When We Cease To Understand The World

When We Cease To Understand The World

In Stock
SKU: SONG1681375664
UPC: 9781681375663
Brand: New York Review Books
Regular price$13.58
Quantity
Add to wishlist
Add to compare

Processing time: 1-3 days

US Orders Ships in: 3-5 days

International Orders Ships in: 8-12 days

Return Policy: 15-days return on defective items

Payment Option
Payment Methods

Help

If you have any questions, you are always welcome to contact us. We'll get back to you as soon as possible, withing 24 hours on weekdays.

Customer service

All questions about your order, return and delivery must be sent to our customer service team by e-mail at yourstore@yourdomain.com

Sale & Press

If you are interested in selling our products, need more information about our brand or wish to make a collaboration, please contact us at press@yourdomain.com

One Of The New York Times Book Reviews 10 Best Books Of 2021Shortlisted For The 2021 International Booker Prize And The 2021 National Book Award For Translated Literaturea Fictional Examination Of The Lives Of Reallife Scientists And Thinkers Whose Discoveries Resulted In Moral Consequences Beyond Their Imagining.When We Cease To Understand The World Is A Book About The Complicated Links Between Scientific And Mathematical Discovery, Madness, And Destruction.Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrdingerthese Are Some Of Luminaries Into Whose Troubled Lives Benjamn Labatut Thrusts The Reader, Showing Us How They Grappled With The Most Profound Questions Of Existence. They Have Strokes Of Unparalleled Genius, Alienate Friends And Lovers, Descend Into Isolation And Insanity. Some Of Their Discoveries Reshape Human Life For The Better; Others Pave The Way To Chaos And Unimaginable Suffering. The Lines Are Never Clear.At A Breakneck Pace And With A Wealth Of Disturbing Detail, Labatut Uses The Imaginative Resources Of Fiction To Tell The Stories Of The Scientists And Mathematicians Who Expanded Our Notions Of The Possible.

⚠️ WARNING (California Proposition 65):

This product may contain chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm.

For more information, please visit www.P65Warnings.ca.gov.

Recently Viewed