Ada and the galaxies, Lightman, Alan Pastuchiv, Olga
Автор: Lightman, Alan Название: Einstein`s Dreams ISBN: 140007780X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781400077809 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 9810.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Lightman Alan Название: Three Flames ISBN: 1640092285 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781640092280 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 22990.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: From the international bestselling author of Einstein's Dreams comes a deeply compelling story about the lives of a Cambodian family--set between 1973, just before the Cambodian Genocide by the Khmer Rouge--to 2015. Three Flames grows directly from Lightman's work as the founder of the Harpswell Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance a new generation of female leaders in Cambodia and all of Southeast Asia. The stories of one Cambodian family are intricately braided together in Alan Lightman's haunting Three Flames, his first work of fiction in six years. Three Flames portrays the struggles of a Cambodian farming family against the extreme patriarchal attitudes of their society and the cruel and dictatorial father, set against a rural community that is slowly being exposed to the modern world and its values. A mother must fight against memories of her father's death at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, and her powerful desire for revenge. A daughter is married off at sixteen to a wandering husband and his domineering aunt; another daughter is sent to the city to work in the factories to settle her father's gambling debt. A son dreams of marrying the most beautiful girl of the village and escaping the life of a farmer. And the youngest daughter bravely challenges her father so she can stay in school and strive for a better future. A vivid story of revenge and forgiveness, of a culture smothering the dreams of freedom, and of tradition against courage, Three Flames grows directly from Lightman's work as the founder of the Harpswell Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance a new generation of female leaders in Cambodia and all of Southeast Asia.
Автор: Lightman, Alan Название: Probable Impossibilities ISBN: 152474901X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781524749019 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 15330.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: From the acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams, a collection of meditative essays on the possibilities--and impossibilities--of nothingness and infinity, and how our place in the cosmos falls somewhere in between Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units, ad infinitum? Does space extend to larger and larger regions, on and on to infinity? Is consciousness reducible to the material brain and its neurons? What was the origin of life, and can biologists create life from scratch in the lab? Physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, whom The Washington Post has called "the poet laureate of science writers," explores these questions and more--from the anatomy of a smile to the capriciousness of memory to the specialness of life in the universe to what came before the Big Bang. Probable Impossibilities is a deeply engaged consideration of what we know of the universe, of life and the mind, and of things vastly larger and smaller than ourselves.
Автор: Lightman Alan Название: Three Flames ISBN: 1982621656 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781982621650 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 25250.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
From the internationally bestselling author of Einstein's Dreams comes a deeply compelling story about the lives of a Cambodian family-set between 1973, just before the Cambodian Genocide by the Khmer Rouge-to 2015.
The stories of one Cambodian family are intricately braided together in Alan Lightman's haunting Three Flames, his first work of fiction in six years.
Three Flames portrays the struggles of a Cambodian farming family against the extreme patriarchal attitudes of their society and the cruel and dictatorial father, set against a rural community that is slowly being exposed to the modern world and its values. A mother must fight against memories of her father's death at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, and her powerful desire for revenge. A daughter is married off at sixteen to a wandering husband and his domineering aunt; another daughter is sent to the city to work in the factories to settle her father's gambling debt. A son dreams of marrying the most beautiful girl of the village and escaping the life of a farmer. And the youngest daughter bravely challenges her father so she can stay in school and strive for a better future.
A vivid story of revenge and forgiveness, of a culture smothering the dreams of freedom, and of tradition against courage, Three Flames grows directly from Lightman's work as the founder of the Harpswell Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance a new generation of female leaders in Cambodia and all of Southeast Asia.
Автор: Lightman, Alan Название: Probable Impossibilities ISBN: 0593081323 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780593081327 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 9810.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams tackles big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness ... in an entertaining and easily digestible way" (Wall Street Journal) with a collection of meditative essays on the possibilities--and impossibilities--of nothingness and infinity, and how our place in the cosmos falls somewhere in between. Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units, ad infinitum? Does space extend to larger and larger regions, on and on to infinity? Is consciousness reducible to the material brain and its neurons? What was the origin of life, and can biologists create life from scratch in the lab? Physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, whom The Washington Post has called "the poet laureate of science writers," explores these questions and more--from the anatomy of a smile to the capriciousness of memory to the specialness of life in the universe to what came before the Big Bang. Probable Impossibilities is a deeply engaged consideration of what we know of the universe, of life and the mind, and of things vastly larger and smaller than ourselves.
Автор: Lightman Alan, Pastuchiv Olga Название: ADA and the Galaxies ISBN: 1536215619 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781536215618 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 16550.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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