A Theory of Everything Else - by Laura Pedersen (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Take a break or recharge your batteries with these laugh-out-loud witty and wise ruminations on life by best-selling author, former New York Times columnist, and TV show host Laura Pedersen.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>That elusive Holy Grail of modern physics, A Theory of Everything (ToE), would explain the universe in a single set of equations. Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking tackled the problem during their lifetimes and the quest continues today in laboratories around the world. <p/> Leaving string theory, galaxy clusters, and supersymmetry to the Quantum Computer and Hadron Collider crowd, Pedersen has taken up the rest--that is, A Theory of Everything Else (ToEE), based on her own groundbreaking experiences as a dog walker, camp counselor, and Bingo caller. Pedersen's essays are a series of colorful helium balloons that entertain as well as affirm and uplift. Why, she ponders in one essay, are thousands perishing as a result of assault weapons, carbon emissions, forest fires, pesticides, and processed foods--and yet how lawn darts were banned in the 1980s after two people died? In <i>A Theory of Everything Else</i>, Pedersen vividly demonstrates how life can appear to grind us down while it's actually polishing us up--and why everyone wants to live a long time but no one wants to grow old.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Both thoughtful and irreverent, Pedersen's writings shine an illuminating light on the complexities of human (and animal) nature." --<i>Publishers Weekly</i> "The prolific author and playwright parcels her stream of consciousness into wily and witty essays in Life in New York." --<i>The New York Times</i> "A pleasing combination of cheer, diversion, and incisiveness." --<i>Kirkus Reviews</i><br>
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