Callaghan Paul Editor (6 results)

paperback. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Includes first book publication of Hemingway's "The Light of the World" and Welty's "The Hitch-Hikers" and others. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Mylar jacket cover.

paperback. Condition: Fair.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 170 pages. In 1905 Albert Einstein is 26 and working at the Swiss Patent Office as a poo rly paid third-class technical expert. In his spare time he pursues his passion for physics. The papers he produces will be extraordinary, revolutionising the w ay we view the world and laying the foundation of modern physics. In this collec tion of essays from the acclaimed Royal Society/National Radio series E=mc2, sci entists and historians explore the centuries of science that led to Einstein's a stonishing discoveries, and their world-shaking aftermath.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 338 pages. New Zealand's top writers and physicists collaborate to create a provocative and fascinating discussion on the most strange and fantastic aspects of physics. With topics that include the curvature of space time, wave particle duality, th e untimely death of Schrodinger's cat, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, dark energy, and the end of the universe, this extraordinary guide artfully blends ph ilosophy and literature with science. Editorial Reviews About the Author Paul Callaghan is the director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology and a professor at Victoria University of Wellington. Bill Manhi re is the four-time recipient of the New Zealand Book Award for poetry. He was N ew Zealand's inaugural Te Mata Estate Poet Laureate.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed within the text at the author's reference by: Andre Alexis, Marie-Claire Blais, Clark Blaise, Dionne Brand, Bonnie Burnard, Barry Callaghan, Roch Carrier, Wayson Choy, Austin Clarke 27 Sept 2009, George Elliott Clarke, Douglas Coupland 28/10/09, Lorna Crozier, Trevor Ferguson, Charles Foran, Cecil Foster, Gary Geddes, Katherine Govier, Richard Gwyn, Elizabeth Hay, Steven Heighton, Lawrence Hill, Jack Hodgins, Wayne Johnston, Guy Gavriel Kay, Joseph Kertes, Thomas King, Dany Laferriere, Dennis Lee, Don McKay, Alistair MacLeod, Lee Maracle, Sid Marty, John Metcalf, Anne Michaels, Susan Musgrave, Michael Ondaatje, Kenneth Oppel, Monique Proulx, Paul Quarrington, Nino Ricci, David Adams Richards, Leon Rooke, John Ralston Saul, Diane Schoemperlen, Linda Spalding, Cordelia Strube,Rosemary Sullivan, Susan Swan, Drew Hayden Taylor, Jane Urquhart, M. G. Vassanji, Richard Wright, Ronald Wright, Robert Sawyer. Signed on the title page or adjacent page or front end paper by; Seth, Camilla Gibb, Robert Wilson, Linwood Barclay, John Bemrose, Joseph Boyden, Miriam Toews, Linden MacIntyre (2), Lisa Moore (2), Barry Dempster, Annabel Lyon, Diana Fitzgerald Bryden, Charlotte Gray, Mark Kingwell, Daniel Poliquin, Michael Crummey, Alan Bradley, Patrick Taylor, Jack Whyte, Michael Redhill, Nicholas Ruddock, Peter Robinson (2), Giles Blunt, Joy Fielding, John Ibbitson, Shane Peacock, Alison Pick, Emma Donoghue, Alissa York, Louise Penny, Meaghan Strimas, Michael Wex, Sheila Heti, Sarah Selecky, Johanna Skibsrud, Priscilla Uppal, Olive Senior, David Bezmozgis, Patrick deWitt, Esi Edugyan, Peter Behrens, Frances Itani, Emma Ruby-Sachs, Marina Endicott, Trevor Cole, Kim Thuy, Eva Stachniak, Marjorie Celona, Lilian Nattel, Ami McKay, Richard Wagamese, Gary Barwin, Lynne Kutsukake, Don Needles, Leanne Betasamosake, Suzette Mayr, Zoe Whittall, Catherine Leroux, Daniel Grenier, Barbara Gowdy, Michael Helm, David Chariandy, Michelle Berry, Alexander MacLeod, Wade Davis, Yann Martel, Sara Gruen, Will Ferguson, Terry Fallis, Carmen Aguirre, Donna Morrissey, Dennis Bock, Tanya Talaga, Canisia Lubrin, Cherie Dimaline, Deepa Rajagopalan. All signatures collected personally at multiple local author events. First edition and first printing of the second edition of the Concise Oxford Companion To Canadian Literature. Edited by William Toye. Signed by Author(s). …