{"product_id":"strange-attractors-isbn-9780140172461","title":"Strange Attractors","description":"A National Jewish Honor Book composed of seven short stories from the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Mind-Body Problem\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e A mathematician studies the geometry of soap bubbles and responds to the rapture of infatuation by reciting Shakespeare in Yiddish. A group of Olympian intellects is made childlike by the appearance of a double rainbow. Becky Sharp steps out of the pages of \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e to confound a pretentious philosopher. These are just some of the marvelous and unlikely things that happen in \u003ci\u003eStrange Attractors\u003c\/i\u003e—a collection of stories that explores the interactions of thought and feeling, mind and heart, to reveal the deep, mysterious ties between seemingly unrelated lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A wonderful collection . . . A picture of remarkable depth and complexity.”—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Electric and compelling . . . Rebecca Goldstein brings a keen and specially informed vision to our world.”—\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Rebecca Goldstein again probes the relationships between female intellect and emotion—this time in a sparkling, erudite collection in which brilliant women’s minds dictate their romantic attachments while their gender continues to dictate their fate.”—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebecca Newberger Goldstein\u003c\/b\u003e received her doctorate in philosophy from Princeton University. Her award-winning books include the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Mind-Body Problem, Properties of Light, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction,\u003c\/i\u003e and nonfiction studies of Kurt Gödel and Baruch Spinoza. Her most recent work, \u003ci\u003ePlato at the Googleplex\u003c\/i\u003e, was released by Pantheon Books in March of 2014. She has received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, has been designated a Humanist of the Year and a Freethought Heroine, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She lives in Massachusetts.Rebecca Goldstein is represented by Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau (prhspeakers.com).","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305233338597,"sku":"NP9780140172461","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140172461.jpg?v=1767737392","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/strange-attractors-isbn-9780140172461","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}