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Einstein: His Life and Universeby Walter Isaacson
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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 testament to the connection between creativity and freedom. Based on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk — a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate — became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals. These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age. Review:"Isaacson has admirably succeeded in weaving together the complex threads of Einstein's personal and scientific life to paint a superb portrait."-- Arthur I. Miller, author of Einstein, Picasso Review:"Once again Walter Isaacson has produced a most valuable biography of a great man about whom much has already been written. It helps that he has had access to important new material. He met the challenge of dealing with his subject as a human being and describing profound ideas in physics. His biography is a pleasure to read and makes the great physicist come alive."-- Murray Gell-Mann, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics and author of The Quark and the Jaguar Review:"Isaacson's treatment of Einstein's scientific work is excellent: accurate, complete, and just the right level of detail for the general reader. Taking advantage of the wealth of recently uncovered historical material, he has produced the most readable biography of Einstein yet."-- A. Douglas Stone, Professor of Physics at Yale Review:"I found so much to admire; there are many places where I just had to cheer what Isaacson had written."-- Dudley Herschbach, Professor of Science at Harvard Review:"This book does an amazing job getting the science right and the man revealed." — Sylvester James Gates, Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland Review:"This is a brilliant intellectual tapestry — and a great read. Skillfully weaving Einstein's revolutionary scientific achievements, his prolific political initiatives, his complex personal life, and his fascinating personality, Isaacson has transformed the transformer of the twentieth century into a beacon for the twenty-first century."-- Martin J. Sherwin, coauthor of American Prometheus:The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for biography About the AuthorWalter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life and of Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and daughter. Table of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgments""" Main Characters""" CHAPTER ONE The Light-Beam Rider"" CHAPTER TWO Childhood, 1879-1896""" CHAPTER THREE The Zurich Polytechnic, 1896-1900"" CHAPTER FOUR The Lovers,"1900-1904"" CHAPTER FIVE The Miracle Year: Quanta and Molecules, 1905""" CHAPTER SIX Special Relativity, 1905""" CHAPTER SEVEN The Happiest Thought, 1906-1909""" CHAPTER EIGHT The Wandering Professor, 1909-1914""" CHAPTER NINE General Relativity, 1911-1915""" CHAPTER TEN Divorce, 1916-1919""" CHAPTER ELEVEN Einstein's Universe, 1916-1919""" CHAPTER TWELVE Fame, 1919""" CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Wandering Zionist, 1920-1921""" CHAPTER FOURTEEN Nobel Laureate, 1921-1927""" CHAPTER FIFTEEN Unified Field Theories, 1923-1931""" CHAPTER SIXTEEN Turning Fifty, 1929-1931""" CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Einstein's God""" CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Refugee, 1932-1933""" CHAPTER NINETEEN America, 1933-1939""" CHAPTER TWENTY Quantum Entanglement, 1935""" CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The Bomb, 1939-1945"" CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO One-Worlder, 1945-1948""" CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Landmark, 1948-1953""" CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Red Scare, 1951-1954""" CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE The End, 1955""" EPILOGUE Einstein's Brain and Einstein's Mind""" Sources """ Notes""" Index"" What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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