wyszukanych pozycji: 24
Reunion
ISBN: 9780375713446 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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70,86 zł |
Einstein's Dreams
ISBN: 9781400077809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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66,70 zł |
Isabel and the Invisible World
ISBN: 9781529512120 / Twarda / 2023 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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66,45 zł |
Ghost
ISBN: 9780375713439 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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75,03 zł |
Isabel and the Invisible World
ISBN: 9781529516999 / Miękka / 05-09-2024 / 40 str. Książka dostępna od: 05-09-2024 |
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38,83 zł |
Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings
ISBN: 9780593081327 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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66,70 zł |
Einstein's Dreams
ISBN: 9781780335575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 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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51,10 zł |
The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science
ISBN: 9780593317419 / Angielski / Inna / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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108,38 zł |
Three Flames: A Novel
ISBN: 9781640094253 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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70,65 zł |
A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit
ISBN: 9781400078196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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 imagination, the creative moment, and the alternate ways in which scientists and humanists think about the world. Along the way, he provides in-depth portraits of some of the great geniuses of our time, including Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Edward... From the bestselling author of Einstein's Dreams comes this lyrical and insightful collection of science writing that delves into the myster... |
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79,20 zł |
Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
ISBN: 9780525432593 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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70,86 zł |
Screening Room: A Memoir of the South
ISBN: 9780307739841 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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87,54 zł |
Song of Two Worlds
ISBN: 9781138116764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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369,82 zł |
Dance for Two: Essays
ISBN: 9780679758778 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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79,20 zł |
Isabel and the Invisible World
ISBN: 9781536223330 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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79,16 zł |
The Best American Essays 2000
ISBN: 9780618035809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Bestselling author Lightman selects the year's finest nonfiction as this acclaimed series celebrates its 15th year. This year's pieces embrace stylistic freedom and strong opinions by Jamaica Kincaid, Edward Hoagland, Cynthia Oznick, Mary Gordon, Edwidge Danticat, and others.
Bestselling author Lightman selects the year's finest nonfiction as this acclaimed series celebrates its 15th year. This year's pieces embrace stylist...
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74,99 zł |
Song of Two Worlds
ISBN: 9781568814636 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Alan Lightman's new book, a verse narrative, 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 something to believe in, first turning to the world of science and then to the world of philosophy, religion, and human life. As his personal story is slowly revealed, little by little, we confront the great questions of the cosmos and of the human heart, some questions with answers and...
In Alan Lightman's new book, a verse narrative, we meet a man who has lost his faith in all things following a mysterious personal tragedy. After deca...
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1001,74 zł |
ADA and the Galaxies
ISBN: 9781536215618 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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74,99 zł |
ADA and the Galaxies
ISBN: 9781536228632 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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37,47 zł |
Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World
ISBN: 9780226698052 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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124,37 zł |