histories of music, which each treat Odysseus's encounter with the sirens at substantial length. Subsequent commentators, however, have given relatively little attention to how this reading complicates an understanding of art's utopian character they have, moreover, largely neglected the episode's specifically musical resonances. He complies with the contract of his bondage and, bound to the mast, struggles to throw himself into the arms of the seductresses.” Indeed, throughout their treatment of the story of the sirens, Adorno and Horkheimer suggest that unfreedom is not externally imposed on art by a wrong society, but rather inheres in art's concept, the dialectical reverse side of its promise of reconciliation. Adorno and Horkheimer's seminal Dialectic of Enlightenment provides an extended reading of Odysseus's encounter with the sirens and draws a startling connection between the experience of musical listening and the condition of unfreedom: “ realizes that however he may consciously distance himself from nature, as a listener he remains under its spell. When the killer’s sights are turned toward those whom Lenox holds most dear, the stakes are raised and Lenox is trapped in a desperate game of cat and mouse. With few clues to go on, Lenox endeavors to solve the crime before another innocent life is lost. The writer’s first victim is a young woman whose body is found in a naval trunk, caught up in the rushes of a small islets in the middle of the Thames. But when an anonymous writer sends a letter to the paper claiming to have committed the perfect crime-and promising to kill again-Lenox is convinced that this is his chance to prove himself. Scotland Yard refuses to take him seriously and his friends deride him for attempting a profession at all. London, 1850: A young Charles Lenox struggles to make a name for himself as a detective…without a single case. This chilling new mystery in the USA Today bestselling series by Charles Finch takes readers back to Charles Lenox’s very first case and the ruthless serial killer who would set him on the course to become one of London’s most brilliant detectives. She does have support for her pregnancy and the decisions she will have to make. Her one-night stand’s first name is Jack, but he hasn’t shared much more than his genes, and Sara has no way to trace him or let him know. The half-Latina academic all-star expected to spend her senior year of high school fleshing out Ivy League options for post-secondary studies, not to have her plans dashed by the consequences of one reckless rendezvous in May. Or, at least, I hope he is.”Ĭhange is rocking Sara Rodriguez’s world. Aaron broke my heart and when he went to a party with his new girlfriend, I got stupid. The words were stuck, like I’d have to hock a loogie just to expel them. …I wanted to explain but it was so hard to get out. Young Adult, Contemporary Realism, Romance In a paper written for the radio journal "Wireless World" in 1945, he suggested that artificial satellites hovering in a fixed spot above Earth could be used to relay telecommunications signals across the globe. "But I'm aware that peace cannot just be wished - it requires a great deal of hard work, courage and persistence."Ĭlarke and director Stanley Kubrick shared an Academy Award nomination for best adapted screenplay for "2001." The film grew out of Clarke's 1951 short story, "The Sentinel," about an alien transmitter left on the moon that ceases broadcasting when humans arrive.Īs a Royal Air Force officer during World War II, Clarke took part in the early development of radar. "I dearly wish to see lasting peace established in Sri Lanka as soon as possible," he said. In a videotaped 90th birthday message to fans, Clarke said he still hoped to see some sign of intelligent life beyond Earth, more work on alternatives to fossil fuels - and "closer to home," an end to the 25-year civil war in Sri Lanka between the government and ethnic Tamil separatists. "He had been taken to hospital in what we had hoped was one of the slings and arrows of being 90, but in this case it was his final visit," he said. He died early Wednesday - Tuesday afternoon ET - at a hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had lived since the 1950s, Chase said. Clarke had been wheelchair-bound for several years with complications stemming from a youthful bout with polio and had suffered from back trouble recently, said Scott Chase, the secretary of the nonprofit Arthur C. Howard emphasizes the staggering incompetence of the French government and its military leaders during the Second Empire. The French did not recognize the new reality. War had changed – and the changes were wrought by the Prussian general staff. To Napoleon III and the French generals, the war would be won by national élan, rather than by such mundane and inglorious considerations as wise strategic thinking, tactical training, dependable communications, solid operational planning, and reliable logistics support. It was among history's greatest miscalculations. His generals, arrogant and eager for glory, but as ill-informed, unprepared, and shortsighted as he, urged him on. The weak Napoleon III, enfeebled by ill health, foolishly went to war to bolster his failing regime, revive his declining popularity, and secure the future of the Bonaparte dynasty. Michael Howard's The Franco-Prussian War: The German Invasion of France, 1870-1871 is a prize-winning account of the background and conduct of the war that changed Europe and set the course for the twentieth century. A decade later, his public image acquired another layer when he re-emerged as a Stoic sage and selfless humanitarian, a quasi-religious figure who saw himself as a modern-day Spinoza. Far from withdrawing, he threw himself into the political fray to become a symbol for international reconciliation during the early Weimar Republic. Surrounded by social and economic unrest in Berlin, he was caught between two worlds, one struggling to be born, another refusing to die. While downplaying his reputation as a revolutionary, Einstein proved he was well cast for the role of mild-mannered scientific genius. With his theory of relativity Einstein had overthrown outworn ideas about space and time dating back to Newton's day, no small feat. Through a remarkable confluence of events and circumstances, the mass media soon projected an image of the photogenic physicist as a bold new revolutionary thinker. Einstein's initial fame came in late 1919 with a dramatic breakthrough in his general theory of relativity. HP Lovecraft enthused about the story in Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927): The magazine, which ran for just over a year, was edited by Machen’s Golden Dawn colleague AE Waite which no doubt explains the unlikely venue. The White People by Arthur Machen was written in 1899 but not published until it appeared in Horlick’s Magazine, January 1904. Aklo: A Journal of the Fantastic, Spring 1988 edition, edited by Mark Valentine & Roger Dobson. |