Thoroughly Modern Amanda - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thoroughly Modern Amanda write by Susan Macatee. This book was released on 2012-12-19. Thoroughly Modern Amanda available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Believing anything is possible, magazine reporter Amanda Montgomery dreams about being a modern woman in a nineteenth century world, much like her exceptional stepmother. But society expects well-off young ladies to focus on finding a suitable husband and raising a family. And then Jack appears--with no past and unconventional ideas. Does he hold the key to another century as well as her heart, or is she destined to stay in her own time? Construction worker Jack Lawton wants to preserve an old home that's scheduled for demolition. But when he sneaks inside for a final look, a loose beam falls on his head, and upon waking, he finds himself in the arms of a beautiful woman. His only problem--he's no longer in the twenty-first century. Can he find his way back home? Does he really want to?
A Thoroughly Modern Witch
A Thoroughly Modern Witch - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Thoroughly Modern Witch write by Andrew Dobell. This book was released on 2024-06-03. A Thoroughly Modern Witch available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It’s Halloween, and Jay is having girl trouble. Isabelle is gorgeous, but she’s more interested in the guys flashing money around to pay attention to him. When his boss’s girlfriend, Amanda, takes an interest in his predicament, his night gets a lot more interesting. With everyone in their Halloween outfits, and the drink playing tricks on his mind, Jay can’t be sure if that’s a real werewolf, or just someone in a really convincing costume. Jay could accept his lot in life, or take Amanda’s advice and show Isabelle what he’s really made of, and what she’s missing out on. But will it be enough? Note This is a Magi Saga short Halloween story, that's separate from much of the main timeline but takes place after book 4.
It Still Moves
It Still Moves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook It Still Moves write by Amanda Petrusich. This book was released on 2008-08-19. It Still Moves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Where lies the boundary between meaning and sentiment? Between memory and nostalgia? America and Americana? What is and what was? Does it move?" —Donovon Hohn, A Romance of Rust Part travelogue, part cultural criticism, part music appreciation, It Still Moves does for today's avant folk scene what Greil Marcus did for Dylan and The Basement Tapes. Amanda Petrusich outlines the sounds of the new, weird America—honoring the rich tradition of gospel, bluegrass, country, folk, and rock that feeds it, while simultaneously exploring the American character as personified in all of these genres historically. Through interviews, road stories, geographical and sociological interpretations, and detailed music criticism, Petrusich traces the rise of Americana music from its gospel origins through its new and compelling incarnations (as evidenced in bands and artists from Elvis to Iron and Wine, the Carter Family to Animal Collective, Johnny Cash to Will Oldham) and explores how the genre is adapting to the twenty-first century. Ultimately the book is an examination of all things American: guitars, cars, kids, motion, passion, enterprise, and change, in a fervent attempt to reconcile the American past with the American present, using only dusty records and highway maps as guides.
Focus On: 100 Most Popular 21St-century English Actresses
Focus On: 100 Most Popular 21St-century English Actresses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Focus On: 100 Most Popular 21St-century English Actresses write by Wikipedia contributors. This book was released on . Focus On: 100 Most Popular 21St-century English Actresses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn
Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn write by Amanda Gefter. This book was released on 2014-01-14. Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS In a memoir of family bonding and cutting-edge physics for readers of Brian Greene’s The Hidden Reality and Jim Holt’s Why Does the World Exist?, Amanda Gefter tells the story of how she conned her way into a career as a science journalist—and wound up hanging out, talking shop, and butting heads with the world’s most brilliant minds. At a Chinese restaurant outside of Philadelphia, a father asks his fifteen-year-old daughter a deceptively simple question: “How would you define nothing?” With that, the girl who once tried to fail geometry as a conscientious objector starts reading up on general relativity and quantum mechanics, as she and her dad embark on a life-altering quest for the answers to the universe’s greatest mysteries. Before Amanda Gefter became an accomplished science writer, she was a twenty-one-year-old magazine assistant willing to sneak her and her father, Warren, into a conference devoted to their physics hero, John Wheeler. Posing as journalists, Amanda and Warren met Wheeler, who offered them cryptic clues to the nature of reality: The universe is a self-excited circuit, he said. And, The boundary of a boundary is zero. Baffled, Amanda and Warren vowed to decode the phrases—and with them, the enigmas of existence. When we solve all that, they agreed, we’ll write a book. Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn is that book, a memoir of the impassioned hunt that takes Amanda and her father from New York to London to Los Alamos. Along the way, they bump up against quirky science and even quirkier personalities, including Leonard Susskind, the former Bronx plumber who invented string theory; Ed Witten, the soft-spoken genius who coined the enigmatic M-theory; even Stephen Hawking. What they discover is extraordinary: the beginnings of a monumental paradigm shift in cosmology, from a single universe we all share to a splintered reality in which each observer has her own. Reality, the Gefters learn, is radically observer-dependent, far beyond anything of which Einstein or the founders of quantum mechanics ever dreamed—with shattering consequences for our understanding of the universe’s origin. And somehow it all ties back to that conversation, to that Chinese restaurant, and to the true meaning of nothing. Throughout their journey, Amanda struggles to make sense of her own life—as her journalism career transforms from illusion to reality, as she searches for her voice as a writer, as she steps from a universe shared with her father to at last carve out one of her own. It’s a paradigm shift you might call growing up. By turns hilarious, moving, irreverent, and profound, Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn weaves together story and science in remarkable ways. By the end, you will never look at the universe the same way again. Praise for Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn “Nothing quite prepared me for this book. Wow. Reading it, I alternated between depression—how could the rest of us science writers ever match this?—and exhilaration.”—Scientific American “To Do: Read Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn. Reality doesn’t have to bite.”—New York “A zany superposition of genres . . . It’s at once a coming-of-age chronicle and a father-daughter road trip to the far reaches of this universe and 10,500 others.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
