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Mann HoraceABAA

REPORT.ON THE SUBJECT OF SCHOOL HOUSES.

GELL MANN Murray b. 1929.ABAA

Status of weak interactions.

1959S4175In:: Reviews of Modern Physics Vol. 31 No. 3 July 1959. 1959. 272 x 202 mm. 4to. Pages 834-838. Entire volume: iv 1077 pp. Full orange buckram gilt spine. Ex library rubber stamps those on edges obscured. Ownership name in gilt on top cover. Very good. FIRST EDITION. Gell-Mann's paper is the last in a series presented at a Conference on Weak Interactions held at Gatlinburg Tennessee October 27-29 1958 in which Gell-Mann summarizes the current state of knowledge about weak interactions. In the 1950s physicists - using particle accelerators which fired beams of particles at stationary targets measured particles created by the resulting collisions - had created many more kinds of subatomic particles than the protons neutrons and electrons with which they were familiar. As the number of particles grew several were found to exhibit what was called "strange" behavior. The rate at which they were created in certain collisions with other particles suggested that their behavior was governed by the strong nuclear force which characteristically acts very rapidly. The strong force the weak nuclear force electromagnetism and gravity make up the four fundamental forces that are believed to underlie all phenomena. The strange particles took a surprisingly long time to decay however which should not have been the case if they were governed by the strong force. The rate at which they decayed seemed to indicate that this process was governed by the much slower weak force. Murray Gell-Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1969 "for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions." - Wasson Nobel Prize winners pp. 370-372. Murray Gell-Mann joined the faculty of the California Institute of Technology in 1955 as an associate professor; the following year he became a full professor and in 1967 he was named Robert A. Millikan Professor of Physics. Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 31, No. 3, July, 1959. hardcover books

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Mann Klaus translated from the German by Marion SaundersABAA

Alexander: A Novel of Utopia

193025258New York: Brewer & Warren Inc. Very Good in Good dj. 1930. First American Edition. Hardcover. the book itself is only mildly shelfworn; the jacket presents well at the front panel and spine with just a few nicks along the top and bottom edges and some wrinkling/creasing in the lower right area of the front panel but the rear panel is unfortunately blemished by about a dozen small holes no doubt the legacy of some long-dead insect. The third novel by the eldest son of Thomas Mann and the second of his books to be published in America preceded by "The 5th Child" a translation of "Kindernovelle" published in the U.S. in 1927 was a kind of historical fantasy-cum-personal confession centered around Alexander the Great. For Mann a fairly openly gay writer or about as much so as one could be in those days the central tragedy in Alexander's life and the driving force behind his ambition to conquer the world and bring about the "Utopia" referred to in the book's subtitle was his sublimated homosexuality especially as manifested in his obsessive yet rejected love for an officer in his army named Clitus. Generally referred to by modern historians as Cleitus aka "Cleitus the Black" he is known to have saved his commander's life at the Battle of the Granicus in 334 BC only to be killed later by Alexander in what may have been a drunken quarrel but also seems to have been rooted in an intergenerational power struggle; in Mann's telling the killing was an act of impulsive passion provoked by Clitus's public dissing of Alexander at a banquet in his honor. Klaus Mann was nothing if not precocious: he began writing and publishing short stories in 1924 and produced his first novel an overtly gay-themed book called "Der fromme Tanz" "The Pious Dance" in 1925; he was just 23 years old give or take when "Alexander" was first published in Germany in 1929. Unfortunately he spent his creative life under the shadow of his father who received the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year and remained a towering figure on the literary scene throughout Klaus's life. Often struggling with drug addiction Klaus was known to have expressed a kind of death wish especially in the years immediately leading up to his death by suicide probably in 1949; even at this early stage of his literary career this is manifested here in a scene in which Alexander overcome by remorse after his killing of Clitus begs Hephaestion another of his generals and historically known as his friend advisor and possible lover to kill him with his own sword. Contemporary American reviewers of the novel rather danced around the homoerotic content one calling it "a tragedy of the emotions rather than of the senses" whatever that means another reviewing it under the headline "Alexander a la Freud" and noting that the great hero "might have had a mild 'mother fixation'" and still another remarking on his supposed "misogyny" as accounting for the fact that he "fled from the bridal couch of Roxana the Amazonian queen and other attractive wives." Only recently has much scholarly attention been paid to the homosexual aspects of Mann's Weimar-era fiction . Brewer & Warren Inc. hardcover books

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