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Who Was Albert Einstein?

Who Was Albert Einstein? more books like this

by Jess Brallier, Robert Andrew Parker (Illustrator)

Full of the details kids want to know, the true story of scientist Albert Einstein is told in a fun, engaging way. Illustrations.

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Ideas & Opinions

Ideas & Opinions more books like this

by Albert Einstein

First published in 1954, this definitive collection contains Einstein's most significant writings, in five parts: Ideas and Opinions, On Politics, Government and Pacifism, On the Jewish People, On Germany, and Contributions to Science. The selections span from early in his career to a year before his death, with articles never published before in ...

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E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation

E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation more books like this

by David Bodanis

This accessible book chronicles the life, times, and impact of Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity, relating both the history and the science behind this equation to all levels of scientific aptitude.

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Einstein: His Life and Universe

Einstein: His Life and Universe more books like this

by Walter Isaacson

By the author of the acclaimed bestseller 'Benjamin Franklin', this is the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a ...

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Einstein's Dreams

Einstein's Dreams more books like this

by Alan Lightman

Early one summer morning in 1905, a young patent clerk wakes from a dream at his desk. He is Albert Einstein. The reader witnesses Einstein's dreams of new worlds - visions of the effect on people's lives when time is circular or flows backwards, slows down or takes the form of a nightingale.

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World as I See It

World as I See It more books like this

by Albert Einstein

To the majority of people Einstein's theory is a complete mystery. Their attitude towards Einstein is like that of Mark Twain towards the writer of a work on mathematics: here was a man who had written an entire book of which Mark could not understand a single sentence. Einstein, therefore, is great in the public eye partly because he has made ...

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About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution

About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution more books like this

by Paul Davies

Paul Davies examines the consequences of Einstein's relativety theory, some 100 years after it was first put forward. Important though Einstein's theory turned out to be, it does not solve "the riddle of time". The search to find a unified field theory, or "Theory of Everything", remains at the top of the scientific agenda. When scientists began ...

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Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time

Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time more books like this

by Michio Kaku

Michio Kaku--leading theoretical physicist (a cofounder of string theory) and bestselling science storyteller--shows how Einstein used seemingly simple images to lead a revolution in science.

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Final Theory

Final Theory more books like this

by Mark Alpert

An exciting new writer presents this action-packed debut that seamlessly weaves issues of science, history, and politics with white-knuckle chases and a gun battle that crosses into the extra dimensions of space and time.

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Albert Einstein, Young Thinker

Albert Einstein, Young Thinker more books like this

by Marie Hammontree

All children know who Albert Einstein grew up to be--but what was he like as a child? The clear text in this book is enhanced by illustrations and paintings, documents and photographs from the Smithsonian and the National Gallery.

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Einstein's Heroes: Imagining the World Through the Language of Mathematics more books like this

by Robyn Arianrhod

Blending science, history, and biography, this book reveals the mysteries of mathematics, focusing on the life and work of three of Albert Einstein's heroes: Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, and James Clerk Maxwell.

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The universe and Dr. Einstein more books like this

by Lincoln Kinnear Barnett

Acclaimed by Einstein himself, this is among the clearest, most readable expositions of relativity theory. It explains the problems Einstein faced, the experiments that led to his theories, and what his findings reveal about the forces that govern the universe. 1957 edition.

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God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe more books like this

by Amir D Aczel, PhD

Using modern theories and previously untranslated letters, this scholarly work reevaluates the legacy of Einstein's cosmological constant, the portion of the scientist's general theory of relativity he referred to as his "greatest blunder."

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Masks of the Illuminati more books like this

by Robert Anton Wilson

Young and wealthy Englishman Sir John Babcock has discovered that an ancient criminal order is preparing to take over the world. He seeks the help of two brilliant, yet unlikely, drinking buddies--James Joyce and Albert Einstein--the only people genius enough to uncover the wretched scheme!

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The New Quotable Einstein more books like this

by Albert Einstein, Ms. Alice Calaprice (Editor), Freeman J Dyson (Foreword by)

For the first time in paperback, here is a newly expanded edition of the best-selling book that was hailed as 'setting a new standard' for quotation books. Tens of thousands of readers have enjoyed "The Quotable Einstein" and "The Expanded Quotable Einstein", with translations into twenty-two languages. This updated edition - which appears on the ...

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The Einstein Papers more books like this

by Craig Dirgo

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Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain more books like this

by M Paterniti

Based on an award-winning article for Harper's magazine, this accessible science book chronicles a reporter's coast-to-coast journey with pieces of Einstein's brain--stored in Tupperware in the trunk of his Buick Skylark--and the 84 year-old pathologist who secretly hoarded these brain segments in mason jars in his house for over forty years. ...

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Out of My Later Years more books like this

by Albert Einstein

In a remarkable collection of essays the renowned scientist speaks on a variety of moral, political, social and religious issues revealing the workings of a powerful mind and deeply humane sensibility. Includes his lucid explanation of the theory of relativity.

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Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein more books like this

by Don Brown

Einstein's early years as an odd, awkward outsider with his peers and in the classroom will hearten any child who isn't a capable athlete or straight-A scholar. This ink-and-watercolor picture book biography follows Einstein's life from his birth in 1879 (a very fat newborn with an oversized and oddly shaped head) to young adulthood (he couldn't ...

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Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein more books like this

by Abraham Pais

"Subtle is the Lord" is widely recognized as the definitive scientific biography of Albert Einstein. The late Abraham Pais was a distinguished physicist turned historian who knew Einstein both professionally and personally in the last years of his life. His biography combines a profound understanding of Einstein's work with personal recollections ...

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A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein more books like this

by Stephen Hawking (Editor)

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 provide the wide breadth of his work. The works ...

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The Einstein File: J. Edgar Hoover's Secret War Against the World's Most Famous Scientist more books like this

by Fred Jerome

Why did the FBI investigate Albert Einstein? According to Jerome, Einstein struggled for civil rights in a manner that did not accord with the Hoover Administration. This book describes the political Einstein.

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The Story of Science: Einstein Adds a New Dimension more books like this

by Joy Hakim

Beginning with a journey through space and Albert Einstein riding on a light beam, Hakim takes a lively and accessible look at the theory of relativity, chaos theory, and string theory, showing throughout how the greatest scientific discoveries often begin with the simplest questions about our world--and who we really are.

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Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays more books like this

by Steve Martin

Steve Martin is one of America's treasured comedic actors, having appeared in some of the most popular movies of our time. He is also an accomplished screenwriter who has for the past few years turned his attention to writing plays. The results, collected here, demonstrate new facets of the range and talent he possesses on screen. His plays ...

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Albert Einstein, the Human Side: New Glimpses from His Archives more books like this

by Albert Einstein, Helen Dukas (Editor), Banesh Hoffmann (Editor)

Modesty, humor, compassion, and wisdom are the traits most evident in these personal papers, most of them never before published, from the 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 Colorado banker, who asked whether he ...

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