Imaginings: First Addendum to Important Things We Don't Know - Softcover

Beerbower, John Edwin

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798218814021

Publisher: P.J. Bear, 2025

Synopsis

These essays are on topics reflecting the intersection of science and humankind. They concern time, consciousness, beauty, probability, and understanding. They supplement and compliment my book Important Things We Don't Know: About Nearly Everything and are presented here as an accompaniment to that book.

But, this volume can stand on its own.

For several years, I periodically updated Important Things. But, I decided to leave the last edition as the last. Nonetheless, I keep reading and thinking. So, I have been writing short essays on scientific subjects and including them in my Wanderings books. There are now enough that I thought it worth making them (updated and revised-in some cases, very substantially), along with some new ones, separately available as an addendum to the original book.

This is the second edition, revised and updated.

About this title

About the Author

John majored in economics at Amherst College, receiving a BA in 1970. He received his JD from The Harvard Law School in 1973. Following law school, he did post-graduate research at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. In late 1974, John began a 37-year career as a commercial litigator with a major law firm in New York City. He retired from the practice of law in 2011, after which he relocated to a small village outside of Cambridge, England. In March 2015, however, John was diagnosed with ALS (motor neuron disease). As a result, he decided to return to the U.S., to live in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, with his daughter Sarah. His son John Eliot and daughter-in-law Megan, with his two grandchildren Hannah and Jeffrey, live nearby.Confined to a wheelchair since 2018, he has been writing.

Edition details

• Publisher: P.J. Bear
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798218814021
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 250