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A compelling sympathy of the faiths that fill the gap between who we set out to be and who we ultimately become
A powerful debut novel about a priest who has lost his church, his mentor, and, most upsetting, his ability to pray. How can Father Dominic protect or guide his parish when everything he loves falls away? How can he counsel Dolores, a troubled teenager prone to emotional panic and spiritual monomania? Or James, a promising African American pianist, struggling to realize his artistic ambitions by bringing his own voice to a piece that has been played by the world's most brilliant pianists, Bach's Goldberg Variations.
Into this malaise comes Andrea, a sophisticated New York editor attracted at first by Dom's blog and then by the man himself. Dom's journey from the cloth into the secular world will offer carnal knowledge, but also something deeper, a more resistant knowledge as life fails to offer happiness or redemption. In prose both searching and muscular, John Donatich's The Variations has located the right metaphor for our spiritual crisis in this story of one man's spiritual disillusion and ache for self-knowledge.
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About the Author
John Donatich is the director of the Yale University Press. His essays and occasional pieces have appeared inHarper's and the The Atlantic Monthly. This is his first novel.
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Hardback. Condition: Good. This volume provides annotated translations of the primary sources leading up to Einstein's theory of general relativity, in which Einstein attempted to extend his theory of special relativity beyond space and time, to include matter and gravitational fields, by introducing gravity through his equivalence principle - the equivalence of gravity and acceleration. This resulted in Einstein rejecting the second postulate of his theory of special relativity - the postulate on the constancy of the speed of light - in the presence of a gravitational field. This review reveals that Einstein's theory of general relativity it is not a theory of gravity; it is a relativistic theory about the effects of gravitation, or more strictly, of a uniformly accelerated reference frame. There is nothing in any version of this theory that represents or explains or provides any connection to the weak attractive gravitational force between matter. In order to make calculations with his theory, Einstein had to import Newton's empirical law of gravitation. Consequently, the only evidence that Einstein could provide for his theory of general relativity was effectively Newtonian. Part I reviews Newton's laws of motion and of gravitation, his definitions of inertial and gravitational mass, and his equivalence principle, which provide the background to Einstein's theory. Part II provides a detailed analysis of the development of Einstein's theory of general relativity. Part III provides a postscript on subsequent developments. In the light of the continued failure of Einstein's efforts to overcome the main objections to his theory of special relativity - the Ehrenfest paradox, and its failure to explain the observed Doppler redshift and blueshift of light - or to provide any evidence for it, and in the absence of any supportive evidence for his theory of general relativity, both theories must be rejected until such objections are overcome and such evidence is provided. The Second Edition includes extracts from two more papers by Einstein, published in 1933 and 1945, in which Einstein questioned the validity of General Relativity, recognizing his introduction of mass into the field equations through the Euler equation as a temporary expedient. He investigated an alternative theory in which the possibility of an atomistic theory of matter and electricity which makes use of no other variables than the gμν of the general relativity theory and the φμ of the Maxwell theory. Seller Inventory # 00095407739
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Hardback. Condition: Good. This volume provides annotated translations of the primary sources leading up to Einstein's theory of general relativity, in which Einstein attempted to extend his theory of special relativity beyond space and time, to include matter and gravitational fields, by introducing gravity through his equivalence principle - the equivalence of gravity and acceleration. This resulted in Einstein rejecting the second postulate of his theory of special relativity - the postulate on the constancy of the speed of light - in the presence of a gravitational field. This review reveals that Einstein's theory of general relativity it is not a theory of gravity; it is a relativistic theory about the effects of gravitation, or more strictly, of a uniformly accelerated reference frame. There is nothing in any version of this theory that represents or explains or provides any connection to the weak attractive gravitational force between matter. In order to make calculations with his theory, Einstein had to import Newton's empirical law of gravitation. Consequently, the only evidence that Einstein could provide for his theory of general relativity was effectively Newtonian. Part I reviews Newton's laws of motion and of gravitation, his definitions of inertial and gravitational mass, and his equivalence principle, which provide the background to Einstein's theory. Part II provides a detailed analysis of the development of Einstein's theory of general relativity. Part III provides a postscript on subsequent developments. In the light of the continued failure of Einstein's efforts to overcome the main objections to his theory of special relativity - the Ehrenfest paradox, and its failure to explain the observed Doppler redshift and blueshift of light - or to provide any evidence for it, and in the absence of any supportive evidence for his theory of general relativity, both theories must be rejected until such objections are overcome and such evidence is provided. The Second Edition includes extracts from two more papers by Einstein, published in 1933 and 1945, in which Einstein questioned the validity of General Relativity, recognizing his introduction of mass into the field equations through the Euler equation as a temporary expedient. He investigated an alternative theory in which the possibility of an atomistic theory of matter and electricity which makes use of no other variables than the gμν of the general relativity theory and the φμ of the Maxwell theory. Seller Inventory # CIN0805094385G
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