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Summary: By any measure, Albert Einstein changed the ways we understand--and measure--space and time. At first his ideas were ridiculed, but soon they were idolized. Prior to World War II, Einstein was a celebrated figure in Germany, but when the Nazi Party rose to power in the 1930s, he fled for his life and eventually settled in the United States. [This book] recounts the life of the world's most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portable Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 EINCohen, Benyamin
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B EINSTEIN COHIsaacson, Walter.
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B Einstein IsaDelano, Marfe Ferguson.
Summary: This photobiography of Albert Einstein publishes to coincide with the year that marks the 100th anniversary of what has been described as Einstein's "miraculous year" and the 50th anniversary of his death. In 1905 Einstein published three important papers describing ideas that changed science forever and eventually had an effect on much of modern life. The most famous of these ideas was his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 EINKrull, Kathleen.
Summary: This biography profiles the life and times of German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, whose contributions to the field earned him a Nobel Prize.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 EINAlbee, Sarah
Summary: Complemented by photographic historical back matter, a leveled-reader introduction to the life of Albert Einstein explains how his innovative thinking paved the way for many world-shaping discoveries and inventions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ALBIsaacson, Walter.
Summary: The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available. 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD 921 EinsteinMcPherson, Stephanie Sammartino.
Summary: Recounts the life of the scientist whose theories of relativity revolutionized the way we look at space and time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 1995
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB EINSTEIN MCPRobinson, Andrew
Summary: The extraordinarily inventive Linus Pauling, twice winner of the Nobel Prize, was asked how he came to have so many good ideas. Pauling replied: "Well, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones." Where do ideas come from? And why do the best ideas sometimes strike in a flash of "sudden genius"? Andrew Robinson here offers a fascinating look at the genesis of creativity in science and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.35 ROBSugimoto, Kenji
Summary: "Including 486 photographs, documents, drawings, and graphics and a timetable appendix."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 1989
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ZACBerne, Jennifer.
Summary: Albert Einstein was a dreamer, a thinker; this story follows his life and his scientific discoveries through easy to understand text.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 EINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE STEM EinsteinDakers, Diane
Summary: "Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist and an intellectual giant of the twentieth century. This fascinating biography reveals Einstein's life story, and how his theories changed the way we looked at the universe. Born in Germany in 1879, Einstein focused his studies on science and mathematics. He won a Nobel Prize in Physics and was instrumental in persuading U.S. President Roosevelt to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 EINEinstein, Albert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 2005
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Summary: A science book for preschoolers where Einstein helps to introduce kids to the concepts of light and gravity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Meet Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E KleBerne, Jennifer.
Summary: Albert Einstein was a dreamer, a thinker; this story follows his life and his scientific discoveries through easy to understand text.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE ONPaterniti, Michael.
Summary: Follows an 84-year-old pathologist across the country with Einstein's brain in a Tupperware bowl filled with formaldehyde.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delta 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.07 PATSchwartz, Joseph
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.11 SCHBrown, Don
Summary: An introduction to the work and early life of the twentieth-century physicist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio EinsteinFölsing, Albrecht
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 EINGalison, Peter
Summary: At the beginning of the 20th century, just as industry and government were anticipating the immanent coordination of time around the globe, says Galison (history of science and of physics, Harvard U.), the notion of time and the ability to coordinate two clocks at a distance, were being demolished in the nexus of physics, technology, and philosophy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 529 GALGraydon, Samuel
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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Summary: "Even when he was a kid, Albert Einstein did things his own way. He thought in pictures instead of words, and his special way of thinking helped him understand big ideas like the structure of music and why a compass always points north. Those ideas made him want to keep figuring out the secrets of the universe. Other people thought he was just a dreamer, but because of his curiosity, Einstein...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio I Am EinsteinNeffe, Jürgen
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2007