Night Lessons — Volume 2: Five More Journeys Through Space, Time, and Human History

Five complete Night Lessons - at the price of three individual books.Sometimes one story isn't enough. This volume is for those nights.Night Lessons - Volume 2 brings together five more beloved bedtime reads from the Night Lessons series - each complete, each self-contained, each its own world.Mars - The Red Dream From the first glimpse through a telescope to the rovers now on its surface - the story of our centuries-old fascination with the red planet, between wishful thinking, sobering discovery, and the still-open question of life.Black Holes - The Face of the Abyss From stars collapsing under their own gravity to the first real photograph of an event horizon - a journey to the edges of what physics can even describe.Albert Einstein - The Dreamer of Relativity From the patent office in Bern to world fame - the life of the man who rethought space and time and remains, to this day, the very image of genius.Pompeii - Eighteen Hours That Made a City Immortal Eighteen hours in the year 79 AD changed forever how we understand everyday Roman life - a city frozen at the exact moment of its destruction.Octopus - Intelligence from Another World A creature with three hearts, blue blood, and a nervous system spread throughout its entire body - the strangest form of intelligence we know on Earth.Five worlds. Five stories. One night.Part of the "Night Lessons Volumes" series