![]() This engaging biography follows Wu Chien Shiung as she battles sexism and racism to become what Newsweek magazine called the “Queen of Physics” for her work on beta decay. Giving her a name meaning “Courageous Hero,” they encouraged her love of learning and science. ![]() When Wu Chien Shiung was born in China 100 years ago, most girls did not attend school no one considered them as smart as boys. “ Wu Chien Shiung's story is remarkable-and so is the way this book does it justice.” -Booklist (Starred review) Meet Wu Chien Shiung, famous physicist who overcame prejudice to prove that she could be anything she wanted. ![]()
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![]() Estimates for Thucydides’ date of birth (c.460) hinge on his probable age upon entering military service. ![]() During 20 years of exile, he worked on his history-collecting information, writing and revising. He wrote of his exile: “It was…my fate to be an exile from my country for twenty years after my command at Amphipolis and being present with both parties, and more especially with the Peloponnesians by reason of my exile, I had leisure to observe affairs more closely.” In 424, he was given command of a fleet, but was then exiled for failing to reach the city of Amphipolis in time to prevent its capture by the Spartans. He was born in the Athenian suburb of Halimos and was in Athens during the plague of c.430 B.C., a year after the war began. ![]() ![]() His father’s name was Olorus, and his family was from Thrace in northeastern Greece, where Thucydides owned gold mines that likely financed his historical work. Little is known about Thucydides’ life apart from the few biographical references in his masterwork. ![]() ![]() ![]() I would also add, more specifically, that I think the culture is ready for the kind of love story that transcends gender and time. It is all there, in Homer too: our past, present and future, inspiration and condemnation both. ![]() Every day on the front page of the newspaper is an Iliad of woes-from the self-serving Agamemnons to the manipulative, double-speaking Odysseuses, from the senseless loss of life in war to the brutal treatment of the conquered. These stories have endured this long, moving generation after generation of readers-they must, still, have something important to tell us about ourselves. And especially at this fractured and shifting historical moment, I think people are looking back to the past for insight. ![]() ![]() To borrow Ben Jonson, they are not “of an age, but for all time.” Human nature and its attendant folly, passion, pride and generosity has not changed in the past three thousand years, and is always relevant. But the stories of ancient Greece-the Iliad foremost among them-are exactly what this cliché was made for. Q.: Do the Greek myths really matter in our modern world of cutting-edge technology and tenuous global politics?Ī.: It can be a cliché to call a story timeless. ![]() ![]() ![]() With It Chapter Two set to open (and possibly top its predecessor’s record-setting box office) all of those previously comprehensive rankings of King’s film adaptations will be reshuffled given his prolificacy, we’ll be doing this until the Maine Coast is underwater (we’ll float, too). Some of King’s best novels have made for lousy movies, while minor efforts have been translated brilliantly by imaginative filmmakers, and faithfulness isn’t a particularly useful barometer for quality: from Carrie and The Shining to The Shawshank Redemption and The Mist, the King-branded films that have endured have displayed a willingness to rework and revise their core texts, sometimes to a startling degree. And the films produced out of his source material vary about as wildly in quality as the books themselves-although not necessarily at a 1-to-1 ratio. With more than 80 credited adaptations of his novels and short stories, King has provided more grist for the Hollywood mill-its gleaming studios and dingy grindhouses alike-than any other author of the last half-century. They are both fruit but they taste completely different.” This is not the greatest analogy in the world, but it’s the one we’ve got on the record from Stephen King about the two mediums that have made him a household name. “Books and movies are like apples and oranges. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His notable works include the novels Norwegian Wood (1987), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994–95), Kafka on the Shore (2002), and 1Q84 (2009–10), with 1Q84 ranked as the best work of Japan's Heisei era (1989–2019) by the national newspaper Asahi Shimbun 's survey of literary experts. Growing up in Kobe before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel Hear the Wind Sing (1979) after working as the owner of a small jazz bar for seven years. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, and the Jerusalem Prize. ![]() His novels, essays, and short stories have been bestsellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. Haruki Murakami ( 村上 春樹, Murakami Haruki, born Janu) is a Japanese writer. ![]() |