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9781455119738 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 24, 2012), cover price $49.00 | About this edition: [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.
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9781455119721 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 24, 2012), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: 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.
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9780307379993 | Pantheon Books, January 24, 2012, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: “As I remember, I had just woken up from a nap when I decided to create the universe.
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9781455119752, titled "Mr. G: A Novel About the Creation" | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 24, 2012), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: [This is the MP3CD audiobook format.
9781455119745 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 24, 2012), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: 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.
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9781568814636 | A K Peters Ltd, October 1, 2009, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: 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.
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Three months after being unexpectedly fired from his banking job, David takes a temporary position at a local mortuary, where he experiences an inexplicable encounter with the unknown that transforms his relationships with everyone around him.
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9780375421693 | 1 edition (Pantheon Books, October 23, 2007), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Three months after being unexpectedly fired from his banking job, David takes a temporary position at a local mortuary, where he experiences an inexplicable encounter with the unknown that transforms his relationships with everyone around him.
Paperback:
9780375713439 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, October 14, 2008), cover price $14.95
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Miscellaneous:
9781605145792 | Unabridged edition (Findaway World Llc, February 15, 2008), cover price $59.99 | About this edition: 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.
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A critical overview of some of the great scientific discoveries of the twentieth century examines the impact of each breakthrough, the personalities and human drama involved, and its meaning in terms of the pattern of scientific discovery, drawing on the original papers of Einstein, Bohr, McClintock, Pauling, and other notable scientists. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.
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9780375713453 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, November 14, 2006), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A critical overview of some of the great scientific discoveries of the twentieth century examines the impact of each breakthrough, the personalities and human drama involved, and its meaning in terms of the pattern of scientific discovery, drawing on the original papers of Einstein, Bohr, McClintock, Pauling, and other notable scientists.
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9780375423208 | Pantheon Books, January 18, 2005, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of essays exploring the human dimensions of science, furnishing portraits of seminal scientists Richard Feynman, Albert Einstein, Edward Teller, and Vera Rubin, as well as reflections on science and art, imagination and metaphor in science, and the social and spiritual implications of technology.
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9781400078196 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, January 3, 2006), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The author of Einstein's Dreams presents a deeply personal and insightful collection of essays exploring the human dimensions of science, furnishing vivid portraits of seminal scientists Richard Feynman, Albert Einstein, Edward Teller, and Vera Rubin, as well as reflections on science and art, imagination and metaphor in science, and the social and spiritual implications of technology.
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9780375421686 | Pantheon Books, November 22, 2005, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Examines the impact of some of the most noteworthy scientific advances of the twentieth century, including the personalities and human drama involved, and draws on the original papers of Einstein, Bohr, Hubble, and other scientists.
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9780060726423 | Perennial, September 1, 2005, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Presents essays on animals, the universe, physics, flowers, and other topics by contributors including Peter Canby, Natalie Angier, Michael Klesius, and Joseph D'Agnese.
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9781559634199 | Island Pr, November 1, 2003, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Presents essays by contributors from various fields of science, technology, literature, philosophy, and social sciences that look at the struggle between humans and technology.
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9781559635745 | Island Pr, September 15, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Presents essays by contributors from various fields of science, technology, literature, philosophy, and social sciences that look at the struggle between humans and technology.
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9780375421679 | Pantheon Books, July 1, 2003, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Attending his thirtieth college reunion, Charles, now a middle-aged professor, recalls his senior year, when he had an affair with a beautiful young dancer amidst the turbulent social and political upheaval of the 1960s.
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9780375713446 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, November 1, 2004), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: The author of Einstein's Dreams tenderly traces the thirty-year-old love affair between Charles, now a fifty-two-year-old professor, as a twenty-two-year-old student, with a beautiful young dancer, set against the turbulent social and political upheaval of the 1960s.
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9780736694674 | Unabridged edition (Books on Tape, August 1, 2003), cover price $56.00 | About this edition: The New York Times has called Alan Lightman “highly original and imaginative.
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9780679416463 | Pantheon Books, January 1, 1993, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A fictional recreation of Einstein's discovery of the nature of time follows the young Albert through 1905 Bern, Switzerland, as he sorts through the dreams that have persisted in his mind for several months
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9781400077809 | Vintage Books, November 1, 2004, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Young Albert Einstein's dreams are imagined in a book that joins science and art to ponder such questions as the viscosity and flexibility of time.
9780446670111 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, February 1, 1994), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Thirty vignettes take the reader back in time to 1905, when a young patent clerk named Albert Einstein was putting the finishing touches on his theory of relativity
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9780760759271 | Barnes & Noble, September 30, 2004, cover price $30.00
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9780393020229 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 2002, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A group of leading physicists--Stephen Hawking, Kip S.
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9780393324464 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 2003), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Presents essays that explore the deepest mysteries of the universe, including black holes, gravity holes, and time travel, by physicists Stephen Hawking, Kip S.
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9788472239630 | Tusquets, June 1, 2002, cover price $21.90
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9788472236936 | Tusquets, June 1, 2002, cover price $12.95
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9780679436157 | Reprint edition (Pantheon Books, September 1, 2000), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Businessman Bill Chalmers descends into a nightmare as he pursues a diagnosis for his strange illness, which involves a bizarre memory loss and a strange numbness that gradually affects his entire body.
9780747549321, titled "Diagnosis" | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, August 1, 2000, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Amazon.
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9780375725500 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, February 1, 2002), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Businessman Bill Chalmers descends into a nightmare as he pursues a diagnosis for the strange illness--involving a bizarre memory loss and a strange numbness that gradually affects his entire body--that has affected him.
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9780736659048 | Unabridged edition (Books on Tape, January 1, 2001), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Amazon.
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9780736659031 | Unabridged edition (Books on Tape, January 1, 2001), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: On his way to work one morning, Bill Chalmers suddenly discovers that he cannot remember where he is going, what he is meant to be doing or, indeed, who he is.
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9780618035786 | Houghton Mifflin, October 26, 2000, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Compiles the best literary essays of the year originally published in American periodicals
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9780618035809 | Mariner Books, October 26, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Compiles the best literary essays of the year originally published in American periodicals
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9780071357388 | 3 edition (McGraw-Hill, July 1, 2000), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The conservation of energy, the second law of thermodynamics, the theory of relativity, quantum mechanicstogether, these concepts form the foundation upon which modern physics was built.
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Product Description: Bennett "Benito" Lang is a lonely and confused young boy who finds solace in the ordered and rigorous laws of mathematics and physics. But as an adult, when he most needs the irrefutable order and precision of science itself, Benito will learn that, despite its expansive beauty and power, it is no match for the unfathomable desires and pains of the human heart...read more
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9780517267653 | Random House Value Pub, July 1, 1998, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Bennett "Benito" Lang is a lonely and confused young boy who finds solace in the ordered and rigorous laws of mathematics and physics.
9780679436140 | Random House Inc, January 1, 1995, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Throughout his life, Bennett Long pursues a vision that compels him to become a scientist and that transforms the everyday world into one of purity, beauty, and order, whose very allure lies in its unattainable ideal
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9780446671606 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, January 1, 1996), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Throughout his life, Bennett 'Benito' Long pursues a vision that compels him to become a scientist and that transforms the everyday world into one of purity, beauty, and order, whose very allure lies in its unattainable ideal
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9780070379350 | McGraw-Hill College, January 1, 1992, cover price $49.70 | About this edition: This is an interdisciplinary textbook in physics for non-science majors and is accessible to students with little science background.
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9780070380486 | 2nd edition (McGraw-Hill College, November 1, 1996), cover price $45.80 | About this edition: This physics textbook for arts students provides a thorough understanding of a fundamental physical principle with widespread applications.
9780070379374 | McGraw-Hill, January 1, 1992, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: This is an interdisciplinary textbook in physics for non-science majors and is accessible to students with little science background.
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9780674033627 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 1, 1991, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A leading astrophysicist summarizes the new theories of the origin of the universe and explains how they discredit older hypotheses, such as the 'Big Bang' theory
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9780674033634 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, February 1, 1993), cover price $26.50 | About this edition: A leading astrophysicist summarizes the new theories of the origin of the universe and explains how they discredit older hypotheses, such as the 'Big Bang' theory
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A fictional recreation of Einstein's discovery of the nature of time follows the young Albert through 1905 Bern, Switzerland, as he sorts through the dreams that have persisted in his mind for several months.
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Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781558008373 | Unabridged edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, January 1, 1993), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A fictional recreation of Einstein's discovery of the nature of time follows the young Albert through 1905 Bern, Switzerland, as he sorts through the dreams that have persisted in his mind for several months.
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Includes candid interviews with twenty-seven cosmologists in which they discuss their early influences, prejudices, world views, and theories
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9780674644700 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 1, 1990, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Includes candid interviews with twenty-seven cosmologists in which they discuss their early influences, prejudices, world views, and theories
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9780674644717 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, September 1, 1992), cover price $16.95
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9780140094763 | Penguin USA, February 1, 1988, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: The author offers a collection of essays that addresses questions ranging from why scientists do their most original work in their youth, and how progress has handicapped society to the physiology of a smile to the mysteries of the night sky
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