Search Results: Returned 7 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 7
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c1995., W.W. Norton Call No: 530.11 Tho Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Commonwealth Fund Book Program (Series)
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2010., Oxford University Press Call No: 003.54 Ved Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Explores the importance of "information" in understanding and perceiving the universe and the matter than inhabits it. Also details the implications of information theory in regards to manipulation of space and time.
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2014, Juvenile, Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint Call No: 530.8 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Wacky comparisonsSummary Note: "Compares various heavy objects to lighter objects in unique, illustrated ways"--Provided by publisher.
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[2021]., Pantheon Books Call No: HI-INT 523.1 LIG Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Before the discovery of quarks, we hadn't imagined anything smaller than protons and neutrons. Are quarks the end of the line, the smallest imaginable objects in nature? Can the universe be divided into infinitely smaller units in the same way the universe is ever-expanding? Alan Lightman explores these questions in his characteristic accessible and lyrical prose, considering the igniting element behind consciousness, the origin of life, the anatomy of a smile, our fickle memories. Probable Impossibilities brings together recently published and four original essays. Throughout, Lightman guides a discussion on what we know of the universe, life, the mind, and the conception of things vastly larger than ourselves in time and space"--Provided by the publisher.
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-- Discovering our extraordinary place in the cosmos2007., Riverhead Books Call No: 523.1 Pri Edition: 1st Riverhead trade Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines our personal relationship with the cosmos. Discusses how the universe operates, what it is made of, how it may have originated, and how it is evolving.
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2022., Adolescent, Restless Books Call No: B CHA Edition: First Restless Books hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Andrea Chapela, one of Granta's Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists of 2021, breaks down literary and scientific conventions in this prize-winning collection of experimental essays exploring the properties and poetics of glass, mirrors, and light as a means of understanding the self. In powerful, formally inventive essays, The Visible Unseen disrupts the purported cultural divide between arts and science. As both a chemist and an award-winning author, Chapela zeros in on the literary metaphors buried in the facts and figures of her scientific observations. Through questioning scientific conundrums that lie beyond the limits of human perception, she winds up putting herself under the microscope as well. While considering the technical definition of glass as a liquid or a solid, Chapela stumbles upon a framework for understanding the in-between-ness of her own life. Turning her focus toward mirrors, she finds metaphors for our cultural obsessions with self-image in the physics and chemistry of reflection. And as she compiles a history of the scientific study of light, she comes to her final conclusion: that the purpose of description-be it scientific or literary-can never be to define reality, only to confirm our perception of it. Lyrical, introspective, and methodical, The Visible Unseen constructs a startling new perspective from which to examine ourselves and the ways we create meaning."
