| Author | : Jane Hawking |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 742 |
| Release | : 2015-01-05 |
| Genre | : Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
| ISBN | : 9781471294570 |
'Travelling to Infinity' is a moving and engaging memoir written by Stephen Hawking's first wife about the turbulent years of her marriage with the astro-physics genius, her traumatic divorce and their recent reconciliation.
| Author | : Jane Hawking |
| Publisher | : Pan Books Limited |
| Total Pages | : 612 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780330392471 |
| Author | : Helen Fry |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 373 |
| Release | : 2021-11-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0300262973 |
The dramatic story of a man who stood at the center of British intelligence operations, the ultimate spymaster of World War Two: Thomas Kendrick Thomas Kendrick (1881–1972) was central to the British Secret Service from its beginnings through to the Second World War. Under the guise of "British Passport Officer," he ran spy networks across Europe, facilitated the escape of Austrian Jews, and later went on to set up the "M Room," a listening operation which elicited information of the same significance and scope as Bletchley Park. Yet the work of Kendrick, and its full significance, remains largely unknown. Helen Fry draws on extensive original research to tell the story of this remarkable British intelligence officer. Kendrick’s life sheds light on the development of MI6 itself—he was one of the few men to serve Britain across three wars, two of which while working for the British Secret Service. Fry explores the private and public sides of Kendrick, revealing him to be the epitome of the "English gent"—easily able to charm those around him and scrupulously secretive.
| Author | : James Dashner |
| Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2012-08-28 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0545473942 |
Scholastic's next multi-platform mega-event begins here!History is broken, and three kids must travel back in time to set it right!When best friends Dak Smyth and Sera Froste stumble upon the secret of time travel -- a hand-held device known as the Infinity Ring -- they're swept up in a centuries-long secret war for the fate of mankind. Recruited by the Hystorians, a secret society that dates back to Aristotle, the kids learn that history has gone disastrously off course.Now it's up to Dak, Sera, and teenage Hystorian-in-training Riq to travel back in time to fix the Great Breaks . . . and to save Dak's missing parents while they're at it. First stop: Spain, 1492, where a sailor named Christopher Columbus is about to be thrown overboard in a deadly mutiny!
| Author | : Gerry Souter |
| Publisher | : Parkstone International |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 2023-12-28 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1783107014 |
Pioneer of geometric abstract art and one of the most important members of the Russian Avant-garde, Malevitch experimented with various modernist styles. In reaction to the influence of Cubism and Futurism on artists in Russia, Malevitch in his art reduced the world of nature to basic elements and colours, such as in his Red Square (1915). He introduced his abstract, non-objective geometric patterns in a style and artistic movement he called Suprematism. One of the important names of the twentieth century, he however turned back to Primitivism once Russia’s communist leaders forced him to do so.
| Author | : Andrew Hastie |
| Publisher | : Infinity Engines |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017-03-26 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781916474710 |
Josh had no future until he discovered he could travel back into the past One step away from prison, 17-year-old Joshua Jones breaks into the house of the local eccentric, the Colonel, and finds himself transported back to Hitler's war rooms in 1944. The Colonel rescues Josh and introduces him to a secret society of time travellers sworn to protect the future, taking him on an epic adventure into the alternate histories and guilds of the Oblivion Order. But Josh struggles to escape his broken past and the death of his best friend. Caught between a magical world of possibilities and a life of crime, will he use his new-found powers to alter his timeline? Can the Order help him to find the future he never dreamed he could have? The Anachronist is the first novel in The Infinity Engines Series. If you're a fan of time travel, fantasy and history, then you'll love this fast-paced adventure!
| Author | : Jane Hawking |
| Publisher | : Alma Books |
| Total Pages | : 480 |
| Release | : 2018-08-28 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781846884375 |
From the author of the no. 1 bestseller Travelling to Infinity: The True Story Behind The Theory of Everything. In 1930s Greater London, Shirley is a talented ballerina who dreams of becoming a principal dancer at the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company. Yet one summer, on the way back from staying with her grandparents in France, she meets a handsome young man, Alan, for a fleeting moment and her life changes for ever. Finding him becomes an obsession for Shirley, who now longs to fulfil her dreams in the ballet simply so that he might see her name in lights and know where to find her. With the outbreak of the Second World War, and those she loves in danger, Shirley's priority becomes to help in the war effort, but with Alan appearing once more in her life, and the war threatening to part them for a second time, she knows that she cannot cope if she were to lose him again. The second in the Immortal Souls series.
| Author | : Hannu Rajaniemi |
| Publisher | : Solaris |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 2012-11-27 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1849974608 |
ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND Those were Neil Armstrong’s immortal words when he became the first human being to step onto another world. All at once, the horizon expanded; the human race was no longer Earthbound. Edge of Infinity is an exhilarating new SF anthology that looks at the next giant leap for humankind: the leap from our home world out into the Solar System. From the eerie transformations in Pat Cadigan’s Hugo-award-winning “The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi” to the frontier spirit of Sandra McDonald and Stephen D. Covey’s “The Road to NPS,” and from the grandiose vision of Alastair Reynolds’ “Vainglory” to the workaday familiarity of Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s “Safety Tests,” the thirteen stories in this anthology span the whole of the human condition in their race to colonise Earth’s nearest neighbours. Featuring stories by Hannu Rajaniemi, Alastair Reynolds, James S. A. Corey, John Barnes, Stephen Baxter, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Elizabeth Bear, Pat Cadigan, Gwyneth Jones, Paul McAuley, Sandra McDonald, Stephen D. Covey, An Owomoyela, and Bruce Sterling, Edge of Infinity is hard SF adventure at its best and most exhilarating.
| Author | : David Deutsch |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 571 |
| Release | : 2011-03-31 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0141969695 |
'Science has never had an advocate quite like David Deutsch ... A computational physicist on a par with his touchstones Alan Turing and Richard Feynman, and a philosopher in the line of his greatest hero, Karl Popper. His arguments are so clear that to read him is to experience the thrill of the highest level of discourse available on this planet and to understand it' Peter Forbes, Independent In our search for truth, how far have we advanced? This uniquely human quest for good explanations has driven amazing improvements in everything from scientific understanding and technology to politics, moral values and human welfare. But will progress end, either in catastrophe or completion - or will it continue infinitely? In this profound and seminal book, David Deutsch explores the furthest reaches of our current understanding, taking in the Infinity Hotel, supernovae and the nature of optimism, to instill in all of us a wonder at what we have achieved - and the fact that this is only the beginning of humanity's infinite possibility. 'This is Deutsch at his most ambitious, seeking to understand the implications of our scientific explanations of the world ... I enthusiastically recommend this rich, wide-ranging and elegantly written exposition of the unique insights of one of our most original intellectuals' Michael Berry, Times Higher Education Supplement 'Bold ... profound ... provocative and persuasive' Economist 'David Deutsch may well go down in history as one of the great scientists of our age' Scotsman
