Albert
Einstein
 
Einstein's
Universe
From
the Publisher
Brilliantly
written book unlocks the astounding implications of Einstein's revolutionary
theories on the nature of space, time, and motion. Far surpasses
any previous explanation of relativity for laymen.
 
Einstein
File: J. Edgar Hoover's Secret War against the World's Most Famous
Scientist
From
the Publisher
From the moment of Einstein's arrival in the U.S. in l933 until
his death in l955, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, with help from several
other federal agencies, busied itself collecting "derogatory
information" in an effort to undermine Einstein's influence
and destroy his prestige. For the first time Fred Jerome tells the
story of that anti-Einstein campaign, as well as the story behind
it—why and how the campaign originated, and thereby provides
the first detailed picture of Einstein's little known political
activism.
Unlike
the popular image of Einstein as an absent-minded, head-in-the-clouds
genius, the man was in fact intensely politically active and felt
it was his duty to use his world-wide fame shrewdly in the cause
of social justice. A passionate pacifist, socialist, internationalist
and outspoken critic of racism (Einstein considered racism America's
"worst disease"), and personal friend of Paul Robeson
and W.E.B. DuBois, Einstein used his immense prestige to denounce
McCarthy at the height of his power, publicly urging witnesses to
refuse to testify before HUAC.
The
story that emerges not only reveals a little known aspect of Einstein's
character, but underscores the dangers that can arise, to threaten
the American Republic and the rule of law, in times of obsession
with national security.
 
Einstein:
The Life and Times
From
the Publisher
We See
The Universe Through His Eyes.
Ronald
W. Clark's definitive biography of Einstein, the Promethean figure
of our age, goes behind the phenomenal intellect to reveal the human
side of the legendary absent-minded professor who confidently claimed
that space and time were not what they seemed. Here is the classic
portrait of the scientist and the man: the boy growing up in the
Swiss Alps, the young man caught in an unhappy first marriage, the
passionate pacifist who agonized over making The Bomb, the indifferent
Zionist asked to head the Israeli state, the physicist who believed
in God.
 
God's
Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe
From
the Publisher
The product of research around the globe - and interviews with dozens
of prominent scientists, God's Equation discusses the latest developments
in cosmology, the study of the nature of the universe. Using Einstein
and his theories to explain the links between relativity and cosmology
via Einstein's "cosmological constant," Aczel tells us
it is almost as though Einstein were God's mouthpiece, revealing
the most fundamental truths about our larger environment, truths
scientists are just now confirming.. "And yet Aczel reveals
a side of Einstein - the man - no one else has brought to light.
Aczel is the first to have translated certain letters of Einstein,
in private hands until recently. These letters cast a new spin on
Einstein's relationship with other scientists and his early efforts
to prove his revolutionary theory that a strong gravitational force
will make light bend.
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