The Nick Of Time

Author : Rosmarie Waldrop
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811230546
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nick of Time written by Rosmarie Waldrop and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosophical tour de force melding astrophysics and grief by the American maestra of the prose poem “If memory serves, it was five years ago that yours began to refuse,” Rosmarie Waldrop writes to her husband in The Nick of Time. “Does it feel like crossing from an open field into the woods, the sunlight suddenly switched off? Or like a roof without edge or frame, pushed sideways in time?” Ten years in the making, Waldrop’s phenomenally beautiful new collection explores the felt nature of existence as well as gravity and velocity, the second hemisphere of time, mortality and aging, language and immigration, a Chinese primer, the artist Hannah Höch, and dwarf stars. Of one sequence, “White Is a Color,” first published as a chapbook, the Irish poet Billy Mills wrote, “In what must be less than 1000 words, Waldrop says more about the human condition and how we explore it through words than most of us would manage in a thousand pages.” Love blooms in the cut, in the gap, in the nick between memory and thought, sentence and experience. Like the late work of Cézanne, Waldrop’s art has found a new way of seeing and thinking that “vibrates on multiple registers through endless, restless exploration” (citation for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize).

Author : Elizabeth Grosz
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822386038
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nick of Time written by Elizabeth Grosz and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-06 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pathbreaking philosophical work, Elizabeth Grosz points the way toward a theory of becoming to replace the prevailing ontologies of being in social, political, and biological discourse. Arguing that theories of temporality have significant and underappreciated relevance to the social dimensions of science and the political dimensions of struggle, Grosz engages key theoretical concerns related to the reality of time. She explores the effect of time on the organization of matter and on the emergence and development of biological life. Considering how the relentless forward movement of time might be conceived in political and social terms, she begins to formulate a model of time that incorporates the future and its capacity to supersede and transform the past and present. Grosz develops her argument by juxtaposing the work of three major figures in Western thought: Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Henri Bergson. She reveals that in theorizing time as an active, positive phenomenon with its own characteristics and specific effects, each of these thinkers had a profound effect on contemporary understandings of the body in relation to time. She shows how their allied concepts of life, evolution, and becoming are manifest in the work of Gilles Deleuze and Luce Irigaray. Throughout The Nick of Time, Grosz emphasizes the political and cultural imperative to fundamentally rethink time: the more clearly we understand our temporal location as beings straddling the past and the future without the security of a stable and abiding present, the more transformation becomes conceivable.

Author : Ted Bell
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 9781429938501
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nick of Time written by Ted Bell and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2008-05-13 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick of Time is the first young reader's book written by bestselling author Ted Bell - a wondrous tale of time travel, adventure, and riches, in which twelve-year-old Nick McIver sets out to become "the hero of his own life." The setting is England, 1939, on the eve of war. Nick and his younger sister, Kate, live in a lighthouse on the smallest of the Channel Islands. Nick and Kate come to the aid of their father who is engaged in a desperate war of espionage with German U-boat wolf packs that are circling the islands. The information they provide to Winston Churchill is vital as he tries to warn England of the imminent Nazi invasion. One day Nick discovers an old sea chest, left for him by his ancestor, Captain Nicholas McIver of the Royal Navy. Inside, he finds a time machine and a desperate plea for help from the captain. He uses the machine to return to the year 1805. Captain McIver and, indeed, Admiral Nelson's entire fleet are threatened by the treachery of the French and the mutinous Captain Billy Blood. Nick must reach deep inside, using his wits, courage, and daring to rescue the imperiled British sailors. His sister, Kate, meanwhile, has enlisted the aid of two of England's most brilliant "scientific detectives," Lord Hawke and Commander Hobbes, to thwart the invading Nazis. She and Nick must face England's underwater enemies, a challenge made all the more difficult when they discover the existence of Germany's supersecret submarine. In this striking adventure for readers of all ages, Nick must fight ruthless enemies across two different centuries, on land and sea, to help defeat those determined to destroy his home and his family.

Author : Tim Downs
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1595549773
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nick of Time written by Tim Downs and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bug Man is getting married on Saturday . . . if his fiancΘe can find him. Forensic entomologist Nick Polchak lives in a world of maggots and blow flies and decomposing bodies. No wonder he's still single. But Nick has finally found a woman as strange as he isùdog trainer Alena Savard, a woman who is odd, reclusive, and can seemingly talk to animals. It was a match made in heaven. Nick and Alena are scheduled to be married on Saturdayùbut there's one small problem. Nick has disappeared. Caught up in a murder case involving an old friend, Nick finds himself on a manhunt that's drawing him farther and farther from the church where Alena is waiting. But will he make it back in time? Could Nick's single-minded focus cause him to forget his own wedding? Is he really pursuing a killer, or is he running away from something else?

Author : David Savitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999472842
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just in the Nick of Time written by David Savitz and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 19-year-old accused of killing his parents is diagnosed with an unusual psychiatric disorder and spends a torturous six years in the Colorado judicial and mental health systems before his case suffers an unexpected end.

Author : Francis King
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 9781447258148
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nick of Time (Bello) written by Francis King and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A book dealing with modern problems and rightly longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. King is a writer's writer, his voice utterly convincing' Beryl Bainbridge, Books of the Year, Daily Telegraph Francis King's provocative and adventurous novel looks at the havoc wrought when a young Kosovan - an illegal immigrant - finds himself in London. Mehmet leads a double life befriending and lodging with an elderly woman who suffers from MS, while at the same time having an affair with a female doctor and throwing himself onto the London gay scene. Disaster looms when he begins a relationship with a gay protector - and is arrested because of his illegal status.

Author : Robert Swindells
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446498832
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Nick of Time written by Robert Swindells and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte is out in the woods on her own one day when something mysterious happens - she walks along a row of stones laid like stepping stones on the forest floor . . . and finds herself in another age. She has somehow slipped back to 1955, and is now, in the same woods, on the site of a very unique school, an open-air school for sick city children. No one believes her tales of the world she's come from, her mobile doesn't work and she can't see how on earth she's going to get back. A friendship with another pupil proves the key - is Jack more than he seems?

Author : Deedee Cummings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781951218201
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Nick of Time written by Deedee Cummings and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick Saint never really put a lot of thought into his name until one snowy day in December when he accidentally receives a letter meant for Saint Nick. Realizing there is not much time left until Christmas, Nick opens the letter. The unexpected message inside ultimately leads him on a journey of understanding poverty, gratitude, and service to others while discovering the real meaning of the holiday spirit. Nick's actions and kindness are filled with heartwarming results that even please Santa Claus himself! An endearing story of a little brown boy who helps Santa save Christmas.Children of all ages and backgrounds who read In the Nick of Time will understand that sometimes the smallest act of kindness can take up the biggest space in someone else's heart.

Author : George Alec Effinger
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497609348
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nick of Time written by George Alec Effinger and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world’s first time traveler embarks on a multiverse misadventure in this madcap novel from “one of SF’s distinctively nutty voices!” (Chicago Tribune). Time travel: been there, done that … or at least Frank Mihalik has. On February 17, 1996, Frank discovers the secret to time-travel, or at least he thought he had. He must embark on a voyage through time and space in order to set things right. He must survive parallel universes in which--Oh my!--Shirley Temple plays the awesome role of Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz"! Only his love, Cheryl, can save him, but he is almost tricked by a parallel-dimension Cheryl and potentially wrecks his love life. How will Frank survive this wild jerk through these dark counter-universes? And will our universe ever be the same?

Author : Mark Bego
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815412487
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bonnie Raitt written by Mark Bego and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the definitive biography of the Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter and political activist whose career rose rapidly in the 1970's, stalled in the 1980's, and resurged in the 1990's.