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E=mc2: a biography of the world's most famous equation
by David Bodanis
With anecdotes and illustrations, this
entertaining story simplifies the complexities of Einstein's revolutionary theory.
530.11 Bodanis 2000

God's equation: Einstein, relativity, and the expanding universe
by Amir D. Aczel
Einstein thought his cosmological constant theory was a mistake. Written with the excitement of a detective novel, Aczel shows that recent events prove Einstein's genius once again.
523.1 Aczel 1999

God in the equation: how Einstein became the prophet of the new religious era
by Corey Powell
According to Powell, science is the new religion and Einstein is its prophet. God is the cosmological constant in Einstein's equation. Is this sci-religion an important new step in the history of human spirituality? A stimulating read even if you disagree with Powell.
215 Powell 2002

Einstein's unfinished symphony: listening to the sounds of space-time
by Marcia Bartusiak
Uses the metaphor of music to describe the science of gravity waves that are vibrations in space-time. A major part of the work is about Einstein. Lyrical language is used to describe how gravity waves surge through the cosmos at the speed of light.
530.11 Bartusiak 2000

Time travel in Einstein's universe: the physical possibilities of travel through time
by Richard J. Gott
A professor of astrophysics at Princeton, Gott explores the very real science of time travel. He does not stray from the physics, which are based on Einstein's theory of relativity. This is not science fiction!
530.11 Gott 2001

The Einstein file: J. Edgar Hoover's secret war against the world's most famous scientist
by Fred Jerome
Hoover's FBI spied on Albert Einstein from 1933 to his death in 1955. Why? Find out in this exciting, surprising, and well-reviewed book about the political life of Einstein.
530.092 Jerome 2002

Einstein in love: a scientific romance
by Dennis Overbye
Einstein had two loves…physics and women This book explores both. An absorbing account that is meticulously researched and beautifully written.
Bio Einstein 2000

Possessing genius: the bizarre odyssey of Einstein's brain
by Carolyn Abraham
Abraham has put together the whole bizarre, convoluted, eerie story of what happened to Einstein's brain after it was removed during
autopsy in 1955.
616.0709 Abraham 2002

Driving Mr. Albert: a trip across America with Einstein's brain
by Michael Paterniti
Another account of the adventures of Einstein's brain. Paterniti recounts his drive across country with the famous brain in the trunk of his car. Riding with him is Thomas Harvey, the physician who did Einstein's autopsy in 1955 and kept the brain for more than forty years.
616.0709 Paterniti 2000

Einstein, Picasso: space, time and the beauty that causes havoc
by Arthur I. Miller
Miller examines the lives of Einstein and Picasso and the revolutions they each created. Miller's work captures the excitement of the time, the scene, and the people involved.
709.2 Miller 2001

And a novel…
Einstein's dreams
by Alan P. Lightman
Lightman teaches physics and writing at
MIT. His novel is an imaginary re-creation of Einstein's discovery of the nature of time.
Fiction Lightman 1993

And for fun! A play….
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
by Steve Martin
Picasso and Einstein are at a bar in France talking about the art of physics and the physics of art when time warps and in comes Elvis Presley.
812 Martin 1996

Einstein on the WEB
There are thousands…here are four of the best.

American Institute of Physics
http://www.aip.org/history/esva/exhibits/ein.htm

Nova Online
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/

CalTech Photo Archives
http://archives.caltech.edu/photoNet.cfm

Nobel Prize Online
http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1921/



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