books about: einstein     books:       Final Theory: A Novel93 reviews Mark Alpert Touchstone, 2008 Loved This Book What a smart, funny, exciting thriller! Final Theory is the story of Albert Einstein's lost Theory of Everything and the battle to save it from falling into the wrong hands. The author is a science journalist who clearly knows his physics. He sets up an intriguing plot and introduces characters you won't forget. There's a sadistic Russian mercenary who wants revenge, an FBI agent who looks like a ...             Dreaming in Cuban40 reviews Cristina Garcia Ballantine Books, 1993 Tastes of Perfection.... While it may sound like an overstatement, this book really does taste of perfection. The fact that Garcia began it as a poem which blossomed into a novel is apparent. The language is simply beautiful. Garcia tracks the del Pino women through their different experiences with exile, showing us both extremes (the pro-Castro, anti-American and the assimilated immigrant who hates communism and ...             Disney's Little Einsteins: Halloween Surprise (Disney's Little Einsteins)4 reviews Marcy Kelman Disney Press, 2007 Colorful Book That Includes 25 Holographic Stickers! If you happen to have purchased Mickey Mouse Clubhouse - Mickey's Treat on DVD, you will have no doubt seen the engaging bonus episode A Little Einsteins' Halloween. (In my opinion, that episode alone makes it worth getting Mickey's Treat!) A softcover book, Halloween Surprise featuring the Little Einsteins is based upon the bonus episode, which follows Leo, June, Quincy and Annie as they go ...             Einstein's Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius1 review Hans C. Ohanian W. W. Norton, 2008 Finally... A book that explains the HYPE over one man...I have been saying this for years and very few people believed me!!! Ask anyone where E=mc2 comes from and you will be told "Einstein." It is on T-shirts, public monuments and book covers -- The problem is that Einstein was not the first to discover the equation: It was known for several years before he presented it in his celebrated 1905 paper, ...             Einstein's Dreams208 reviews Alan Lightman Vintage, 2004 Einstein's Dreams I received the book in a timely fashion. It was in very good condition.             Baby Einstein: Dogs (Baby Einstein)25 reviews Julie Aigner-Clark Hyperion Book CH, 2002 Perfect size for tiny hands! This extra tiny book is adorable. Perfect sized for her baby hands, its easy for her to carry around the room to us as she shows us each type of dog. Her larger books are more cumbersome and I honestly think she likes that is so small & easy to handle. The words are simple & perfect for a pre-reader. The pictures include photographs & drawings of many different breeds of dogs, and I think ...             E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation108 reviews David Bodanis Berkley Trade, 2001 Smart and Fascinating Wonderful book. A teacher of mine showed the movie in class, and I was spellbound, so I proceeded to buy the book; I was not disappointed. This book is quite captivating, and I found it difficult to put down. It splits the equation up into five different sections: E for energy, = for equals, m for motion, c for celeritas or the speed of light, and 2 for squared. Keep in mind this book is not for ...             The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II635 reviews Iris Chang Penguin (Non-Classics), 1998 An Emotive, Powerful and Well-Researched Piece I had known about this book for quite some time, but only got around to reading it recently. You need quite a bit of mental fortitude to get through such a book; it is graphic in the extreme. I stealed myself for the effort, but got quite upset by about page 80. The accounts of savagery - gang rape almost always followed by murder, dousing people with gas and setting them alight, bayoneting ...             The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next101 reviews Lee Smolin Mariner Books, 2007 Absolutely superb... So many reviewers have said so many things, let me just add this: During the past thirty years, we have seen the rise of religious ideology and its disastrous effects on our political system, not to mention our national finances and national reputation. How interesting that science has experienced the same things, the same disasters born of the same focus on ideology rather than factuality, in ...             Einstein: His Life and Universe213 reviews Walter Isaacson Simon & Schuster, 2008 A must-read if you are interested in the history of science Walter Isaacson has done a masterful job of retracing Albert Einstein's life, including his earliest childhood, his miracle year of 1905, the development of general relativity and his political activism. This book is an erudite yet thoroughly readable and entertaining look at the man. His genius was in being able to see physical meaning to equations; to him an equation was a representation of ...             The Story of Science: Einstein Adds a New Dimension4 reviews Joy Hakim Smithsonian Books, 2007 Science, History, & Vocabulary! Oh MY! This book is informative and interesting, not dry and/or stuffy like most science books. This is the 2nd or 3rd in the "Story of Science" series that I have purchased and I would highly recommend them to anyone. Joy Hakim not only writes about science, but she writes about how the world was when these scientists were making their discoveries and the struggles they had while doing so. Another ...             Emotional Unavailability : Recognizing It, Understanding It, and Avoiding Its Trap30 reviews Bryn C. Collins McGraw-Hill, 1998 Helped tremendously and well worth it! Being in an emotionally unavailable relationship myself, this book jumped out at me and has kept me glued to the pages since. It is very well written - flowing nice & easy to understand. I found MANY "ah-ha's!" and she has helped me see things clearly and put so many things into perspective. Collins has definitely helped me recognize and understand the patterns and types of people that has no ...             Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science28 reviews David Lindley Anchor, 2008 God Not Only Plays Dice, She Cheats! Richard Feynman once remarked, perhaps apocryphally, that if anyone told you they `understood' quantum theory, that the one thing you could depend on is that they had missed something. That is why I find it interesting that many of the `so-so' or negative reviews of this book focus on the issue that it does not impart an `understanding' of quantum theory or mechanics. The entire point of the book ...             Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)82 reviews Kip S. Thorne W. W. Norton & Company, 1995 The science behind the movie "Contact" When Carl Sagan wanted to have his fictional herione from Contact travel in time, he turned to Kip Thorne. This book is Thorne's attempt to more fully explain the science of time travel. And in the process Thorne takes you to the prediction and discovery of black holes. First seriously suggested by the theories of Albert Einstein, a black hole is a star that has grown so massive (at ...             Who Was Albert Einstein?6 reviews Jess Brallier Grosset & Dunlap, 2002 Full of Information! I thought Who Was Albert Einstein? was a great book. Hats off to Jess Brallier! I have read this book two or three times, which is rare for me, since I do not like to re-read things, so that must tell you how good this book is! I learned a lot of things like he was born on March 14, 1879, he had two wives, he wasn't the best father (in his own words), his brain is floating around in a jar today, ...             Disney's Little Einsteins: Pirate's Treasure (Little Einsteins)5 reviews Marcy Kelman Disney Press, 2007 We just love this author! We purchased this book for our nephew who LOVES anything pirate, and he's crazy about the Little Einsteins! It was a huge hit! We're trying to collect all of Marcy Kelman's work, it rocks!             What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained47 reviews Robert L. Wolke W. W. Norton & Company, 2002 Funny and interesting cooking facts My husband and I are both engineers and enjoy cooking. This book appealed to us and is a wonderful explanation of the science behind the kitchen. The author has a certain humor, which keeps the book interesting, and explains details well, even for non-technical people. I would recommend it as an addition to your kitchen.             Baby Einstein: Babies (Baby Einstein)27 reviews Julie Aigner-Clark Hyperion Book CH, 2002 Great for newborns This book, along with the "Cats", "Dogs" & "Birds" books are great to read to your newborn. The books are short (like a baby's attention span) and sweet. My son is now 13 months and he still enjoys these books as they are small enough for him to hold in his hands and turn the pages.             Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity17 reviews James B. Hartle Benjamin Cummings, 2003 Des Canyons aux Etoiles The SOED describes the word "miracle" as "a marvelous event not ascribable to human or natural agency, and therefore attributed to the intervention of a supernatural agent [...]" and "an act demonstrating control over nature, serving as evidence that the agent is either divine or divinely favoured". Although this review is not intended to promote the sales of this venerable dictionary, just these ...             Ideas and Opinions43 reviews Albert Einstein Bonanza Books, 1988 fascinating This is a great book to read on Einstein. It is a selection of papers and speeches taken over his lifetime (notably the first half of the twentieth century), grouped by subject matter (pacifism, the Jews, etc.). His language certainly advances in later years. The last section deals with his scientific works, where one can also see progression. One also sees him as a man of his times, ...              search for books avoiding, biography, commonwealth, dimension, dreaming, einstein, einsteins, emotional, equation, explained, failings, forgotten, gravity, halloween, heisenberg, holocaust, introduction, mistakes, opinions, outrageous, recognizing, relativity, science, struggle, surprise, treasure, unavailability, uncertainty, understanding, universe books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Anatomy of a Food Addiction: The Brain Chemistry of Overeating: An ... home  impressum - about us