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| The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew by Alan Lightman With passion and curiosity, Alan Lightman explores the emotional and philosophical questions raised by recent discoveries in science. 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... Today's Bargain Price: $4.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
| Screening Room: Family Pictures by Alan Lightman From the acclaimed author of the international best seller Einstein’s Dreams, here is a stunning, lyrical memoir of Memphis from the 1930s through the 1960s that includes the early days of the movies and a powerful grandfather whose ghost remains an ever-present force in the lives of his descendants. Alan Lightman’s grandfather M.A.... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs | | |
| Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine by Alan Lightman From the acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams, here is an inspires, lyrical meditation on religion and science that explores the tension between our yearning for permanence and certainty, and the modern scientific discoveries that demonstrate the impermanent and uncertain nature of the world.As a physicist, Alan Lightman has always held... Today's Bargain Price: $12.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs; All Politics, History and Current Events | | |
| In Praise of Wasting Time (TED Books) by Alan Lightman 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... Today's Bargain Price: $10.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Religion & Spirituality | | |
| Dance for Two: Essays by Alan Lightman 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; the dependence of a ballerina on the laws of physics, the choice of... Today's Bargain Price: $8.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
| Three Flames: A Novel by Alan Lightman "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 work of fiction in seven years. Three Flames portrays the... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Women's Fiction | | |
| Mr g: A Novel About the Creation (Vintage Contemporaries) by Alan Lightman “As I remember, I had just woken up from a nap when I decided to create the universe.” So begins Alan Lightman’s playful and profound new novel, Mr g, the story of Creation as told by God. Barraged by the constant advisements and bickerings of Aunt Penelope and Uncle Deva, who live with their nephew in the shimmering Void, Mr g proceeds... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| Reunion (Vintage Contemporaries) by Alan Lightman 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... Today's Bargain Price: $8.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers; All Sex & Erotica | | |
| The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers 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 place in it. Here are Einstein, Fleming, Bohr... Today's Bargain Price: $15.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Teen Lit | | |
| Living with the Genie: Essays On Technology And The Quest For Human Mastery by Alan Lightman Presents essays by contributors from various fields of science, technology, literature, philosophy, and social sciences that look at the struggle between humans and technology. Today's Bargain Price: $19.24 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Politics, History and Current Events | | |
| The Diagnosis: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by Alan Lightman From the bestselling author of Einstein’s Dreams comes this harrowing tale of one man's struggle to cope in a wired world, even as his own biological wiring short-circuits. As Boston’s Red Line shuttles Bill Chalmers to work one summer morning, something extraordinary happens. Suddenly, he can't remember which stop is his, where he... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
| A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit 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--physics, astronomy, mathamatics--and exposes its beauty and intrigue.In these brilliant essays, Lightman explores the emotional life of science, the power of... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
| Song of Two Worlds by Alan Lightman In Alan Lightman's new book, a verse narrative titled 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 and haunted by his past, the narrator awakens one morning revitalized and begins a Dante-like journey to find... Today's Bargain Price: $26.95 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
| GOOD BENITO: A Novel by Alan Lightman From the author of the best-selling Einstein’s Dreams comes a wonderfully original, deeply moving, and wryly funny novel about the clash between the absolutes of science and the vagaries of human experience. Bennett always knew he would live a life of science. From the homemade rockets and experiments of his childhood to the complex... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Nonfiction | | |
| Ghost: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by Alan Lightman 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 taking a break at his new job, when he saw something out of the corner of his eye. Something no science could explain. Suddenly David's life is changed, and he soon... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
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