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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Helix Book.)

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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Helix Book.)
Richard Phillips Feynman , Robert B. Leighton , and Matthew Sands
Manufacturer: Perseus Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0201409550

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This set couples a book containing the six easiest chapters from Richard Feynman's landmark work, Lectures on Physics--specifically designed for the general, non-scientist reader--with the actual recordings of the late, great physicist delivering the lectures on which the chapters are based. The six compact discs are "music" CDs, not CD-ROMs. Nobel Laureate and genius-at-large Richard Feynman gave these lectures just once, to a group of Caltech undergraduates in 1961 and 1962. He is a startlingly lucid, agile, contagiously enthusiastic communicator, and hearing him deliver these lectures himself in his broad New York accent is a great experience.

Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time (Helix Books)

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Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time (Helix Books)
Richard Phillips Feynman
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ASIN: 0201328429

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The spectacular success of the book and audio versions of Six Easy Pieces caused a worldwide clamor for more. The result is these six additional lectures, which the legendary teacher and Nobel physicist Richard P. Feyman gave in the early 1960's to freshman Caltech students. Though slightly more challenging than the first six, these additional lectures are more focused, delving into the most revolutionary discovery in twentieth-century physics: Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

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Seven Scintillating Servings of Suspense
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Another Winner
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Six Easy Pieces: Easy Rawlins Stories
Walter Mosley
Manufacturer: Washington Square Press
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Binding: Paperback

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Gone Fishin': Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Smoke" (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)

ASIN: 0743442547

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Easy should be living a contented life, with steady work as senior head custodian of Sojourner Truth High School, and a loving family. But happiness is as elusive for Easy as smoke in shadows. Easy's the man folks seek out when they can't take their problems to anyone else. Trading favors and investigating cases of arson, murder, missing persons, and false accusations, it's hard to steer clear of trouble. Easy walks the line in this must-have collection from bestselling, award-winning author Walter Mosley.

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"Walter Mosley's bestselling and award-winning novels -- from Gone Fishin' to Devil in a Blue Dress, named one of the ""100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century"" by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association -- have endeared him to legions of readers from a U.S. president to everyday people who can't get enough of Easy Rawlins. Now from the bestselling and award-winning writer comes Six Easy Pieces. The beloved Ezekiel Rawlins now has a steady job as senior head custodian of Sojourner Truth High School, a nice house with a garden, a loving woman, and children. He counts the blessings of leading a law-abiding life, but is ""nowhere near happy."" Easy mourns the loss of his best friend, Mouse. Though Easy tries to leave the street life behind, he still finds himself trading favors and investigating cases of arson, murder, and missing people. People who can't depend on the law to solve their problems seek out Easy. A bomb is set in the high school where Easy works. A man's daughter runs off with his employee. A beautiful woman turns up dead and the man who loved her is wrongly accused. Easy is the man people turn to in search of justice and retribution. He even becomes party to a killing that the police might call murder. Six of the seven stories in Six Easy Pieces were published in reissued Washington Square Press editions of the Easy Rawlins mysteries Gone Fishin', Devil in a Blue Dress, A Red Death, White Butterfly, Black Betty, and A Little Yellow Dog. A seventh, ""Amber Gate,"" is newly published here, making this new Walter Mosley classic a must-have for all fans of great fiction. "

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Excellent.......2007-02-20

Walter, you are a great writer and Michael Boatman is the BEST narrator. I love the combination and I want all of your older books on Audio, I can get my work done, or drive while still listening. It just makes me want more of your work. Please don't do the SCI FI thing, yet it is always good to try something different, but I love Easy, MOUSE and that story line

Seven Scintillating Servings of Suspense.......2007-01-28

Like all of us, Easy Rawlins is the summation of where he was born, how he has lived, whom he loves, what he wants to become, and why he acts. In the case of Easy (born Ezekiel), Louisiana spawned a poor boy who fought his way of the roughest part of Houston at the side of his unafraid and murderous friend, Raymond Alexander (Mouse) via World War II, and then came to Watts where the only people he could trust were other African Americans. Hiding his good side, Easy did favors for people . . . and righted many wrongs in the process. This often placed him in a vulnerable position between the police who wanted to use him . . . and evil-doers who wanted to eliminate him. In the process, Easy emerged as middle-aged with two children he has rescued (Jesus who dreamily builds a sail boat and young Feather who goes to school), a little yellow dog, Frenchie, and Bonnie, a stewardess he has invited into their lives. Unknown to most, he's become a property owner building a future for his kids. In public, he heads the custodial staff at Sojourner Truth Junior High School. In private, he will right wrongs that others will walk past.

These seven short stories capture Easy in transition while he tries to settle down at 44 in 1964. The first six stories were added to the reprints of Gone Fishin', Devil in a Blue Dress, A Red Death, White Butterfly, Black Betty, and A Little Yellow Dog in 2002. The seventh story is new with this volume.

These stories deeply explore Easy's relationship with his friend, Mouse, Easy's family, his work, and a number of his friends. As background, Easy had asked Mouse to help him a year earlier. That help had led to Mouse being shot and carried off with no pulse by his wife, EttaMae. Easy has been searching for Etta Mae so he can pay his last respects to Mouse, but Etta Mae has vanished. Easy is also trying to decide how much of his heart he can share with Bonnie.

In Smoke, the junior high school suffers smoke damage and destruction by the fireman who douse the fire from an arsonist's device. This attack on his authority in the community has to be addressed. And why does someone call him looking for Mouse?

In Crimson Stain, Easy learns that a woman named Etheline Toms thinks she has seen Mouse. In tracking her down, he discovers a murder and travels between a house of ill repute and a church to avenge an innocent's death.

In Silver Lining, Easy meets his new principal and an old friend needs help to rescue a missing person. In a dramatic climax, life moves on after justice is done.

In Lavender, jealousy grabs Easy by the shirt-front when he sees a gift he wasn't meant to see. Etta Mae returns and demands that Easy repay her for the loss of Mouse by saving a young man who has walked into harm's way in responding to a woman's charms.

Gator Green finds Easy sleeping in the living room . . . much to Feather's concern. Saul Lynx, one of the few white men Easy trusts, needs help in clearing his brother-in-law. Easy goes undercover to find a thief . . . and finds himself tempted by a wanton woman.

An old acquaintance re-enters Easy's life in Gray-Eyed Death. Easy finds that a simple man from his childhood has been framed for a robbery and murder. Easy unravels what happened, but knows he cannot prove the case to satisfy the police. How else might justice be done?

Amber Gate introduces Easy to the death of a young woman who has more friends among older men than most. His shoemaker asks Easy to clear his landlord, and Easy finds what he's looking for where he least expects to find it.

Like all of Walter Mosley's writing about Easy Rawlins, these tales ring true, take us into the heart of another time and place we haven't experienced, and allow us to walk in another man's shoes in a way that leave us feeling the calling to reach out to others. Full of violence, these are really tales of supreme humanity. You'll be moved, and so you should be.

Bravo, Mr. Mosley!

Excellent.......2006-11-28

Walter Mosley is one of half a dozen detective novelists who are my favorites, who are in my opinion flat brilliant. He's written a number of Easy Rawlins novels, which are almost universally wonderful. This latest collection of short stories really works better as a novel with seven plots, but several background threads that run through the stories. One has Easy wondering if his friend Mouse is really dead, Easy having seen him get shot the previous year. Mouse's woman ran off with the body, though, and since Easy didn't see Mouse get buried, he's not entirely certain he's dead. Next we have a series of subplots involving Easy's family: his girlfriend goes to Africa as a stewardess and meets with royalty, his son has a boat, his daughter reads and goes to school. Lastly, he has subplots involving his work at Sojourner Truth Junior High School as a janitor, though of course since he's Easy there's more to the job than that.

The seven pieces included in the plot involve a variety of different crimes. Murder, arson, blackmail, kidnapping, fraud, and murder again are featured. Easy has to dodge several women, bad men, and nefarious plots. Things are resolved and several characters from previous books appear (one dies), and the author moves things right along.

I really enjoyed this short story collection. As I said, for the most part I think the stories work better together than apart, and I'm glad I read them as a collection.

Another Winner.......2006-08-13

A collection of six previously published and one new story comprise this novel which loosely moves forward the Easy narrative as he laments the loss of his friend Mouse, struggles with his relationship wth Bonnie and tries to do right by his kids. Mosley continues to stand out in contemporary crime fiction because the book(s) are equally as strong as a vivid portrait of being a black man in America. It's no contest that Easy is of the best drawn and fascinating caracters in literature today.

Mosely is doing it again..........2005-07-31

I love Easy Rawlins, his style and wit and go get itism. Mr. Mosley continues to be my most respected writer of fiction.

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Six Easy Pieces, Six Not-So-Easy Pieces
Richard Phillips Feynman , and Richard P. Feynman
Manufacturer: Perseus Press
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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher

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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Richard P; Leighton, Robert B; Sands, Matthew L. Feynman
Manufacturer: Perseus Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GZHOVC

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In these six chapters, Feynman introduces the general reader to the following topics: atoms, basic physics, the relationship of physics to other topics, energy, gravitation, and quantum force. With his inimitable wit, Feynman presents each discussion without equations or technical jargon. With interesting photos and/or illustrations to enhance the text.

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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained By Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Richard P. Feynman
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SIX EASY PIECES
Richard P. Feynman
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Six Easy Pieces (Science Classics)
Richard Feynman
Manufacturer: Easton Press
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Binding: Leather Bound
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Six Easy Pieces (includes Cassette tapes): Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher

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Six Easy Pieces (includes Cassette tapes): Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Richard Phillips Feynman
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Longman, Incorporated
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