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Einstein: His Life and Universe Kindle Edition

by Walter Isaacson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 out of 5 stars 5,519 ratings
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    Simon & Schuster UK
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    4 Sept. 2008
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B002RI9NQU
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster UK
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 4 Sept. 2008
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ TV Tie-In
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 36.2 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 705 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1847395894
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Walter Isaacson

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Walter Isaacson is writing a biography of Elon Musk. He is the author of The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race; Leonardo da Vinci; Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution; and Kissinger: A Biography. He is also the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. He is a Professor of History at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chairman of CNN, and editor of Time magazine.

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Customers find the book well-written and marvelously researched, providing good information about Einstein's life and career. The narrative is engaging, with one customer noting it's a well-balanced account of his life. They appreciate the character development, with one review highlighting how it explains what contributed to his genius.

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74 customers mention ‘Readability’71 positive3 negative

Customers find the book easy to read with marvelous prose, and one customer notes it is written for the layman.

"Well researched and excellently written, it will give you a much better understanding of one of the greatest scientists and thinkers of all..." Read more

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"...complicated, abstract mathematics and physics explained in a simplified manner, in a way only someone who intrinsically understands the subject can..." Read more

"The whole story is told in a manner which is understandable to the average interested person without being oversimplified for them...." Read more

41 customers mention ‘Information quality’41 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the book's information quality, finding it well-researched and helpful for gaining deeper insights into Einstein's life and work.

"Intact. Good background on Einstein." Read more

"Well researched and excellently written, it will give you a much better understanding of one of the greatest scientists and thinkers of all..." Read more

"This book is the most detailed account of einstien i have read, it goes through all the difficulties in his career and explains why he is they way..." Read more

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19 customers mention ‘Narrative quality’19 positive0 negative

Customers find the narrative of the book fascinating, with one customer noting it provides a well-balanced account of Einstein's life.

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"...There are so many wonderful anecdotes enmeshed into this narrative that after reading them, I wanted to let them swim around my consciousness for a..." Read more

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15 customers mention ‘Character development’15 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the character development in the book, describing Einstein as a remarkable man with a wide range of personality traits, and one customer notes how it covers his career difficulties.

"...most detailed account of einstien i have read, it goes through all the difficulties in his career and explains why he is they way he is - a man with..." Read more

"...of Einstein's theories with a very good and fair representation of his private life and his personality, all within a referenced time frame...." Read more

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"...Not only does it give insight into what contributed to his genius and willingness to challenge conventional wisdom, you also meet the man as a..." Read more

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  • Carol Lange
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good info on Einstein
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 May 2025
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    Intact. Good background on Einstein.
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  • F.M
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Masterpiece Biography
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 January 2025
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    Well researched and excellently written, it will give you a much better understanding of one of the greatest scientists and thinkers of all time.
    But I wish the author or the published would have put Einstein's real photo instead of an actor on the cover.
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  • J. Orji
    4.0 out of 5 stars Very detailed
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 July 2009
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    This book is the most detailed account of einstien i have read, it goes through all the difficulties in his career and explains why he is they way he is - a man with the big picture. it also brought to light his strange ability to perform though experiments and postulate a new hypothesis with very little evidence. I feel this is a good biography quite thick, lost of detail. My only concern was that too much emphasis was on his first marraige which was happy then unhappy but i suppose this was the nature of his life to see his emotional state. A good read overall
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  • Joe S
    5.0 out of 5 stars Einstein
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 March 2024
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    This is an excellent, excellent book.

    A comprehensive, start to finish biography of the man's life, with extremely complicated, abstract mathematics and physics explained in a simplified manner, in a way only someone who intrinsically understands the subject can do.
    Despite the subject matter, and by that I I close the First and Second World Wars, anti-Semitism and, intimately, the Holocaust, and also the physics and maths, it was simply a joy to read and never once felt heavy or dull.

    If there is a better biography of Einstein out there, I won't just eat my hat, I'll grow my hair and moustache and impersonate the man for the rest of my days!
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  • Aubrey Meyer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very informative and very well documented.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 May 2024
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    This book is really helpful with gaining deeper insights into the development of Einstein's thought process over the many years that led to the outstanding result - the General Theory of Relativity. Thank you.
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  • meharibear
    5.0 out of 5 stars A tricky subject superbly tackled
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 February 2024
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    The whole story is told in a manner which is understandable to the average interested person without being oversimplified for them. Einstein’s interactions with other people from US Presidents down to icecream salesgirls provide a glimpse of the complex but likeable human behind the genius.
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  • air-force-one
    4.0 out of 5 stars Einstein: His Life and Universe
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 January 2013
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    This is a comprehensive and accurate, well researched and referenced book. I like it because it combines a reasonable 'in depth' and understandable description of Einstein's theories with a very good and fair representation of his private life and his personality, all within a referenced time frame. It has referenced primary source material which has only recently become available which makes it quite different from previous Einstein biographies.
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  • Otis Manousakos
    5.0 out of 5 stars This biography is a gift to civilisation!!!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 April 2012
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    Sorry, there's no other way to put it. What Isaacson achieved was not only a great historical chronicle of the greatest thinker of the 20th century, but he also manages to capture, as closely as reasonably possible, the thought process that Einstein engaged in. the attentive reader will also see that it was this thought process that also contributed to his stubbornness about the Quantum sphere. this was one of those biographies that I read piecemeal. There are so many wonderful anecdotes enmeshed into this narrative that after reading them, I wanted to let them swim around my consciousness for a day. The backdrop of the growth of 20th century nationalism plays heavily in this narrative and one can't help but be amazed that such great minds emerged from such a dogmatic time. One looks at the times we live in today and cannot help but be in awe that the quest for scientific truth was so resolute.

    I hope were made of the same strong stuff.
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  • Hildegunst von Mythenmetz
    5.0 out of 5 stars Alle Seiten da. Buchstaben in lesbarer Reihenfolge amgeordnet.
    Reviewed in Germany on 10 November 2024
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    Rein physisch alles in Ordnung. Seiten vollständig. Schrift ist gut lesbar.
    Inhaltlich ist es sicherlich Geschmackssache. Die historischen Fakten sind vorgegeben und die Art der Darbietung entzieht sich meiner Beurteilungsmöglichkeit, da es als Geschenk erworben wurde und ich es nicht gelesen hab.
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  • Phillip Kerrigan
    4.0 out of 5 stars Einstein as entertainment
    Reviewed in Australia on 24 July 2017
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    Another reviewer commented this book was too long... but it is a big story but I'm a bit of an Einstein groupie and really enjoyed the story. Certainly some of the technical parts of Einstein's discussions with other physicists were hard to comprehend and like most laypeople I probably will never understand what Quantum Physics is about, but his personal story was well worthwhile. Would that the world could throw up more people like Einstein for his political bravery as much as his scientific knowledge and insights.
    The book is well worth the read.
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  • Jorge Velazquez Pagola
    5.0 out of 5 stars Relativity for everyone
    Reviewed in Mexico on 26 June 2020
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    Everyone knows Einstein: genius, german, the most famous scientific in modern history, his tongue and portraits.

    But, do we know the man? His childhood, dreams, his theories, struggles? How afortunate to know this, but if you're an ignorant like me, you should read this book.

    Mr. Isaacson delivers yet another brilliant work for the ages, writing a beautiful portrait of the pyshics genius of the modern era. How a shy and late developer kid, grows into a curious and rebel man to become a succesful theorist,

    As with any book, you will not regret reading it, and you'll get lessons for your lifetime.
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  • rcavesta
    5.0 out of 5 stars Interesantísimo como vivió el genio los devenires del siglo XX
    Reviewed in Spain on 10 November 2018
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    Francamente increíble biografía. No solo por el genio de la física sino por la época que vivió con las dos guerras mundiales, donde en lo político también fue sorprendentemente visionario
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  • Ezgi Turhan
    5.0 out of 5 stars Olması gerektiği gibi..
    Reviewed in Turkey on 2 February 2021
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    Uygun fiyata sıfır kitap almak güzel.Teşekkürler Amazon sorunsuz bir alışverişti.
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