The Science of Interstellar by Kip Thorne [336 pages, W. W. Norton & Company, 2014; Amazon UK paperback/kindle UK; Amazon US paperback/audio CD/kindle US] Publisher's synopsis: Interstellar, from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, takes us on a fantastic voyage far beyond our solar system.
This is the nightmare territory of Cornell Woolrich, David Goodis and other American pulp authors much loved by Série noire readers, and Pawlikowski takes us on an edgy voyage au bout de la nuit.
The book takes us on vertiginous voyages backwards and forward in time, from the present of the war, to the past, to the postwar future where Evans, his comrades and the Japanese live a kind of half-life in the shadow of their wartime experiences.
This is patronizing to women and undermines one of the core purposes of literature, which is to take us on voyages beyond the scope of our personal experience so that we expand in our understanding and capacity for empathy.
He took her on a voyage to China where she was one of the first white women to visit the wives of a Chinese, her husband's agent.
Gilroy's new script took Bourne on a voyage to Russia to apologize to a girl whom he had orphaned.
Under the guidance of the extraordinary Stephen Hawking, Prospero took Miranda and the rest of us on a voyage of scientific discovery, celebrating the Enlightenment that brought rationality to unlock the secrets of nature and to advance the rights of man.
$17. (Ages 4 to 8) Through a magical use of cut paper, Jenkins takes the reader on a voyage to the deepest part of the ocean.
Through the almost magical use of cut paper, Jenkins takes the reader on a voyage from the surface to the sunlit shallows to the very bottom of the sea.
Dream was built by Halter Marine of Louisiana three years ago for a North Carolina real-estate developer who used to own a conventional yacht and wanted to take his family on a voyage to Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand.
