A special role in the study of general relativity and cosmology has been played by the influential research groups led by Dennis Sciama. In April 1992 many of his ex-students and collaborators assembled to review the developments that have taken place during his career to date. The topics covered include fundamental questions in general relativity and cosmology, black holes, active galactic nuclei, galactic structure, dark matter and large scale structure.

The book is a collection of poems that were written about many personal, intimate and moving situations encountered by a single person living in a big east coast city. The poems were written at a tumultuous point in the life of this individual. There were many broken relationships, financial hardships, struggles with children and self worth. There are nine sections to the work which encompasses candid feelings about friendship, fantasy, seduction, love, reality, redemption, healing, celebration, and reflections. This selection of poetry is a literary virtual reality excursion into places and...