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From beloved New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Marie Benedict comes the story of a not-so-famous scientist who not only loved Albert Einstein, but also shaped the theories that brought him lasting renown.
In the tradition of Beatriz Williams and Paula McClain, Marie Benedict's The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. This novel
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Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Traces the life and work of the famous physicist, from his childhood in Germany through the development of his theories of relativity to his campaign for peace after World War II.
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
At the height of his fame, Albert Einstein traveled throughout the world, from Japan to South America and many places in between. During these voyages, between 1922 and 1933, he was in the habit of keeping travel diaries in which he recorded his impressions of people and events, as well as his musings on everything from music and politics to quantum mechanics and psychoanalysis. These fascinating recordsare now here published in thier entirety, painting...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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A boy rides a bicycle down a dusty road. But in his mind, he envisions himself traveling at a speed beyond imagining, on a beam of light. This brilliant mind will one day offer up some of the most revolutionary ideas ever conceived. From a boy endlessly fascinated by the wonders around him, Albert Einstein ultimately grows into a man of genius recognized the world over for profoundly illuminating our understanding of the universe.
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English
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Description
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 and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional...
10) Genius: Season 1
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The show offers an extraordinary look into the life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein. Beyond his groundbreaking theories of relativity, witness Einsteinb2ss struggles to be a good husband and father, and a man of principle during a time of global unrest. A ten-episode journey of discovery guided by Einstein's wit, wisdom and insatiable thirst for knowledge.
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Charlie Thorne volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
The CIA forces twelve-year-old Charlotte "Charlie" Thorne, a rebellious genius, to use her code-breaking skills on an epic global chase to locate Einstein's last equation before dangerous agents discover it and unlock the solution to harnessing energy.
13) Caught
Author
Series
The missing volume 5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jonah and Katherine travel to early 1900s Switzerland and Serbia to return Albert Einstein's daughter, Lieserl, to history, her mother Mileva grasps entirely too much about time travel and has no intention of letting her daughter go.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Dramatizes how Einstein arrived at his 1905 discovery that the realms of matter and energy are linked. Reveals the roots of this breakthrough in the human stories of scientists Michael Farady, Antoine Lavoisier and Lise Maitner, whose innovative thinking across four centures helped lead to E=mcp2s, and ultimately unleashed the power of the atom.
Author
Series
Hank Zipzer volume 8
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Stuck in summer school while his friends enjoy a "Passport to Hawaii," Hank needs to earn an A on an oral report about Einstein in order to participate in Magik 3's talent show act at the luau extravaganza.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of the world-renowned German scientist, describing how his life-long curiosity and ability to question accepted theories led him to develop his famous theory of relatvitiy and win the Noble Prize for Physics.
17) Meet Einstein
Author
Publisher
Meet Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Albert Einstein, a scientist who loves to study and learn, introduces young readers to light and gravity and how they can be experienced in the everyday world.
19) Einstein's trunk
Author
Publisher
Bonneville Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The Russians have learned that Einstein has left a trunk full of formulas for making a nuclear bomb that is sixty times more powerful than anything that exists today. His great-granddaughter Yohaba, a brilliant physicist in her own right, and an ex-spy, Rulon Hurt, who was recently fired, are the only ones who can stop them from stealing it.
20) Albert Einstein
Author
Series
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Presents a photographic introduction to the life and accomplishments of Albert Einstein, one of the most significant scientists of the twentieth century, discussing his boyhood, schooling, early career, family, and discoveries in the field of physics.
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