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No Wisdom Without Folly: The Extraordinary Life Of Francois Englert, Nobel Laureate
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 291

No Wisdom Without Folly: The Extraordinary Life Of Francois Englert, Nobel Laureate

This book is a biography of François Englert, the first Belgian Nobel Laureate in Physics. Jointly awarded to him and British physicist Peter Higgs, the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics was celebrated for the understanding of the origin of massive particles in the emerging Universe, one of the most important breakthroughs in Physics in the second half of the 20th century.From his childhood as the son of Jewish emigrants, a 'hidden child' during the Second World War, a rebellious youth — still a rebel fond of poetry and music, aware of the 'sound and fury' of the world — to his achievements as a physicist and his contributions that won the Nobel Prize, readers will find the life story of Fran...

Theoretical Physics For The Masses
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 198

Theoretical Physics For The Masses

Written for the general reader, this book provides an overview of modern theoretical physics, focusing on the history and development of theoretical physics over the past century, while providing supplemental mathematical derivations for the more advanced reader.It tells the ongoing challenges to unify theories for the fundamental forces of nature, and reveals the interplay of the foundations of classical mechanics and Maxwell's equations, special and general relativity theory, quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, the standard model of particle physics, the theoretical framework of string theory, the cosmological theory for the evolution of the universe, and the theory of black holes.This subject matter brings forth the most interesting and revolutionary ideas in modern theoretical physics, taking the reader through a fascinating journey with a broad overview of the evolving universe that we live in.

Making the World Clean
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 261

Making the World Clean

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2025-01-21
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

An antiracist theory of cleaning. In Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism, Françoise Vergès examines the racial and gendered politics of wasting lands, bodies, and resources and the organized deprivation of clean water, shelter, and access to health services—in other words, the structural denial, along racial lines, of vital needs. Through 38 short sections, she looks at the social relations that have made cleaning into drudgery and into a racialized, gendered, poorly paid job that is nevertheless necessary for any society to function. She concludes with the proposition of a feminist, decolonial, antiracist, anti-patriarchal, and anti-capitalist...

From Will to Well
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 499

From Will to Well

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Olivetti quatre-vingt-deux
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 62

Olivetti quatre-vingt-deux

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Le Bouddha de Ceylan
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 76

Le Bouddha de Ceylan

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L'amateur
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 44

L'amateur

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Célibat
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 68

Célibat

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Un Polonais au noir
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 102

Un Polonais au noir

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Les mariages de Lea
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 84

Les mariages de Lea

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