The Miraculous from the Material: Understanding the Wonders of Nature -- Alan Lightman, Hardcover

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The Miraculous from the Material: Understanding the Wonders of Nature -- Alan Lightman, HardcoverA gorgeously illustrated exploration of the science behind the universe's most stunning natural phenomena from atoms and parameciums to rainbows, snowflakes, spider webs, the rings of Saturn, galaxies, and more Nature is capable of extraordinary phenomena. Standing in awe of those phenomena, we experience a feeling of connection to the cosmos. For acclaimed physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, just as remarkable is that all of what we see around us

Here he invites us to consider values

and productive differences

Some are confessional (getting sentenced to the "hell hill" at Mormon church camp)

Le di al universo seis meses

the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war

Mal and Christopher will have to do it themselves

either hidden or altered

New York Times bestselling author of Eden Undone and Sin in the Second City

his most intimate and detailed book yet

agitating for the dictator's kidnapping

With rare affection

Looking at many of our most powerful systems--like education

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