GAIL DIXON

Stephen Hawking var verdens mest begavede teoretiske fysiker siden Einstein. Han var kanskje vårt største vitenskapelige geni i moderne tid, og som populærvitenskapelig forfatter forklarte han på mesterlig vis vanskelige temaer for vanlige folk. I tillegg var Hawking en ivrig forkjemper for sosiale og politiske saker, som funksjonshemmedes rettigheter. Stephen Hawking på 3 minutter er en rask introduksjon til dette eksepsjonelle geniet. Denne mikroskopiske biografien deler opp Hawkings liv i 3 minutter lange småbiter, som hver serveres som et lett fordøyelig festmåltid. Les boken og få universet servert på sølvfat. Paul Parsons er vitenskapsforfatter med doktorgrad i kosmologi. Han er tidligere redaktør i det prisbelønte månedlige vitenskaps- og teknologitidsskriftet BBC Focus. Han var rådgivende redaktør for 30-Second Theories og skriver populærvitenskapelige artikler for alt fra Daily Telegraph til Men s Health. Gail Dixon er journalist og redaktør med mange års erfaring og har jobbet som ansvarlig redaktør for BBC Focus. Sammen med Paul Parsons er hun medredaktør for The Periodic Table (2013) og 50 Science Ideas You Really Need to Know?.

The key concepts of science explained in 50 insightful essays

The Periodic Table is one of the most recognizable images in science - and in our culture. Its 118 elements make up everything on our planet and in the entire universe. But how many of us actually know how to interpret its distinctive design? And what does its unique arrangement tell us about the behaviour of each element in the world around us? The Periodic Table looks at the fascinating story and surprising history of each of these elements, from the little-known uses of gold in medicine to that of arsenic as a wallpaper dye in the ninteenth-century and the development of the hydrogen bomb. Packed with interesting facts and figures and helpful illustrations, this accessible guide will help the armchair chemist navigate through the different groups of elements - and discover the world afresh.

Studying the man considered to be the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Albert Einstein, this biography of Stephen Hawking brings readers closer to one of the greatest living scientific geniuses. While obviously a brilliant scientific mind, Hawking has also succeeded in revealing some of the most complex topics to ordinary minds through his books and is a vocal campaigner for social and political issues, including the rights of disabled people. Written in an accessible language, this brief biography provides an introduction to this exceptional genius through three-minute bits of text that are both manageable and riveting. Estudiando al hombre considerado como el fisico teorico mas brillante desde Albert Einstein, esta biografia de Stephen Hawking acerca al lector a uno de los cientificos vivientes mas importantes de la actualidad. Aunque es obviamente una mente cientifica brillante, Hawking tambien ha logrado explicar algunos de los temas mas complejos a mentes comunes mediante sus libros y es muy vocal en asuntos sociales y politicos, tales como los derechos para las personas con impedimentos. Escrita en un lenguaje accesible, esta breve biografia provee una introduccion a este genio excepcional mediante trozos de texto de tres minutos cada uno que son tanto manejables como fascinantes."

Harry Freedman has been an important and respected figure in Canadian music for over half a century, and his productivity as a composer has been both prodigious and eclectic. Born in Poland in 1922 and raised in Winnipeg, Freedman studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music and played English Horn with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He resigned in 1970 to become the orchestra's first composer-in-residence, and has created some 175 works in a wide variety of genres including symphonies, concertos, string quartets, operas, ballets, film scores, popular songs, and jazz pieces. In The Music of Harry Freedman, Gail Dixon investigates Freedman's music with a view to illuminating its underlying principles, stylistic development, and means of coherence. Representative works from Freedman's oeuvre have been selected for detailed analysis. The chronological presentation of these works facilitates a clear understanding of Freedman's compositional style in its dramatic evolution from the tentative serial explorations of his early works to the eclectic stylistic spectrum of his later years. The analytic discussion is supplemented by a large number of musical examples, as well as compositional sketches and working notes, some in the composer's own hand. Numerous interviews with Freedman yield additional insights into his approach and perspective. Dixon does a great service to Canadian culture with this analytic study of the music of a celebrated twentieth-century figure.