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Frederic Baras is a pianist, composer, and academic. The Orphic spirit of the novella emerges from the entanglement of his life with the lives of two women: Dree Vreeland, a naturalist searching for the Midnight Swan of legend and conservationist seeking to save Oak Knoll from commercial development, and Louise Loeffler, a pianist who shares Baras's passion for music. The time is now, and the place is Lost Isle University adjacent to the city ...

This monograph explains the Constantin Carathéodory theory of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. His theory is based on the geometry of the thermodynamic state space and the calculus of Pfaffian differentials.

Fort Clark is a not quite fictional city as I explain in the preface and appendix to the book. The characters and events are fictional in the sense that I have not recorded actual events happening to identifiable people. My goal has been to craft stories that are, as Lamb has written, "shadows of fact--verisimilitudes, not verities.

Thirteen tales: one each of a lost pearl, of the high middle ages, of crossing into a neighboring universe, of a plain old-fashioned ghost story, of an unhappy computer, of a visit to the city of the dead, of crossing the gap between self and nature, and two each of childhood, of the silliness of commerce, and of ultra-strong gravity.

The Nevering Orchid" features two tales, one of the city and one of the village, one of the threatened loss of an old and much-loved home, and one of a crime and a disappearance. The reader will learn what the characters in the novel will never understand, that the two tales are inextricably linked by past events.

This is the third in a series of volumes each with twenty-three poems, the red, black, and white books. There are three themes: self, writers and artists, and an alter-ego, Silvio, drawn from a short story by Pushkin.

Poems in the Black Book are grouped into three sets: family, the larger world, and day and night. There's no free verse: the closest is a poem in blank verse and a prose poem. Most of the formal verse consists of sonnets, although there are four other formal poems, two in regular forms and two in irregular.

The Red Book consists of twenty-three poems on three themes: the cosmological, West Central Minnesota sketches, and those in an elegiac mood.

Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve, says philosopher George Santayana. Exact recurrence of the same has a vanishingly small probability, but it seems likely that everyone has experience of nearly recurrent events, that is, events that make the past seem to be a part of the present. The novel "Again" features three intertwined stories of near-repetition involving four men and five women. The social context is the ...

Days of '68 and '69" is about the destructive power of anger. It is about a tumultuous time in the university and the opposition to the war in Vietnam. It is about the perpetual interplay between theory and observation in science. It is about the confusion of youth, about love found and then destroyed, and about the steadfastness of love. It is about the days of the author's youth in a watershed period in American social history.

The precise meaning of fey is fated to die, but more loosely it refers to the irrational or fantastic. Six of these seven fey stories are set on earth. Of the six, two take place in the present, and the other four in what could be the near future, the seventh takes place on a planet outside of our solar system. If one thinks of them as science fiction, then they are fiction closely grounded in science, subjects one can study in a good collegia...