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Come on a journey into the heart of matter,and enjoy the
process!,as a brilliant scientist and entertaining tour guide takes
you on a fascinating voyage through the Periodic Kingdom, the world
of the elements. The periodic table, your map for this trip, is the
most important concept in chemistry. It hangs in classrooms and
labs throughout the world, providing support for students,
suggesting new avenues of research for professionals, succinctly
organizing the whole of chemistry. The one hundred or so elements
listed in the table make up everything in the universe, from
microscopic organisms to distant planets. Just how does the
periodic table help us make sense of the world around us? Using
vivid imagery, ingenious analogies, and liberal doses of humour P.
W. Atkins answers this question. He shows us that the Periodic
Kingdom is a systematic place. Detailing the geography, history and
governing institutions of this imaginary landscape, he demonstrates
how physical similarities can point to deeper affinities, and how
the location of an element can be used to predict its properties.
Here's an opportunity to discover a rich kingdom of the imagination
kingdom of which our own world is a manifestation.
What does it mean to create, not in “a room of one’s own” but
in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In
The Baby on the Fire Escape, award-winning biographer Julie
Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and
creativity converge. With fierce empathy and vivid prose, Phillips
evokes the intimate struggles of brilliant artists and writers,
including Doris Lessing, who had to choose between her motherhood
and herself; Ursula K. Le Guin, who found productive stability in
family life; Audre Lorde, whose queer, polyamorous union allowed
her to raise children on her own terms and Alice Neel, who once, to
finish a painting, was said to have left her baby on the fire
escape of her New York apartment. A meditation on maternal identity
and artistic greatness, The Baby on the Fire Escape illuminates
some of the most pressing conflicts in contemporary women’s
lives.
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