Generations have grown up knowing that the equation E=mc2 changed the shape of our world, but never understanding what it actually means, why it was so significant, and how it informs our daily lives today—governing, as it does, everything from the atomic bomb to a television’s cathode ray tube to the carbon dating of prehistoric paintings. In this book, David Bodanis writes the “biography” of one of the greatest scientific discoveries in history—that the realms of energy and matter are inescapably linked—and, through his skill as a writer and teacher, he turns a seemingly impenetrable theory into a dramatic human achievement and an uncommonly good story.
Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process
A classic handbook for anyone who needs to write, Writing With Power
speaks to everyone who has wrestled with words while seeking to gain
power with them. Here, Peter Elbow emphasizes that the essential
activities underlying good writing and the essential exercises
promoting it are really not difficult at all. Employing a cookbook
approach, Elbow provides the reader (and writer) with various recipes:
for getting words down on paper, for revising, for dealing with an
audience, for getting feedback on a piece of writing, and still other
recipes for approaching the mystery of power in writing. In a new
introduction, he offers his reflections on the original edition,
discusses the responses from people who have followed his techniques,
how his methods may differ from other processes, and how his original
topics are still pertinent to today's writer. By taking risks and
embracing mistakes, Elbow hopes the writer may somehow find a hold on
the creative process and be able to heighten two mentalities--the
production of writing and the revision of it. From students and
teachers to novelists and poets, Writing with Power reminds us that we
can celebrate the uses of mystery, chaos, nonplanning, and magic, while
achieving analysis, conscious control, explicitness, and care in
whatever it is we set down on paper.
Scientific Writing: A Reader and Writer's Guide by Jean-Luc Lebrun Given that scientific material can be
hard to comprehend, sustained attention and memory retention become
major reader challenges. Scientific writers must not only present their
science, but also work hard to generate and sustain the interest of
readers. Attention-getters, sentence progression, expectation-setting,
and memory offloaders are essential devices to keep readers and
reviewers engaged. The writer needs to have a clear understanding of
the role played by each part of a paper, from its eye-catching title to
its eye-opening conclusion. This book walks through the main parts of a
paper; that is, those parts which create the critical first impression.
The unique approach in this book is its focus on the reader rather than
the writer. Senior scientists who supervise staff and postgraduates can
use the book to review drafts and to help with the writing as well as
the science. Young researchers can find solid guidelines that reduce
the confusion all new writers face. Published scientists can finally
move from what feels right to what is right, identifying mistakes they
thought were acceptable, and fully appreciating their responsibility:
to guide the reader along carefully laid-out reading tracks. (Amazon.com).
Alice in Puzzle - Land
Raymond Smullyan is a unique set of personalities that includes a philosopher, logician, mathematician, musician, magician,humorist, writer, and maker of marvelous puzzles. Because he is a skillful writer and humorist, he enjoys presenting his puzzles in narrative forms that often parody great works of popular fiction.
And he does this so well that his puzzle books are, incredibly, a pleasure to read even if you never try to solve a single puzzle! In the volume you now hold, Alice and her friends are back again for a puzzle romp behind the Looking-Glass...
Ernest Hemingway. The Sun Also Rises
Published
in 1926 to explosive acclaim, The Sun Also Rises
stands as perhaps the most impressive first
novel ever written by an American writer. A roman à clef about a group of
American and English expatriates on an excursion from Paris’s Left Bank to
Pamplona for the July fiesta and its climactic bull fight, a journey from the
center of a civilization spirtually bankrupted by the First World War to a
vital, God-haunted world in which faith and honor have yet to lose their
currency, the novel captured for the generation that would come to be called “Lost”
the spirit of its age, and marked Ernest Hemingway as the preeminent writer of
his time.
