When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut, Adrian Nathan West (Translator)

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut, Adrian Nathan West (Translator)A fast paced, mind expanding literary work about scientific discovery, ethics and the unsettled distinction between genius and madness. Albert Einstein opens a letter sent to him from the Eastern Front of World War I. Inside, he finds the first exact solution to the equations of general relativity, unaware that it contains a monster that could destroy his life's work. The great mathematician Alexander Grothendieck tunnels so deeply into abstraction

His holiness shares his advice from the heart on a variety of topics including:Living and Growing OldYoung People and FamiliesSickness andDyingLiving in Poverty and WealthAnger

We are all susceptible to biases that can lead us to make bad decisions that make us poorer

in 12 weeks

international bestselling author

and the quest for Self-realisation

Victor plans to do the unthinkable: inject life onto an artificially fashioned

capturing the drama of the expedition and the personal stories of those involved

Rather than abandoning meritocracy

romance and history

to whom honour and pride were more important than their own survival

injecting a profound and moving lyricism and offering the hope that a new vitality can emerge from the putrid swamps

we find ourselves without love