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  • (Most of) The Answers
    John E. Beerbower
    It is likely that almost everything you think you know about ALS is wrong. Those who experience ALS embark on a difficult journey, dragging their families and friends along with them. The author suffered the first symptoms in 2012, was diagnosed in 2015 (two months before his 45th college reunion) and began this book in 2025, writing with his eyes (using the Tobii Dynavox). Ove...
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    5,51 €

  • Odds and Ends
    John E. Beerbower
    I have now written over 700 pages about political/social matters and 900 pages on science. But, I keep on reading and thinking, and new issues and different perspectives keep arising, with no end in sight. So, I return to the practice of collecting the first versions of new essays in modest-sized books as part of my Wanderings series. As long as I continue to wonder, I shall co...
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    10,91 €

  • Matter, Life, Consciousness, etc.
    John E. Beerbower
    'What was life? No one knew.It was undoubtedly aware of itself,so soon as it was life;but it did not know what it was.'Thomas MannThe Magic Mountain (1924) In June 2024, while working my way through Thomas Mann’s seemingly interminable novel The Magic Mountain (a project started six weeks earlier), I encountered his multipage discourse on 'life.' It left me astonished. One hund...
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  • On Politics, History and Ideology
    John E. Beerbower
    The four books in my Wanderings series contain many essays on politicized topics. I decided to collect them in one place, arranged by related subjects, covering most of the big issues of today: racism, climate change, abortion, inequality, heredity, nationalism, patriotism. I call it 'Politics,' based on an unusual definition attributed to the late Christopher Boehm, formerly t...
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    35,99 €

  • Disappointments
    John E. Beerbower
    Disappointment.  It comes in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes, we see it coming, or, even invite it; sometimes, it takes us by surprise. It can be a shock or a relief. So, that is my theme for this tiny volume. I am still wandering. Any writer of nonfiction will look for an angle, a theme, a perspective, that will give his book a claim of originality, of making a contribution to...
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    16,73 €

  • Imaginings
    John E. Beerbower / John E. Beerbower
    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...
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    11,98 €

  • Me
    John E. Beerbower
    My father grew up on a small farm in a very small town in northwestern Ohio, appropriately called Hicksville. Its claim to fame is that it is mentioned in Huckleberry Finn. My mother’s father during the 1930s worked at the YMCA so that his family could eat meals in the cafeteria. That was his pay. My parents both graduated from Ohio State University. They married right after my...
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    16,42 €

  • Still Wandering
    John E. Beerbower
    More reminisces and inquiring commentary as I embark on my ninth year following my diagnosis with ALS. Like the last two collections, I have written these essays with my eyes, reading the sources using the Kindle app. My childhood memories are probably of interest only to those who may share some of them, but it does add to the picture (pictures) presented in the first three Wa...
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    7,65 €

  • On Living While Dying
    John E. Beerbower
    Sometime during 2013, I became aware of my first symptoms. I was diagnosed in March 2015. I rushed to finish the book I was writing since my retirement in March 2011. Under a perceived shortage of time, I decided to self-publish. The book was out by mid-2016. By early 2018, I was getting restless. I started writing again. Naturally, ...
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    5,45 €

  • All That Is Gold
    John E. Beerbower
    Diagnosed with ALS in 2015 and confined to a wheelchair in 2018, he wrote his first collection of essays, entitled Wanderings of a Captive Mind. A second set of essays, The Eyes Have It (Wanderings Part 2), was written entirely using his eyes. Those essays are by practical necessity shorter and without the many references. This new set, also written primarily with his eyes, is ...
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    17,70 €

  • The Eyes Have It
    John E. Beerbower
    John retired from the practice of law in 2011 and, shortly thereafter, located just outside of Cambridge, England. From 2011 through 2015, he wrote his first book, Limits of Science, published in 2016. Subsequent editions, updated through mid-2022, are entitled Important Things We Don’t Know. Diagnosed with ALS in 2015 and confined to a wheelchair by 2018, John wrote his first...
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    16,34 €

  • Important Things We Don’t Know
    John E. Beerbower / John EBeerbower
    A skeptical examination of what we call the sciences, focusing on the important things that we still do not know about nearly everything that really matters. [Updated through 2021.] 'The perspective of this book differs from that of most books that one would find in the popular science section of a library or bookshop. I do not undertake to surprise or educate the reader with e...
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    27,03 €

  • Wanderings of a Captive Mind
    John E. Beerbower / John EBeerbower
    Diagnosed with ALS in March 2015 and confined to a wheelchair by late 2016, the author occupied himself with meditation, reading and watching operas through Met On Demand. But, an active mind in an increasingly useless body needed some affirmative participation in the world, something less passive. These essays are the result. Ranging from intensely personal to dryly academic (...
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    10,28 €