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The Gravity of Love - Sara Stridsberg - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Gravity of Love - Sara Stridsberg - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

A dazzlingly inventive and acclaimed novel set in a Stockholm psychiatric hospital - by one of Sweden''s most exciting literary talents "I''ll put my head in the oven so you know where I am," he whispers, kissing her neck.Jim - charming, captivating, much loved by his women friends - has attempted suicide several times. Over his period of incarceration at the Beckomberga hospital for the mentally unstable, he voices his determination to succeed. Some day soon, he tells his daughter - as he has earlier told his mother and his wife - he will swallow sixty tablets, help them down with a bottle of whisky, and swim impossibly far out into the Atlantic.Will he, really? This question plagues Jim''s daughter, the narrator of this powerful novel, who is as addicted to the hospital as her father is to alcohol. Through her subtle observations we understand the emotional needs of diehard alcoholics, the rationally uxoricidal, and other seemingly normal inhabitants of a psychiatric unit in the process of shutting down, depriving them of the only place they have known as home.A Magic Mountain for our times, for readers of Eimear McBride and Alexander Masters. Translated from the Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner

DKK 127.00
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50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know - Joanne Baker - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know - Joanne Baker - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

We encounter physics before we''ve even left the house in the morning; an alarm clock tracks time, a mirror reflects light waves and our mobile phones rely on satellites held in their orbit by gravity. Where would we be without the Bernoulli equation to explain how planes fly, electromagnetic waves enabling us to communicate around the world or the discovery of X-rays? In 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know Joanne Baker will uncover the physics all around us, from basic concepts like gravity, light and energy through to the complexities of quantum theory, chaos and dark energy. Featuring short biographies of iconic physicists, explanatory diagrams and timelines showing discoveries within their historical context, this book is the perfect guide to the fundamental concepts of physics, making even the most challenging theories easy to understand. Contents include: Newton''s law of gravitation, Brownian motion, Chaos theory, Fleming''s right hand rule, Planck''s law, Heisenberg''s uncertainty principle, Schrodinger''s cat, Superconductivity, Rutherford''s atom, Nuclear fission and fusion, The God particle, String theory, Special and general relativity, The big bang and the Anthropic principle.

DKK 141.00
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The Rise of Superman - Steven Kotler - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Rise of Superman - Steven Kotler - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

A razor-sharp analysis of how record-breaking exploits in extreme sport are redefining the limits of being human. Right now, more people are risking their lives for their sports then ever before in history. As Thomas Pynchon once put it in Gravity''s Rainbow , ''it is not often that Death is told so clearly to f@%* off''. Over the past three decades, the bounds of the possible in action and adventure sports - from sky-diving to motocross to surfing and beyond - have been pushed farther and faster. A generation''s worth of iconoclastic misfits have rewritten the rules of the feasible; not just raising the bar, but obliterating it altogether. Along the way, they have become a force pushing evolution relentlessly onward. In a thrilling narrative that draws on biology, psychology, and philosophy, Steven Kotler asks why, at the tail end of the 20th century and the early portion of the 21st, are we seeing such a multi-sport assault on reality? Did we somehow slip through a wormhole to another universe where gravity is optional and common sense obsolete? And where - if anywhere - do our actual limits lie?

DKK 141.00
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Quantum Physics in Minutes - Gemma Lavender - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Quantum Physics in Minutes - Gemma Lavender - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Quantum physics is the most fundamental -- but also the most baffling -- branch of science. Allowing for dead-and-alive cats, teleportation, antimatter, and parallel universes, as well as underpinning all of our digital technology, it''s as important as it is mind-bending. This clear and compact book demystifies the strange and beautiful quantum world, and hence the nature of reality itself.Contents include: Schrodinger''s cat, inside the atom, the particle zoo, the Higgs boson, Heisenberg''s uncertainty principle, God playing dice, relativity, the Big Bang, dark energy and matter, black holes, the fate of the Universe, the Theory of Everything, quantum gravity, string theory, the multiverse, instant communication, quantum computing and cryptography, superconductivity, quantum biology, quantum consciousness, and much more. Written as a series of mini essays with 200 simple diagrams to help understanding, there can be no easier guide to this notoriously confusing subject. At last it''s possible for non-specialists to understand quantum theory and its central role in the birth of the universe and the very existence of life.

DKK 141.00
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The Antarctica of Love - Sara Stridsberg - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Antarctica of Love - Sara Stridsberg - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

" Compassionate and complex " Financial Times " Stridsberg writes with chilling poise " New York Times " A haunting portrait of the starkest meanings of love and family. Stridsberg''s literary talent left me awestruck " KATE REED PETTY, author of True Story **A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021** Inside me was voiceless silence, above me only bare defenceless sky and beneath me the earth''s unrelenting gravity, pulling me down The moment of Inni''s death will never end. Not ever. Murdered one summer''s day on a lake shore at the heart of a distant, rain-washed forest, she tells the story of the moment her life was violently extinguished by an anonymous man.But amidst that moment of death lies the story of what came before, and of the lives that carry on afterwards. This is the story of her children, her parents and the chain of choices, tragedies and accidents that lead her to a life on the streets and take her into the wrong crowd, the wrong places and, finally, the wrong car with the wrong person. The Antarctica of Love is the unflinching testimony of a woman on the margins, giving voice to the voiceless and offering an insight into depths of absolute vulnerability, brutality and isolation. Hauntingly beautiful yet at times disturbing, this is a devastating story of unexpected love, tenderness and light in the total darkness. Translated from Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner

DKK 120.00
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