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Author: Frances Brody
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: 2018-02-13
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 1250154790
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Suspecting the true nature of a theater actress' invitation to a viewing party at a school chapel during an eclipse in 1927 Yorkshire, Kate Shackleton investigates the suspicious death of one of the actress' co-stars, the third to have died recently under mysterious circumstances. --Publisher.
Author: Kenneth R. Lang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-03-25
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 110701638X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explains how stars are born, how they evolve and their ultimate fates, for a broad general audience.
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2020-06-09
Total Pages: 800
ISBN-13: 0062797603
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“Timely, monumental. . . . Yet another piercing examination of American culture by the writer this reviewer considers our country's greatest living novelist. . . . It is brilliant. How blessed we are to have her as a novelist in our chaotic, confusing times. Night is spot on for these times of racial divide, as well as in portraying the fractious family dynamic that many of us know all too well. . . . Night deserves the top spot on your quarantine nightstand. Here's a fervent salute to Oates, our finest American novelist, for this one.” -- Star Tribune The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society by one of our most enduringly popular and important writers Night Sleep Death The Stars is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all. Stark and penetrating, Joyce Carol Oates’s latest novel is a vivid exploration of race, psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing, as well as an intimate family novel in the tradition of the author’s bestselling We Were the Mulvaneys.
Author: Rudolf Kippenhahn
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780691087818
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How are the nuclear power plants we call "stars" formed? Where do they get their energy and how do they die--and what does this suggest about the future of the universe? One of the most popular books written on astrophysics, 100 Billion Suns provides an exhilarating and authoritative life history of the stars.
Author: Jayson Greene
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2019-05-14
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1524733547
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“A gripping and beautiful book about the power of love in the face of unimaginable loss.” --Cheryl Strayed For readers of The Bright Hour and When Breath Becomes Air, a moving, transcendent memoir of loss and a stunning exploration of marriage in the wake of unimaginable grief. As the book opens: two-year-old Greta Greene is sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. A brick crumbles from a windowsill overhead, striking her unconscious, and she is immediately rushed to the hospital. But although it begins with this event and with the anguish Jayson and his wife, Stacy, confront in the wake of their daughter's trauma and the hours leading up to her death, Once More We Saw Stars quickly becomes a narrative that is as much about hope and healing as it is about grief and loss. Jayson recognizes, even in the midst of his ordeal, that there will be a life for him beyond it--that if only he can continue moving forward, from one moment to the next, he will survive what seems unsurvivable. With raw honesty, deep emotion, and exquisite tenderness, he captures both the fragility of life and absoluteness of death, and most important of all, the unconquerable power of love. This is an unforgettable memoir of courage and transformation--and a book that will change the way you look at the world.
Author: Philip C. Plait
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780670019977
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It's only a matter of time before a cosmic disaster spells the end of the Earth. But how concerned should we about about any of these catastrophic scenarios? And if they do post a danger, can anything be done to stop them?
Author: Frances Brody
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: 2017-09-12
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 1250098858
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published: Great Britain: Piatkus, 2016.
Author: Isaac Asimov
Publisher: Yearling
Published: 1991-09
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780440404460
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Considers how stars come into being, change and grow older, and eventually come to an end.
Author: Jacqualine Haller
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2021-05-07
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is inspired by a family's true story. In "Love You to the Stars and Back", the author, Jacqualine Haller writes about an experience she watched unfold while visiting her father in the hospital during the final months of his battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). Follow the story of her 4-year-old niece, who loved her Grandpa very much. Over time, Grandpa John gets sick and must go to the hospital to be taken care of by the doctors and nurses. This book is written to help explain where Grandpa eventually went, in a gentle, simple way for young children to understand.
Author: Catherine Strong
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-03
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 1317154517
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The untimely deaths of Amy Winehouse (2011) and Whitney Houston (2012), and the ’resurrection’ of Tupac Shakur for a performance at the Coachella music festival in April 2012, have focused the media spotlight on the relationship between popular music, fame and death. If the phrase ’sex, drugs and rock’n’roll’ ever qualified a lifestyle, it has left many casualties in its wake, and with the ranks of dead musicians growing over time, so the types of death involved and the reactions to them have diversified. Conversely, as many artists who fronted the rock’n’roll revolution of the 1950s and 1960s continue to age, the idea of dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse (which gave rise, for instance, to the myth of the ’27 Club’) no longer carries the same resonance that it once might have done. This edited collection explores the reception of dead rock stars, ’rock’ being taken in the widest sense as the artists discussed belong to the genres of rock’n’roll (Elvis Presley), disco (Donna Summer), pop and pop-rock (Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse), punk and post-punk (GG Allin, Ian Curtis), rap (Tupac Shakur), folk (the Dutchman André Hazes) and ’world’ music (Fela Kuti). When music artists die, their fellow musicians, producers, fans and the media react differently, and this book brings together their intertwining modalities of reception. The commercial impact of death on record sales, copyrights, and print media is considered, and the different justifications by living artists for being involved with the dead, through covers, sampling and tributes. The cultural representation of dead singers is investigated through obituaries, biographies and biopics, observing that posthumous fame provides coping mechanisms for fans, and consumers of popular culture more generally, to deal with the knowledge of their own mortality. Examining the contrasting ways in which male and female dead singers are portrayed in the media, the book
