(5) He gives numerous examples of the calculations or operations behind each basic step in applying the result. (4) He thinks in advance of the misunderstandings the students may have and discusses them as he lectures. If the answers to some questions are not yet known, he admits that. (3) He does not pretend that physics 'knows everything'. come from physical reality and which come from convenience or historical development. (2) He distinguishes between what definitions, notations, etc. (1) Feynman presents the intuitive thinking behind the discovery of each fundamental result so that the students can 'discover' it for themselves. These seven aspects of the presentation seem to be the basis: However the form in which the material was presented (Feynman's style of teaching) was an undeniable success. Some think they were very successful, others think they tried to teach too much, too soon, since many of the freshman students were lost in the presentation of relativity and quantum mechanics. This review applies to all three volumes of the Feynman Lectures on Physics.Īccording to the preface (original edition, 1964) these lectures were an experiment in physics teaching.
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In the course of the poem, that man plots his return home after fighting the Trojan War, slaughters the suitors vying to marry his wife Penelope, and reestablishes himself as the head of his household.īut the Odyssey is also about other people: Penelope, the nymph Calypso, the witch Circe, the princess Nausicaa Odysseus’s many shipmates who died before they could make it home the countless slaves in Odysseus’s house, many of whom are never named.Įmily Wilson, the first woman to translate the Odyssey into English, is as concerned with these surrounding characters as she is with Odysseus himself. It says so right at the beginning - in Robert Fagles’s 1996 translation, for example, the poem opens with the line, “Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns.” "A magical exercise in artful literary fiction. A bravura debut."- Megan Abbott, author of Dare Me Spell-binding and moving, it's the kind of novel that gets under your skin, moves your blood, your heart. 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It’s 2003 and Romy Hall, named after a German actress, is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and t he NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDĪn instant New York Times bestseller from two-time National Book Award finalist Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room earned tweets from Margaret Atwood-“gritty, empathic, finely rendered, no sugar toppings, and a lot of punches, none of them pulled”-and from Stephen King-“ The Mars Room is the real deal, jarring, horrible, compassionate, funny.” Jane with her rough edges and swoopy hair and soft smile, showing up in a leather jacket to save August’s day when she needed it most. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. And there’s certainly no chance of her subway commute being anything more than a daily trudge through boredom and electrical failures.īut then, there’s this gorgeous girl on the train. 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