BOOKS by Rebecca Goldstein, Ph.D.

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1	Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity more books like this by Rebecca Goldstein, Ph.D. In 1656, Amsterdam's Jewish community declared Baruch Spinoza excommunicated because he denied the immortality of the soul, the divinity of the scripture, and challenged the idea that the Torah was literally given by God. His writings remain as provocative today. see all copies from $10.00! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel more books like this by Rebecca Goldstein, Ph.D. "A gem....An unforgettable account of one of the great moments in the history of human thought."--Steven Pinker A masterly introduction to the life and thought of the man who transformed our conception of math forever. Kurt Godel is considered the greatest logician since Aristotle. His monumental theorem of incompleteness demonstrated that in ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $8.64! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Mind-Body Problem more books like this by Rebecca Goldstein, Ph.D. An academic novel relating the history of a young woman's unhappy marriage. Renee Feuer is a Jewish graduate student at Princeton who makes the mistake of marrying her professor, Noam Himmel. Most of Renee's life, like Noam's, has been acted out in classrooms or libraries, and neither of them is terribly good at dealing with people on a human ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Mazel more books like this by Rebecca Goldstein, Ph.D. Mazel means luck in Yiddish, and luck is the guiding force in this magical and mesmerizing novel that spans three generations. Sasha Saunders is the daughter of a Polish rabbi who abandons the shtetl and wins renown as a Yiddish actress in Warsaw and New York. Her daughter Chloe becomes a professor of classics at Columbia. Chloe's daughter Phoebe ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.82! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Dark Sister more books like this by Rebecca Goldstein, Ph.D. Goldstein (The Mind-Body Problem; The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind) has cleverly constructed a highly imaginative tale that commands close analysis. Hedda, a grotesque, tormented author of angry feminist novels, has exiled herself to a gloomy New England house, where her grim solitude is interrupted only by phone calls from her silly but ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.58! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Strange Attractors: Stories more books like this by Rebecca Goldstein, Ph.D. A collection of short stories, most of which concern the lives of academics and intellectuals. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Properties of Light more books like this by Rebecca Goldstein, Ph.D. A young physicist falls under the spell of an older one who has, he believes, refuted Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. He also becomes involved with the man's beautiful daughter. Things go badly, and this novel, which is as much about sex as about physics, takes several unusual turns before it ends with an unexpected plot development. A New ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Late-Summer Passion more books like this by Rebecca Goldstein, Ph.D. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $78.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Strange Attractors: 2stories more books like this by Rebecca Goldstein, Ph.D. A collection of short stories, most of which concern the lives of academics and intellectuals. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.90! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Hanukkah Lights: Stories from the Festival of Lights more books like this by Chaim Potok, Rebecca Goldstein, Ph.D., Harlan Ellison (Read by) "Nightingales in a War Zone" by Chaim Potok and performed by Joel Grey--an American soldier stationed in the Far East in the fateful winter of 1956 contemplates war, prejudice and history. "Gifts of the Last Night" by Rebecca Goldstein and read by Lainie Kazan--on a wild New York night, the eighth of the Festival of Lights, Pearl encounters a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $23.35!

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