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Einstein's Dreams by Alan P. Lightman

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  • ISBN-13: 9781400077809
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  • Pub. Date: November 2004

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 ...  More

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The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells, Alan Lightman (Introduction)

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  • ISBN-13: 9780553214321
  • Sales Rank: 30,225
  • Pub. Date: May 1994

The author of The Time Machine and War of the World conjures up an island where a mad doctor experiments with turning animals into grotesque human-like creatures. The island ...  More

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The Best American Science Writing 2005 by Alan Lightman (Editor) , Jesse Cohen, Jesse Cohen (Editor)

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  • ISBN-13: 9780641829918
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  • Pub. Date: September 2005

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Together these twenty-seven articles on a wide range of today's most current topics in science, from Oliver Sacks, James Gleick, Atul Gawande, and Natalie Angier, among ...  More

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    The Inflationary Universe : The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins by Alan Guth, Alan Lightman (Foreword by)

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    • ISBN-13: 9780201328400
    • Sales Rank: 119,750
    • Pub. Date: February 1998

    From the man who revolutionized cosmology, the story of what happened before the Big Bang.  More

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    Song of Two Worlds by Alan P. Lightman

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    • ISBN-13: 9781568814636
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    • Pub. Date: October 2009

    "In Song of Two Worlds, 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 ...  More

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    Flatland : A Romance in Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott, Alan Lightman

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    • ISBN-13: 9780140435313
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    • Pub. Date: June 1998

    Classic of science (and mathematical) fiction charmingly illustrated by the author describes the adventures of A. Square, a resident of Flatland, in Spaceland (three ...  More

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    Radiative Processes in Astrophysics by Alan P. Lightman

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    • ISBN-13: 9780471827597
    • Sales Rank: 172,859
    • Pub. Date: January 1991

    Radiative Processes in Astrophysics This clear, straightforward, and fundamental introduction is designed to present-from a physicist's point of view-radiation processes and ...  More

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    The Diagnosis : A Novel by Alan P. Lightman

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    • ISBN-13: 9780375725500
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    • Pub. Date: February 2002

    Alan Lightman's first novel, Einstein's Dreams , was greeted with international praise. Salman Rushdie called it "at once intellectually provocative and touching and comic and ...  More

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    Ghost by Alan Lightman

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    • ISBN-13: 9780375421693
    • Sales Rank: 435,439
    • Pub. Date: October 2007

    A stunning new novel about an ordinary man's encounter with the extraordinary, from the author of Einstein's Dreams . David Kurzweil, a quiet man with modest ambitions, was ...  More

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    The Discoveries : The Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers by Alan P. Lightman

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    • ISBN-13: 9780375421686
    • Sales Rank: 372,691
    • Pub. Date: November 2005

    An unprecedented explosion of creativity, insight, and breakthrough occurred in every field of science in the last century. From the theory of relativity to the first quantum ...  More

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