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Start Over Topic lightman, alan p., 1948- Publication Year Range Last 50 years Publication Type Reviews
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1. Experimental Art.

Author

Foer, Joshua

Subjects
*SCIENCE, *NONFICTION
Abstract

A review is presented of the book "The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th Century Science, Including the Original Papers," by Alan Lightman.

Published
2006

5. Reading the Greats.

Author

Ramalingam, Chitra

Subjects
*SCIENTIFIC discoveries, *NONFICTION
Abstract

The article reviews the book "The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers," by Alan Lightman.

Published
2006
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6. Bitesize breakthroughs.

Author

Farmelo, Graham

Subjects
*SCIENCE, *NONFICTION
Abstract

The article reviews the book "The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th Century Science Including the Original Papers," by Alan Lightman.

Published
2005
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9. The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th Century Science.

Author

Seaman, Donna

Subjects
DISCOVERIES: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers, The (Book), LIGHTMAN, Alan P., 1948-
Abstract

Reviews the book “The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th Century Science,” by Alan Lightman.

Published
2005

14. Fiction Chronicle.

Author

Stuart, Jan

Subjects
*FICTION
Abstract

BERLIN STORIES By Robert Walser. New York Review Books; paper, $14. ''Let us be merry, rich, light, earnest, courteous, virtuous and well mannered,'' Walser exhorts, as if invoking a scout's oath for the well-rounded metropolitan. Add ''arch'' and ''awe-struck'' and you've mined the cheerier impulses of this troubled Swiss writer as he recorded his experiences in the Berlin of the early 1900s. These essayish ''stories,'' most appearing in English for the first time, reveal the exuberance (and, in a heart-rending coda, the defeat) of a young artist initiating himself into the glorious bustle of his adopted city. Everything is observed in language that asserts his professed posture as ''a perfumed and mincing know-it-all and write-it-all.'' To Walser, Berlin's architecture ''errs perhaps on the side of the drastic'' and theater should be ''shameless,'' since ''it must after all be reckoned among the secret pleasures of a theatergoer to be permitted to find sufficient grounds to blush.'' Having exalted the gifts of a critic friend, he mutters, ''Did you catch the undercurrent of vindictive envy?'' Not to be outdone, Walser deploys his own criticism with panache. As he derides ''the princely Homburgly nature'' of a pompous actor, you can almost hear the collection's principal translator, Susan Bernofsky, laughing into her laptop. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2012

15. Ghost.

Subjects
21ST century literature, FICTION
Abstract

The article reviews the book "Ghost," by Alan Lightman.

Published
2007

16. Choosing a Path.

Subjects
NONFICTION
Abstract

The article reviews several books including "Einstein's Dreams," by Alan Lightman, "The Bird Artist," by Howard Norman and "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay," by Michael Chabon.

Published
2011

17. Popular Science, Social Science, Metaphor and Deception.

Author

Wright, James D.

Subjects
NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews several books on popular and social science. "Origins: The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists," by Alan Lightman and Roberta Brawer; "Why the Reckless Survive and Other Secrets of Human Nature," by Melvin Konner; "Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in the Halls of Science," by William Broad and Nicholas Wade.

Published
1991
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20. GHOST.

Subjects
GHOST stories, FICTION
Abstract

The article reviews the book "Ghost," by Alan Lightman.

Published
2007