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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.
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