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  • The Transcendent Brain

    Spirituality in the Age of Science

    by Alan Lightman ...
    From the acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams comes a rich, fascinating answer to the question, Can the scientifically inclined still hold space for spirituality?“Lightman…belongs to a noble tradition of science writers, including Oliver Sacks and Lewis Thomas, who can poke endlessly into a subject and…stir up fresh embers of wonder.” —The Wall Street JournalGazing at the stars, falling in love, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Accidental Universe

    The World You Thought You Knew

    by Alan Lightman ...
    The bestselling author of Einsteins Dreams explores the emotional and philosophical questions raised by recent discoveries in science with passion and curiosity.He looks at the dialogue between science and religion; the conflict between our human desire for permanence and the impermanence of nature; the possibility that our universe is simply an accident; the manner in which modern technology has ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • The Miraculous from the Material

    Understanding the Wonders of Nature

    by Alan Lightman ...
    A gorgeously illustrated exploration of the science behind the universe’s most stunning natural phenomena—from atoms and parameciums to rainbows, snowflakes, spider webs, the rings of Saturn, galaxies, and moreNature is capable of extraordinary phenomena. Standing in awe of those phenomena, we experience a feeling of connection to the cosmos. For acclaimed physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Einstein's Dreams

    by Alan Lightman ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence.“A magical, metaphysical realm ... Captivating, enchanting, delightful.” —The New York Times**Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, about time, relativity and physics. As the defiant ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Probable Impossibilities

    Musings on Beginnings and Endings

    by Alan Lightman ...
    The acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams tackles "big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness ... in an entertaining and easily digestible way” (Wall Street Journal) with a collection of meditative essays on the possibilities—and impossibilities—of nothingness and infinity, and how our place in the cosmos falls somewhere in between.Can space be divided into ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Shape of Wonder

    How Scientists Think, Work, and Live

    by Alan Lightman, Martin Rees ...
    **In this captivating, insightful book, acclaimed physicists Alan Lightman and Martin Rees illuminate the life and work of numerous scientists in order to demystify the scientific process and show that scientists are concerned citizens, just like the rest of us.“Remarkable. . . . Illuminating with refreshing clarity the ordinary and sometimes extraordinary work of scientists. This book is ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Quantum Legacies

    Dispatches from an Uncertain World

    by David Kaiser ...
    "Engrossing . . . Leave[s] us with a richer picture of physics as a lived activity." — Los Angeles Review of BooksIn Quantum Legacies, David Kaiser introduces readers to iconic episodes in physicists' still-unfolding quest to understand space, time, and matter at their most fundamental. In a series of vibrant essays, Kaiser takes us inside moments of discovery and debate among the great minds of ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ada and the Galaxies

    by Alan Lightman, Olga Pastuchiv ...
    Illustrated by Susanna Chapman ...
    Stargazers rejoice! In his first book for children, renowned physicist Alan Lightman and collaborators, with help from the Hubble telescope, light up the night sky.New York Times best-selling author Alan Lightman, in collaboration with Olga Pastuchiv, brings galaxies close in a stunning picture-book tribute to the interconnectedness of the natural world. Layering photographs taken from the Hubble ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Song of Two Worlds

    by Alan Lightman ...
    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 decades of living "hung like a dried fly," emptied and haunted by his past, the narrator awakens one morning revitalized and begins a Dante-like journey to find something to believe in, first turning to t ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • Preparing for Nothingness

    A Novel

    by Alan Lightman ...
    A profound and moving novel about life, death, and what might follow from the critically acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams."I didn't have a happy life," Ludvig Bergsson's father told him shortly before his death. Haunted by these words, Ludvig grapples with his father's memory, charting the landscape of his eighty-seven-years. He had not seemed particularly discontent, but at some point, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Mr g

    A Novel About the Creation

    by Alan Lightman ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    The internationally bestselling author of Einstein's Dreams presents a celebration of the highs and lows of existence, on the grandest possible scale: the story of Creation, as told by God.Once before time existed, Mr g woke up from a nap and decided to create the universe. In the shimmering Void, where he lives with his Aunt Penelope and Uncle Deva, he creates time, space, and matter. Soon follow ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Discoveries

    Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers

    by Alan Lightman ...
    In this captivating and lucid book, the bestselling author of Einstein's Dreams chronicles twenty-four great discoveries of twentieth-century science--everything from the theory of relativity to mapping the structure of DNA.These discoveries radically changed our notions of the world and our place in it. Here are Einstein, Fleming, Bohr, McClintock, Paul ing, Watson and Crick, Heisenberg and many ... Read more

    $9.99 USD