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  • ADA and the Galaxies by Lightman, Alan
    Alan Lightman

    ADA and the Galaxies

    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...
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  • ADA and the Galaxies by Lightman, Alan
    Alan Lightman

    ADA and the Galaxies

    "Ada knows that the best place for star-gazing is on the island in Maine where she vacations with her grandparents. By day, she tracks osprey in the trees, paddles a kayak, and hunts for shells. But she's most in her element when the sun...
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  • Dance for Two: Essays by Lightman, Alan
    Alan Lightman

    Dance for Two: Essays

    For the last twenty years, Alan Lightman has been writing essays that display his genius for bringing literary and scientific concerns into harmony. Dance for Two gathers the best of Lightman's work. Here are pieces that touch on both the ethereal and the corporeal;...
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  • Einstein's Dreams by Lightman, Alan
    Alan Lightman

    Einstein's Dreams

    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,...
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  • Einstein's Dreams by Lightman, Alan
    Alan Lightman

    Einstein's Dreams

    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 TimesEinstein's Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed...
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  • Ghost by Lightman, Alan
    Alan Lightman

    Ghost

    A stunning novel about an ordinary man's encounter with the extraordinary, from the bestselling author of Einstein's Dreams David Kurzweil, a quiet man with modest ambitions, was taking a break at his new job, when he saw something out of the corner of his...
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  • In Praise of Wasting Time by Lightman, Alan
    Alan Lightman

    In Praise of Wasting Time

    In this timely and essential book that offers a fresh take on the qualms of modern day life, Professor Alan Lightman investigates the creativity born from allowing our minds to freely roam, without attempting to accomplish anything and without any assigned tasks. We are...
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  • Isabel and the Invisible World by Lightman, Alan
    Alan Lightman

    Isabel and the Invisible World

    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 Isabel wants for her sixth birthday: a way to see invisible things. She can hardly think of anything...
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  • Isabel and the Invisible World by Lightman, Alan
    Alan Lightman

    Isabel and the Invisible World

    "Emphasizes the wonders that science can reveal. . . . Invisibly and effectively instructive." --Kirkus Reviews There's only one gift Isabel wants for her sixth birthday: a way to see invisible things. She can hardly think of anything else! Finally, the day of her...
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  • MR G: A Novel about the Creation by Lightman, Alan
    Alan Lightman

    MR G: 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: the story of Creation, as told by God. Once before time existed, Mr g woke up from a nap and decided to...
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  • Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings by Lightman, Alan
    Alan Lightman

    Probable Impossibilities: 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 entertaining and easily digestible way" (Wall Street Journal) with a collection of meditative essays on the possibilities--and impossibilities--of nothingness and infinity,...
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  • Reunion by Lightman, Alan
    Alan Lightman

    Reunion

    Charles, a once-promising poet, is a professor at a minor liberal arts college, admiring of passion but without passion himself. Now living a desperately comfortable existence, he decides to return to his thirtieth college reunion. While there, he relives an intense love affair he...
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  • Screening Room: A Memoir of the South by Lightman, Alan
    Alan Lightman

    Screening Room: 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 that catapulted the Lightmans, a Hungarian Jewish immigrant family, to prominence in the South; his triumphs that would both galvanize...
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  • Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine by Lightman, Alan
    Alan Lightman

    Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine

    From the bestselling author of Einstein's Dreams--"an elegant and moving paean to our spiritual quest for meaning in an age of science" (The New York Times Book Review). - The basis for the public television series SEARCHING with Alan Lightman.As a physicist, Alan Lightman...
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  • Song of Two Worlds by Lightman, Alan
    Alan Lightman

    Song of Two Worlds

    "VERDICT A vivid and moving book-length narrative poem that places the reader inside of a universe of wonder; of interest to poetry readers and beyond." --Library Journal From the author of international bestseller Einstein's Dreams and National Book Award nominee The Diagnosis. After decades...
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  • The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew by Lightman, Alan
    Alan Lightman

    The Accidental Universe: 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 curiosity. He looks at the dialogue between science and religion; the conflict between our human desire for permanence and the impermanence of nature;...
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  • The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers by Lightman, Alan
    Alan Lightman

    The Discoveries: 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--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....
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  • The Miraculous from the Material: Understanding the Wonders of Nature by Lightman, Alan
    Alan Lightman

    The Miraculous from the Material: 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, snowflakes, spider webs, the rings of Saturn, galaxies, and more Nature is capable of extraordinary phenomena. Standing in awe of those phenomena, we experience a...
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  • The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science by Lightman, Alan
    Alan Lightman

    The Transcendent Brain: 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 for spirituality? "Lightman...belongs to a noble tradition of science writers, including Oliver Sacks and Lewis Thomas, who can poke endlessly into a...
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  • Three Flames by Lightman, Alan
    Alan Lightman

    Three Flames

    "Lightman's best book since Einstein's Dreams . . . a piercing story of social dissolution in damaged Cambodia . . . an important story of global women's rights." --Annie Proulx The stories of one Cambodian family are intricately braided together in Alan Lightman's first...
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  • Time for the Stars: Astronomy in the 1990s by Lightman, Alan
    Alan Lightman

    Time for the Stars: Astronomy in the 1990s

    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...
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