Priwer, Shana.

The everything Einstein book : from matter and energy to space and time, all you need to understand the man and his theories / Einstein book. Shana Priwer and Cynthia Phillips. - Avon, MA : Adams Media Corp., c2003. - xii, 289 p. ; 24 cm. - The everything series. .

Includes index.

Why Einstein? -- Early life -- Scientific and cultural background of Einstein's time -- Education and later life -- The photoelectric effect -- Special relativity -- Energy and mass -- Other major early papers -- Einstein's contemporaries -- Background on the general theory of relativity -- Einstein in Berlin.

ISBN: 158062961X (pbk.)

LCCN: 2003009085

Subjects--Personal Names:
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Physicists--Biography.
Relativity (Physics)

LC Class. No.: QC16.E5 / P48 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 530/.092 B