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Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives by Albert Einstein
Category: Biography
Modesty, humor, compassion, and wisdom are the traits most evident in this illuminating selection of personal papers from the Albert Einstein Archives. The illustrious physicist wrote as thoughtfully to an Ohio fifth-grader, distressed by her discovery that scientists classify humans as animals, as to a ...Show more
BORN-EINSTEIN LETTERS 1916-1955 by EINSTEIN ALBERT BORN MAX
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Macmillan Science
Albert Einstein and Max Born were great friends. Their letters span 40 years and two world wars. In them they argue about quantum theory, agree about Beethoven's heavenly violin and piano duets (that they played together when they met) and chat about their families. Equally important, the men commiserat ...Show more
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei; Stillman Drake (Translator); Albert Einstein (Foreword by); John Heilbron (Introduction by); Galileo
Category: Science | Series: Modern Library Science Ser.
Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published in Florence in 1632, was the most proximate cause of his being brought to trial before the Inquisition. Using the dialogue form, a genre common in classical philosophical works, Galileo masterfully demonstrates the truth of the Coperni ...Show more
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition by Stillman Drake (Translator); Albert Einstein (Foreword by); Galileo Galilei
Category: Politics
This 1967 edition of the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is a revision of a 1953 edition. It includes a foreword by Albert Einstein, which is presented in en face German and English versions. The translation itself is based on the definitive National Edition prepared under the direction ...Show more
Einstein: Stubbornly Persistent Illusion by Albert Einstein
Category: Science & Natural History
From the work that "made" modern scientific thought and his important discoveries, to his later musings on his landmark findings and his philosophical essays on Zionism and other important issues of the 20th Century, "Einstein" is the most extensive anthology of the scientist, and the only one to provid ...Show more
Einstein on Politics - His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb by David A. Rowe; Albert Einstein; Robert Schulmann (Editor)
Category: Biography Memoir
The most famous scientist of the twentieth century, Albert Einstein was also one of the century's most outspoken political activists. Deeply engaged with the events of his tumultuous times, from the two world wars and the Holocaust, to the atomic bomb and the Cold War, to the effort to establish a Jewis ...Show more
General and Special Relativity by Albert Einstein; Martin Counihan (Introduction by)
Category: Science | Series: Great Works That Shape Our World Ser.
Special and General Relativityby Albert Einstein contains his core paper, 'Relativity, The Special & The General Theory. A Popular Exposition', which established his reputation as one of the greatest thinkers of our and perhaps any age. Also included are the four lectures he gave to explain his find ...Show more
Relativity by Albert Einstein
Category: Science | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
From the age of Galileo until the early years of the 20th century, scientists grappled with seemingly insurmountable paradoxes inherent in the theories of classical physics. With the publication of Albert Einstein's "special" and "general" theories of relativity, however, traditional approaches to solvi ...Show more
Relativity by Albert Einstein
Category: Science | Series: Routledge Great Minds
Time magazine's "Man of the Century", Albert Einstein is the founder of modern physics and his theory of relativity is the most important scientific idea of the modern era. In this short book, Einstein explains, using the minimum of mathematical terms, the basic ideas and principles of the theory that h ...Show more
Relativity - 100Th Anniversary Ed by Albert Einstein
Category: Science
A handsome annotated edition of Einstein's celebrated book on relativity After completing the final version of his general theory of relativity in November 1915, Albert Einstein wrote Relativity. Intended for a popular audience, the book remains one of the most lucid explanations of the special and gene ...Show more