Автор: John E. Beerbower

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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,  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 across the street. Confined to a wheelchair since 2018, he has been writing.




13 Електронні книги від John E. Beerbower

John E. Beerbower: The Eyes Have It
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 i …
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John E. Beerbower: All That Is Gold
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 (Wanderi …
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John E. Beerbower: On Living While Dying
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 ti …
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John E. Beerbower: Still Wandering
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 usi …
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John E. Beerbower: On Politics, History and Ideology
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: racis …
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John E. Beerbower: Important Things We Don’t Know
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 …
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John E. Beerbower: Wanderings of a Captive Mind
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 i …
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John E. Beerbower: Imaginings
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 Impor …
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John E. Beerbower: Me
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 …
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John E. Beerbower: Politics, History and Ideology
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 to …
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John E. Beerbower: Imaginings
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 …
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John E. Beerbower: Disappointments
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 m …
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John E. Beerbower: Matter, Life, Consciousness, etc.
‘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 Mann,   The Magic Mountain  (1924)  In June 2024, whil …
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