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This collection of nearly forty essays in honor of the noted
physicist and cosmologist Engelbert Schucking spans the gamut of
research in Einsteins theory of general relativity and presents a
lively and personal account of current work in the field.
Indispensable for physicists involved in research in the field, the
book includes important chapters by noted theorists such as A.
Ashtekar, P.G. Bergmann, J. Ehlers, E.T. Newman, J.V. Narlikar, R.
Penrose, D.W. Sciama, J. Stachel, and W. Rindler.
This collection of nearly forty essays in honor of the noted
physicist and cosmologist Engelbert Schucking spans the gamut of
research in Einsteins theory of general relativity and presents a
lively and personal account of current work in the field.
Indispensable for physicists involved in research in the field, the
book includes important chapters by noted theorists such as A.
Ashtekar, P.G. Bergmann, J. Ehlers, E.T. Newman, J.V. Narlikar, R.
Penrose, D.W. Sciama, J. Stachel, and W. Rindler.
Song Noir examines the formative first decade of Tom Waits’
career, when he lived, wrote and recorded nine albums in Los
Angeles; from his soft, folk-inflected debut, Closing Time (1973),
to the abrasive, surreal Swordfishtrombones (1983). Starting his
song-writing career in the ’70s, Waits absorbed la’s wealth of
cultural influences. Combining the spoken idioms of writers like
Kerouac and Bukowski with jazz-blues rhythms, he explored the
city’s literary and film noir traditions to create hallucinatory
dreamscapes. Waits mined a rich seam of the city’s low-life
locations and characters, letting the place feed his dark
imagination. Mixing the domestic with the mythic, Waits turned
quotidian, autobiographical details into something more disturbing
and emblematic; a vision of la as the warped, narcotic heart of his
nocturnal explorations.
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