These and other scenarios investigate the ways that the outlandish and the ordinary are shockingly, deceptively, heartbreakingly alike. Bliss Montage: Stories book by Ling Ma ISBN: 0716727188 ISBN13: 9780716727187 Why Zebras Dont Get Ulcers: A Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping by Ling Ma No Customer Reviews A look at the interconnections between emotion and physical well-being. An ancient ritual might heal you of anything-if you bury yourself alive. A toxic friendship grows up around a drug that makes you invisible. A woman lives in a house with all her ex-boyfriends. In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales of people making their way through the madness and reality of our collective delusions: love and loneliness, connection and possession, friendship, motherhood, the idea of home. What happens when fantasy tears the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our end? "Dazzling." -Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air Genius." -Michele Filgate, The Washington Post Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Story Prize, and a Windham-Campbell Literature PrizeĪ Best Book of the Year at The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, Houston Chronicle, Roxane Gay's The Audacity, Mashable, Polygon, Kirkus Reviews, and Library JournalĪ New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
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We are led to the thought that the laws of nature determine the probability of various futures and pasts. More on Richard Feynman, the buckyball experiment, and wave/particle duality. We are introduced to wave theory and the quantum theory of alternative histories.Īlternative histories. Things are not always as they seem, as Edwin Hubble showed us. What is reality? This chapter makes us question our mind's interpretation of reality. If nature is governed by laws, then three questions arise:Īre there any exceptions to the laws, i.e., miracles? This chapter defines what the idea of law is from earliest times to the present view of scientific determinism. In essence, things may not be as they seem, and introduces us to quantum theories, Richard Feynman, and not just one history, but every possible history. Touches on our model-dependent realism and opens the mind to other possible explanations. But then, of course, they immediately remember.Ĭan Linh and Bao find love in the midst of feuding families and complicated histories? Bao and Linh, who’ve avoided each other for most of their lives, both suspect that the feud stems from feelings much deeper than friendly competition.īut then a chance encounter brings Linh and Bao in the same vicinity despite their best efforts and sparks fly, leading them both to wonder what took so long for them to connect. The only problem? Her parents rely on her in ways they’re not willing to admit, including working practically full-time at her family’s pho restaurant.įor years, the Mais and the Nguyens have been at odds, having owned competing, neighboring pho restaurants. She loves art and dreams pursuing a career in it. Stable when unlit, but full of potential for joy and fire. If Linh Mai had to describe herself, she’d say she was a firecracker. He works at his parents’ pho restaurant, and even there, he is his parents’ fifth favorite employee. His grades are average, his social status unremarkable. Steady and strong, but not particularly interesting. If Bao Nguyen had to describe himself, he’d say he was a rock. I sat in my hunter green Range Rover, hands resting on my steering wheel, forehead resting on my hands, wondering what in the hell I was doing. Thank you, chickie, for being along for the Rock Chick Ride! Many, many thanks to Kelly Brown, the bestest best friend a girl could have and the best editor anyone could have. Who’s cooler than Lee, Eddie, Hank, Vance, Luke, Mace and Hector all put together. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Amazon and purchase your own copy. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. Colwell will share his personal journey to understand how repatriation has transformed both museums and tribes, along with the stories of four objects from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and how they were created, collected, and returned to their sources. This lecture presents Colwell’s new book, an unflinching insider’s view of the tangled debate over who owns the past. The repatriation controversy has grown in recent years as hundreds of tribes have used a landmark federal law to recover their looted heritage from American museums across the United States. He is the founding editor-in-chief of a popular online magazine about anthropological discoveries and thinking.įive decades ago, Native American leaders launched a crusade against museums to reclaim their sacred objects and to rebury their kin. 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To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Humboldt’s birth this year, Wulf has teamed up with artist Lillian Melcher to create The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, a graphic work of non-fiction depicting Humboldt’s five-year exploration of Latin America as a young man. The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt Andrea Wulf and Lillian Melcher Pantheon (2019)įour years ago, the historian Andrea Wulf rescued Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) from relative international obscurity with her delightful biography, The Invention of Nature. |