A Wrinkle in Time

Mooney, Rodney: Madeleine L'Engle and Sacred Idleness: A Religious and Scientific Defense of the Imagination, VDM VERLAG DR. MÜLLER, Oktober 2010, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3639263235
I have discovered new evidence in the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi that reveals L'Engle's defense of the imagination is in fact an important, overlooked theme of the Time Quartet. Perhaps the greatest find in the collection is the original, unpublished transcript of A Wrinkle in Time, which includes an alternate Aunt Beast chapter as well as a deleted chapter. Due to omissions, the published book obscures many themes of the Time Quartet, including L'Engle's defense of the imagination. These new resources also suggest that L'Engle's idea of the imagination and themes of the Time Quartet were significantly influenced by the ideas of George MacDonald and Albert Einstein. A study of these influences and new resources alongside L'Engle's published material indicates that L'Engle in fact synthesized MacDonald's idea of the religious benefits of using the imagination with the intellectual, scientific advantages associated with Einstein's use of the imagination, and in doing so, L'Engle created in her Time Quartet a hybrid defense of imagination all her own called Sacred Idleness.

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Michio Kaku Illustrator: NA: Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and The Tenth Dimension, Oxford University Press 1994 ISBN: 9780195085143

New Hardcover 16 X 24 cm. Are there other dimensions beyond our own? Is time travel possible? Can we change the past? Are there gateways to parallel universes? All of us have pondered such questions, but there was a time when scientists dismissed these notions as outlandish speculations. Not any more. Today, they are the focus of the most intense scientific activity in recent memory. In Hyperspace, Michio Kaku, author of the widely acclaimed Beyond Einstein and a leading theoretical physicist, offers the first book-length tour of the most exciting (and perhaps most bizarre) work in modern physics, work which includes research on the tenth dimension, time warps, black holes, and multiple universes. The theory of hyperspace (or higher dimensional space)aEUR"and its newest wrinkle, superstring theoryaEUR"stand at the center of this revolution, with adherents in every major research laboratory in the world, including several Nobel laureates. Beginning where Hawking's Brief History of Time left off, Kaku paints a vivid portrayal of the breakthroughs now rocking the physics establishment. Why all the excitement? As the author points out, for over half a century, scientists have puzzled over why the basic forces of the cosmosaEUR"gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forcesaEUR"require markedly different mathematical descriptions. But if we see these forces as vibrations in a higher dimensional space, their field equations suddenly fit together like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, perfectly snug, in an elegant, astonishingly simple form. This may thus be our leading candidate for the Theory of Everything. If so, it would be the crowning achievement of 2,000 years of scientific investigation into matter and its forces. Already, the theory has inspired several thousand research papers, and has been the focus of over 200 international conferences. Michio Kaku is one of the leading pioneers in superstring theory and has been at the forefront of this revolution in modern physics. With Hyperspace, he has produced a book for general readers which conveys the vitality of the field and the excitement as scientists grapple with the meaning of space and time. It is an exhilarating look at physics today and an eye-opening glimpse into the ultimate nature of the universe. Printed Pages: 375. First edition

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Madeleine L'Engle: A Wrinkle in Time, Scholastic 1973 ISBN: B000IRUKKA
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Pye, Michael. The King Over the Water. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981. ISBN: 0030575516

First American edition FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 280 pages including the index with 12 pages of black and white photos. The book is VERY GOOD with a publisher's flaw (small wrinkle) on lower front, light wear on lower corners, few discoloration spots on the side page edges, pencil marks on the inside front board, FFEP shows owners name and discoloration on lower edge, and half title page shows owners name. The dust jacket is VERY GOOD with minor wear to spine ends, edges and corners. A small closed tear and crease on lower front spine side. A brown stain on the top back flap edge. Covered in archival jacket. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor....and other curious people. This book is based on the period of time the Duke and Duchess of Windsor spent in Nassau after departing Europe and the author notes, " this book would have been impossible without the careful, painstaking and sometimes ingenious help of archivists". The Windsor's life entertwined with Sir Harry Oakes who was murdered while in Nassau. There are four parts of this book, Part One- TREASON; Part Two-RIOT; Part Three-MURDER; Part Four-REFLECTION. Dust jacket notes read: The King Over the Water is a royal melodrama-a true and startling story of murder, riot and treason involving the most glamorous royal couple of the century. In 1940, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor arrived in Nassau, where the Duke was to take up his post as Governor of the Bahamas. They were still the most romantic couple in the world, he the handsome Prince of Wales, she the woman for whose sake he had given up a crown. But in Washington and London the royal Governor and his wife were already under suspicion in offical quarters. The pro-German sentiments he had expressed during the 1930s were already well known, and the contacts that the couple had had with German agents and sympathizers during their sojourn in France and Portugal after the abdication had made their presence in Europe intolerable. Exile in the Bahamas was Churchill's way of keeping the Duke and Duchess out of harm's way. After all, nothing ever happened in the BahamasÖÖ.This is the story of how the Windsors' reputation was finally ruined-when the Duke was given a kingdom of his own. This book is an absolute essential for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor collector, providing one author's account of the Windsor's lives, circa-Bahamas. Hard Cover condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

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