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Ada and the Galaxies by Alan Lightman, Olga Pastuchiv
$18.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
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 ...Show more
Ada and the Galaxies (HB) by Alan Lightman, Olga Pastuchiv
$32.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
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 tr ...Show more
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
$32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
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, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, ...Show more
Einstein's Dreams by Alan P. Lightman
$24.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
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, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one ...Show more
In Praise of Wasting Time by Alan Lightman
$0.00 NZD
Category: Self Help | Series: Ted 2 Ser.
In this timely and essential audiobook 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 t ...Show more
Mr g: A Novel About the Creation by Alan P. Lightman
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
With echoes of Calvino, Rushdie, and Saramago, this is a stunningly imaginative work that celebrates the tragic and joyous nature of existence on the grandest possible scale. "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 prof ...Show more
The Best American Science Writing 2005 by Alan P. Lightman
$26.99 NZD
Category: Science, Technology & Nature
Together these twenty-seven articles on a wide range of today's most current topics in science, from Oliver Sacks, James Gleick, Atul Gawande, and Natalie Angier, among others, represent the full spectrum of scientific writing, proving once again that "good science writing is evidently plentiful" (Scien ...Show more
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