The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems
The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems

Author: Tomas Transtromer

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2011-12-08

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0811220176

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The collected poems of one of the world's greatest living writers, Tomas Transtromer, available in this comprehensive edition. In day's first hours consciousness can grasp the world as the hand grips a sun-warmed stone. Translated into fifty languages, the poetry of Tomas Transtromer has had a profound influence around the world, an influence that has steadily grown and has now attained a prominence comparable to that of Pablo Neruda's during his lifetime. But if Neruda is blazing fire, Transtromer is expanding ice. The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems gathers all the poems Tomas Transtromer has published, from his distinctive first collection in 1954, 17 Poems, through his epic poem Baltics ("my most consistent attempt to write music"), and The Sad Gondola, published six years after he suffered a debilitating stroke in 1990 ("I am carried in my shadow / like a violin / in its black case."), to his most recent slim book, The Great Enigma, published in Sweden in 2004. Also included is his prose-memoir Memories Look at Me, containing keys into his intensely spiritual, metaphysical poetry (like the brief passage of insect collecting on Runmaro Island when he was a teenager). Firmly rooted in the natural world, his work falls between dream and dream; it probes "the great unsolved love" with the opening up, through subtle modulations, of "concrete words."

The Great Fossil Enigma
The Great Fossil Enigma

Author: Simon J. Knell

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2012-11-06

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 025300604X

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Stephen Jay Gould borrowed from Winston Churchill when he described the conodont animal as a "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." This animal confounded science for more than a century. Some thought it a slug, others a fish, a worm, a plant, even a primitive ancestor of ourselves. The list of possibilities grew and yet an answer to the riddle never seemed any nearer. Would the animal that left behind these miniscule fossils known as conodonts ever be identified? Three times the animal was "found," but each was quite a different animal. Were any of them really the one? Simon J. Knell takes the reader on a journey through 150 years of scientific thinking, imagining, and arguing. Slowly the animal begins to reveal traces of itself: its lifestyle, its remarkable evolution, its witnessing of great catastrophes, its movements over the surface of the planet, and finally its anatomy. Today the conodont animal remains perhaps the most disputed creature in the zoological world.

Alan Turing: The Enigma
Alan Turing: The Enigma

Author: Andrew Hodges

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2014-11-10

Total Pages: 777

ISBN-13: 1400865123

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912–1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades—all before his suicide at age forty-one. This New York Times bestselling biography of the founder of computer science, with a new preface by the author that addresses Turing’s royal pardon in 2013, is the definitive account of an extraordinary mind and life. Capturing both the inner and outer drama of Turing’s life, Andrew Hodges tells how Turing’s revolutionary idea of 1936—the concept of a universal machine—laid the foundation for the modern computer and how Turing brought the idea to practical realization in 1945 with his electronic design. The book also tells how this work was directly related to Turing’s leading role in breaking the German Enigma ciphers during World War II, a scientific triumph that was critical to Allied victory in the Atlantic. At the same time, this is the tragic account of a man who, despite his wartime service, was eventually arrested, stripped of his security clearance, and forced to undergo a humiliating treatment program—all for trying to live honestly in a society that defined homosexuality as a crime. The inspiration for a major motion picture starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, Alan Turing: The Enigma is a gripping story of mathematics, computers, cryptography, and homosexual persecution.

Frederick the Great
Frederick the Great

Author: Robert B. Asprey

Publisher: Backinprint.com

Published: 2007-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780595469000

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A cradle-to-the-grave of one of the most intriguing rulers in history, King Frederick the Great who raised the small kingdom of Prussia to major power status in the turbulent military and political struggles of the 18th century. A cruel childhood forced him to lie, deceive and cheat in order to enjoy, if only for brief periods, the life of an intellectual. Once on the throne he spent many years of often brilliant field command of his army in seemingly endless campaigns. He remained an intellectual, however, an essayist, historian, poet, flautist, consorting when possible with the French writer Voltaire.

The Great Pyramid Void Enigma
The Great Pyramid Void Enigma

Author: Scott Creighton

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-06-29

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 1591434033

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• Analyzes ancient Coptic-Egyptian texts and evidence from astronomy and archaeology to show how the Big Void may be a grand “Hall of Ancestors” • Explores the controversy surrounding the discovery of the Big Void and debunks many of the theories regarding the purpose of this massive new “chamber” • Reveals how the Great Pyramid was built by Khufu as an indestructible “recovery vault” to help Egyptian civilization rebuild after an anticipated cataclysm In November 2017, an international team of more than 30 scientists published the results of their two-year-long Great Pyramid research project in the journal Nature. Using an advanced imaging technique known as muon radiography, three groups working independently from each other discovered a massive, previously unknown space within the Great Pyramid of Giza. Mainstream Egyptologists suggest that the “Big Void” is simply a stress-relieving device for the Grand Gallery. But, as Scott Creighton reveals, ancient Coptic-Egyptian texts describe exactly what the Big Void is. Exploring the controversy surrounding the Big Void, Creighton artfully debunks many of the theories about the purpose of this massive chamber as well as other long-held Egyptology beliefs. Analyzing the Coptic-Egyptian texts and evidence from astronomy, archaeology, and other sources, the author reveals how the Great Pyramid was built by Khufu as an indestructible recovery vault to help Egyptian civilization rebuild after a cataclysmic natural disaster--a rapid pole shift and subsequent deluge--predicted by his astronomer-priests. And the key component of the recovery vault would have been the Hall of the Ancestors, a sealed safe haven containing the mummified remains of the Osiris Kings, deceased pharaohs who would seek the benevolence of the gods to ensure Egypt’s recovery from the disaster.

The great enigma: God and Universe
The great enigma: God and Universe

Author: Léon Denis

Publisher: FEB Editora

Published: 2023-11-16

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 6555705884

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“During the burdensome hours of life, on days when you find yourself sad and despondent, open this book! With echoes of voices from above, it will give you courage; it will inspire you to be patient, to submit to the eternal laws!” – Thus states Léon Denis in the Introduction to the present work. The purpose of human existence and the law of destiny are the central themes of The Great Enigma, which reveals to us a God of justice, but also of infinite love. The work is structured in 3 parts: - The first part makes an analysis of the Universe in its harmonious and unified activity, relating physical phenomena to a greater power that is responsible for that balance: God; - The second part studies the elements of nature such as: the sky, the forest, the oceans and the mountains, striving to unveil the secret of eternal life via the history of the formation of the worlds; - The third part discusses the circular law, which “...presides over all the movements of the world,” explaining that “Each being gravitates in a circle; each life traces a circuit; all human history may be divided into cycles.”

Revelation: The Great Enigma
Revelation: The Great Enigma

Author: Dr. Nathan Ogan

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-09-09

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1329543246

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One of the most difficult portions of the New Testament to consider and discuss with any real sense of certainty is the book of Revelation. While its title in Greek means to "uncover," or "disclose," the book seems to be more confounding in its content than enlightening for contemporary readers. So we might ask, "How could such an elusive and complicated text come to be called Revelation?" Considering the diversity of opinions and interpretations of the book, would it be more fitting to call it The Great Enigma? Even the author himself seems perplexed at times by what he hears and sees... "Astonished" is the term he uses in Revelation 17:7. While my intent certainly isn't to disparage the author by inferring that the book defies beneficial definition, it is to face the truth of the rather perplexing place Revelation holds in Christian literature.

Dinosaurs in Your Backyard
Dinosaurs in Your Backyard

Author: Hugh Brewster

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Published: 2009-04-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780810970991

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Discusses species of dinosaurs found on the continent of North America 70 million years ago.