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  • Living with the Genie

    Essays On Technology And The Quest For Human Mastery

    Edited by Daniel Sarewitz, Christina Desser, Alan P Lightman ...
    At a time when scientific and technological breakthroughs keep our eyes focused on the latest software upgrades or the newest cell-phone wizardry, a group of today's most innovative thinkers are looking beyond the horizon to explore both the promise and the peril of our technological future.Human ingenuity has granted us a world of unprecedented personal power -- enabling us to communicate ... Read more

    $25.19 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

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine

    by Alan Lightman ...
    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 has always held a scientific view of the world. But one summer evening, while looking at the stars from a small boat at sea, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Song of Two Worlds

    by Alan Lightman ...
    “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 JournalFrom the author of international bestseller Einstein's Dreams and National Book Award nominee The Diagnosis.After decades of living “hung like a dried fly,” emptied and haunted by his past, the narrator, a man who has lost his ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

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    Probable Impossibilities

    Musings on Beginnings and Endings

    by Alan Lightman ...
    Narrated by Christopher Grove ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 45 min

    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

    $15.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Isabel and the Invisible World

    by Alan Lightman ...
    Illustrated by Ramona Kaulitzki ...
    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 else! Finally, the day of her party arrives. Unwrapping a big box, Isabel finds a surprise inside—a glass prism—and a dazzling world of previously ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    Einstein’s Dreams

    by Alan Lightman ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 32 min

    In poetic vignettes, Einstein’s Dreams explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence.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, ... Read more

    $13.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Three Flames

    A Novel

    by Alan Lightman ...
    A “piercing . . . important story of global women’s rights,” family ties, and the resiliency of the human spirit—from the author of the international bestseller Einstein’s Dreams (Annie Proulx).In Cambodia, three generations of a rural farming family grapple with the encroachment of the modern world.Three Flames portrays the struggles of a Cambodian farming family against the extreme patriarchal ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    $3.99 USD

  • Reunion

    by Alan Lightman ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    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 had with a beautiful ballerina that forever changed his life. At times shocked, admiring, and furious with his younger ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • In Praise of Wasting Time

    by Alan Lightman ...
    Series series TED Books
    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 all worried about wasting time. Especially in the West, we have created a frenzied lifestyle in which the twenty-four hours of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD