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Humble Before the Void
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Humble Before the Void

A Western Astronomer, His Journey East, and a Remarkable Encounter Between Western Science and Tibetan Buddhism
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
CHF35.50

Beschreibung

Humble before the Void also recounts Impey's experiences outside the classroom, from the monks' eagerness to engage in pick-up basket­ball games and stream episodes of hip American sitcoms to the effects on his relationship with the teenage son who makes the trip with him. Moments of profound serenity and beauty in the Himalayas are contrasted with the sorrow of learning that other monks have set themselves on fire to protest the Chinese oppression in Tibet.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-59947-498-4
ProduktartBuch
EinbandKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum14.10.2015
AuflageFirst Edition, First Edition, First Edition, 1
Seiten256 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 41 mm
Gewicht853 g
Illustrationen24-page color insert
Artikel-Nr.6437454
KatalogBuchzentrum
Datenquelle-Nr.18347330
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Autor

Chris Impey is a university distinguished professor and deputy head of the department at the University of Arizona, in charge of academic programs, where he runs the nation's largest undergraduate majors program in astronomy and the second largest PhD program. His research is on observational cosmology, gravitational lensing, and the evolution and structure of galaxies. Impey has over one-hundred seventy refereed publications, has written over forty popular articles on cosmology and astrobiology, and authored two introduc­tory textbooks and four popular science books: The Living Cosmos, How It Ends, How It Began, and Dreams of Other Worlds.

Impey has served as the vice president of the American Astronomical Society, and has also been an NSF distinguished teaching scholar, a Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, and the Carnegie Council on Teaching's Arizona Professor of the Year. He was co-chair of the Education and Public Outreach Study Group for the Astronomy Decadal Survey of the National Academy of Sciences, and was elected a fellow of the Ameri­can Association for the Advancement of Science in 2009.