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About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolutionby P. C. W. DaviesISBN 0684818221 (0-684-81822-1)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution'Book summary:Examining the consequences of Einstein's relativity theory, an original work explores the mystery of time and considers black holes, time warps, time travel, the existence of God, nature of the universe, and humankind's place in the cosmos. 35,000 first printing. Tour. [via]
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Albert Einstein : A Biographyby Albrecht Folsing, Ewald OsersISBN 0670855456 (0-670-85545-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Albert Einstein : A Biography'Book summary:Albert Einstein's achievements are not just milestones in the history of science; decades ago they became an integral part of the twentieth-century world in which we live. Like no other modern physicist he altered and expanded our understanding of nature. Like few other scholars, he stood fully in the public eye. In a world changing with dramatic rapidity, he embodied the role of the scientist by personal example. Albrecht Folsing, relying on previously unknown sources and letters, brings Einstein's "genius" into focus. Whereas former biographies, written in the tradition of the history of science, seem to describe a heroic Einstein who fell to earth from heaven, Folsing attempts to reconstruct Einstein's thought in the context of the state of research at the turn of the century. Thus, perhaps for the first time, Einstein's surroundings come to light. [via]
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Albert Einstein : Out of My Later Yearsby Albert EinsteinISBN 0517093804 (0-517-09380-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Albert Einstein : Out of My Later Years'Book summary:Albert Einstein, among the greatest scientists of all time, was also a man of profound thought and deeply humane feelings. His collected essays offer a fascinating and moving look at one of the twentieth century's leading minds.
Covering a fifteen year period from 1934 to 1950, the contents of this book have been drawn from Einstein's articles, addresses, letters and assorted papers. Through his words, you can understand the man and gain his insight on social, religious, and educational issues. [via]More editions of Albert Einstein : Out of My Later Years:
Albert Einstein: Out of My Later Years Through His Own Wordsby Albert EinsteinISBN 0785820450 (0-7858-2045-0)
Hardcover, Castle Books Inc
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Beyond Einstein: The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universeby Michio Kaku, Jennifer Trainer ThompsonISBN 0385477813 (0-385-47781-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Einstein: The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universe'Book summary:Beyond Einstein takes readers on an exciting excursion into the discoveries that have led scientists to the brightest new prospect in theoretical physics today -- superstring theory. What is superstring theory and why is it important? This revolutionary breakthrough may well be the
fulfillment of Albert Einstein's lifelong dream of a Theory of Everything, uniting the laws of physics into a single description explaining all the known forces in the universe. Co-authored by one of the leading pioneers in superstrings, Michio Kaku, and completely revised and updated with the newest groundbreaking research, the book approaches scientific questions with the excitement of a detective story, offering a fascinating look at the new science that may make the impossible possible. [via]More editions of Beyond Einstein: The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universe:
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Brief History of Timeby Stephen W. HawkingISBN 0553380168 (0-553-38016-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brief History of Time'Book summary:Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists today: Where did the universe come from? How and why did it begin? Will it come to an end, and if so, how? Hawking attempts to reveal these questions (and where we're looking for answers) using a minimum of technical jargon. Among the topics gracefully covered are gravity, black holes, the Big Bang, the nature of time, and physicists' search for a grand unifying theory. This is deep science; these concepts are so vast (or so tiny) as to cause vertigo while reading, and one can't help but marvel at Hawking's ability to synthesize this difficult subject for people not used to thinking about things like alternate dimensions. The journey is certainly worth taking, for, as Hawking says, the reward of understanding the universe may be a glimpse of "the mind of God." --Therese Littleton [via]
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Brief History of Timeby Ron Miller, Carl Sagan, Stephen W. HawkingISBN 0816147736 (0-8161-4773-6)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holesby Carl Sagan, Stephen W. Hawking, Ron MillerISBN 055305340X (0-553-05340-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes'Book summary:Stephen Hawking has earned a reputation as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein. In this landmark volume, Professor Hawking shares his blazing intellect with nonscientists everywhere, guiding us expertly to confront the supreme questions of the nature of time and the universe. Was there a beginning of time? Will there be an end? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? From Galileo and Newton to modern astrophysics, from the breathtakingly cast to the extraordinarily tiny, Professor Hawking leads us on an exhilarating journey to distant galaxies, black holes, alternate dimensions--as close as man has ever ventured to the mind of God. From the vantage point of the wheelchair from which he has spent more than twenty years trapped by Lou Gehrig's disease, Stephen Hawking has transformed our view of the universe. Cogently explained, passionately revealed, A Brief History of Time is the story of the ultimate quest for knowledge: the ongoing search for the tantalizing secrets at the heart of time and space. [via]
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A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holesby Stephen W. HawkingISBN 0553346148 (0-553-34614-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes'Book summary:Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists today: Where did the universe come from? How and why did it begin? Will it come to an end, and if so, how? Hawking attempts to reveal these questions (and where we're looking for answers) using a minimum of technical jargon. Among the topics gracefully covered are gravity, black holes, the Big Bang, the nature of time, and physicists' search for a grand unifying theory. This is deep science; these concepts are so vast (or so tiny) as to cause vertigo while reading, and one can't help but marvel at Hawking's ability to synthesize this difficult subject for people not used to thinking about things like alternate dimensions. The journey is certainly worth taking, for, as Hawking says, the reward of understanding the universe may be a glimpse of "the mind of God." --Therese Littleton [via]
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Brief History of Time/International Edby Stephen W. HawkingISBN 0553173251 (0-553-17325-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brief History of Time/International Ed'Book summary:Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists today: Where did the universe come from? How and why did it begin? Will it come to an end, and if so, how? Hawking attempts to reveal these questions (and where we're looking for answers) using a minimum of technical jargon. Among the topics gracefully covered are gravity, black holes, the Big Bang, the nature of time, and physicists' search for a grand unifying theory. This is deep science; these concepts are so vast (or so tiny) as to cause vertigo while reading, and one can't help but marvel at Hawking's ability to synthesize this difficult subject for people not used to thinking about things like alternate dimensions. The journey is certainly worth taking, for, as Hawking says, the reward of understanding the universe may be a glimpse of "the mind of God." --Therese Littleton [via]
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Driving Mr. Albertby Michael PaternitiISBN 038533303X (0-385-33303-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Driving Mr. Albert'Book summary:Driving Mr. Albert chronicles the adventures of an unlikely threesome--a freelance writer, an elderly pathologist, and Albert Einstein's brain--on a cross-country expedition intended to set the story of this specimen-cum-relic straight once and for all.
After Thomas Harvey performed Einstein's autopsy in 1955, he made off with the key body part. His claims that he was studying the specimen and would publish his findings never bore fruit, and the doctor fell from grace. The brain, though, became the subject of many an urban legend, and Harvey was transformed into a modern Robin Hood, having snatched neurological riches from the establishment and distributed them piecemeal to the curious and the faithful around the world.
The brain itself has seen better days, its chicken-colored chunks floating in a smelly, yellow, formaldehyde broth, yet its beatific presence in the book, riding serenely in the trunk of a Buick Skylark, encased in Tupperware, reflects the uncertainty of Einstein's life. Was he a sinner or a saint, a genius or just lucky? Harvey guards the brain as if it were his own. From time to time, he has given favored specialists a slice or two to analyze, but the results have been mixed. Physiologically, Einstein's brain may have been no different from anyone else's, but plenty of people would like the brain to be more than it is, including Paterniti:
I want to touch the brain. Yes, I've admitted it. I want to hold it, coddle it, measure its weight in my palm, handle some of its fifteen billion now-dormant neurons. Does it feel like tofu, sea urchin, bologna? What, exactly? And what does such a desire make me? One of a legion of relic freaks? Or something worse?
Traversing America with Harvey and his sacred specimen, Paterniti seems to be awaiting enlightenment, much as Einstein did in his last days. But just as the great scientist failed to come up with a unifying theory, Paterniti's chronicle dissolves at times into overly sincere efforts to find importance where there may be none, and it walks a fine line between postmodern detachment and wide-eyed wonderment. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, the book offers an engrossing portrait of postatomic America from what may be the ultimate late-20th-century road trip. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Driving Mr. Albert : A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brainby Michael PaternitiISBN 0385333005 (0-385-33300-5)
Hardcover, Dell Publishing
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E=Mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equationby David BodanisISBN 0425181642 (0-425-18164-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'E=Mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation'Book summary:E=mc2. Just about everyone has at least heard of Albert Einstein's formulation of 1905, which came into the world as something of an afterthought. But far fewer can explain his insightful linkage of energy to mass. David Bodanis offers an easily grasped gloss on the equation. Mass, he writes, "is simply the ultimate type of condensed or concentrated energy," whereas energy "is what billows out as an alternate form of mass under the right circumstances."
Just what those circumstances are occupies much of Bodanis's book, which pays homage to Einstein and, just as important, to predecessors such as Maxwell, Faraday, and Lavoisier, who are not as well known as Einstein today. Balancing writerly energy and scholarly weight, Bodanis offers a primer in modern physics and cosmology, explaining that the universe today is an expression of mass that will, in some vastly distant future, one day slide back to the energy side of the equation, replacing the "dominion of matter" with "a great stillness"--a vision that is at once lovely and profoundly frightening.
Without sliding into easy psychobiography, Bodanis explores other circumstances as well; namely, Einstein's background and character, which combined with a sterling intelligence to afford him an idiosyncratic view of the way things work--a view that would change the world. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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E=McP2s: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equationby David BodanisISBN 0753156075 (0-7531-5607-5)
Softcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Einsteinby Ronald W. ClarkISBN 038001159X (0-380-01159-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theologyby Max JammerISBN 069110297X (0-691-10297-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Einstein Defiant: Genius Versus Genius in the Quantum Revolutionby Edmund Blair BollesISBN 0309096170 (0-309-09617-0)
Softcover, Natl Academy Pr
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Einstein for Beginnersby Joseph Schwartz, Michael McGuinnessISBN 0375714596 (0-375-71459-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Einstein for Beginners'Book summary:One of the first in the series of For Beginners documentary comic books, Einstein for Beginners still holds up as a perfect introduction to the life and work of Albert Einstein. It has been said that only a small percentage of people really understand Einstein's theories, but this book goes a long way towards making them accessible to everyone. [via]
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Einstein : His Life and Timesby Ronald W. ClarkISBN 0340109602 (0-340-10960-2)
Hardcover, Hodder and Stoughton
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Einstein in Love : A Scientific Romanceby Dennis OverbyeISBN 0670894303 (0-670-89430-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Timeby Michio KakuISBN 0393327000 (0-393-32700-0)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Einstein's Daughterby Michelle ZackheimISBN 1573221279 (1-57322-127-9)
Hardcover, Riverhead Books
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Einstein's Daughter: The Search for Lieserlby Michele ZackheimISBN 1573228362 (1-57322-836-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Einstein's Dreamsby Alan LightmanISBN 140007780X (1-4000-7780-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Einstein's Dreams'Book summary:If you liked the eerie whimsy of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Steven Millhauser's Little Kingdoms, or Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths, you will love Alan Lightman's ethereal yet down-to-earth book Einstein's Dreams. Lightman teaches physics and writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, helping bridge the light-year-size gap between science and the humanities, the enemy camps C.P. Snow famously called The Two Cultures.
Einstein's Dreams became a bestseller by delighting both scientists and humanists. It is technically a novel. Lightman uses simple, lyrical, and literal details to locate Einstein precisely in a place and time--Berne, Switzerland, spring 1905, when he was a patent clerk privately working on his bizarre, unheard-of theory of relativity. The town he perceives is vividly described, but the waking Einstein is a bit player in this drama.
The book takes flight when Einstein takes to his bed and we share his dreams, 30 little fables about places where time behaves quite differently. In one world, time is circular; in another a man is occasionally plucked from the present and deposited in the past: "He is agonized. For if he makes the slightest alteration in anything, he may destroy the future ... he is forced to witness events without being part of them ... an inert gas, a ghost ... an exile of time." The dreams in which time flows backward are far more sophisticated than the time-tripping scenes in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, though science-fiction fans may yearn for a sustained yarn, which Lightman declines to provide. His purpose is simply to study the different kinds of time in Einstein's mind, each with its own lucid consequences. In their tone and quiet logic, Lightman's fables come off like Bach variations played on an exquisite harpsichord. People live for one day or eternity, and they respond intelligibly to each unique set of circumstances. Raindrops hang in the air in a place of frozen time; in another place everyone knows one year in advance exactly when the world will end, and acts accordingly.
"Consider a world in which cause and effect are erratic," writes Lightman. "Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting.... In this world, artists are joyous." In another dream, time slows with altitude, causing rich folks to build stilt homes on mountaintops, seeking eternal youth and scorning the swiftly aging poor folk below. Forgetting eventually how they got there and why they subsist on "all but the most gossamer food," the higher-ups at length "become thin like the air, bony, old before their time."
There is no plot in this small volume--it's more like a poetry collection than a novel. Like Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, it's a mind-stretching meditation by a scientist who's been to the far edge of physics and is back with wilder tales than Marco Polo's. And unlike many admirers of Hawking, readers of Einstein's Dreams have a high probability of actually finishing it. [via]
Einstein's Universeby Nigel CalderISBN 0141020563 (0-14-102056-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Einstein's Universe'Book summary:This brilliantly written book unlocks the astounding implications of Einstein's revolutionary theories on the nature of science, time and motion. It far surpasses any previous explanation of Relativity for laymen. [via]
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Einstein's Universeby Albert Einstein, Nigel CalderISBN 0517385708 (0-517-38570-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Einstein's Universe: A Guide to the Theory of Relativityby Nigel CalderISBN 0140135162 (0-14-013516-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havocby Arthur I. MillerISBN 0465018602 (0-465-01860-2)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havoc'Book summary:The most important scientist of the twentieth century, and its most important artist, had their periods of greatest creativity almost simultaneously and in remarkably similar circumstances. This fascinating parallel biography of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso as young men examines their greatest works-Einstein's special theory of relativity and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, the painting that brought art into the twentieth century. Miller shows how these breakthroughs arose not only from within their respective fields but from larger currents in the intellectual culture of the times: specifically, the rise of photography for Picasso, various well-known practical problems in the design of electric dynamos and the regularization of railroad timetables for Einstein, and for both the increasingly sophisticated ideas of space, time, and invisible forces that made up the cutting-edge science of the day. Ultimately, Miller shows how Einstein and Picasso, in a deep and important sense, were both working on the same problem.[via]More editions of Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havoc:
Evolution of Physicsby Albert EinsteinISBN 0671201565 (0-671-20156-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Realityby Brian GreeneISBN 0375727205 (0-375-72720-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality'Book summary:As a boy, Brian Greene read Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus and was transformed. Camus, in Greene's paraphrase, insisted that the hero triumphs "by relinquishing everything beyond immediate experience." After wrestling with this idea, however, Greene rejected Camus and realized that his true idols were physicists; scientists who struggled "to assess life and to experience the universe at all possible levels, not just those that happened to be accessible to our frail human senses." His driving question in The Fabric of the Cosmos, then, is fundamental: "What is reality?" Over sixteen chapters, he traces the evolving human understanding of the substrate of the universe, from classical physics to ten-dimensional M-Theory.
Assuming an audience of non-specialists, Greene has set himself a daunting task: to explain non-intuitive, mathematical concepts like String Theory, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and Inflationary Cosmology with analogies drawn from common experience. For the most part, he succeeds. His language reflects a deep passion for science and a gift for translating concepts into poetic images. When explaining, for example, the inability to see the higher dimensions inherent in string theory, Greene writes: "We don't see them because of the way we see&like an ant walking along a lily pad&we could be floating within a grand, expansive, higher-dimensional space."
For Greene, Rhodes Scholar and professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, speculative science is not always as thorough and successful. His discussion of teleportation, for example, introduces and then quickly tables a valuable philosophical probing of identity. The paradoxes of time travel, however, are treated with greater depth, and his vision of life in a three-brane universe is compelling and--to use his description for quantum reality--"weird."
In the final pages Greene turns from science fiction back to the fringes of science fact, and he returns with rigor to frame discoveries likely to be made in the coming decades. "We are, most definitely, still wandering in the jungle," he concludes. Thanks to Greene, though, some of the underbrush has been cleared. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universeby Amir D. AczelISBN 1568581394 (1-56858-139-4)
Hardcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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Ideas and Opinionsby Albert Einstein, Carl SeeligISBN 0517884402 (0-517-88440-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ideas and Opinions'Book summary:A new edition of the most definitive collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings, gathered under the supervision of Einstein himself. The selections range from his earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such subjects as relativity, nuclear war or peace, and religion and science, to human rights, economics, and government. [via]
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The Illustrated a Brief History of Timeby Stephen W. HawkingISBN 0553103741 (0-553-10374-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated a Brief History of Time'Book summary:In the years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has established itself as a landmark volume in scientific
writing. It has also become an international publishing phenomenon, translated into forty languages and selling over nine million copies.The book was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the nature of the universe, but since then there have been extraordinary advances in the
technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic world. These observations have confirmed many of Professor Hawking's theoretical predictions
in the first edition of his book, including the recent discoveries of the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE), which probed back in time to within 300,000 years of the universe's beginning and revealed the wrinkles in the fabric of space-time that he had projected.Eager to bring to his original text the new knowledge revealed by these many observations, as well as his most recent research, for this revised and expanded edition Hawking has prepared a new introduction to the book, revised and updated the original chapters throughout, and written an entirely new chapter on the fascinating subject of wormholes and time travel.
In addition, to heighten understanding of complex concepts that readers may have found difficult to grasp despite the clarity and wit of Hawking's writing, this edition is magnificently enhanced throughout with more than 240 full-color illustrations, including satellite images, photographs made possible by spectacular new technological advances such as the Hubble telescope, and computer- generated images of three- and four-dimensional realities. Detailed captions clarify these illustrations, enabling readers to experience the vastness of intergalactic space, the nature of black holes, and the microcosmic world of
particle physics in which matter and antimatter collide.A classic work that now brings to the reader the latest understanding of cosmology, The Illustrated A Brief History of Time is the story of the ongoing search for the tantalizing secrets at the heart of time and space. [via]
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The Illustrated on the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and AstronomyISBN 0762418982 (0-7624-1898-2)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub
Find This BookBook summary:The first edition of this revolutionary look at the scientific discoveries that changed our perception of the world, by the renowned physicist and bestselling author Stephen Hawking, sold over 65,000 copies. Now its available in a gift-worthy special edition with color photographs and illustrations depicting theoretical models of the planets and their orbitsmaking Hawkings brilliant insights all the more accessible. This original compilation is based on seven classic works of physics and astronomy which, read in chronological order, trace the evolution of modern science. THE ILLUSTRATED ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS includes selections from On the Revolution of Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus; Principia by Sir Isaac Newton; The Principle of Relativity by Albert Einstein; Dialogues Concerning Two Sciences by Galileo Galilei with Alfonso De Salvio; plus Harmony of the World by Johannes Kepler. It also includes five important critical essays and an original biography of each physicist, written by Hawking himself.[via]More editions of The Illustrated on the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy:
Illustrated on the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics And Astronomyby Stephen HawkingISBN 0762427329 (0-7624-2732-9)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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Introducing Quantum Theoryby J. P. McEvoy, Oscar ZarateISBN 1840465778 (1-84046-577-8)
Softcover, Icon Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introducing Quantum Theory'Book summary:Quantum theory confronts us with bizarre paradoxes which upset the logical edifice of classical physics. At the sub-atomic level, one particle seems to know what the others are doing (so-called 'non-locality'), and according to Heisenberg's 'uncertainty principle', there is a limit on how accurately nature can be observed. And yet the theory is amazingly accurate and widely applied, explaining all of chemistry and most of physics. This book takes us on a step-by-step tour with the key figures, including Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg and Schrodinger. Each contributed at least one crucial concept to the theory. The puzzle of the wave-particle duality is here, along with descriptions of the two questions raised gainst Bohr's 'Copenhagen Interpretation' - the famous 'dead and alive cat' and the EPR paradox. Both remain unresolved at the beginning of the 21st century. [via]
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Introducing Quantum Theoryby Oscar Zarate, J. P. McEvoyISBN 1840460571 (1-84046-057-1)
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Introducing Quantum Theoryby Richard Appignanesi, Oscar Zarate, J. P. McEvoyISBN 1874166374 (1-874166-37-4)
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The Meaning of Relativityby Albert EinsteinISBN 1567311369 (1-56731-136-9)
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The Meaning Of Relativity: Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Fieldby Albert Einstein, Brian GreeneISBN 0691120277 (0-691-12027-7)
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On the Shoulders of Giants: New Approaches to Numeracyby Lynn Arthur SteenISBN 0309042348 (0-309-04234-8)
Hardcover, Natl Academy Pr
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On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript The Post-Italianate Editionby Robert K. MertonISBN 0226520862 (0-226-52086-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomyby Stephen HawkingISBN 076241698X (0-7624-1698-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy'Book summary:World-renowned physicist and bestselling author Stephen Hawking presents a revolutionary look at the momentous discoveries that changed our perception of the world with this first-ever compilation of seven classic works on physics and astronomy. His choice of landmark writings by some of the world's great thinkers traces the brilliant evolution of modern science and shows how each figure built upon the genius of his predecessors. On the Shoulders of Giants includes, in their entirety, On the Revolution of Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus; Principia by Sir Isaac Newton; The Principle of Relativity by Albert Einstein; Dialogues Concerning Two Sciences by Galileo Galilei with Alfonso De Salvio; plus Mystery of the Cosmos, Harmony of the World, and Rudolphine Tables by Johannes Kepler. It also includes five critical essays and a biography of each featured physicist, written by Hawking himself.[via]More editions of On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy:
Out of My Later Yearsby Albert EinsteinISBN 0806503572 (0-8065-0357-2)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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Relativityby Albert EinsteinISBN 0879759798 (0-87975-979-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Relativity'Book summary:Albert Einstein (1879-1955), pacifist and humanitarian, has been universally acclaimed the greatest theoretical physicist who ever lived. Adapting the old laws of physics to Einstein's space-time resulted in "relativistic" physics. He, more than anyone else, realized that every physical theory is largely an invention of the mind, a mathematical model used to "mimic" a certain domain of experimental facts. Einstein's work on relativity is indeed the greatest contribution to the philosophy of science.
It has long been thought that only a handful of scientists could comprehend Einstein's theory of relativity. But in this book the inventor himself explains both the special and the general theories in terms that the layman can understand. [via]More editions of Relativity:
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Relativity: The Special and General Theoryby Albert Einstein, Nigel Calder, Robert W. LawsonISBN 0143039822 (0-14-303982-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Relativity: The Special And the General Theory'Book summary:Albert Einsteins classic guide to the theory of relativitywith insights from todays leading experts
This new edition of Relativitythe first updated version in over fifty yearsincludes a wealth of original material written by some of todays foremost scientific authorities. Bestselling author and physicist Roger Penrose puts Einsteins work in historical context and details major developments in relativity theory over subsequent years. Relativity expert Robert Geroch provides commentary on key aspects of the special and general theories; and historian David Cassidy explores the profound impact of Einsteins ideas on our culture at large. Now, over ninety years after its first publication, this definitive edition brings a classic text into the new millennium. [via]More editions of Relativity: The Special and General Theory:
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Relativity: The Special and General Theoryby Robert W. Lawson, Albert EinsteinISBN 0415253845 (0-415-25384-5)
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The Theory of Relativity (And Other Essays)by Albert EinsteinISBN 0806517654 (0-8065-1765-4)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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The Theory of Relativity: & Other Essaysby EinsteinISBN 1567312470 (1-56731-247-0)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Theory of Relativity: & Other Essays'Book summary:E=mc2: It may be Einstein's most well-known contribution to modern science, but how many people understand the thought process or physics behind this famous equation? In this collection of his seven most important essays on physics, Einstein guides his reader step-by-step through the many layers of scientific theory that formed a starting point for his discoveries. By both supporting and refuting the theories and scientific efforts of his predecessors, Einstein reveals in a clear voice the origins and meaning of such significant topics as physics and reality, the fundamentals of theoretical physics, the common language of science, the laws of science and of ethics, and an elementary derivation of the equivalence of mass and energy. This remarkable collection allows the general reader to understand not only the significance of Einstein's masterpiece, but also the brilliant mind behind it. This authorized Philosophical Library ebook features a new introduction by Neil Berger and an illustrated biography of Albert Einstein, which includes rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "The 'principle of relativity' in its widest sense is contained in the statement: The totality of physical phenomena is of such a character that it gives no basis for the introduction of the concept of "absolute motion;" or shorter but less precise: There is no absolute motion." -Albert Einstein, "The Theory of Relativity" Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was born in Germany and became an American citizen in 1940. A world-famous theoretical physicist, he as awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics and is renowned for his Theory of Relativity. In addition to his scientific work, Einstein was an influential humanist who spoke widely about politics, ethics, and social causes. After leaving Europe, Einstein taught at Princeton University. His theories were instrumental in shaping the atomic age. [via]
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The Universe and Dr. Einstein.by Lincoln Kinnear BarnettISBN 0809437376 (0-8094-3737-6)
Softcover, Time-Life Books
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Who Got Einstein's Office: Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Studyby Edward RegisISBN 0201122782 (0-201-12278-2)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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A World Without Time: The Forgotton Legacy Of Godel And Einsteinby Palle YourgrauISBN 0465092942 (0-465-09294-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Godel And Einstein'Book summary:It is a widely known but little considered fact that Albert Einstein and Kurt Gödel were best friends for the last decade and a half of Einstein's life. The two walked home together from Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study every day; they shared ideas about physics, philosophy, politics, and the lost world of German science in which they had grown up. By 1949, Gödel had produced a remarkable proof: In any universe described by the Theory of Relativity, time cannot exist. Einstein endorsed this result-reluctantly, since it decisively overthrew the classical world-view to which he was committed. But he could find no way to refute it, and in the half-century since then, neither has anyone else. Even more remarkable than this stunning discovery, however, was what happened afterward: nothing. Cosmologists and philosophers alike have proceeded with their work as if Gödel's proof never existed -one of the greatest scandals of modern intellectual history. A World Without Time is a sweeping, ambitious book, and yet poignant and intimate. It tells the story of two magnificent minds put on the shelf by the scientific fashions of their day, and attempts to rescue from undeserved obscurity the brilliant work they did together.[via]More editions of A World Without Time: The Forgotton Legacy Of Godel And Einstein:
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Brevisima Historia Del Tiempo/a Brief History of Timeby Stephen Hawking, Leonard MlodinowISBN 8484326373 (84-8432-637-3)
Hardcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Historia Del Tiempoby Stephen W. HawkingISBN 8420639710 (84-206-3971-0)
Softcover, Grupo Anaya Comercial
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Historia del tiempo / A Brief History of Time: del big bang a los agujeros negros / From Big Bangs to the Black Holesby Stephen W. HawkingISBN 9879317114 (987-9317-11-4)
Softcover, Distal S R L
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Albert Einstein: Eine Biographieby Albrecht FolsingISBN 351840489X (3-518-40489-X)
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