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Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning Paperback – 12 Nov. 2015

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Marcelo Gleiser is Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College. He has published numerous popular works, including an essay, Emergent Realities in the Cosmos," which was featured in 2003's Best American Science Writing, and three previous books: The Dancing Universe, The Prophet and the Astronomer, and A Tear at the Edge of Creation.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Basic Books; Reprint edition (12 Nov. 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0465049648
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0465049646
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 2.34 x 20.96 cm
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    Marcelo Gleiser is the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College. He is a world-renowned theoretical physicist, the author of over 100 scientific papers and five popular science books in English, translated in over 15 languages. He is fascinated with questions of origins: of the universe, of matter, and of life-- the main topics of his research.

    Marcelo is the co-founder of the Science and Culture blog 13.7, hosted by NPR, and appears frequently in TV documentaries and radio interviews and series, including Radiolab, Fresh Air, Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, as well as many Discovery and BBC shows. He has contributed dozens of essays and opeds to the New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, etc.

    Marcelo is the director of the brand new Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth, an effort to bring the sciences and the humanities into constructive dialogue, offering many public events. You can check it at http://ice.dartmouth.edu.

    When he is not teaching, doing research, or writing, Marcelo runs the mountain trails of New Hampshire and Vermont, and competes in ultra-marathons and obstacle races, especially Spartan races.

    If you want to know more about Marcelo's activities please visit his official web page: www.marcelogleiser.com

    and his blog on science and culture at National Public Radio: http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/

    You can also follow Marcelo on twitter: http://twitter.com/MGleiser

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