Author: Louis Sachar
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Keywords: holes
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-09-02
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0374332665
ISBN-13: 9780374332662
"If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy." Such is the reigning philosophy at Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention facility where there is no lake, and there are no happy campers. In place of what used to be "the largest lake in Texas" is now a dry, flat, sunburned wasteland, pocked with countless identical holes dug by boys improving their character. Stanley Yelnats, of palindromic name and ill-fated pedigree, has landed at Camp Green Lake because it seemed a better option than jail. No matter that his conviction was all a case
Author: Louis Sachar
Publisher: Yearling
Keywords: holes
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-03-11
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0440419468
ISBN-13: 9780440419464
Check out the Holes tour with Louis Sachar!Monday, October 20th, 7:00 p.m. Anderson’s Bookshop, Naperville, ILTuesday, October 21st, 7:00 p.m., Barnes & Noble, Skokie, ILWednesday, October 22nd, 7:00 p.m., Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop, Brookfield, WIThursday, October 23rd, 7:00 p.m., Red Balloon Bookshop, St. Paul, MNFriday, October 24th, 7:00 p.m. Wayzata Community Church, Wayzata, MNMonday, October 27th, 7:00 p.m., Tattered Cover Bookstore, Highlands Ranch, COTuesday, October 28th, 7:00 p.m., Borders, Aurora, COStanley Yelnats tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humoro
Author: Robert Holman
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Keywords: skin, holes
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2004-04-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1854597477
ISBN-13: 9781854597472
Robert Holman’s gripping new play explores the nature of violence and the possibility of redemption."Hypnotic . . . a shimmering, wistful evocation of lost innocence."—The London TimesHolman is also the author ofMaking Noise QuietlyandBad Weather
Author: Jean-Pierre Luminet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: holes, black
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1992-08-28
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0521409063
ISBN-13: 9780521409063
Dr. Jean-Pierre Luminet makes the subject of black holes accessible to any interested reader, who will need no mathematical background. The reader of this book will feel that the developments in modern astrophysics are as fascinating to discover and digest as the most fantastic science fiction novels. While answering such questions, the author takes us on a fabulous journey through space and time. We travel into the realms of supernovae, X-ray stars and quasars--a journey to the very edge of the universe and to the limits of contemporary physics.
Author: Minas Kafatos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: holes, black, supermassive
Number of Pages: 382
Published: 1988-02-26
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0521342465
ISBN-13: 9780521342469
This volume is based on the Third George Mason University Workshop in Astrophysics. A group of experts discusses our present understanding of supermassive black holes, which may be the energy source of quasars and active galactic nuclei.
Author: Phil Penne
Publisher: PublishAmerica
Keywords: holes, rabbit, forty
Number of Pages: 178
Published: 2007-01-22
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1424163757
ISBN-13: 9781424163755
Forty Rabbit Holes. Strange name for a book. "Rabbit holes" are those secret places to which our minds go to escape the occasional drudgery or unpleasantness of everyday existence. Each story in this book is designed to take you down a new rabbit hole to a place you wish you were--or, on occasion, to a place you may need to be, whether or not it is obvious to you. The stories are flights of fancy, daydreams put to paper, designed to jump-start your imagination and awaken that part of your brain grown stagnant by the predictability of everyday living. But these aren’t
Author: Robert M. Wald
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: stars, relativistic, holes, black
Number of Pages: 285
Published: 1999-04-01
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0226870359
ISBN-13: 9780226870359
A comprehensive summary of progress made during the past decade on the theory of black holes and relativistic stars, this collection includes discussion of structure and oscillations of relativistic stars, the use of gravitational radiation detectors, observational evidence for black holes, cosmic censorship, numerical work related to black hole collisions, the internal structure of black holes, black hole thermodynamics, information loss and other issues related to the quantum properties of black holes, and recent developments in the theory of black holes in the context of string theory.Volum
