Through close readings of the theory of relativity and Picasso's groundbreaking Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Miller argues that these two men were working on the same problem: "how to represent space and time at just the moment in history when it became apparent that these entities are not what we intuitively perceive them to be." In the 21st century, it is old news that artists and scientists struggle with the best ways to represent space and time. He traces in great detail the influences of photography, geometry and X-ray technology on Picasso's art as well as the influence of aesthetic theory on Einstein's science. Miller plunders previously unavailable sources as he narrates the parallel biographies of Einstein and Picasso. Both Einstein and Picasso borrowed from Poincar the idea of a temporal and spatial dimension beyond our own that could be captured in art and physics. Moreover, Miller, professor of history and philosophy of science at University College London, contends, both Einstein and Picasso were deeply influenced by mathematician and philosopher Henri Poincar 's treatise on non-Euclidean geometry, La Science et l'hypoth se. Although the physicist and painter never met, their creative geniuses developed simultaneously under similar social circumstances and during an unrivaled period of cultural ferment. Intellectual historians widely acknowledge that Einstein's theory of relativity and Picasso's cubist paintings launched modernity.
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Baywood Greens and The Rookery are also happy to sign folks up for lesson plans with their golf pros, on a one-time or multiple-visit basis.Īll of the local golf courses, both public and private, do a nice business selling logo items such as shirts and hats. The pro shops at both the Milton and Rookery North courses are well stocked, with membership options available as well as gift cards. The Rookery is featuring a Breakfast with Santa on Sunday, December 16. The Cape Region’s public golf courses, including The Rookery, Baywood Greens, and Old Landing, will also be happy to provide additional suggestions, such as gift certificates for tee times when the weather is better.Īt the Baywood Greens web site,, shoppers can print off a coupon for discounts, valid through the Christmas season. to 6 p.m.įor more information, call Ruddo’s at 30. Hours of operation generally run from 10 a.m. The store stocks its usual wide variety of items for sale, including clubs, balls, shoes, shirts and other apparel, and golf-related gifts. Bret Marshall is the PGA pro that runs the place, with help from longtime staffer Pete McCaffery. Ruddo’s Golf, on Route One in the Midway area, is now the only local store dedicated to golf. With eleven or so days left until Christmas, one can imagine the potential for increasing concern that time is running out to find something nice for golfing loved ones.įear not, for lo, several opportunities remain for glad tidings in the Cape Region for the Christmas gift giver with something golf in mind. Oprah opened the conversation by asking Kingsolver why she’d chosen to set the book in Appalachia, where people have been “misunderstood and taken advantage of,” just as fictional protagonist Demon is. When the book hit shelves in October, her heart-rending coming-of-age tale debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list. In this new interview with Kingsolver and select Oprah Daily Insiders, Oprah observes that “ Demon Copperhead is one of the great novels of our time” and Kingsolver is one of America’s “best-known and revered” writers. Her first was 22 years ago, when Oprah named The Poisonwood Bible (1998) as a pick. This is Kingsolver’s second appearance as an OBC author. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play It just might be our best chance for our collective future. Revolutionary love is medicine for our times. See No Stranger is a practical guide to changing the world, a synthesis of wisdom, a chronicle of personal and communal history-all joined together by a story of awakening. It enjoins us to see no stranger but instead look at others and say: You are a part of me I do not yet know.ĭrawing from the wisdom of sages, scientists, and activists-and her own riveting journey as a brown girl growing up in California farmland as a young adult galvanized by the murders of Sikhs after 9/11 as a law student fighting injustices in American prisons and on Guantánamo Bay as an activist working with communities recovering from xenophobic attacks and as a woman trying to heal from her own experiences with sexual assault and police violence – Kaur discovers practices of revolutionary love to bring us longevity, resilience, and joy. Now in her stunning debut, Kaur declares revolutionary love is the call of our times, a radical, joyful practice that extends in three directions: to others, to our opponents, and to ourselves. Valarie Kaur - renowned Sikh activist, filmmaker, and civil rights lawyer - has ignited the hearts of millions around the globe, making “Breathe and Push!” a mantra in movements for social change. (Yes, that Jerry Bruckheimer – Pirates of the Caribbean, Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop.)Īnd, now, Bergstrom has a U.S. In late October, Paramount secured the film rights, with Jerry Bruckheimer attached. The buzz that those foreign sales generated ignited interest from Hollywood. “Every morning I wake up to more exciting e-mails,” said his agent, Tracey Adams of Adams Literary. The manuscript, self-published a year ago, caught fire in October at the Frankfurt Book Fair with sales, so far, into 16 territories. A six-figure deal for North American rights to The Cruelty is the latest in a string of good things that have happened to Scott Bergstrom’s debut novel in just the past month. Left to rebuild in their patriarch’s shadow, the surviving members of the Leong family attempt a new, ordinary life, vowing to bury their gilded past. When Frank Leong is murdered on Oahu, his family is thrown into a perilous downward spiral. According to Chinese legend, the red string – the cord which binds one intended beloved to her perfect match – also punishes for mistakes in love, twisting each misstep into a destructive knot that passes down the family line. But something ancient follows the Leongs to the islands, haunting them – the parable of the red string of fate. Frank Leong, a prominent shipping industrialist and head of the celebrated Leong family, brings his loved ones from China to Hawaii at the turn of the twentieth century, abandoning his interests at the Port of Tsingtao when the Japanese invade. To date, Liz Braswell, Jen Calonita, Farrah Rochon, and Elizabeth Lim (author of Spin the Dawn) have written in the series. Unlike the Disney Villains, which are all written by a single author, various authors helped make the Twisted Tales a reality. If that sounds amazing, then you’ll love these books. How would that change the story? What does that mean for our heroes?Īll of the Disney Twisted Tales entertain similar twists. The first Twisted Tale, A Whole New World, explores the idea that Aladdin never found the lamp, Jafar did from the start. Just like the Disney Villains books, the Disney Twisted Tales series are middle grade novels meant to appeal to all audiences. This series explored popular stories from a villains Point of View (POV), often spinning the story on its head to make the villain the victim.ĭisney liked this format so much, and with the popularity of retellings in the YA Fantasy world, they thought they’d contract popular YA Fantasy authors to retell their famous stories…with a twist. It also started with the Serena Valentino’s Villain series. With so many books, what is the best Disney Twisted Tales series order? What are the Disney Twisted Tales? First it was their Disney Villains series, and now it’s the Twisted Tales. It used to be that you could only find Disney characters on the big screen, but in recent years the Walt Disney Company has been upping its game in the book world. But is now Liana a dangerous black widow who sheds her skin every time it suits her or is she really a misunderstood damsel in distress? Then he discovered that she was, in fact, Liana Decker. He initially knew the girl as Audrey Beck, but back in the day when Audrey committed suicide and he saw her photo in parents’ house, he realized she was not Audrey. He is no longer the wuss that life happens to him. But when one night she appears once again 20 years later, his surprise is even bigger when she turns to him for help saying that he’s the only one who can help her.Įven though he is in his 40s already, now George has a purpose in life once again. Ever since he’s been alone, spending his boring life going through the motions and wasting his evenings at the local tavern drinking and talking about Red Sox. But something happened that made him lose her for good. George Foss and Liana Decter have been an item back in college. The Girl with a Clock for a Heart, 2014. Willow Wilson and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at. Torn between the secular West and Muslim East, Wilson records her intensely personal struggle to forge a “third culture” that might accommodate her values without compromising them or the friends and family on both sides of the divide. : Butterfly Mosque, The (9781522662464) by G. They begin a daring relationship that calls into question the very nature of family, belief, and tradition. Read The Butterfly Mosque, by G.Willow Wilson, Willow Wilson online on Bookmate In this satisfying, lyrical memoir, an American woman discovers her. She settles in Cairo, where she attempts to submerge herself in a culture based on her adopted religion and where she meets Omar, a man with a mild resentment of the Western influences in his homeland. Willow Wilson’s remarkable story of converting to Islam and falling in love with an Egyptian man in a volatile post–9/11 world, was praised as “an eye-opening look at a misunderstood and often polarizing faith” (Booklist) and “a tremendously heartfelt, healing crosscultural fusion” (Publishers Weekly).Inspired by her experience during a college Islamic Studies course, Wilson, who was raised an atheist, decides to risk everything to convert to Islam and embark on a fated journey across continents and into an uncertain future. In response to Perfect Peace, the Go On Girl! National Book Club Committee named Black its “Author of the Year” in 2011. Gaines Award, the Ferro-Grumbley Literary Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Georgia Author of the Year Prize. Other nominations also include The Ernest J. Upon graduation, he was awarded a full fellowship to Temple University where he began work on his first novel, They Tell Me of A Home.īlack has twice been nominated for The Townsend Literary Prize. At 20, he earned the prestigious Oxford Modern British Studies fellowship which sent him to Oxford University in 1987. Martin’s Press.īlack graduated from Morrilton High School and went on to attend Clark University in Atlanta, Georgia to major in English. His bestselling novels, They Tell Me of a Home, The Sacred Place, Perfect Peace, Twelve Gates to the City, and the soon to be released The Coming have all been published by St. Much of Black’s fiction contains a deep-felt sense of Arkansas, focusing on home, history and identity. On this episode of Arts & Letters, we talk with novelist Daniel Omotosho Black from Blackwell, Arkansas. |