Lance Segundo's midlife crisis takes a bizarre twist when a long-dead loved one shows up seeking help. And offering help. The two embark on a journey of mutual self-discovery that takes them around the world-and beyond the world. Nothing you have ever read will prepare you for Window Beyond the World. It's a transforming novel that will change the way you look at life and death, because it takes you to the strange, wonderful meeting place between the two.
Through more than 200 works from private collections and museums from all over the world, this book seeks to analyze the gradual changes which have occurred in the representation and pictorial meaning of the window.
This book gathers visionary ideas from leading academics and scientists to predict the future of wireless communication and enabling technologies in 2050 and beyond.
The volume also abounds with fresh new stories by newer authors, from U. S. publications, and also from sources on other shores, including England, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Vincent Jacques, E. Wu, Frédéric Grosshans, François Treussart, Philippe Grangier, Alain Aspect, and Jean-François Roch, “Experimental Realization of Wheeler's Delayed-Choice Gedanken Experiment,” Science 315, no.
Every morning, Carrie drove Em and Michael behind John in the brown and yellow trap, with Charlie and Moses running underneath (Perpetua was too near to having her puppies). ... His mild, chewing face would appear at the window. 'Mary!
fever of the nerves and blood', recalling Lucy's earlier account of being roused by storm, perched on her window-ledge to savour the “terribly glorious' spectacle, while the Catholics rise in terror 'to pray to their saints' (p. 96).
Mr. Plummer was a miserable drunkard, a profane swearer, and a savage monster. He always went armed with a cowskin and a heavy cudgel. I have known him to cut and slash the women's heads so horribly, that even master would be enraged at ...
The world beyond the window is dark and frightening. At most stops someone comes aboard from the outside world who is not just a commuter: someone with a disfigured body or dressed in shabby rags. These people address the other ...
The short story “Uma senhora” even links the mirror to the window. Beyond acting as frames that fuse the natural world with the interior, windows, like mirrors, serve as spectacles that penetrate into the interior of the character, ...
Ever and again the luminous square of a window beyond the outspread branches of a tree would float on. Then suddenly our narrow solitude was invaded by the bright continuous flare flung into it from a row of shops.