Name: This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder (en Inglés)
SKU: 56159874
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Author: Townsend, Alan
ISBN: 9781538741184

portada This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder (en Inglés)

This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Alan Townsend

Editorial

Grand Central Publishing

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

272

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9781538741184

Categorías

Ciencia: cuestiones generales
Conservación del medioambiente
Cómo afrontar la muerte y el duelo

This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder (en Inglés)

Alan Townsend (Autor) · Grand Central Publishing · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder (en Inglés)"

A compassionate, vulnerable, and transformative exploration of the nurturing and spiritual power of scientific wonder, as illuminated through the tragic dual cancer diagnoses of author Dr. Alan Townsend's wife and daughter. A decade ago, Dr. Alan Townsend's family received two unthinkable, catastrophic diagnoses: his 4-year-old daughter and his brilliant scientist wife developed unrelated, life-threatening forms of brain cancer. As he witnessed his young daughter fight during the courageous final months of her mother's life, Townsend - a lifelong scientist - was indelibly altered. He began to see scientific inquiry as more than a source of answers to a given problem, but also as a lifeboat: a lens on the world that could help him find peace with the painful realities he could not change. Through scientific wonder, he found ways to bring meaning to his darkest period. At a time when society's relationship with science is increasingly polarized while threats to human life on earth continue to rise, Townsend offers a balanced, moving perspective on the common ground between science and religion through the spiritual fulfillment he found in his work. Awash in Townsend's electrifying and breathtaking prose, THIS ORDINARY STARDUST offers hope that life can carry on even in the face of near-certain annihilation.