Marcelo Gleiser: 7 books
The Island of Knowledge
The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Why discovering the limits to science may be the most powerful discovery of all
How much can we know about the world? In this book, physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence, the origin of the universe, the nature of reality, and...
A Tear at the Edge of Creation
A Radical New Vision for Life in an Imperfect Universe
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
For millennia, shamans and philosophers, believers and nonbelievers, artists and scientists have tried to make sense of our existence by suggesting that everything is connected, that a mysterious Oneness binds us to everything else. People go to temples, churches, mosques, and synagogues to pray to...
The Dancing Universe
From Creation Myths to the Big Bang
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Marcelo Gleiser refutes the notion that science and spirituality are irreconcilable. In The Dancing Universe, he traces mystical, philosophical, and scientific ideas about the cosmos through the past twenty-five centuries, from the ancient creation myths of numerous cultures to contemporary theories...
by Marcelo Gleiser
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2003
"An intellectual accomplishment that illuminates the magic and the wisdom of the heavens above."—Kirkus Reviews
"Tracing our contemplation of the cosmos from the big bang to the big crunch" (The New Yorker), Marcelo Gleiser explores the shared quest of ancient prophets and today's astronomers...
The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected
A Natural Philosopher’s Quest for Trout and the Meaning of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Marcelo Gleiser has had a passion for science and fishing since he was a boy growing up on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro. Now a world-famous theoretical physicist with hundreds of scientific articles and several books of popular science to his credit, he felt it was time to connect with nature in...
by Marcelo Gleiser
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Marcelo Gleiser é apaixonado por ciência e pesca desde os tempos de menino nas praias do Rio de Janeiro. Hoje um físico de renome mundial, autor de dezenas de livros e com centenas de artigos publicados nas principais revistas de divulgação científica, sentiu que era o momento de se conectar...
A ilha do conhecimento
Os limites da ciência e a busca por sentido
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 28, 2014
DO MESMO AUTOR DE A DANÇA DO UNIVERSO E O FIM DA TERRA E DO CÉU, VENCEDORES DO PRÊMIO JABUTI Quanto podemos conhecer do mundo? Será que podemos conhecer tudo? Ou será que existem limites fundamentais para o que a ciência pode explicar? Se estes limites existem, até que ponto podemos compreender...