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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808973603321

Autore

Einstein Albert <1879-1955, >

Titolo

The Albert Einstein collection : essays in humanism, the theory of relativity, and the world as I see it / / Albert Einstein ; cover design by Amanda Shaffer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Philosophical Library, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-5040-4031-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Disciplina

530.092

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Contents; Essays in Humanism; Title Page; Table of Contents; 1. Why Socialism? (1949); 2. The Negro Question (1946); 3. Science and Society (1935); 4. Towards a World Government (1946); 5. The Way Out (1946); 6. On Receiving the One World Award (1948); 7. Science and Civilization (1933); 8. A Message to Intellectuals (1948); 9. Open Letter to the General Assembly of the United Nations (1947); 10. Dr. Einstein's Mistaken Notions-An Open Letter from Sergei Vavilov, A. N. Frumkin, A. F. Joffe, and N. N. Semyonov (1947); A Reply to the Soviet Scientists (1948)

11. For an Organization of Intellectual Workers (1945)12. "Was Europe a Success?" (1934); 13. At a Gathering for Freedom of Opinion (1936); 14. Atomic War or Peace (I-1945;  II-1947); 15. The War Is Won but Peace Is Not (1945); 16. The Menace of Mass Destruction (1947); 17. The Schools and the Problem of Peace (1934); 18. On Military Service (1934); 19. Military Intrusion in Science (1947); The Military Mentality; 20. International Security (1933); 21. Isaac Newton (1942); 22. Johannes Kepler (1949); 23. Marie Curie in Memoriam (1935); 24. Max Planck in Memoriam (1948)

25. Paul Langevin in Memoriam (1947)26. Walther Nernst in Memoriam (1942); 27. Paul Ehrenfest in Memoriam (1934); 28. Mahatma Gandhi (1939); 29. Carl von Ossietzky (1946); 30. Why Do They Hate the Jews? (1938); Just What Is a Jew?; Where Oppression Is a Stimulus; 31. The



Dispersal of European Jewry (1948); 32. Let's Not Forget (1934); 33. Unpublished Preface to a Blackbook (1945); 34. The Goal of Human Existence (1943); 35. Our Debt to Zionism (1938); 36. To the Heroes of the Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto (1944); 37. Before the Monument to the Martyred Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto (1948)

38. The Calling of the Jews (1936)39. Moses Maimonides (1935); 40. Stephen Wise (1949); 41. To the University of Jerusalem (1949); 42. The American Council for Judaism (1945); 43. The Jews of Israel (1949); Acknowledgments; The Theory of Relativity and Other Essays; Title Page; Contents; 1. The Theory of Relativity (1949); 2. E = MC2 (1946); 3. Physics and Reality (1936); General Consideration Concerning the Method of Science; Mechanics and the Attempt to Base all Physics Upon It; The Field Concept; The Theory of Relativity; Quantum Theory and the Fundamentals of Physics

Relative Theory and CorpusclesSummary; 4. The Fundamentals of Theoretical Physics (1940); 5. The Common Language of Science (1941); 6. The Laws of Science and the Laws of Ethics (1950); 7. An Elementary Derivation of the Equivalence of Mass and Energy (1946); Acknowledgments; The World As I See It; Title Page; Contents; Preface to the Original Edition; Preface to the New Authorized Edition; Introduction to the Abridged Edition; I The World As I See It; The Meaning of Life; The World As I See It; The Liberty of Doctrine-Á Propos of the Gumbel Case; Good and Evil

The True Value of a Human Being