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Mr g: A Novel About the Creation (2012)
by Alan Lightman
“Just as he did with his incomparable Einstein's Dreams , Alan Lightman again surprises us with a work that is utterly original in both form and content. Mr g is a philosophical fable which is at turns hilarious and moving, rendered with a literary hand so deft that the weightiest metaphysical... (learn more about this book)
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Ghost (2007)
by Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman’s first novel, Einstein’s Dreams, became an international best seller and was hailed by Salman Rushdie as “at once intellectually provocative and touching and comic and so very beautifully written.” His novel The Diagnosis, called “highly original and imaginative” by the New... (learn more about this book)
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A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit (Vintage) (2005)
by Alan Lightman
From the bestselling author of Einstein's Dreams comes this lyrical and insightful collection of science writing that delves into the mysteries of the scientific process and exposes its beauty and intrigue. In these brilliant essays, Lightman explores the emotional life of science, the power... (learn more about this book)
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Einstein's Dreams (1993)
by Alan Lightman
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 Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds.... (learn more about this book)
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Time for the Stars: Astronomy in the 1990s (1992)
by Alan Lightman
Now, Alan Lightman, the author of the brilliantly original bestselling novel Einstein's Dreams, presents the real-life drama of astronomy, a journey far into the stars that outpaces any fiction for adventure and excitement. Unsurpassed in its authoritativeness, TIME FOR THE STARS is based on the... (learn more about this book)
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A modern day yankee in a Connecticut court: And other essays on science (1986)
by Alan Lightman
Lightman, a physicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and a teacher at Harvard, wrote Time Travel and Papa Joe's Pipea richly readable book of popular science that clearly stands as progenitor or kissing cousin to the present bouquet of short essays. In his "senior" years as a... (learn more about this book)
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Time Travel and Papa Joe'sPpipe (1984)
by Alan Lightman
Time Travel & Papa Joe's Pipe: Essays on The Human Side of Science by Alan Lightman (learn more about this book)
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Revealing the Universe: Prediction and Proof in Astronomy (1982)
by Alan Lightman
The contributors to this book, in the process of describing for the general reader the most recent advances in man's understanding of the cosmos, at the same time clarify one of the oldest questions in scientific thought: the nature of the mutual interaction between theory and observation,... (learn more about this book)
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Radiative Processes in Astrophysics
by Alan Lightman, George B. Rybicki
Radiative Processes in Astrophysics This clear, straightforward, and fundamental introduction is designed to present—from a physicist’s point of view—radiation processes and their applications to astrophysical phenomena and space science. It covers such topics as radiative transfer theory,... (learn more about this book)
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The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers (Vintage)
by Alan Lightman
In this captivating and lucid book, novelist and science writer Alan Lightman 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... (learn more about this book)
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