Six Not-So-Easy Pieces-Book/CD Package
 Learn Relativity from the maestro Richard Feynman himself: In the introduction to this book, Roger Penrose, another great theoretical physicist of our times, states that "Relativity is not airy-fairy philosophy, nor is space-time mere mathematical [... more]
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Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time
Needs to be shortened: I am in complete agreement with several other reviewers that the book is overly long and redundant. It should have been edited to at least half its size. The last chapter is totally unnecessary. This is a shame because the basic [... more]
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Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy ...
Einstein's legacy not that outrageous: I didn't understand a lot of this book. The physics was largely beyond me and I could not grasp the embedded diagrams that Kip Thorne used. These embedded diagrams attempt to represent three-dimensional space-time [... more]
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift ...
Amazon.com Review: Unless you're a mathematician, the chances of you reading any novels about geometry are probably slender. But if you read only two in your life, these are the ones. Taken together, they form a couple of accessible and charming [... more]
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Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity
More math than text: It was probably my error, I suppose I did not read enough reviews about this text book, but I bought this book believing it would contain more text and less math. I was wrong! I read into about a third of the book and started losing [... more]
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Introducing Relativity (Introducing...(Totem))
I went in dumb and...: ... came out dumb too. I'm usually the first in line when there's Weighty Knowledge to be had on the cheap, and there ain't much that's toting a heavier load than Einstein's Theory of Relativity. So, skinny book + cartoons on every [... more]
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E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
Amazon.com Review: E=mc2. Just about everyone has at least heard of Albert Einstein's formulation of 1905, which came into the world as something of an afterthought. But far fewer can explain his insightful linkage of energy to mass. David Bodanis offers [... more]
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Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a ...
Amazon.com Review: Among physicists, it is widely assumed that one's greatest chance for a breakthrough discovery will come before one reaches the age of 30. True or not, this idea leads young physicists such as João Magueijo to pull out all the [... more]
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The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics
Amazon.com Review: At an Esalen Institute meeting in 1976, tai chi master Al Huang said that the Chinese word for physics is Wu Li, "patterns of organic energy." Journalist Gary Zukav and the others present developed the idea of physics as the [... more]
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Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision ...
Genius is Simplification - this book does that: The author loves Einstien. Good simplification of Einstiens' work. I gave this a 4 star because I understand more about einsteins theories now than before I read it. I have gained even more respect for [... more]
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The Great Beyond: Higher Dimensions, Parallel Universes ...
A fine work in explaning multiple dimensions: Dr. Paul Halpern's book, The Great Beyond is a fine work in explaining the Kaluza-Klein theory of a fifth dimension, as well as newer theories concerning ten, eleven and twenty-six dimensions. The men and [... more]
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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
Amazon.com Review: How better to learn the Special Theory of Relativity and the General Theory of Relativity than directly from their creator, Albert Einstein himself? In Relativity: The Special and the General Theory, Einstein describes the theories [... more]
$8.95
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