From the tightest-knit nuclear family or extended clan to the most fragile new commune
The internationally bestselling novel about a little café in Kabul
for anyone who has loved a friend who was sick
and historic testimonies to Sufism’s key role and efficacy in purifying the souls and elevating the Sacred over the profane in the lives of man
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Galileo's Daughter: a Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love Condition:Well Read From the tightest-knit nuclear familyThe Barnes & Noble ReviewDeemed by Albert Einstein to be "the father of modern physics of modern science altogether," the man who dropped cannonballs from the Tower or Pisa, improved the telescope to discover the moons of Jupiter, and defended Nicolaus Copernicus's theory of the Earth's orbit was, in his day, considered a heretic. Dava Sobel, the author of Longitude, the story of John Harrison's invention of the chronometer, returns with Galileo's