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The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. Biographer Isaacson 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 locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional...
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English
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The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. It is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated and may have been inspired by her own profound and very personal insight. Mitza Maric has always been a little different from other girls. Most twenty-year-olds are wives by now,...
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Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
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105 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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English
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Traces the life and work of the famous physicist, from his childhood in Germany through the development of his theories of relativity to his campaign for peace after World War II.
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[A Charlie Thorne novel] volume 1
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"Decades ago, Albert Einstein devised an equation that could benefit all life on earth -- or destroy it. Fearing what would happen if the equation fell into the wrong hands, he hid it. But now a diabolical group known as the Furies is closing in on its location. In desperation, a team of CIA agents drags Charlie into the hunt, needing her brilliance to help them find it first -- even though this means placing her life in grave danger. In a breakneck...
5) The Einstein effect: how the world's favorite genius got into our cars, our bathrooms, and our minds
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Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Albert Einstein's face is still one of the most recognizable in the world and he's widely considered to be the first modern-day celebrity. While many of his discoveries continue to define our daily lives, it's not just his genius that continues to shape our world. Today, more people know Einstein as an icon rather than a theorist-decades after his death, he's a celebrity with a massive online following. The Einstein Effect shows all the ways his...
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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[32] p.: col. ill.; 26 cm.
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English
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An introduction to the work and early life of the twentieth-century physicist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking.
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Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
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Unabridged.
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6 sound discs (6 hr.) : digital, 4 3/4 in.
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English
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These twelve half-hour lectures are about what Einstein got wrong. He may have kindled a scientific revolution with his famous theory of relativity and his proof that atoms and light quanta exist, but he balked at accepting the most startling implications of these theories-such as the existence of black holes, the big bang, gravity waves, and mind-bendingly strange phenomena in the quantum realm. In a course that assumes no background in science and...
11) Caught
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Missing volume 5
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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343 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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When Jonah and Katherine travel to early 1900s Switzerland and Serbia to return Albert Einstein's daughter, Lieserl, to history, her mother Mileva grasps entirely too much about time travel and has no intention of letting her daughter go.
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
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First Scribner hardcover edition.
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xvi, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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This inventive new biography of the legendary physicist examines his complex and contradictory nature—from brilliant scientist to charming lothario and life of the party—in 99 vignettes based on intriguingly different particles.