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A Novel
From the author of the best-selling Einstein’s Dreams comes a wonderfully original, deeply moving, and wryly funny novel about the clash between the...
A modern classic, Einstein's Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzer...
The conservation of energy, the second law of thermodynamics, the theory of relativity, quantum mechanicstogether, these concepts form the foundation ...
Bestselling author and MIT Professor, Alan Lightman, reveals the benefits of wasting time and allowing our minds to freely roam. We have apps, smart w...
The World You Thought You Knew
The bestselling author of Einsteins Dreams explores the emotional and philosophical questions raised by recent discoveries in science with passion and...
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Musings on Beginnings and Endings
The acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams tackles "big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness ... in an entertain...
A stunning novel about an ordinary man's encounter with the extraordinary, from the bestselling author of Einstein's Dreams David Kurzweil, a quiet ma...
Our Changing View of the Universe
Tells the story of cosmology, including its history, the theories and the evidence, the new discoveries, the outstanding questions and controversies....
Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers
In this captivating and lucid book, the bestselling author of Einstein's Dreams chronicles twenty-four great discoveries of twentieth-century science-...
Essays
For the last twenty years, Alan Lightman has been writing essays that display his genius for bringing literary and scientific concerns into harmony. D...
From the bestselling author of Einstein’s Dreams comes this harrowing tale of one man's struggle to cope in a wired world, even as his own biologica...
Understanding the Wonders of Nature
A gorgeously illustrated exploration of the science behind the universe’s most stunning natural phenomena—from atoms and parameciums to rainbows, ...
Science and the Human Spirit
From the bestselling author of Einstein's Dreams comes this lyrical and insightful collection of science writing that delves into the mysteries of the...
In Alan Lightman's new book, a verse narrative, we meet a man who has lost his faith in all things following a mysterious personal tragedy. After deca...
A Novel About the Creation
The internationally bestselling author of Einstein's Dreams presents a celebration of the highs and lows of existence, on the grandest possible scale:...
Spirituality in the Age of Science
From the acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams comes a rich, fascinating answer to the question, Can the scientifically inclined still hold space fo...
Pub. Date:15 February 1996 ISBN:0 340 635169 Extent:218 pp Illus:None Category:Fiction US Publisher:Warner: Feb 1996 HB Publisher:Bloomsbury, May 1995...
Family Pictures
A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • Alan Lightman’s grandfather M.A. was the family’s undisputed patriarch. It was his movie theater em...
Attending his thirtieth college reunion, Charles, now a middle-aged professor, recalls his senior year, when he had an affair with a beautiful young d...
The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists
Origins reveals the human being within the scientist in a study of the philosophical, personal, and social factors that enter into the scientific proc...
Reveals the human being within the scientist, in a unique study of the philosophical, personal, and social factors that enter into the scientific proc...
“Lightman’s best book since Einstein’s Dreams . . . a piercing story of social dissolution in damaged Cambodia . . . an important story of globa...
At fifty-two, Charles is a professor at a minor leafy little college , a once promising poet, divorced, admiring of passion but without passion himsel...
A Memoir of the South
A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR Alan Lightman’s grandfather M.A. was the family’s undisputed patriarch. It was his movie theater empire...
As a physicist, Alan Lightman has always held a purely scientific view of the world. Even as a teenager, experimenting in his own laboratory, he was i...
And Other Essays on Science
With anecdotes, speculation, humor and warmth, Alan Lightman examines what science has to say about curious everyday questions and shows how the world...
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Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science
An extraordinarily accessible, illuminating chronicle of the great moments of scientific discovery in the 20th century, and an exploration into the mi...
Today's most prominent thinkers provide enlightening insight into some of themost important and cutting-edge topics in the field in this acclaimed ser...
If, as Matt Ridley suggests, science is simply the search for new forms of ignorance, then perhaps it follows that with science's advances come new qu...
Finding Private Space in the Wired World
The Journey of Arno Rafael Minkkinen
Saga is the first major monograph of the work of Arno Minkkinen, published to accompany a series of exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe. Offering a com...
Renowned physicist Alan Lightman, author of Ada and the Galaxies, turns his focus to light waves in a second story for children. There's only one gift...