wyszukanych pozycji: 31
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Einstein's Dreams
ISBN: 9781400077809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A modern classic, Einstein's Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, about time, relativity and physics. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place where time stands still, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children. In another, time is a nightingale, sometimes trapped by a bell jar. Now translated into thirty...
A modern classic, Einstein's Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, about time, relativity and physics. A...
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61,49 zł |
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The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science
ISBN: 9780593317419 / Angielski / Inna / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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99,92 zł |
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Reunion
ISBN: 9780375713446 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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 self, Charles remembers contradictory versions of events, until reality and identity dissolve into a haze of illusion. Reunion explores the pain of self-examination, the clay-like nature of memory,...
Charles, a once-promising poet, is a professor at a minor liberal arts college, admiring of passion but without passion himself. Now living a desperat...
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57,65 zł |
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Three Flames: A Novel
ISBN: 9781640094253 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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65,14 zł |
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Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings
ISBN: 9780593081327 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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61,49 zł |
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Ghost
ISBN: 9780375713439 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Embarking on a provocative exploration of the delicate divide between the physical world and the spiritual world, between skepticism and faith, this novel from highly acclaimed author Lightman investigates timeless questions that continue to challenge contemporary society.
Embarking on a provocative exploration of the delicate divide between the physical world and the spiritual world, between skepticism and faith, this n...
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69,17 zł |
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Einstein's Dreams
ISBN: 9781780335575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Early one summer morning in 1905, a young patent clerk wakes from a dream at his desk. He is Albert Einstein. In this synthesis of science and imagination we witness Einstein's dreams of new worlds.
Early one summer morning in 1905, a young patent clerk wakes from a dream at his desk. He is Albert Einstein. In this synthesis of science and imagina...
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50,40 zł |
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Isabel and the Invisible World
ISBN: 9781529512120 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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65,53 zł |
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The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers
ISBN: 9780375713453 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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, McClintock, Paul ing, Watson and Crick, Heisenberg and many others. With remarkable insight, Lightman charts the intellectual and emotional landscape of the time, portrays the human drama of discovery, and explains the significance and impact of the work....
In this captivating and lucid book, novelist and science writer Alan Lightman chronicles twenty-four great discoveries of twentieth-century science--e...
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107,60 zł |
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In Praise of Wasting Time
ISBN: 9781501154362 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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76,86 zł |
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Song of Two Worlds
ISBN: 9781138116764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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365,79 zł |
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The Diagnosis
ISBN: 9780747553915 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) One day Bill Charmers, a junior executive, realizes that he cannot remember where he is or even who he is. His memory returns and he descends into a mental nightmare. With no conclusive medical answers, his wife thinks he is imagining it, while his colleagues are oblivious to his suffering.
One day Bill Charmers, a junior executive, realizes that he cannot remember where he is or even who he is. His memory returns and he descends into a m...
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87,23 zł |
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The Miraculous from the Material: The Science Behind Nature's Wonders
ISBN: 9780593701485 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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138,35 zł |
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Good Benito
ISBN: 9780747519997 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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, they make no sense to him. Other work by the author includes Einstein's Dreams.
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 ration...
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76,97 zł |
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Screening Room: A Memoir of the South
ISBN: 9780307739841 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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 and paralyze his descendants. In this evocative personal history, the author chronicles his return to Memphis and the stifling home he had been so eager to flee forty years earlier. As aging uncles and aunts retell old stories, Alan finds himself reconsidering long-held beliefs about his larger-than-life... 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 empir... |
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80,70 zł |
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The Future of Spacetime
ISBN: 9780393324464 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) - Richard Price: "An Introduction to Spacetime Physics - Stephen Hawking: "Chronology Protection - Igor Novikov: "Can We Change the Past? - Kip S. Thorne: "Speculations about the Future - Timothy Ferris: "On the Popularization of Science - Alan Lightman: "The Physicist as Novelist
- Richard Price: "An Introduction to Spacetime Physics - Stephen Hawking: "Chronology Protection - Igor Novikov: "Can We Change the Past? - Kip S. Tho...
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76,86 zł |
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Dance for Two: Essays
ISBN: 9780679758778 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The author of Einstein's Dreams now presents a collection of essays, written over the past 20 years, that displays his genius for bringing literary and scientific concerns into ringing harmony. Sometimes provocative, sometimes fanciful, always elegantly conceived and written, these meditations offer readers a fascinating look into the creative compulsions shared by the scientist and the artist. Reading tour.
The author of Einstein's Dreams now presents a collection of essays, written over the past 20 years, that displays his genius for bringing literary an...
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73,02 zł |
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Dance for Two: Selected Essays
ISBN: 9780747529217 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This is a collection of essays which display the author's talent for bringing literary and scientific concerns into harmony. These meditations touch upon both the ethereal and the corporeal: the dependence of a ballerina on the laws of physics; the chice every scientist makes between tinkering and theorizing; the unscientific nature of discovery; the mystery of human flight without propellers; and the impulse behind the unprompted smile.
This is a collection of essays which display the author's talent for bringing literary and scientific concerns into harmony. These meditations touch u...
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66,70 zł |
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The Diagnosis
ISBN: 9780375725500 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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 works, or even who he is. The only thing he can remember is his corporate motto: the maximum information in the minimum time.
Bill s memory returns, but a strange numbness afflicts him. As he attempts to find a diagnosis for his deteriorating illness, he... 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 biol...
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88,39 zł |
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Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
ISBN: 9780525432593 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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65,33 zł |