Howard, Don
Summary: "More than just a biography of Einstein's life, this course provides you with an inside look at how this brilliant thinker arrived at his various revolutionary breakthroughs. One of the secrets of Einstein's success was that he was well read in philosophy, and that guided his approach not only to framing and solving problems in physics but also to interpreting his discoveries in a more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2008
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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 IsaKrull, 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 EINDelano, 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 EINSummary: Albert Einstein, the most famous scientist of all time, was a world-renowned celebrity, greeted like a rock star in public. An anti-war firebrand, Einstein also spoke out on issues ranging from women's rights and racism to immigration and nuclear arms control. Using a wealth of rarely-seen archival footage, correspondence, and new interviews, the film makes the case that Albert Einstein's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
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 MCPHoward, Don
Summary: More than just a biography of Einstein's life, this course provides you with an inside look at how this brilliant thinker arrived at his various revolutionary breakthroughs.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2008
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 530 HOW PART 1Call number: CD 530 HOW PART 2
Fölsing, Albrecht
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 EINNeffe, 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
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Summary: Albert Einstein's brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a car barreling across America. Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti. Sitting next to him is an 84 year old pathologist, Thomas Harvey, who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 and then removed the brain and took it home and kept it for over 40 years. The two men and the brain leave New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 616.07 PATSummary: Einstein's Big Idea reveals the roots of his astonishing breakthrough in the human stories of men and women whose innovative thinking across four centures helped lead to E=mc2, and ultimately unleashed the power of the atom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EINPaterniti, 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 PATPaterniti, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 616.07 PATGraydon, 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: "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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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 EINBerne, 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 ONAlbee, 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 ALBLakin, Patricia
Summary: From a young age Albert Einstein was curious and very smart. But that didn't mean life was easy for him. In fact, being so smart sometimes made things harder for him! Read all about his life, and why Albert Einstein is known as the genius of the twentieth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2005
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LAKShulman, Mark
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 EINSummary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005