How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom. Based on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk—a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn’t get a teaching job or a doctorate—became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe.
Catherine Sloper lives quietly with her father and aunt in New York. When her father dies she will be a rich woman. One day Catherine meets a handsome young man called Morris Townsend. He says he wants to marry her but does he love her or her money? Henry James wrote many books about American society in the nineteenth century. Washington Square is now a successful film with Albert Finney, Maggie Smith and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
This short story is about the stressful relationship between a son and his father. The family lives in a small house in the Russian countryside. Poverty has played a toll on how the father reacts to his child's need for money to attend college. An emotional conversation ensues.
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This is a highly imaginative tale of good vs. evil, told from the point of view of young Meg Murry. Meg is smart but rebellious, fiercely protective of her unusual family. She and her brother, Charles Wallace, are about to go on a journey through space and time to find their long absent father, and in the process, confront an evil so powerful that it threatens to engulf them all.
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