Einstein Lived Here

Abraham Oais

ISBN 10: 0198539940 / ISBN 13: 9780198539940

Edité par Oxford University Press, 1994

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This is a solid and square black cover Biography Hardback in Very Good++ condition with a Very Good jacket. 1st Edition. c1994. The cover is very bright & clean. The edges are nice, with a little spine end wrinkle. The pages are tight and looks very lightly read. These pages are tight & unmarked, no names. The jacket is also clean & bright with some back top edge wrinkle. Not a Remainder. 282 pages. #21344-224.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Einstein Lived Here
• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date de parution: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0198539940
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780198539940
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good++
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Biography / Autobiograph

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Synopsis

Few people have understood what Einstein has said, thought, and done, but many are hungry to know more about him. This companion volume to Abraham Pais's acclaimed scientific biography Subtle is the Lord...(OUP 1982) enlarges on the way Einstein was perceived by the world at large. His becoming the modern scientist of greatest renown is largely the result of extensive and early attention from the media, as the author has documented by delving into newspaper and magazine archives from 1902 to the present. We learn of Einstein's views on religion and philosophy, his marital problems, and his contacts with personalities ranging from John D. Rockefeller to Charlie Chaplin, and from Freud to Gandhi. Interviews with Einstein, as well as reports on brief comments and longer addresses by him, help to convey his vivid, yet economical, expressive style as well as his great talent at formulation. He wrote and spoke about pacficism, supranationalism, civil liberties, and the rights and obligations of Jews and Arabs to live together harmoniously in the Middle East. Other subjects which, perhaps suprisingly, engaged him ranged from capital punishment to vegetarianism. This new book is written on the basis of the author's unique perspective: he is a physicist and knew Eingstein well for many years. With a style that is accessible and non-mathematical, Pais provides essential information about Einstein the human being which will fascinate and inform both the specialist and the layman alike. This book is intended for historians of science, Einsteinophiles, cultural historians/observers, avid readers of biographies, and the general reader.