Download or read book Richter 10 written by Arthur C. Clarke and published by RosettaBooks. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political and environmental disasters come crashing down in this earthquake sci-fi thriller co-written by the authors of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Memories. When he was seven years old, Lewis Crane survived the Los Angeles earthquake of 1994—but his parents did not. Haunted by the tragedy, Crane has dedicated his life to protecting humanity from similar disasters. Now he is a Nobel Prize–winning earthquake scientist who perfected equipment sensitive enough to predict an earthquake strike down to the minute. And he wants to go further. Crane has formed an organization to explore the idea of stopping earthquakes entirely by fusing the Earth’s tectonic plates together. But what effect will this have on the earth? And as political unrest causes tremors of another kind, can Crane’s audacious plan stop another major earthquake due to hit the United States? Co-written by Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Arthur C. Clarke and Philip K. Dick Award–winning author Mike McQuay, the “two formidable SF talents converge splendidly in this disaster thriller, which offers sleek action-adventure writing, world-class tumult and a coherent near-future based on sound yet innovative social and scientific speculation” (Publishers Weekly).
Download or read book Richter Ten written by Arthur Charles Clarke and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 1996 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years after the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake killed his family, Lewis Crane has become the world's top seismologist, determined to protect people from his parent's fate. But in a world controlled by Chinese corporations and split by racist and religious strife, many don't want him to succeed.
Download or read book Marga Richter written by Sharon Mirchandani and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length introduction to the life and works of significant American composer Marga Richter (born 1926), who has written more than one hundred works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, dance, opera, voice, chorus, piano, organ, and harpsichord. Still actively composing in her eighties, Richter is particularly known for her large-scale works performed by ensembles such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and for other pieces performed by prominent artists including pianist Menahem Pressler, conductor Izler Solomon, and violinist Daniel Heifetz. Interspersing consideration of Richter's musical works with discussion of her life, her musical style, and the origins and performances of her works, Sharon Mirchandani documents a successful composer's professional and private life throughout the twentieth century. Covering Richter's formative years, her influences, and the phases of her career from the 1950s to the present, Mirchandani closely examines Richter's many interesting, attractive musical works that draw inspiration from distinctly American, Irish/English, and Asian sources. Drawing extensively on interviews with the composer, Mirchandani also provides detailed descriptions of Richter's scores and uses reviews and other secondary sources to provide contexts for her work, including their relationship to modern dance, to other musical styles, and to 1970s feminism.
Download or read book Richter Ten written by Arthur Charles Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Near-future story of the struggle to avoid the most colossal destructive earthquake in human history.
Download or read book Kurt Richter written by Alan McGowan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German master Kurt Richter (1900-1969) made significant contributions to the chess world as a player, and as an editor and author. Unassuming in real life, Richter was a fearsome opponent who expressed himself mainly through his over-the-board results, as well as through his chess journalism and literary output. He was responsible for several innovative openings, some of which gained renewed status in later years. This overview of his life and games sheds light on a player who should be better known, with much never-before-seen material. Examples of his entertaining writings on chess are included, some featuring his fictitious student opponent, Dr. Zabel. A wide selection of games illustrates the surprising combinations and brilliant style of play that earned him the title "The Executioner of Berlin."
Download or read book Curt Richter written by Jay Schulkin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first half of the twentieth century, psychology was a discipline in search of scientific legitimacy. Debates raged over how much of human and animal behavior is instinctive and how much is learned, and how behavior could be quantified accurately. At the Johns Hopkins University's new Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, Curt P. Richter stood aside from these heated theoretical arguments, choosing instead to apply his data-collection methods, innovative measurement techniques, playful sense of exploration, and consummate surgical skill to laboratory examinations of the biological basis of behavior. From identifying the biological clocks that govern behavior and physiology to observing the self-regulation of nutrient levels by the body, the cyclical nature of some mental illnesses, and the causes of hopelessness, Richter's wide-ranging discoveries not only influenced the burgeoning field of psychobiology and paved the way for later researchers but also often had implications for the treatment of patients in the clinic. At the time of his death in 1988, Richter left behind a massive collection of laboratory data. For this book, Jay Schulkin mined six decades of Richter's archived research data, personal documents, and interviews to flesh out an engaging portrait of a "laboratory artisan" in the context of his work.
Download or read book Hans Richter written by Andres Janser and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A translation into book form of Die neue wohnung (New living), a film about the modern dwelling at WOBA, the first Swiss housing exhibition in Basel, directed by avant-garde filmmaker Hans Richter.
Download or read book General Catalog written by Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Official Summary of Security Transactions and Holdings Reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Richter s Scale written by Susan Elizabeth Hough and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By developing the scale that bears his name, Charles Richter not only invented the concept of magnitude as a measure of earthquake size, he turned himself into nothing less than a household word. He remains the only seismologist whose name anyone outside of narrow scientific circles would likely recognize. Yet few understand the Richter scale itself, and even fewer have ever understood the man. Drawing on the wealth of papers Richter left behind, as well as dozens of interviews with his family and colleagues, Susan Hough takes the reader deep into Richter's complex life story, setting it in the context of his family and interpersonal attachments, his academic career, and the history of seismology. Among his colleagues Richter was known as intensely private, passionately interested in earthquakes, and iconoclastic. He was an avid nudist, seismologists tell each other with a grin; he dabbled in poetry. He was a publicity hound, some suggest, and more famous than he deserved to be. But even his closest associates were unaware that he struggled to reconcile an intense and abiding need for artistic expression with his scientific interests, or that his apparently strained relationship with his wife was more unconventional but also stronger than they knew. Moreover, they never realized that his well-known foibles might even have been the consequence of a profound neurological disorder. In this biography, Susan Hough artfully interweaves the stories of Richter's life with the history of earthquake exploration and seismology. In doing so, she illuminates the world of earth science for the lay reader, much as Sylvia Nasar brought the world of mathematics alive in A Beautiful Mind.
Download or read book The Missionary Herald written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1828-1934 contain the Proceedings at large of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
Download or read book Patents for Inventions written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Supplement to the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art written by National Art Library (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to the Choice of Classical Books written by Joseph Bickersteth Mayor and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the State Association of the Young Men s Christian Associations of the State of New York written by Young Men's Christian Associations of the State of New York and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gerhard Richter written by Sheena Wagstaff and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2020 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of his acclaimed 60-year career, Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) has employed both representation and abstraction as a means of reckoning with the legacy, collective memory, and national sensibility of post–WWII Germany, in both broad and very personal terms. This handsomely designed book spans the artist’s rich and varied oeuvre from the early 1960s to the present, including photo paintings, portraits, large-scale abstract series, and works on glass. Essays by leading experts on the artist illuminate Richter’s preoccupation with painting in relation to other modes of representation, and emphasize the ongoing importance of the medium’s formal and conceptual possibilities in contemporary art.
