![]() ![]() ![]() Other books of possible use for this course:įeynman, Leighton, and Sands: " The Feynman Lectures on Physics, part III." (Part of a truly wonderful series of 3 "introductory" physics books.) Liboff- " Introductory Quantum Mechanics" Griffiths, " Intro to Quantum Mechanics", 2nd ed. The next are all very much at McIntyre's level (and have been used or considered as primary texts in the past) All of them start with a "wave-functions" first approach: This one is very much like McIntyre's in terms of order of topics - I find it sometimes a little harder than McIntyre, but not always, and he has a lot of different examples. John Townsend - "A modern approach to Quantum Mechanics". Tipler- " Modern Physics" (slightly simpler level, more 2170-like)Įisberg and Resnick- " Quantum Physics " (again perhaps more 2170-like in level, although they cover lots of interesting and often advanced examples) More than any other branch of physics, QM is impossible to learn well from a single text! Here are just a few suggestions: If you're having difficulties their different styles, perspectives, additional problems and examples may be very useful to you. There are many introductory quantum texts out there. We are using McIntyre's "Quantum Mechanics". Textbooks for Junior-level quantum mechanics (such as PHYS3220/4410) ![]()
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This quotation is the epigram to Illegal, a 2018 graphic novel that documents the journey of a Ghanaian boy, Ebo, to Europe. (Elie Wiesel, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor) Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?” “You, who are so-called illegal aliens, must know that no human being is illegal. ![]() ![]() ![]() There was a young man who hunted geese to feed his family and another who studied geese to save them. There was a war and a university, an oil company and a small village, all run by men. Outsiders came, but it was not to learn from us it was to change us. ![]() "It was a time when much was hidden, before outsiders came on bended knee to learn from the elders. Briggs, author of Never in Angerġ971, the Alaskan Arctic. The author has a fine grasp of the complexity of human relations and culture in such a village. I wept my way through it, identifying profoundly with both protagonists. Dorothy Jean Ray, author of A Legacy of Arctic Art Thomas writes with an unerring knowledge of anthropology and social and environmental issues." Dr. "One of the best novels of Alaska that I have read. Sandra Ingerman, author of Soul Retrieval I loved this book (and) am recommending it to everyone I meet." Flight of the Gooseis award-winning fiction set in a traditional village and the wilds of Arctic Alaska, where author Lesley Thomas grew up. ![]() Cultural and ecological upheaval, birds, science, war, sorcery and shamanism, corporate greed, family, trauma, healing and survival. ![]() ![]() Unusual for their combination of overt eroticism and devotion to God, these poems are a delight to read. ![]() The translators, who are poets as well as highly respected scholars, render the poems with intelligence and tenderness. Explored, too, are the attempts to contain their explicit eroticism by various apologetic and rationalizing devices. ![]() A foreword provides context for the poems, investigating their religious, cultural, and historical significance. Stones book When God Was a Woman had a profound effect on the emerging Goddess Culture of the 1970s and 80s in the US. This volume is the first substantial collection in English of these Telugu writings, which are still part of the standard repertoire of songs used by classical South Indian dancers. Brazen, autonomous, fully at home in her body, she merges her worldly knowledge with the deity's transcendent power in the act of making love. ![]() That customer, it turns out, is the deity, whom the courtesan teases for his infidelities and cajoles into paying her more money. Written by men during the fifteenth to eighteenth century, the poems adopt a female voice, the voice of a courtesan addressing her customer. ![]() These South Indian devotional poems show the dramatic use of erotic language to express a religious vision. How is it that this woman's breasts glimmer so clearly through her saree? Can't you guess, my friends? What are they but rays from the crescents left by the nails of her lover pressing her in his passion, rays now luminous as the moonlight of a summer night? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is twenty-six years old, a man-child caught in a struggle between instinct and thought, self and society, sexual gratification and family duty - even, in a sense, human hard-heartedness and divine Grace. Its hero is Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. ![]() ".'Rabbit, Run' is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his - or any other - generation. The original price (4.00) is intact on the front flap. The first-issue dust jacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has modest general edgewear with chipping to the spine-ends (affecting the 'R' in Rabbit) and the white, rear panel is lightly soiled. Otherwise clean, bright and soundly bound. There is a bit of mottling to the topstain and the board edges are faintly faded. The spine is stamped in silver and gilt the front panel, in silver. Pale blue boards with a green cloth backstrip. ![]() ![]() Suffering from constant fear, fatigue, and filth, the struggle of simply living in a combat zone was utterly debilitating for the Marines. Sledge writes of the conditions on the islands that meant the Marines often could not wash, stay dry, dig latrines, or even find time to eat. The book relates the dehumanising brutality displayed by both sides and the animal hatred that each soldier had for his enemy. ![]() ![]() As a mortarman, stretcher-bearer and rifleman Sledge would fight his way across Peleliu then the Japanese island of Okinawa, arguably two of the fiercest and filthiest battles of the Pacific campaign.Īfter the war, Eugene Sledge became a professor at Montevallo University and turned his diary notes from the war into a memoir of his experiences titled With the Old Breed. ![]() In September 1944 a young Marine name Eugene Sledge landed on the Pacific Island of Peleliu. ![]() ![]() When KJ's sometimes babysitter, twelve-year-old Nora Florette, is reported missing the very next day, the town fears a maniac is preying on their children. With pressure mounting from a tough, no-nonsense new sheriff, the media, and the parents of Bayou Breaux, Nick and Annie dig deep into the dual mysteries. A mother herself, Annie understands the devastation this woman is going through, but as a detective she's Who would murder a child and leave the only witness behind? ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Nick's wife, Detective Annie Broussard, sits with the grieving Genevieve. Genevieve's seven-year-old son, KJ, has been murdered by an alleged intruder, yet Genevieve is alive and well. When Detective Nick Fourcade enters the home of Genevieve Gauthier outside the sleepy town of Bayou Breaux, Louisiana, the bloody crime scene that awaits him is both the most brutal and the most confusing he's ever seen. An unfathomable loss or an unthinkable crime? #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag keeps you guessing in her most harrowing thriller yet. ![]() ![]() This case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket. These stories also included fantastic elements that represented the perceived fragility of anthropocentrism. In his view, humanity was an unimportant part of an uncaring cosmos that could be swept away at any moment. During the interwar period, he wrote and published stories that focused on his interpretation of humanity's place in the universe. In 1913, he wrote a critical letter to a pulp magazine that ultimately led to his involvement in pulp fiction. His interest in the supernatural started during his childhood days when his grandfather would tell him Gothic horror stories. Many of Lovecraft's stories were inspired by his nightmares. ![]() Forbidden, esoterically veiled knowledge is at the forefront of many of Lovecraft's works, as well as non-human influences on humanity, inherited guilt, fate, civilization under threat, race, risks of a scientific era, religion, and superstition. Lovecraft features an array of dark and supernatural themes. ![]() If The Call of Cthulhu ranks as Lovecrafts best-known work, his 1936 novella. This complete collection of strange and unusual stories from H. See more ideas about lovecraft monsters, creature art, concept art. ![]() ![]() ![]() As far as I’m concerned, Sarah Waters is the complete package. She has all the things I look for: complex, well-constructed plots well-developed characters thought-provoking ideas. This was the third of Sarah Waters’s books that I’ve read (the others being The Little Stranger and Fingersmith), and I continue to be thoroughly impressed with her work. I’m just going to briefly share some of my impressions here. Jenny reviewed this book just last week, so go take a look at her review to get the details about the plot, characters, and structure of the book. ![]() We only gradually learn how these marvelously drawn characters arrived at their present state, and as we learn, we find that our impressions were not always correct, that these people’s stories are not always what they appear. And as the novel unfolds, we’re carried back in time, with one section taking place in 1944, and the final section taking place in 1941. ![]() ![]() Waters fills this novel with a variety of characters, each of whom has his or her own struggles. The men and women who lived through the war are haunted, but by what? That’s the question that we as readers have as Sarah Waters’s novel The Night Watch opens. It’s 1947, and London is recovering from World War II. ![]() ![]() ![]() The girls’ mother Hannah had died some four years before along with their baby brother Nathaniel. Catherine lives on a farm at Meredith, NH, with her father Charles and seven-year-old sister Mary Martha, known as Matty. 17, 1830, Catherine Cabot Hall, aged 13 years, 6 months, 29 days, receives a journal from her father which she keeps for the next year and five months. ![]() A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-1832 (published in 1979 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers republished in 1990 by Aladdin Paperbacks, a division of Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York City, NY 10020). No other compensation has been received for the reviews posted on Home School Book Review.įor more information e-mail Joan W. (1=nothing objectionable 2=common euphemisms and/or childish slang terms 3=some cursing or profanity 4=a lot of cursing or profanity 5=obscenity and/or vulgarity)ĭisclosure: Any books donated for review purposes are in turn donated to a library. Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks, republished in 1990 ![]() ![]() Book: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-1832 ![]() |