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Providing invaluable insight into one of the greatest scientific minds of all time, the book also includes a unique survey of the introductions from past editions, covers from selected early editions, a letter from Walther Rathenau to Einstein discussing the book, and a revealing sample from Einstein’s original handwritten manuscript.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56293571920245,"sku":"9780691191812","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780691191812_42eaa766-eaab-498d-8330-0f69cfe54b55.jpg?v=1786015105"},{"product_id":"9780691201023","title":"The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein – South America, 1925","description":"A marvelously annotated and illustrated edition of Einstein’s South America travel diaryIn the spring of 1925, Albert Einstein embarked on an extensive lecture tour of Argentina before continuing on to Uruguay and Brazil. 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By the end of the volume, Einstein embarks on a transatlantic voyage for the first time in five years to spend an academic term at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.   Einstein’s work focuses on the teleparallel approach to unified field theory, on which he engages in intensive correspondence with Élie Cartan and begins his collaboration with Walther Mayer. He also presents popular accounts of his work, surveying the historical progression from classical to twentieth-century physics leading up to the latest developments in unified field theory. He also engages in lively exchanges on both technical and foundational issues in quantum mechanics with W. Pauli, M. Born, M. Schlick, and others.   His personal correspondence reflects eventful changes: the Einsteins realize their dream of owning a summer house outside Berlin, Einstein becomes a grandfather, his younger son Eduard commences his university studies and has his first serious mental health crisis, and his younger stepdaughter Margot gets married.   Einstein’s ties to the Zionist movement are seriously tested in the wake of the violence that erupts in British Mandate Palestine in 1929, to which he reacts with forceful calls for a genuine symbiosis between Jews and Arabs, proposing the establishment of joint administrative, economic, and social organizations. He warns that without finding “the path to honest cooperation and honest negotiations with the Arabs,” “we [Jews] have learned nothing from our two-thousand-year ordeal and deserve the fate that will befall us.”In Germany, too, Einstein champions democracy in the face of rising support for the Nazi Party, is active on behalf of Jewish refugees, opposes the death penalty, and supports abortion rights and the decriminalization of homosexuality.   Einstein promotes pacifism more vigorously. 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This edition also includes a survey of the introductions from those editions, covers from selected early editions, a letter from Walther Rathenau to Einstein discussing the book, and a revealing sample from Einstein's handwritten manuscript.  Published on the hundredth anniversary of general relativity, this handsome edition of Einstein's famous book places the work in historical and intellectual context while providing invaluable insight into one of the greatest scientific minds of all time.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311848173941,"sku":"9780691166339","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780691166339_9d5e2352-184b-4be1-ad23-920af8a06a40.jpg?v=1786014805"},{"product_id":"relativity-the-special-and-general-theory","title":"Relativity: The Special and General Theory","description":null,"brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57510098239861,"sku":"9789387944510","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9789387944510.jpg?v=1787130422"},{"product_id":"why-socialism","title":"Why Socialism?","description":null,"brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57510125699445,"sku":"9781971559186","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"relativity-1","title":"Relativity","description":"A beautifully designed edition of Einstein's own explanation of his groundbreaking theory, written for the everyday reader. 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