Engelska

George Orwell's masterwork, now in the Penguin Clothbound Classics series with a cover designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith<br/><br/>One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'<br/><br/>'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'<br/><br/>Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal.<br/><br/>George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century.

Do you know the basics of general relativity?<br/> Do you want to know something of what more there is?<br/> Do you wonder how the theory of relativity came into being?<br/><br/> Then this book is for you!<br/><br/> Partial contents:<br/><br/> - Black holes and gravitational collapse<br/><br/> - Cosmological solutions of Einstein's field equations<br/><br/> - Gravitational waves<br/><br/> - Space-time singularities<br/><br/> - The problem of motion for massive particles<br/><br/> - A collection of exact solutions of Einstein's field equations<br/><br/> - A history of Einstein's creation of the theory of relativity in the years 1905-1915<br/><br/> - A short course for repetition of the basics of general relativity<br/><br/> - Bibliography, references, and index<br/><br/> The book, although not very advanced, covers a number of topics not often seen in text books. The selection, of course, refelects my own interests. The different chapters may to a large extent, though not completely, be read in any desired order.<br/><br/> The author has a PhD in theoretical physics and is lecturer of mathematics. He has for many years taught physics and mathematics at senior high school as well as university level.