Alan Light

The Skills to Pay the Bills: The Story of the Beastie Boys (Book)

Alan Light

ISBN:9780609604786

In 1987, three white Jewish boys from New York City were the most fascinating phenomenon in the burgeoning rap music scene. No, really. The Beastie Boys...more details
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VIBE HISTORY OF HIP HOP (Book)

Alan Light

ISBN:9780859652902

This text tells the story of the culture of hip hop. It includes chapters on graffiti, breakdancing, movies and fashion, it is the only comprehensive history of this groundbreaking and innovative music and culture...more details

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A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit (Book)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9781400078196

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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:211

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Ancient Light: Our Changing View of the Universe (Book)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9780674033634

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Best American Essays 2000 (Book)

Alan Lightman;Robert Atwan

ISBN:9781417716708

Best-selling author Alan Lightman selects the year"s finest nonfiction as this acclaimed series celebrates its fifteenth year. He has chosen a diverse...more details

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Dance for Two, Selected Essays (Book)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9780747529217

In "Dance for Two", Alan Lightman offers readers a look into the creative complusions shared by the scientist and the artist, and a glimpse as well into his own imagination...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:180

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Dance for Two: Essays (Book)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9781417719174

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Dance for Two: Essays (Book)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9780679758778

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Einstein's Dreams New Ed (Book)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9780340752005

Early one summer morning in 1905, a young patent clerk wakes from a dream at his desk. He is Albert Einstein. The reader witnesses Einstein's dreams of new worlds - visions of the effect on people's lives when time is circular or flows backwards...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:192

USD $18.53

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Einstein's Dreams (Book)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9781400077809

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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:144

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Einstein's Dreams (Book)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9780679416463

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Einstein's Dreams (Book)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9780747518594

It is ten minutes past six by the invisible clock on the wall. The young patents clerk sprawls in his chair, dreaming about time. He is Albert Einstein...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:192

USD $29.22

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Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions (Book)

Edwin A Abbott;Alan Lightman

ISBN:9780140435313

A deft mixture of social satire and science fiction that continues to pose provocative questions about perception and reality

"Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which Lines...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:144

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Ghost (Book)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9780375421693

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...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:243

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Ghost (Book)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9780375713439

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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:243

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Good Benito (Book)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9780747519997

The story of a physicist as a young man. Benito adores the rationality of physics and pursues it with a religious fervour. He finds very little rationality in his affairs with women however...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:215

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Great Ideas in Physics (Book)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9780071357388

The conservation of energy, the second law of thermodynamics, the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics - together, these concepts form the foundation upon which modern physics was built. But the influence of these four landmark ideas has extended far beyond hard science. There is no aspect of twentieth-century culture - including the arts...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:300

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Ideas and Opinions (Book)

Albert Einstein;Alan Lightman

ISBN:9780679601050

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Living with the Genie: Essays on Technology and the Quest for Human Mastery (Book)

Alan Lightman;Christina Sarewitz DanielDesser

ISBN:9781559635745

"A group of remarkably penetrating, frank, and expert scientists, techno-wizards, activists, and writers raise provocative questions about what is gained and what is lost in a world enthralled by technology in this wonderfully soulful forum on life in the 'Wired World.'" -BOOKLIST

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Format:Paperback  Pages:360

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Mr G - A Novel About the Creation (Book)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9781780333786

With echoes of Calvino, Rushdie, and Saramago, this work celebrates the tragic and joyous nature of existence on the grandest possible scale....more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:224

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Mr. G: A Novel about the Creation (CD)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9781455119783

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Mr. G: A Novel about the Creation (CD)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9781455119721

This is the story of Creation as narrated by God. Bored with living in the Void, Mr. g creates time, space, and matterthen stars, planets, consciousness...more details
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Mr. G: A Novel about the Creation (CD)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9781455119738

This is the story of Creation as narrated by God. Bored with living in the Void, Mr. g creates time, space, and matterthen stars, planets, consciousness...more details
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Mr. G: A Novel about the Creation (CD)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9781455119745

This is the story of Creation as narrated by God. Bored with living in the Void, Mr. g creates time, space, and matterthen stars, planets, consciousness...more details
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Mr. G: A Novel about the Creation (CD)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9781455119752

This is the story of Creation as narrated by God. Bored with living in the Void, Mr. g creates time, space, and matterthen stars, planets, consciousness...more details
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Origins: The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists (Book)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9780674644700

"Origins" reveals the human being within the scientist in a study of the philosophical, personal, and social factors that enter into the scientific process. Twenty-seven active cosmologists--including Stephen Hawking...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:576

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Problem Book in Relativity and Gravitation (Book)

Alan Lightman;R H Lightman APrice

ISBN:9780691081625

Important and useful to every student of relativity, this book is a unique collection of some 475 problems--with solutions--in the fields of special and general relativity...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:616

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Radiative Processes in Astrophysics (Book)

George B Rybicki;Alan Lightman

ISBN:9780471827597

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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:400

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Reunion (Book)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9780375713446

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Reunion (Book)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9780747565741

At fifty-two, Charles is a professor at a minor 'leafy little college', a once promising poet, divorced, admiring of passion but without passion himself. On an impulse...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:352

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Reunion (Book)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9780747566458

At fifty-two, Charles is a professor at a minor leafy little college , a once promising poet, divorced, admiring of passion but without passion himself. Out of impulse...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:240

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The Best American Essays 2000 (Book)

Alan Lightman;Robert Atwan

ISBN:9780618035809

Best-selling author Alan Lightman selects the year's finest nonfiction as this acclaimed series celebrates its fifteenth year. He has chosen a diverse...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:256

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The Best American Essays 2000 (Book)

Alan Lightman;Robert Atwan

ISBN:9780618035786

As this acclaimed series celebrates its fifteenth year, Alan Lightman, the best-selling author of Einstein's Dreams, has assembled a diverse...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:256

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The Diagnosis (Book)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9780375725500

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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:384

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The Diagnosis (Book)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9780747553915

On a crowded rush hour train, somewhere between Harvard and Central Square, Bill Chalmers forgets where he is going. He knows he's late for an appointment...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:368

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The Diagnosis (Book)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9780747549321

Tells the story of Bill Chalmers who loses his memory and identity while rushing to work one morning. When his memory returns, a strange numbness afflicts him and over the following months he is forced to endure tests without conclusive results and a wife who believes he is imagining the condition....more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:369

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The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers (Book)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9780375713453

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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:553

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The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers (Book)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9780375421686

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 model of the atom to the mapping of the structure of DNA...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:553

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The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins (Book)

Alan Guth;Alan Lightman

ISBN:9780201328400

This is the compelling, first-hand account of Alan Guth's paradigm-breaking discovery of the origins of the universe--and of his dramatic rise from young researcher to physics superstar...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:358

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The Vibe History of Hip Hop (Book)

Magazine Vibe;Alan Light

ISBN:9780609805039

Music, fashion, dance, graffiti, movies, videos, and business: it's all in this brilliant tale of a cultural revolution that spans race and gender...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:432

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Time for the Stars: Astronomy in the 1990s (Book)

Alan Lightman;John N Bahcall

ISBN:9780446670241

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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:148

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Vibe History of Hip Hop (Book)

Magazine Vibe;Alan Light

ISBN:9780613912266

A first of its kind definitive history of hip hop by the editors of "Vibe," America's premier magazine of urban music and culture.

In the past two decades...more details

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World Is Too Much with Me (CD)

Alan Lightman

ISBN:9780660189734

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Celebrities of Nature: Endangered & Selected Species of Florida (Book)

Alan Maltz;Light Flight Publishing

ISBN:9780962667718

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MR G: A Novel about the Creation (Book)

Alan P Lightman

ISBN:9780307379993

"As I remember, I had just woken up from a nap when I decided to create the universe." So begins Lightman's playful and profound new novel, "Mr g...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:214

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Song of Two Worlds (Book)

Alan P Lightman

ISBN:9781568814636

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