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“What I have to say about this book can be found inside the book.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Albert Einstein<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Essential Einstein: Public Writings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ultimate collection of Einstein\u2019s public writings on everything from religion and art to pacifism and the atomic bomb<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Diana Kormos Buchwald and Tilman Sauer
Hardcover, 400 Pages, Size 6.12 x 9.25 in., 5 b\/w illus.
ISBN: 9780691131108
2025, Princeton University Press, Princeton \u2013 New Jersey

\u201cThe Essential Einstein: Public Writings <\/em>presents a rich selection of Einstein\u2019s humanistic writings drawn from a diverse array of materials he sanctioned for publication during his lifetime. Distinct from previous collections, this incisive book presents previously excerpted works in their entirety, including key articles, lectures, and speeches. These writings delve into significant topics such as philosophy, religion, and art, but also specific important and often contentious issues in education, politics, disarmament, pacifism, international cooperation, the atomic bomb, and Zionism. Among these works, readers will find the brilliant \u201cNotes for an Autobiography\u201d alongside selected popular science articles, which offer a profound understanding of Einstein\u2019s ethical and political worldview.

The Essential Einstein<\/em> is a two-volume compendium offering general readers and specialists alike a comprehensive resource on the pivotal writings of Albert Einstein. Organized chronologically by leading authorities on Einstein and his work, this collection illuminates the evolution of Einstein\u2019s scientific and humanistic ideas throughout his life. Each selection is accompanied by explanatory notes that detail the work\u2019s background and significance.

Together with The Essential Einstein: Scientific Writings<\/em>, this authoritative collection invites a deeper engagement with the intellectual legacy and enduring influence of Albert Einstein.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source:<\/span> Princeton University Press<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Essential Einstein: Scientific Writings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ultimate collection of Einstein\u2019s scientific writings on everything from statistical mechanics to general relativity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Diana Kormos Buchwald and Tilman Sauer
Hardcover, 560 Pages, Size 6.12 x 9.25 in., 11 b\/w illus.
ISBN: 9780691131078
2025, Princeton University Press, Princeton \u2013 New Jersey<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Essential Einstein: Scientific Writings<\/em> presents Einstein\u2019s most important physics papers, spanning his groundbreaking contributions to statistical mechanics, quantum theory, and relativity as well as his ambitious yet ultimately unrealized attempts at a general unified field theory. This incisive collection contains works that profoundly influenced the trajectory of modern science. Each piece serves not only as a reflection of his intellectual rigor and creativity but also as a cornerstone of contemporary scientific thought.

The Essential Einstein<\/em> is a two-volume compendium offering general readers and specialists like a comprehensive resource on the pivotal writings of Albert Einstein. Organized chronologically by leading authorities on Einstein and his work, this collection illuminates the evolution of Einstein\u2019s scientific and humanistic ideas throughout his life. Each selection is accompanied by explanatory notes that detail the work\u2019s background and significance.

Together with The Essential Einstein: Public Writings<\/em>, this authoritative collection invites a deeper engagement with the intellectual legacy and enduring influence of Albert Einstein.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source:<\/span> Princeton University Press<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Einstein in Oxford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first book devoted to Einstein\u2019s relationship with Oxford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author: Andrew Robinson
Hardback, 96 pages, 198 x 129 mm, c. 18 b&w illustrations
ISBN: 9781851246380
September 2024, Bodleian Library Publishing, Oxford<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018The unique mingling of science and humanity, formality and informality in his relationship with Oxford reveals another fascinating, less familiar, episode of the Einstein story.\u2019 \u2014Silke Ackermann, Director, History of Science Museum, from the Foreword.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albert Einstein visited Oxford in 1931, to receive an honorary degree and to lecture on relativity and the Universe. While lecturing, he naturally chalked equations and diagrams on several blackboards. One of these is today the most popular object in Oxford\u2019s History of Science Museum, attracting visitors from around the globe. A \u2018relic of a secular saint\u2019, says the museum. Yet Einstein tried to prevent the blackboard\u2019s preservation because he was modest about his legendary status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He returned to Oxford in 1932 and again in 1933 \u2013 now as a refugee from Nazi Germany. In many ways, the city appealed deeply and revealed him at his most charismatic, as he participated in its science, music and politics, and wandered its streets alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While staying in college rooms once occupied by the mathematician and writer Lewis Carroll, author of Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland<\/em>, he wrote a rhymed German poem \u2013 now kept in the Bodleian Library \u2013 describing himself as an old \u2018hermit\u2019 and a roaming \u2018barbarian\u2019. His diary entries, alongside observations from the people he met \u2013 such as the future novelist William Golding \u2013 also reveal his unique sense of humour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Einstein and 1930s Oxford were exquisitely matched and ill-matched, as the intimate and unfamiliar stories in this book reveal.  They cast a new light on why Einstein continues to be the world\u2019s most famous scientist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source:<\/span> Bodleian Library Publishing<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Einsteinian Revolution: The Historical Roots of His Breakthroughs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How the Einsteinian revolution can be understood as the result of a long-term evolution of science<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authors: J\u00fcrgen Renn, Hanoch Gutfreund
Hardcover, Pages 272, 7 b\/w illus., ISBN: 9780691168760
2024, Princeton University Press, Princeton \u2013 New Jersey<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe revolution that emerged from Albert Einstein\u2019s work in the early twentieth century transformed our understanding of space, time, motion, gravity, matter, and radiation. Beginning with Einstein\u2019s miracle year of 1905 and continuing through his development of the theory of general relativity, Einstein spurred a revolution that continues to reverberate in modern-day physics. In The Einsteinian Revolution<\/em>, Hanoch Gutfreund and J\u00fcrgen Renn trace the century-long transformation of classical physics and argue that the revolution begun by Einstein was in fact the result of a long-term evolution. Describing the origins and context of Einstein\u2019s innovative research, Gutfreund and Renn work to dispel the popular myth of Einstein as a lone genius who brought about a revolution in physics through the power of his own pure thought. We can only understand the birth of modern physics, they say, if we understand the long history of the evolution of knowledge.

Gutfreund and Renn outline the essential structures of the knowledge system of classical physics on which Einstein drew. Examining Einstein\u2019s discoveries from 1905 onward, they describe the process by which new concepts arose and the basis of modern physics emerged. These transformations continued, eventually resulting in the establishment of quantum physics and general relativity as the two major conceptual frameworks of modern physics\u2014and its two unreconciled theoretical approaches. Gutfreund and Renn note that Einstein was dissatisfied with this conceptual dichotomy and began a search for a unified understanding of physics\u2014a quest that continued for the rest of his life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source:<\/span> Princeton University Press<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein: South America, 1925<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A marvelously annotated and illustrated edition of Einstein\u2019s South America travel diary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Ze\u2019ev Rosenkranz
Hardcover, Pages 288, ISBN: 9780691201023
2023, Princeton University Press, Princeton \u2013 New Jersey<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the spring of 1925, Albert Einstein embarked on an extensive lecture tour of Argentina before continuing on to Uruguay and Brazil. In his travel diary, the preeminent scientist and humanitarian icon recorded his immediate impressions and broader reflections on the people he encountered and the locations he visited. Some of the most confounding passages reveal his uncensored views on his host nations. This edition makes available the complete journal Einstein kept on his three-month journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In these remarkable pages, Einstein enthuses about the stunning vistas of lush vegetation in Rio de Janeiro. His flight in the skies over Buenos Aires thrills him, and he enjoys the cozy atmosphere of Montevideo. He expresses genuine admiration for the Uruguayans, harsh condescension toward the Argentinians, and ambivalent affection for the Brazilians. The illustrious visitor seeks calm refuge on the long ocean voyages, far from the madding crowds of Europe, but the grueling lecture schedule and the adoration of the local masses exhaust him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This edition features stunning facsimiles of the diary\u2019s pages accompanied by an English translation, an extensive historical introduction, numerous illustrations, and editorial annotations. Supplementary materials include letters, postcards, statements, and speeches as well as a chronology, a bibliography, and an index.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source:<\/span> Princeton University Press<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Einstein in Bohemia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A finely drawn portrait of Einstein’s sixteen months in Prague<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author: Michael D. Gordin
Paperback, Pages 360, ISBN: 9780691203829
2022, Princeton University Press, Princeton \u2013 New Jersey<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to Prague, the capital of Bohemia, where he accepted a post as a professor of theoretical physics. Though he intended to make Prague his home, he lived there for just sixteen months, an interlude that his biographies typically dismiss as a brief and inconsequential episode. Einstein in Bohemia<\/em> is a spellbinding portrait of the city that touched Einstein\u2019s life in unexpected ways and of the gifted young scientist who left his mark on the science, literature, and politics of Prague.

Michael Gordin\u2019s narrative is a masterfully crafted account of a person encountering a particular place at a specific moment in time. Despite being heir to almost a millennium of history, Einstein\u2019s Prague was a relatively marginal city within the sprawling Austro-Hungarian Empire. Yet Prague, its history, and its multifaceted culture changed the trajectories of Einstein\u2019s personal and scientific life. It was here that his marriage unraveled, where he first began thinking seriously about his Jewish identity, and where he embarked on the project of general relativity. Prague was also where he formed lasting friendships with novelist Max Brod, Zionist intellectual Hugo Bergmann, physicist Philipp Frank, and other important figures.

Einstein in Bohemia<\/em> sheds light on this transformative period of Einstein\u2019s life and career, and brings vividly to life a beguiling city in the last years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source:<\/span> Princeton University Press<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Einstein on Einstein<\/strong>
Autobiographical and Scientific Reflections<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authors: J\u00fcrgen Renn, Hanoch Gutfreund
Published 2020, Princeton University Press, Princeton – New Jersey<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Einstein on the Run<\/strong>
How Britain Saved the World’s Greatest Scientist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author: Andrew Robinson
2019, Yale University Press, New Haven and London<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Einstein 2020 calendar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Original Browntrout-calendar
Published 2019, Browntrout<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Willem de Sitter<\/strong>
Einstein’s Friend and Opponent<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author: Jan Guichelaar
Published 2018, Springer-Verlag<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Einstein 2019 calendar
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Original Browntrout-calendar
Published 2018, Browntrout<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein<\/strong>
The Far East, Palestine, and Spain, 1922 – 1923<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Ze’ev Rosenkranz
Published 2018, Princeton University Press, Princeton – New Jersey<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Formative Years of Relativity<\/strong>
The History and Meaning of Einstein’s Princeton Lectures<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authors: Hanoch Gutfreund, J\u00fcrgen Renn
Published 2017, Princeton University Press, Princeton-New Jersey<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Einstein 2018 calendar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Published 2017, Browntrout<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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An Einstein Encyclopedia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authors: Alice Calaprice, Daniel Kennefick, Robert Schulmann
Published 2015, Princeton University Press, Princeton-New Jersey<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by David E Rowe and Robert Schulmann
Published (2007) 2013, Princeton University Press, Princeton \u2013 New Jersey<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Einstein 2013 calendar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Published 2012, Verlagshaus W\u00fcrzburg – Browntrout – St\u00fcrtz, W\u00fcrzburg<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Einstein on the Road<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author: Josef Eisinger
Published 2011, Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Practical Einstein<\/strong>
Experiments, Patents, Inventions<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author: J\u00f3zsef Illy
Published 2012, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore – Maryland<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Einstein Before Israel:<\/strong>
Zionist Icon or Iconoclast?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author: Ze’ev Rosenkranz
Published 2011, Princeton University Press, Princeton-New Jersey<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Einstein: His Life and Universe.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author: Walter Isaacson
Published 2008, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, New York<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Albert Einstein: The Persistent Illusion of Transience.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editors: Ze’ev Rosenkranz, Barbara Wolff
Published 2007, Magnes Press, Jerusalem<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Albert Meets America<\/strong>
How Journalists Treated Genius during Einstein’s 1921 Travels<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor: J\u00f3zsef Illy
Published 2006, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore – Maryland<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Einstein, Ansch\u00fctz and the Kiel Gyro Compass.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editors: Dieter Lohmeier and Bernhardt Schell,
Published 2005, Raytheon Ansch\u00fctz GmbH, Kiel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Albert Einstein: “Those Happy Bernese Years”.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authors: Ann M. Hentschel, Gerd Gra\u00dfhoff
Published 2005, Staempfli Publishers Ldt., Bern<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Albert Einstein 1879-1955. “\u2026 anbei etwas handschriftliches von mir \u2026”<\/strong>. Author: Hans-Josef K\u00fcpper<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published 1998, second revised and supplemented edition, 32 pages, 21cm, Albert Einstein-Society, Bern, in German only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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by Bernd Platte, Ludwigshafen \/ Germany, committee member of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Autographensammler (AdA) in Germany, 1998<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This small booklet contains a nice selection of Einstein autographs of variable importance. Inside you will discover not only the manuscript page showing the most well-known equation in physics: E=mc2. Also you will find Einstein’s famous letter to Roosevelt – one can scarcely imagine a history book without it – as well as letters which are likely to be unknown to most readers. Einstein’s letter to Thomas Mann on April 23, 1933, written in Ostend, to my knowledge has never been printed before.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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GELEGENTLICHES (MISCELLANEOUS)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author: Albert Einstein<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published in 1929, 1st and only edition, 34 pages, 22 cm, \u201eSoncino-Gesellschaft der Freunde des j\u00fcdischen Buches\u201c (Soncino Society of Friends of Jewish Books), Berlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the occasion of the 50th birthday of Albert Einstein (March 14, 1929) this book was published by the Soncino Society of Friends of Jewish Books. It was published as a unique edition of 800 copies as private print in German.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“\u2026 The following pages contain some comments \u2013 most of them letters \u2013 of Albert Einstein, who knows to find remarkable words out of the depth of his wonderful rich personality – even when it comes to seemingly remote areas. Exactly this private Einstein who also takes part in the time and the people of today even beyond his area, who is miles apart from being a scientific solitary person, do we get to know in this his transcripts which were caused by outer events and occasions.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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