Our understanding of the physical universe underwent a revolution in the early twentieth century - evolving from the classical physics of Newton, Galileo, and Maxwell to the modern physics of relativity and quantum mechanics. The dominant figure in this revolutionary change was Albert Einstein. In a single year, 1905, Einstein produced breakthrough works in three areas of physics: on the size and the effects of atoms; on the quantization of the electromagnetic field; and on the special theory of relativity. In 1916 he produced a fourth breakthrough work, the general theory of relativity. A Student's Guide to Einstein's Major Papers focuses on Einstein's contributions, setting his major works into their historical context, and then takes the reader through the details of each paper, including the mathematics. This book helps the reader appreciate the simplicity and insightfulness of Einstein's ideas and how revolutionary his work was, and locate it in the evolution of scientific thought begun by the ancient Greek natural philosophers.

FIVE QUESTS FOR THE MAN WITH ANYBODY'S FACE. For the last quarter of the 20th Century the Voice, first of his generation's Independent Operators, fought to make the system work better. Here are some of the highs and one abysmal low in his career. Crime of the Arts: Mix a sociopath rich kid with a paramilitary cult leader. Add a damsel in distress. The Voice rips through a literal mountain of trouble to find a gallery of horror. (Complete here, for the first time.) Explosive Justice: Another Independent Operator gets called in to back up the Voice. Can the two stop domestic terrorists ready to kill in wholesale lots? Grand Opening - Under Fire: Wrong place. Wrong time. The Voice goes to make a deposit at a bank, then has trouble with his withdrawal. Plus two more adventures. Sixty-thousand words of high powered adventure.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.