Product Description: Albert Einstein described Relativity as a "popular explosion" of his famous theory. Written in 1916, it introduced the lay audience to the remarkable perspective which had overturned theoretical physics. Einstein's genius was to express this perspective in understandable terms.

Product Description: The new edition of this classic includes chapters on developments in surgery such as endoscopic removal of bile duct stones, lumpectomy, and intraoperative ultrasonography.

Product Description: Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen...read more

Product Description: In the great tradition of Greek philosophy, this is a volume of the living credos of 22 outstanding modern thinkers. Here we have a meeting of Titans, who bare their souls and question their deepest faiths and passions in a way which must remind us once again that philosophy in its most elemental sense is but a love of wisdom, a seeking for totality of perspective...read more

Product Description: Johannes Kepler: Life and Letters was written as a biography of Johannes Kepler using his own letters. The letters extend over a period of time from 1596 to 1631 bringing to the reader Keplers’ personality rather than his scientific achievements...read more

A survey of Einstein's scientific achievements follows excerpts from letters, speeches, and interviews that reveal his thoughts on religious, political, cultural, social, and economic issues.

Product Description: Das vorliegende Biichlein solI sol chen eine moglichst exakte Ein sicht in die Relativitatstheorie vermitteln, die sich yom alIgemein wissenschaftlichen, philosophischen Standpunkt fiir die Theorie in teressieren, ohne den mathematischen Apparat 1) der theoretischen Physik zu beherrschen...read more

Clear and concise explanations of the development of theories explaining physical phenomena

Product Description: In Commemoration of Einstein Papers presented at the UNESCO Symposium, Munich-Ulm, 18-20 Sept. 1978, and the Addresses Delivered on the Occasion of UNESCO's Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Einstein's Birth, held in Paris, May 1979

A collection of essays celebrating the centennial of Albert Einstein's birth covers such topics as astrophysics, mathematics, chemistry, and various branches of biology

Product Description: This book traces the development of Maxwell's theory from his first thoughts on electromagnetism through to the completion of his influential Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, and shows how this development was related not only to contemporary scientific events but also to Maxwell's personal philosophy of science and life...read more

Product Description: Writing, Reading, and Research thoroughly covers analytical reading, paraphrasing, summarizing, and synthesizing —skills essential for developing a research paper. Each stage of the process is illustrated with examples of student and professional writing...read more

Gathers Einstein's letters and writings pertaining to the dangers of war and the atom bomb, and the need to strive for peace

Product Description: Einstein's image has become a virtual icon of modern science. An arresting photographic portrait of the physicist is featured on the cover of this pocket-sized notebook with 64 pages of ruled colored paper.

Provides a framework for the study and implementation of global social and political reform, examining the possibilities for and prospects of a reformed and integrated world polity responsive to global humanism. Bibliogs

Product Description: Delivered with warmth, clarity, and humor, this brief work is the closest Einstein ever came to writing an autobiography. Although a very personal account, it is concerned solely with the development of his ideas, saying little about his private life or about the world-shaking events through which he lived...read more

Fifty-four love letters portray the caring relationship between Albert Einstein and his first wife by showing how Maric acted as the genius's intellectual confidant during his isolated years at Princeton. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This volume of collected essays by Albert Einstein covers the period of his life between 1931 and 1950. Einstein did not belong to that group of scholars who live in the ivory tower of their research work oblivious of the world around them...read more

Michael Nyman's book is a first-hand account of experimental music from 1950 to 1970. First published in 1974, it has remained the classic text on a significant form of music making and composing that developed alongside, and partly in opposition to, the postwar modernist tradition of composers such as Boulez, Berio, or Stockhausen. The experimentalist par excellence was John Cage whose legendary 4' 33'' consists of four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence to be performed on any instrument. Such pieces have a conceptual rather than purely musical starting point and radically challenge conventional notions of the musical work. Nyman's book traces the revolutionary attitudes that were developed toward concepts of time, space, sound, and composer/performer responsibility. It was within the experimental tradition that the seeds of musical minimalism were sown and the book contains reference to the early works of Reich, Riley, Young, and Glass. This second edition contains a new Foreword, an updated discography, and a historical overview by the author.