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Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine

Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine Hardcover - 2018

by Alan P. Lightman

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New York: Pantheon. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. 9781101871867 . Both book and dustjacket are in excellent condition. What the author gives us "is a profound inquiry into the human desire for truth and meaning, and a journey along the different paths of religion and science that become part of that quest." ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 226 pages .
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  • Title Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
  • Author Alan P. Lightman
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pantheon, New York
  • Date 2018
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 8931
  • ISBN 9781101871867 / 1101871865
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.7 x 5.2 x 1.2 in (19.56 x 13.21 x 3.05 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Cosmology
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017014750
  • Dewey Decimal Code 523.1

About the author

ALAN LIGHTMAN--who worked for many years as a theoretical physicist--is the author of six novels, including the international best seller Einstein's Dreams, as well as The Diagnosis, a finalist for the National Book Award. He is also the author of a memoir, three collections of essays, and several books on science. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Granta, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Salon, and Nature, among other publications. He has taught at Harvard and at MIT, where he was the first person to receive a dual faculty appointment in science and the humanities. He is currently professor of the practice of the humanities at MIT. He lives in the Boston area.