Poems by Richard Thomas

Literature & Fiction

Richard Thomas

Poetry

Avon/Books

More real-life inspirational stories more everyday wonders--more answered prayers--from the TV show that has inspired millions! Astounding rescues ... divine intervention ... romantic providence. Miracles are all around us--we have only to open our minds...and our hearts. In this extraordinary second volume of real-life stories, Richard Thomas has carefully selected dozens of all-new tales from the successful PAX TV show It’s a Miracle. The result is a completely new, utterly unforgettable collection--a true celebration of ordinary people transformed by extraordinary events. A mother is reunited with the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty-seven years earlier--all because of a miraculous encounter in a nursing home... A woman whose older sister is in grave need of a liver transplant meets a man on a plane whose nephew turns out to be a perfect match... A courageous cat saves the lives of her owners in an act of love that can be described only as remarkable. Share the healing, share the wonder of these amazing, joy-filled stories that will warm your heart and strengthen your spirit.

It's a Miracle 2: More Inspiring True Stories Based on the PAX TV Series, "It's A Miracle"

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Delta

The Prince of Tides

Pat Conroy has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted ad troubled twin sister, Savannah, and the dark and violent past of the extraordinary family to which they were born. Filled with the vanishing beauty of the South Carolina lowcountry as well as the dusty glitter of New York City, The Prince Of Tides is Pat Conroy's most magnificent novel yet.

PAT CONROY

Random House Audio |

Mirror symmetry is a phenomenon arising in string theory in which two very different manifolds give rise to equivalent physics. Such a correspondence has significant mathematical consequences, the most familiar of which involves the enumeration of holomorphic curves inside complex manifolds by solving differential equations obtained from a ``mirror'' geometry. The inclusion of D-brane states in the equivalence has led to further conjectures involving calibrated submanifolds of the mirror pairs and new (conjectural) invariants of complex manifolds: the Gopakumar Vafa invariants. This book aims to give a single, cohesive treatment of mirror symmetry from both the mathematical and physical viewpoint. Parts 1 and 2 develop the necessary mathematical and physical background ``from scratch,'' and are intended for readers trying to learn across disciplines. The treatment is focussed, developing only the material most necessary for the task. In Parts 3 and 4 the physical and mathematical proofs of mirror symmetry are given. From the physics side, this means demonstrating that two different physical theories give isomorphic physics. Each physical theory can be described geometrically, and thus mirror symmetry gives rise to a ``pairing'' of geometries. The proof involves applying $R\leftrightarrow 1/R$ circle duality to the phases of the fields in the gauged linear sigma model. The mathematics proof develops Gromov-Witten theory in the algebraic setting, beginning with the moduli spaces of curves and maps, and uses localization techniques to show that certain hypergeometric functions encode the Gromov-Witten invariants in genus zero, as is predicted by mirror symmetry. Part 5 is devoted to advanced topics in mirror symmetry, including the role of D-branes in the context of mirror symmetry, and some of their applications in physics and mathematics: topological strings and large $N$ Chern-Simons theory; geometric engineering; mirror symmetry at higher genus; Gopakumar-Vafa invariants; and Kontsevich's formulation of the mirror phenomenon as an equivalence of categories. This book grew out of an intense, month-long course on mirror symmetry at Pine Manor College, sponsored by the Clay Mathematics Institute. The lecturers have tried to summarize this course in a coherent, unified text.

Mirror Symmetry

Ravi Vakil

Kentaro Hori

Sheldon Katz

Albrecht Klemm

Rahul Pandharipande

Cumrun Vafa

Eric Zaslow

American Mathematical Society/Clay Mathematics Institute

Spectrum mathematics Purple Book 2nd Second Edition

Laidlaw

"They say Jimmy made it out. But the postcards we get, well, they don't seem...real." When an experiment with population control works too well, and the planet is decimated, seven broken people are united by a supernatural bond in a modern day Eden. Most on the island are fully aware of this prison disguised as an oasis. Unfortunately, Jimmy is on the mainland, desperate to get back, in a post-apocalyptic stand-off, fighting for his survival and that of his unborn child. Back on the island, Jacob stares at the ocean through his telescope and plots his escape, reluctant to aid the cause. Marcy tries to hide from her past sexual escapades that may be her saving grace. X sits in his compound, a quiet, massive presence, trapped in his body by ancient whispers and yet free in spirit to visit other places and times. Roland, the angry, bitter son of Marcy is determined to leave, and sets out on his own. Watching over it all is Assigned, the ghost in the machine. And coming for them, to exact revenge, and finish the job that the virus started, is Gordon. He just landed on the island and he has help. Transubstantiate is a neo-noir thriller, filled with uncertainty at every portal, and jungles infiltrated with The Darkness. Vivid settings, lyrical language, and a slow reveal of plot, motivation, past crimes and future hope collide in a showdown that keeps you guessing until the final haunting words. Transubstantiate: to change from one substance into another.

Transubstantiate

Genre Fiction

Otherworld Publications LLC

Halloween night. The freaks are out and having the time of their lives. The kids of Greene Point High School have organized a massive bonfire out in the woods. One drunken teen suggests playing a game, a game called Truth or Dare. That’s always a fun game. Always good for a laugh. By the end of this night, nobody will be laughing. Alcohol, sex, deadly secrets, and oceans of blood await them.Do you dare to play?Truth or Dare is a shared-world horror anthology featuring the morbid writings of many prominent authors in the field today, as well as quite a few new kids on the block you’re gonna want to keep an eye on.

Truth or Dare?

Jeremy C. Shipp

Joe McKinney

William Meikle

Nik Korpon

Usman T. Malik

Jessica McHugh

Peter Giglio

Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing

From the foreword by Richard Thomas:
 Life is a series of transitions, as we are constantly in a state of flux flowing from one relationship to another, one emotion to another, like a river running downhill, spilling into the ocean free. It has been said that the only constant in life is change and maybe that is true. We hope, we dream, we make plans and yet they are often crushed in a moment, forever damaged or destroyed sometimes leaving behind a new direction, sometimes leaving nothing but a void. 
 In this issue of Spark: A Creative Anthology we are confronted with cancer and loss, the art of disappearance, heartbreak, entropy, the wanderlust of gypsies, contradiction and chaos, death and decay, fear and anticipation, sacrifice, and the notion that people are the only monsters. 
 What Brian Lewis has done with this particular anthology, as well as past issues, is tap into the universal experiences that we all share these humanizing moments of sympathy and empathy while still finding a way to do something unique, to charter unseen waters, to share the secrets that have been hidden for so long. It s easy to fall into these narratives, to get lost in the lives of others, while burying deep our own moments of pain and suffering only to have them rise to the surface as these talented authors cull them from our memories, our hauntings, our dark echoes and dried-up tears. 
 Slow down for a moment and let these stories change you, let them remind you what you are working for, why you continue to scrimp and save, to sacrifice and struggle remember your dreams, no matter how distant or elusive. We cannot all be astronauts or scientists, we cannot all be heroes or champions or gods. We can only be mortal, human after all, and in that we show both our weaknesses and our strengths. 
Richard Thomas February 25, 2014 Chicago, IL 
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Cover art by Casey Robin
Illustrations by Paul Pederson
Nonfiction: Crystal Bevers, White Space 
 Poetry: Carolyn Martin, Storm Advisory Beatriz Fernandez, Letter from Lara, Yuriatin, 1920 Beth Cato, Barstow Moneta Goldsmith, Chicago Without Any Shoes On Christopher Woods, Gypsies Rowyn Cotter, Listen Stephen Pera, The Fall Rachel Bryson, Northland Ae Hee Lee, Otters Chris Fradkin, Stairs 
 Fiction: Richard Claycomb, Kraken s Pond George Wells, Where Never Snows Jaimie M. Engle, Moonshine on the Mississip P. Jo Anne Burgh, Disappearing Meredith Foster, Needles Melissa Lee Shaw, The Astronaut Siobhan Gallagher, Spirit Flare Jeff Bowles, Paper Thin Siarhey Bulyha, The Ferryman (translated from Russian by Alex Shvartsman) Sylvia Anna Hiven, The Growing Renée Christine Ehle, Menudo Bay Amy Locke, The Burial Lauren Harsma, Onchocerciasis Alexis A. Hunter, The Clock has Ceased its Ticking J.H. Mae, Distraction in the Afternoon

Spark: A Creative Anthology, Volume V

Carolyn Martin

Siarhey Bulyha

Alexis A. Hunter

Jaimie M. Engle

Beatriz Fernandez

Richard Claycomb

Sylvia Anna Hiven

Chris Fradkin

Rachel Bryson

Crystal Bevers

George Wells

Siobhan Gallagher

Christopher Woods

Lauren Harsma

Melissa Lee Shaw

Empire & Great Jones Little Press

Since Oscar Zariski organized a meeting in 1954, there has been a major algebraic geometry meeting every decade: Woods Hole (1964), Arcata (1974), Bowdoin (1985), Santa Cruz (1995), and Seattle (2005). The American Mathematical Society has supported these summer institutes for over 50 years. Their proceedings volumes have been extremely influential, summarizing the state of algebraic geometry at the time and pointing to future developments. The most recent Summer Institute in Algebraic Geometry was held July 2015 at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, sponsored by the AMS with the collaboration of the Clay Mathematics Institute. These volumes include surveys growing out of plenary lectures and seminar talks during the meeting. Some present a broad overview of their topics, while others develop a distinctive perspective on an emerging topic. Topics span both complex algebraic geometry and arithmetic questions, specifically, analytic techniques, enumerative geometry, moduli theory, derived categories, birational geometry, tropical geometry, Diophantine questions, geometric representation theory, characteristic p and p-adic tools, etc. The resulting articles will be important references in these areas for years to come.

Algebraic Geometry: Salt Lake City 2015 (Parts 1 and 2) (Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, 97)

Science & Math

Martin Olsson

Tommaso De Fernex

Brendan Hassett

Mircea Mustata

Mihnea Popa

Mathematics

American Mathematical Society

Transgressive fiction authors write stories some are afraid to tell. Stories with taboo subjects, unique voices, shocking images nothing safe or dry. Burnt Tongues is a collection of transgressive stories hand-selected by Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, as the best of The Cult Workshop, his official fan website, selected by a rigorous nomination and vetting process. These stories run the gamut from horrific and fantastic to humorous and touching, but each leaves a lasting impression. Some may say even a scar.

Burnt Tongues: An Anthology of Transgressive Short Stories

CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Dennis Widmyer

Contemporary

Titan Books

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