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When We Cease to Understand the World / (Record no. 40008)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781681375670
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Canceled/invalid ISBN 9781681375663
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Transcribing agency AKCL
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082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 863.7
Item number LAB-W
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Labatut, Benjamín,
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title When We Cease to Understand the World /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Benjamin Labatut ; translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London:
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Pushkin Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2020
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent p. 189
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger: these are some of luminaries into whose troubled lives Labatut's book thrusts the reader, showing us how they grappled with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, alienate friends and lovers, descend into isolation and insanity. Some of their discoveries reshape human life to the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear. At a breakneck pace and with a wealth of disturbing detail, Benjamin Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to tell the stories of scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible"--
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Scientists
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Topical term or geographic name entry element English Literature
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Topical term or geographic name entry element English Fiction
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element English Novel
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Spanish Literature
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Spanish Fiction
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Spanish Novel
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Topical term or geographic name entry element English Translation
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Spanish Historical Fiction
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Genre/form data or focus term Short stories.
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Dates associated with a name 1980-
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Uniform title Verdor terrible.
Language of a work English
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture New York :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer New York Review Books,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2020.
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Source of description note Description based on print version record.
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Labatut, Benjamín,
Dates associated with a name 1980-
Form subdivision Translations into English.
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Form subdivision Fiction.
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Personal name West, Adrian Nathan,
Relator term translator.
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Relationship information Print version:
Main entry heading Labatut, Benjamín, 1980-
Title When we cease to understand the world
Place, publisher, and date of publication New York : New York Review Books, [2021]
International Standard Book Number 9781681375663
Record control number (DLC) 2021005101
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     ARCHBISHOP KAVUKATTU CENTRAL LIBRARY ARCHBISHOP KAVUKATTU CENTRAL LIBRARY 11/25/2024 399.00 1 863.7 LAB-W 69194 02/18/2025 01/31/2025 399.00 11/25/2024 Books