![]() ![]() We have been here before: For James Baldwin, these after times came in the wake of the civil rights movement, when a similar attempt to compel a national confrontation with the truth was answered with the murders of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. From Charlottesville to the policies of child separation at the border, his administration turned its back on the promise of Obama's presidency and refused to embrace a vision of the country shorn of the insidious belief that white people matter more than others. Glaude Jr., in a moment when the struggles of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America have been challenged by the election of Donald Trump, a president whose victory represents yet another failure of America to face the lies it tells itself about race. In our own moment, when that confrontation feels more urgently needed than ever, what can we learn from his struggle? ![]() NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This concept serves us well on our little planet and at the leisurely pace that we, as macroscopic objects, live - but it is wrong. We experience time as something that ticks by steadily, as something that can be divided up into slots and dedicated to different tasks, as something fleeting and directional. The Order of Time is a guide to time as physicists understand it today: how discoveries have washed away the familiar notion of clock time and how physicists have been rebuilding the concept of time ever since. He is best known to non-academics for his previous book, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, which takes the reader on a similarly elegant and accessible approach to introducing the weirdness of modern physics.Īnd if there’s one thing you’ll be thinking at the end of The Order of the Time (Penguin, £12.99, ISBN 9780735216105) it may well be: “Modern physics is weird”. Its author, Carlo Rovelli, is a founder of the theory of loop quantum gravity: a theory which unifies gravity and quantum physics in a common framework. What makes The Order of Time stand out is its brevity and its unapologetically poetic style. There is a growing mountain of well-written popular science books exploring particles, parallel universes and everything in between, often penned by renowned physicists. ![]() It’s a great time to be a non-physicist who enjoys a spot of string theory or thermodynamics in their spare time. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Changeling Sea, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1988. Riddle of the Stars (trilogy contains The Riddle-Master of Hed, Heir of Sea and Fire, and Harpist in the Wind), Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1979, published as Chronicles of Morgan, Prince of Hed, Future Publications (London, England), 1979, published as Riddle-Master: The Complete Trilogy, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1999. Harpist in the Wind (third book in trilogy), Atheneum (New York, NY), 1979. Heir of Sea and Fire (second book in trilogy), Atheneum (New York, NY), 1977. ![]() The Riddle-Master of Hed (first book in trilogy), Atheneum (New York, NY), 1976. The Night Gift, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1976. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1974. The Throme of the Erril of Sherill, Atheneum ( New York, NY), 1973. The House on Parchment Street, Atheneum ( New York, NY), 1973. ![]() World Fantasy Award for best novel, 1975, and American Library Association Notable Book selection, both for The Forgotten Beasts of Eld Hugo Award nomination, World Science Fiction Convention, 1979, for Harpist in the Wind Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for adult literature, 1995, for Something Rich and Strange World Fantasy Award for best novel and Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for adult literature, both 2003, both for Ombria in Shadow. Education: San Jose State University, B.A., 1971, M.A., 1973. Born February 29, 1948, in Salem, OR daughter of Wayne T. ![]() |