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How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog
Basic Books 2012; US$ 16.99Everyone talks to their pets; Chad Orzel tells his about relativity. more...
Einstein's Mirror
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 51.00Lavishly illustrated, fascinating and accessible introduction to Einstein's relativity for general readers, school students and undergraduates. more...
Meaning of Relativity
Routledge 2003; US$ 19.95These lectures were given in 1921, the same year Einstein received the Nobel Prize for Physics. They remain key texts for anyone wishing to discover the workings of one of the most ispiring minds of the twentieth century. more...
Relativity
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 17.95Time 's 'Man of the Century', Albert Einstein is the unquestioned founder of modern physics. His theory of relativity is the most important scientific idea of the modern era. In this short book Einstein explains, using the minimum of mathematical terms, the basic ideas and principles of the theory which has shaped the world we live in today. Unsurpassed... more...
Breaking the Time Barrier
Pocket Books 2005; US$ 19.95IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME.... Once widely considered an impossibility--the stuff of science fiction novels--time travel may finally be achieved in the twenty-first century. In Breaking the Time Barrier, bestselling author Jenny Randles reveals the nature of recent, breakthrough experiments that are turning this fantasy into reality. The... more...
Understanding Space-Time
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 35.00Presenting the history of space-time physics, from Newton to Einstein, as a philosophical as well as a scientific development, DiSalle shows how philosophical arguments and analyses impacted on these revolutionary changes in the history of physics. more...
Relativity and the Nature of Spacetime
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 47.99Shows that if the world and the physical objects were three-dimensional, none of the kinematic relativistic effects and the experimental evidence supporting them would be possible. The implications of this result for physics, philosophy, and our entire world view are discussed. more...
Bangs, Crunches, Whimpers, and Shrieks
Oxford University Press 1995; US$ 109.99Explains the technical issues of general relativity theory and discusses how these issues bear upon philosophical problems about the nature of space and time, causality, and laws of nature. This book provides an overview of the technical literature as well as analytical commentary on its philosophical significance. more...
The Ontology of Spacetime
Elsevier Science 2006; US$ 170.00This book contains selected papers from the First International Conference on the Ontology of Spacetime. Its fourteen chapters address two main questions: first, what is the current status of the substantivalism/relationalism debate, and second, what about the prospects of presentism and becoming within present-day physics and its philosophy? The overall... more...
100 Years Of Relativity
World Scientific Publishing Company 2005; US$ 135.00Thanks to Einstein's relativity theories, our notions of space and time underwent profound revisions about a 100 years ago. The resulting interplay between geometry and physics has dominated all of fundamental physics since then. This volume contains contributions from leading researchers, worldwide, who have thought deeply about the nature and consequences... more...









