Author: Katherine Faw
Publisher: MCD
ISBN: 0374716641
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
One of The New Yorker's "Books We Loved in 2017," a BOMB's Looking Back on 2017: Literature Selection, a Paris Review Staff Pick, and one of Vulture's 10 Best Thriller Books of 2017. Girlfriend. Prostitute. Addict. Terrorist? Who is K? The daring new novel from Katherine Faw, the brilliant author of Young God, is a scintillating story of money, sex, and power told in Faw’s viciously sharp prose. A high-end, girlfriend-experience prostitute has just returned to her native New York City after more than a decade abroad—in Dubai, with a man she recalls only as the Sheikh—but it’s unclear why exactly she’s come back. Did things go bad for her? Does she have scores to settle? Regardless, she has quickly made herself at home. She’s set up a rotation of clients—all of them in finance—each of whom has different delusions of how he is important to her. And she’s also met a man whom she doesn’t charge—a damaged former Army Ranger, back from Afghanistan. Her days are strangely orderly: A repetition of dinners, personal grooming, museum exhibitions, sex, Duane Reades (she likes the sushi), cosmology, sex, gallery shows, nightclubs, heroin, sex, and art films (which she finds soothing). She finds the pattern confirming, but does she really believe it’s sustainable? Or do the barely discernible rifts in her routine suggest that something else is percolating under the surface? Could she have fallen for one of her bankers? Or do those supposed rifts suggest a pattern within the pattern, a larger scheme she’s not showing us, a truth that won’t be revealed until we can see everything?
Ultraluminous
Author: Katherine Faw
Publisher: MCD
ISBN: 0374716641
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
One of The New Yorker's "Books We Loved in 2017," a BOMB's Looking Back on 2017: Literature Selection, a Paris Review Staff Pick, and one of Vulture's 10 Best Thriller Books of 2017. Girlfriend. Prostitute. Addict. Terrorist? Who is K? The daring new novel from Katherine Faw, the brilliant author of Young God, is a scintillating story of money, sex, and power told in Faw’s viciously sharp prose. A high-end, girlfriend-experience prostitute has just returned to her native New York City after more than a decade abroad—in Dubai, with a man she recalls only as the Sheikh—but it’s unclear why exactly she’s come back. Did things go bad for her? Does she have scores to settle? Regardless, she has quickly made herself at home. She’s set up a rotation of clients—all of them in finance—each of whom has different delusions of how he is important to her. And she’s also met a man whom she doesn’t charge—a damaged former Army Ranger, back from Afghanistan. Her days are strangely orderly: A repetition of dinners, personal grooming, museum exhibitions, sex, Duane Reades (she likes the sushi), cosmology, sex, gallery shows, nightclubs, heroin, sex, and art films (which she finds soothing). She finds the pattern confirming, but does she really believe it’s sustainable? Or do the barely discernible rifts in her routine suggest that something else is percolating under the surface? Could she have fallen for one of her bankers? Or do those supposed rifts suggest a pattern within the pattern, a larger scheme she’s not showing us, a truth that won’t be revealed until we can see everything?
Publisher: MCD
ISBN: 0374716641
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
One of The New Yorker's "Books We Loved in 2017," a BOMB's Looking Back on 2017: Literature Selection, a Paris Review Staff Pick, and one of Vulture's 10 Best Thriller Books of 2017. Girlfriend. Prostitute. Addict. Terrorist? Who is K? The daring new novel from Katherine Faw, the brilliant author of Young God, is a scintillating story of money, sex, and power told in Faw’s viciously sharp prose. A high-end, girlfriend-experience prostitute has just returned to her native New York City after more than a decade abroad—in Dubai, with a man she recalls only as the Sheikh—but it’s unclear why exactly she’s come back. Did things go bad for her? Does she have scores to settle? Regardless, she has quickly made herself at home. She’s set up a rotation of clients—all of them in finance—each of whom has different delusions of how he is important to her. And she’s also met a man whom she doesn’t charge—a damaged former Army Ranger, back from Afghanistan. Her days are strangely orderly: A repetition of dinners, personal grooming, museum exhibitions, sex, Duane Reades (she likes the sushi), cosmology, sex, gallery shows, nightclubs, heroin, sex, and art films (which she finds soothing). She finds the pattern confirming, but does she really believe it’s sustainable? Or do the barely discernible rifts in her routine suggest that something else is percolating under the surface? Could she have fallen for one of her bankers? Or do those supposed rifts suggest a pattern within the pattern, a larger scheme she’s not showing us, a truth that won’t be revealed until we can see everything?
Spectral Analysis of Ultraluminous X-ray Sources Using the Chandra Xray Observatory
Author: Akram Chandrajit Singha, A Senorita Devi
Publisher: Sankalp Publication
ISBN: 9390719801
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive introduction to the data analysis of ultraluminous X-ray sources. This book will provide the readers with a familiar environment in data analysis methods and the different software used in high energy astrophysical data analysis.
Publisher: Sankalp Publication
ISBN: 9390719801
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive introduction to the data analysis of ultraluminous X-ray sources. This book will provide the readers with a familiar environment in data analysis methods and the different software used in high energy astrophysical data analysis.
Wide-Field Spectroscopy
Author: E. Kontizas
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401157227
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
E. KONTIZAS Astronomical Institute National Observatory of Athens P. O. Box 20048 Athens GR-1181O GREECE The international conference on "Wide-Field Spectroscopy" and its sub ject matter were agreed during the general assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in August 1994 by the Working Group of Com mision 9 "Wi de-Field Imaging". This meeting gave an opportunity to world experts on this subject to gather in Athens, in order to discuss the cur rent exploitation and the impending opportunities that exist in the area of multi-object spectroscopy, with particular emphasis on: 1. Astronomical instruments, data acquisition, processing and analysis techniques. 2. Astrophysical problems best tackled through wide-field, multi-object spectroscopy. The new fibre optic technology offers an important tool for the advancement of basic research and the development of industrial applications. Astronom ical spectroscopy is a field of astronomy which has contributed much to the advancement of fundamental physics. The spectra of hot stars have been used to determine the well-known Balmer formula for the wavelength of hydrogen lines, in the late 19th century. Since then, spectroscopy has made enormous progress in stellar atmosphere studies, in kinematics, and in the detection of high redshifts in the Universe. The traditional techniques of obtaining wide-field spectroscopic data are based on slitless spectroscopy (objective prism). Several observations, world wide, make use ofthese tech niques in order to obtain information on the spectral properties of objects in large areas of the sky.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401157227
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
E. KONTIZAS Astronomical Institute National Observatory of Athens P. O. Box 20048 Athens GR-1181O GREECE The international conference on "Wide-Field Spectroscopy" and its sub ject matter were agreed during the general assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in August 1994 by the Working Group of Com mision 9 "Wi de-Field Imaging". This meeting gave an opportunity to world experts on this subject to gather in Athens, in order to discuss the cur rent exploitation and the impending opportunities that exist in the area of multi-object spectroscopy, with particular emphasis on: 1. Astronomical instruments, data acquisition, processing and analysis techniques. 2. Astrophysical problems best tackled through wide-field, multi-object spectroscopy. The new fibre optic technology offers an important tool for the advancement of basic research and the development of industrial applications. Astronom ical spectroscopy is a field of astronomy which has contributed much to the advancement of fundamental physics. The spectra of hot stars have been used to determine the well-known Balmer formula for the wavelength of hydrogen lines, in the late 19th century. Since then, spectroscopy has made enormous progress in stellar atmosphere studies, in kinematics, and in the detection of high redshifts in the Universe. The traditional techniques of obtaining wide-field spectroscopic data are based on slitless spectroscopy (objective prism). Several observations, world wide, make use ofthese tech niques in order to obtain information on the spectral properties of objects in large areas of the sky.
The Cold Universe
Author: Thierry Montmerle
Publisher: Atlantica Séguier Frontières
ISBN: 9782863321508
Category : Astrophysics
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher: Atlantica Séguier Frontières
ISBN: 9782863321508
Category : Astrophysics
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Dynamics of Galaxies and Their Molecular Cloud Distributions
Author: F. Combes
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780792310969
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Proceedings of the 146th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, held in Paris, France, June 4-9, 1990
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780792310969
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Proceedings of the 146th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, held in Paris, France, June 4-9, 1990
High-Energy Astrophysics
Author: National Academy of Sciences
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309043344
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
During the past decade, the field of astrophysics has progressed at an impressive rate. This was reflected by the topics discussed at the workshop from which this book eminated. These topics include the inflationary universe; the large-scale structure of the universe; the diffuse X-ray background; gravitational lenses, quasars and active galactic nuclei; infrared galaxies; results from infrared astronomical satellites; supernova 1987A; millisecond radio pulsars; quasi-periodic oscillations in the X-ray flux of low-mass X-ray binaries; and gamma-ray bursts.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309043344
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
During the past decade, the field of astrophysics has progressed at an impressive rate. This was reflected by the topics discussed at the workshop from which this book eminated. These topics include the inflationary universe; the large-scale structure of the universe; the diffuse X-ray background; gravitational lenses, quasars and active galactic nuclei; infrared galaxies; results from infrared astronomical satellites; supernova 1987A; millisecond radio pulsars; quasi-periodic oscillations in the X-ray flux of low-mass X-ray binaries; and gamma-ray bursts.
Physics of Nearby Galaxies
Author: Xuan Thuan Trinh
Publisher: Atlantica Séguier Frontières
ISBN: 9782863321249
Category : Astrophysics
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Publisher: Atlantica Séguier Frontières
ISBN: 9782863321249
Category : Astrophysics
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Black Holes (IAU S238)
Author: International Astronomical Union. Symposium
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521863476
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
IAU S238 report on the physics of black holes, by leading researchers in the field.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521863476
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
IAU S238 report on the physics of black holes, by leading researchers in the field.
ESSCIRC '97
Author: H. Grünbacher
Publisher: Atlantica Séguier Frontières
ISBN: 9782863322208
Category : Integrated circuits
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher: Atlantica Séguier Frontières
ISBN: 9782863322208
Category : Integrated circuits
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
The Multi-Messenger Approach to High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources
Author: Josep M. Paredes
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 140206117X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
This book provides a theoretical and observational overview of the state of the art of gamma-ray astrophysics, and their impact and connection with the physics of cosmic rays and neutrinos. With the aim of shedding new and fresh light on the problem of the nature of the gamma-ray sources, particularly those yet unidentified, this book summarizes contributions to a workshop that continues today.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 140206117X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
This book provides a theoretical and observational overview of the state of the art of gamma-ray astrophysics, and their impact and connection with the physics of cosmic rays and neutrinos. With the aim of shedding new and fresh light on the problem of the nature of the gamma-ray sources, particularly those yet unidentified, this book summarizes contributions to a workshop that continues today.