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Einsteins Dreams
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Einsteins Dreams (Audiobook, mp3)Einsteins Dreams (Audiobook, mp3)

In this provocative national bestseller, first-time novelist Lightman takes us back to 1905 and into the dreams of a young patent clerk named Albert Einstein, just as he was completing his theory of relativity. "Lightman lets the reader in on the workings of a creative scientific mind". Kirkus Reviews.

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Einstein's Dreams
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Einstein's DreamsEinstein's Dreams

If you liked the eerie whimsy of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Steven Millhauser's Little Kingdoms, or Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths, you will love Alan Lightman's ethereal yet down-to-earth book Einstein's Dreams. Lightman teaches physics and writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, helping bridge the light-year-size gap between science and the humanities, the enemy camps C.P. Snow famously called The Two Cultures.
 
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Tags: Dreams, Lightman, Einstein, helping, bridge