In this groundbreaking biography of Eva Braun, German historian Heike B. Görtemaker delves into the startlingly neglected historical truth about Adolf Hitler’s mistress. More than just the vapid blonde of popular cliché, Eva Braun was a capricious but uncompromising, fiercely loyal companion to Hitler; theirs was a relationship that flew in the face of the Führer’s proclamations that Germany was his only bride. Görtemaker paints a portrait of Hitler and Braun’s life together with unnerving quotidian detail—Braun chose the movies screened at their mountaintop retreat (propaganda, of course); he dreamed of retiring with her to Linz one day after relinquishing his leadership to a younger man—while weaving their personal relationship throughout the fabric of one of history’s most devastating regimes. Though Braun gradually gained an unrivaled power within Hitler’s inner circle, her identity was kept a secret during the Third Reich, until the final days of the war. Faithful to the end, Braun committed suicide with Hitler in 1945, two days after their marriage.

Through exhaustive research, newly discovered documentation, and anecdotal accounts, Görtemaker has meticulously built a surprising portrait of Hitler’s bourgeois existence outside of the public eye. Though Eva Braun had no role in Hitler’s policies, she was never as banal as she was previously painted; she was privy to his thoughts, ruled life within his entourage, and held his trust. As horrifying as it is astonishing, Eva Braun will undoubtedly be referenced in all future accounts of this period.

The book explains how nothingness turns into everything, remaining nothingness.

The extraordinary story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from the role of concubine to become the only queen in Ottoman history

In Empress of the East, historian Leslie Peirce tells the remarkable story of a Christian slave girl, Roxelana, who was abducted by warriors at age twelve from her Ruthenian homeland, and brought to the harem of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in Constantinople. Suleiman became besotted with her, and forsook all other mistresses. Then, in an unprecedented step, he made her the first and only queen in the Ottoman court. Although shrouded in scandal, the canny and sophisticated Roxelana became a shrewd diplomat and administrator, who helped Suleyman keep pace with a changing world in which women - from Queen Elizabeth to Catherine de Medici - increasingly held the reins of power.

In Empress of the East, Pierce reveals the true history of an elusive figure who pushed the Ottoman Empire towards modernity.

Miljardieris, piedzīvojumu meklētājs, cīnītājs, optimists, kompānijas "Virgin" un Neķeras salas īpašnieks, pasaules apceļotājs, ari Latvijā pazīstamā šova "Mil­jardu mantinieki" autors Ričards Brensons nekad ne­saka - es nevaru, bet vienmēr mēģina paveikt šķietami neiespējamo.

Grāmatā R. Brensons iepazīstina ar savu pieredzi, uzsākot un attīstot biznesu, un pierāda, ka ikviens var dzīvē sasniegt to, ko ļoti vēlas. Viņa dzīves stāsts ir ap­liecinājums uzņēmībai, neatlaidībai un drosmei un vienlaikus iedrošina ikvienu īstenot vispārdrošākos sapņus.

Šī grāmata izveidota pieaugušo lasītprasmes veici­nāšanai World Book Day's projekta ietvaros. Tā pare­dzēta gan 9-12 gadus veciem pusaudžiem, gan ikvienam, kuru interesē saistoša un viegli uztverama lasāmviela.

ALANS PĪZS

ĶERMEŅA VALODA

Ka atminēt sarunu biedra domas pec viņa stajas un kustībām

No angļu valodas tulkojis Uldis Sīlis

JUMAVA

Alans Pīzs vada Pease Training Corporation — izglitības centru Sidnejā, Austrālijā un lasa lekcijas visā pasaulē. Viņa grāmatas, filmas un mācību programmas lieto daudzas firmas, mācot savus darbiniekus labāk saprasties ar cilvēkiem.

Bieži cilvēki runā vienu, bet domā pavisam citu. Taču ķermenis nemelo — kustības un žesti precīzi atspoguļo cilvēka iekšējo stāvokli, vēlmes un jūtas.

 GRAMATA PALĪDZĒS UZZINĀT:

# kā padarīt citus cilvēkus par'saviem domubiedriem

# kā laikos pamanīt sarunu biedra negatīvo attieksmi un, to novērst,

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# kā saglabāt vadošo lomu oficiālās pārrunās un sarunās par personiskām tēmām,

# kā noteikt. ka sarunu biedrs melo,

# ka nemanāmi piesaistīt simpātiska cilvēka uzmanību, -

# kā izvairīties no soda pair braukšanu ar neatļautu ātrumu.

ATSAUKSMES PAR «ĶERMEŅA VALODU» UN TĀS ATORU

"Alans Pīzs ir vadošais pasaules mēroga speciālists ķermeņa valodas izzināšanā un apgūšanā."

THE SUN

"Ja mēģināsiet apšmaukt cilvēku, kas izlasījis šo gramatu jūs iekulsieties nepatikšanās. Faktiski šāda rīcība |var būt jums liktenīga."

GOOD MORNtNG, AUSTRAUA

Sergeja Davidova grafiskais noformējums

ISBN 9984—506—89—4

© Uldis Sīlis, tulkojums latviešu valodā, 1995

Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

© Sergejs Davidovs, grafiskais noformējums, 1995

Who should read it?

Anyone interested in the connection between psychology, advertisement and society

Anyone who feels overwhelmed by the sheer amount of choice he or she has

Anyone who feels compelled to buy the newest toys and gadgets

Who's the author?

John Naish is a journalist for the London Times who writes about such topics as health, body and soul. He is also the author of Put What Where: 2000 Years of Bizarre Sex Advice.

Тонете в потоке электронной почты? Читаете сотни писем и стараетесь ответить на все? Тратите на это уйму времени, ничего не успеваете, вызываете недовольство начальства, нервничаете и впадаете в панику? Знакомая картина одной из современных фобий – страха перед электронной почтой.

Эта книга – оригинальное современное руководство для тех, кто дорожит каждой минутой рабочего времени и не хочет тратить его впустую, отрезая себе путь к успеху. Джоселин Глей, основатель и главный редактор суперпопулярного среди дизайнеров и тайм-менеджеров веб-сайта 99U.com, дважды лауреат премии Webby Awards, наглядно показывает, как превратить e-mail в удобный рабочий инструмент, как сортировать и читать входящую корреспонденцию, грамотно и толково составлять ответы, избегая нелепых ошибок и оплошностей.

«Эта книга – о том, как изменить свой подход к электронной почте – от слепой, ориентированной на цифры «производительности» до установок, определяемых творческими приоритетами. Это не просто набор правил хорошего тона для электронных писем, а руководство по холистическому пересмотру (и улучшению) своих взаимоотношений с электронной почтой». (Джоселин Глей)

ZENONS KOSIDOVSKIS

Evaņģēlistu stāsti

Savā grāmata, kas zināmā mērā ir «Bībeles stāstu» turpinājums,  Zenons Kosidovskis  analizē kanoniskos Jaunās derības tekstus, iepazīstina lasītāju ar mūsdienu vēsturzinātnes, lingvistikas un ar­heoloģijas atziņām. Starp apkārtklaiņojošiem sludinātājiem un praviešiem bija arī kāds Jēzus, «viens no miljoniem vergu»; vēlāk daudzu faktoru ietekmē, starp kuriem ne jau pēdējā vieta bija masu vajadzībai pēc jaunas reliģijas un pašu Jēzus mācekļu reliģiskai eksaltācijai, izveidojās no mi­roņiem augšāmcēlušās pestītāja tēls. Citiem vārdiem sa­kot, tika mitoloģizēti kāda reāla sludinātāja dzīves no­tikumi. Jaunās derības teksti, to skaitā arī evaņģēliji, radās tikai krietnu laiku pēc viņa nāves. Kristietības pie­kritēji aizpildīja robus Jēzus biogrāfijā ar savu iztēli, di­binādamies galvenokārt uz Vecās derības pravietoju­miem (lai apstiprinātu Jēzus mesiānismu). Viņam piedē­vēja izteicienus, kuriem vajadzēja attaisnot šādus vai tādus, dažādās kristiešu draudzēs izveidojušos rituālus. Z. Kosidovskis pārliecinoši parāda, ka Jaunās derības sacerējumi radušies, no vienas puses, dibinoties uz mut­vārdu tradīciju, kas attīstījās saskaņā ar folkloras tradī­cijām, bet, no otras puses, pateicoties evaņģēliju autoru apzināti tendenciozai jaunradei. Lai gan evaņģēlijus nav uzrakstījuši to nosaukumos uzrādītie cilvēki, tiem tomēr ir savi noteikti autori, un Kosidovskis mums atklāj ik­viena šāda autora individuālā stila īpatnības.

RĪGA «ZINĀTNE» 1982

Zenon Kosidowoski OPOWIEŚCI EWANGELISTÓW Iskry, Warszawa, 1979

Kosidovskis Z.   

Evaņģēlistu stāsti /, No poļu vai. tulk. V. Meļinovskis. I. Svencickas pēcvārds. — R.: Zinātne, 1982. — 352 lpp., il., 12 lp. il. — (Apvārsnis).

Polu rakstnieks Zenons Kosidovskis «Apvāršņa» lasītājiem Jau pazīstams pēc grāmatam «Kad saule bija dievs» un «Bībeles stāsti». Savā jaunajā grāmata, kas zināmā mērā ir «Bībeles stāstu» turpinājums, viņš  analizē kanoniskos Jaunās derības tekstus, iepazīstina lasītāju ar mūsdienu vēsturzinātnes, lingvistikas un ar­heoloģijas atziņām.

No poļu valodas tulkojis Voldemārs Mejinovskis I. Svencickas pēcvārds

Izdota saskaņā ar Latvijas PSR Zinātņu akadēmijas Redakciju un izdevumu padomes lēmumu

©Zenon Kosidowski Warszawa 1979 ©Tulkojums latviešu valodā Izdevniecība «Zinātne», 1982

Manai sievai, draudzenei un līdzstrādniecei Zofijai, kura bi­jusi kopā ar mani visos ar šīs grāmatas sarakstīšanu saistītos labos un ļaunos brīžos, pateicīgais autors

Existentialism: An Introduction provides an accessible and scholarly introduction to the core ideas of the existentialist tradition. Kevin Aho draws on a wide range of existentialist thinkers in chapters centering on the key themes of freedom, being-in-the-world, alienation, nihilism, anxiety and authenticity. He also addresses important but often overlooked issues in the canon of existentialism, with discussions devoted to the role of embodiment, the movement’s contribution to ethics, politics, and environmental and comparative philosophies, as well as its influence on contemporary psychiatry and psychotherapy. The enduring relevance of existentialism is shown by applying existentialist ideas to contemporary philosophical discussions of interest to a wide audience. The book covers secular thinkers such as Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus, and Beauvoir as well as religious authors, such as Buber, Dostoevsky, Marcel, and Kierkegaard.

In this engaging and accessible text Aho shows why existentialism cannot be easily dismissed as a moribund or outdated movement. In the aftermath of 'God’s death', existentialist philosophy engages questions with lasting philosophical significance, questions such as 'Who am I?' and 'How should I live?' By showing how existentialism offers insight into what it means to be human, the author illuminates existentialism’s enduring value.

Existentialism: An Introduction provides the ideal introduction for upper level students and anyone interested in knowing more about one of the most vibrant and important areas of philosophy today.

Фридрих Ницше – немецкий философ, представитель «философии жизни», один из самых оригинальных мыслителей XIX века.

В основу текста «Ecce homo» легло небольшое самоописание, созданное в течение двух недель осени 1888 г., когда Ницше, как он написал в письме, «выполнил неимоверно трудную задачу – рассказать самого себя, свои книги, свои взгляды… свою жизнь». Затем текст перерабатывался, дополнялся автором, работа над ним продолжалась в течение всего короткого срока оставшейся ему сознательной жизни, но так и не была окончена. Тем не менее, значимость и относительная цельность этого сочинения позволяет все-таки считать его, хотя и на самой грани, завершенным произведением.

ECCE LIBER. Опыт ницшеанской апологии.

ECCE LIBER. Опыт ницшеанской апологии.

The book explains how nothingness turns into everything, remaining nothingness.

Disorder erupted in Ukraine in 2014, involving the overthrow of a sitting government, the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula, and a violent insurrection, supported by Moscow, in the east of the country.

This Adelphi book argues that the crisis has yielded a ruinous outcome, in which all the parties are worse off and international security has deteriorated. This negative-sum scenario resulted from years of zero-sum behaviour on the part of Russia and the West in post-Soviet Eurasia, which the authors rigorously analyse. The rivalry was manageable in the early period after the Cold War, only to become entrenched and bitter a decade later. The upshot has been systematic losses for Russia, the West and the countries caught in between.

All the governments involved must recognise that long-standing policies aimed at achieving one-sided advantage have reached a dead end, Samuel Charap and Timothy J. Colton argue, and commit to finding mutually acceptable alternatives through patient negotiation.

Samuel Charap is Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Timothy J. Colton is Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Harvard University.

Riĉe argumentita grava traktaĵo de Zamenhofo, pri la politika sinteno de demokratia komunikado en la mondo kaj uzo de Esperanto kiel interkomunikilo por la homaro. Ĝi estas parto de «Fundamenta Krestomatio». Eseo verkita en 1898 kaj prezentita, du jarojn poste, sub la pseŭdonimo Unuel, al la Franca Akademio de Sciencoj en traduko de Louis de Beaufront.

 A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

So, punctuation really does matter, even if it is only occasionally a matter of life and death.

Now, we all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in e-mail, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species.

In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.

В книге впервые собран представительный корпус работ А. К. Жолковского и покойного Ю. К. Щеглова (1937–2009) по поэтике выразительности (модель «Тема – Приемы выразительности – Текст»), созданных в эпоху «бури и натиска» структурализма и нисколько не потерявших методологической ценности и аналитической увлекательности. В первой части сборника принципы и достижения поэтики выразительности демонстрируются на примере филигранного анализа инвариантной структуры хрестоматийных детских рассказов Л. Толстого («Акула», «Прыжок», «Котенок», «Девочка и грибы» и др.), обнаруживающих знаменательное сходство со «взрослыми» сочинениями писателя. Во втором разделе подробно описаны сами приемы выразительности, их подтипы и взаимоотношения с темами и с другими приемами. Книга рассчитана на заинтересованного читателя, которому она даст не только оригинальный инструмент филологического описания, но и особый взгляд на идейную и художественную структуру литературного текста.

STEPHEN HAWKING, uno de los pensadores más influyentes de nuestro tiempo, se ha convertido en un icono intelectual no sólo por la osadía de sus ideas, sino también por la claridad y agudeza con que las expresa. En este nuevo libro, Hawking nos conduce hasta la frontera misma de la física teórica -donde la verdad supera muchas veces a la ficción- para explicarnos en términos verdaderamente sencillos los principios que rigen nuestro universo.

Como otros muchos físicos teóricos, también Hawking se ha lanzado en pos del grial de la ciencia: la escurridiza Teoría del Todo que guarda el corazón del cosmos. Con un estilo asequible y divertido, nos lleva de la mano en su búsqueda de los secretos del universo, desde la supergravedad hasta la supersimetría, desde la teoría cuántica hasta la teoría M, desde la holografía hasta la dualidad, nos hace alcanzar las últimas fronteras de la ciencia, donde la teoría de supercuerdas y las p-branas podrían esconder la clave final del rompecabezas, y nos permite asistir entre bastidores a una de sus aventuras intelectuales más ambiciosas donde trata de «combinar la teoría general de la relatividad de Einstein con la idea de Richard Feynman sobre la posibilidad de encajar múltiples historias en una teoría completa y unificada que habrá de describir todo cuanto sucede en el universo».

Con su característico entusiasmo, el profesor Hawking nos invita a acompañarle en ese extraordinario viaje por el espacio-tiempo, hacia un increíble país de las maravillas en el que partículas, membranas y cuerdas danzan en once dimensiones, allí donde los agujeros negros se evaporan y desaparecen llevandose consigo su secreto, y donde habita la pequeña nuez, la semilla cósmica originaria, de la que surgió nuestro universo.

El universo en una cáscara de nuez es imprescindible para cuantos deseamos comprender el universo en que vivimos. Como ya sucedió con la Historia del tiempo, el nuevo libro de Hawking nos ilumina y nos conmueve porque a través de su lectura experimentamos también nosotros la misma emoción que embarga a la comunidad científica a medida que va arrancando al cosmos sus secretos.

В 1905 году, выведя свое знаменитое уравнение Е=mc², Альберт Эйнштейн подарил миру мощный источник энергии и открыл новые пути к познанию Вселенной. И теперь, более ста лет спустя, блестящий популяризатор науки Дэвид Боданис увлекательно и просто рассказывает об этом великом открытии. Герои его захватывающей, как детектив, книги — выдающиеся физики, среди которых Фарадей, Резерфорд, Ферми, Оппенгеймер, Гейзенберг и конечно же гениальный Эйнштейн.

The book explains how nothingness turns into everything, remaining nothingness.

The book explains how nothingness turns into everything, remaining nothingness.

The book explains how nothingness turns into everything, remaining nothingness.

This remarkable book presents a rich and up-to-date view of evolution that explores the far-reaching implications of Darwin’s theory and emphasizes the power, significance, and relevance of evolution to our lives today. After all, we ourselves are the product of evolution, and we can tackle many of our gravest challenges––from lethal resurgence of antibiotic-resistant diseases to the wave of extinctions that looms before us––with a sound understanding of the science.

The book explains how nothingness turns into everything, remaining nothingness.

Elon Musk is the most daring entrepreneur of our time

There are few industrialists in history who could match Elon Musk’s relentless drive and ingenious vision. A modern alloy of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, and Steve Jobs, Musk is the man behind PayPal, Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and SolarCity, each of which has sent shock waves throughout American business and industry. More than any other executive today, Musk has dedicated his energies and his own vast fortune to inventing a future that is as rich and far-reaching as a science fiction fantasy.

In this lively, investigative account, veteran technology journalist Ashlee Vance offers an unprecedented look into the remarkable life and times of Silicon Valley’s most audacious businessman. Written with exclusive access to Musk, his family, and his friends, the book traces his journey from his difficult upbringing in South Africa to his ascent to the pinnacle of the global business world. Vance spent more than fifty hours in conversation with Musk and interviewed close to three hundred people to tell the tumultuous stories of Musk’s world-changing companies and to paint a portrait of a complex man who has renewed American industry and sparked new levels of innovation—all while making plenty of enemies along the way.

In 1992, Elon Musk arrived in the United States as a ferociously driven immigrant bent on realizing his wildest dreams. Since then, Musk’s roller-coaster life has brought him grave disappointments alongside massive successes. After being forced out of PayPal, fending off a life-threatening case of malaria, and dealing with the death of his infant son, Musk abandoned Silicon Valley for Los Angeles. He spent the next few years baffling his friends by blowing his entire fortune on rocket ships and electric cars. Cut to 2012, however, and Musk had mounted one of the greatest resurrections in business history: Tesla, SpaceX, and SolarCity had enjoyed unparalleled success, and Musk’s net worth soared to more than $5 billion. At a time when many American companies are more interested in chasing easy money than in taking bold risks on radical new technology, Musk stands out as the only businessman with enough dynamism and vision to tackle—and even revolutionize—three industries at once. Vance makes the case that Musk’s success heralds a return to the original ambition and invention that made America an economic and intellectual powerhouse. Elon Musk is a brilliant, penetrating examination of what Musk’s career means for a technology industry undergoing dramatic change and offers a taste of what could be an incredible century ahead.

Wie groß ist eigentlich das Universum? Was wiegt unsere Erde? Und wie ist das überhaupt möglich – die Erde zu wiegen? Auf diese und viele andere Fragen hat Bestsellerautor Bill Bryson in der Schule nie Antworten erhalten. Nun hat er sich selbst auf die Suche nach ihnen gemacht und dabei eine atemberaubende Reise durch Raum und Zeit angetreten. Dabei entstand ein faktenreiches, kluges und dabei höchst vergnügliches Buch über die Wunder der Welt – geschrieben mit all dem Witz und Charme, die Bryson zu einem der beliebtesten Sachbuchautoren unserer Zeit gemacht haben!

Die Originalausgabe erschien 2003 unter dem Titel »A Short History of Nearly Everything« bei Broadway Books, NewYork

Aus dem Amerikanischen von Sebastian Vogel

**By the author of the acclaimed bestseller *Benjamin Franklin*, this is the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available.**

How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom.

Based on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk -- a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate -- became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals.

These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age.

### Amazon.com Review

As a scientist, Albert Einstein is undoubtedly the most epic among 20th-century thinkers. Albert Einstein as a man, however, has been a much harder portrait to paint, and what we know of him as a husband, father, and friend is fragmentary at best. With *Einstein: His Life and Universe*, Walter Isaacson (author of the bestselling biographies *Benjamin Franklin* and *Kissinger*) brings Einstein's experience of life, love, and intellectual discovery into brilliant focus. The book is the first biography to tackle Einstein's enormous volume of personal correspondence that heretofore had been sealed from the public, and it's hard to imagine another book that could do such a richly textured and complicated life as Einstein's the same thoughtful justice. Isaacson is a master of the form and this latest opus is at once arresting and wonderfully revelatory. *--Anne Bartholomew*

**Read "The Light-Beam Rider," the first chapter of Walter Isaacson's *Einstein: His Life and Universe*.**

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**Five Questions for Walter Isaacson**

**Amazon.com:** What kind of scientific education did you have to give yourself to be able to understand and explain Einstein's ideas?

**Isaacson:** I've always loved science, and I had a group of great physicists--such as Brian Greene, Lawrence Krauss, and Murray Gell-Mann--who tutored me, helped me learn the physics, and checked various versions of my book. I also learned the tensor calculus underlying general relativity, but tried to avoid spending too much time on it in the book. I wanted to capture the imaginative beauty of Einstein's scientific leaps, but I hope folks who want to delve more deeply into the science will read Einstein books by such scientists as Abraham Pais, Jeremy Bernstein, Brian Greene, and others.

**Amazon.com:** That Einstein was a clerk in the Swiss Patent Office when he revolutionized our understanding of the physical world has often been treated as ironic or even absurd. But you argue that in many ways his time there fostered his discoveries. Could you explain?

**Isaacson:** I think he was lucky to be at the patent office rather than serving as an acolyte in the academy trying to please senior professors and teach the conventional wisdom. As a patent examiner, he got to visualize the physical realities underlying scientific concepts. He had a boss who told him to question every premise and assumption. And as Peter Galison shows in *Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps*, many of the patent applications involved synchronizing clocks using signals that traveled at the speed of light. So with his office-mate Michele Besso as a sounding board, he was primed to make the leap to special relativity.

**Amazon.com:** That time in the patent office makes him sound far more like a practical scientist and tinkerer than the usual image of the wild-haired professor, and more like your previous biographical subject, the multitalented but eminently earthly Benjamin Franklin. Did you see connections between them?

**Isaacson:** I like writing about creativity, and that's what Franklin and Einstein shared. They also had great curiosity and imagination. But Franklin was a more practical man who was not very theoretical, and Einstein was the opposite in that regard.

**Amazon.com:** Of the many legends that have accumulated around Einstein, what did you find to be least true? Most true?

**Isaacson:** The least true legend is that he failed math as a schoolboy. He was actually great in math, because he could visualize equations. He knew they were nature's brushstrokes for painting her wonders. For example, he could look at Maxwell's equations and marvel at what it would be like to ride alongside a light wave, and he could look at Max Planck's equations about radiation and realize that Planck's constant meant that light was a particle as well as a wave. The most true legend is how rebellious and defiant of authority he was. You see it in his politics, his personal life, and his science.

**Amazon.com:** At *Time* and CNN and the Aspen Institute, you've worked with many of the leading thinkers and leaders of the day. Now that you've had the chance to get to know Einstein so well, did he remind you of anyone from our day who shares at least some of his remarkable qualities?

**Isaacson:** There are many creative scientists, most notably Stephen Hawking, who wrote the essay on Einstein as "Person of the Century" when I was editor of *Time*. In the world of technology, Steve Jobs has the same creative imagination and ability to think differently that distinguished Einstein, and Bill Gates has the same intellectual intensity. I wish I knew politicians who had the creativity and human instincts of Einstein, or for that matter the wise feel for our common values of Benjamin Franklin.

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**Acclaimed biographer Isaacson examines the remarkable life of "science's preeminent poster boy" in this lucid account (after 2003's *Benjamin Franklin* and 1992's *Kissinger*). Contrary to popular myth, the German-Jewish schoolboy Albert Einstein not only excelled in math, he mastered calculus before he was 15. Young Albert's dislike for rote learning, however, led him to compare his teachers to "drill sergeants." That antipathy was symptomatic of Einstein's love of individual and intellectual freedom, beliefs the author revisits as he relates his subject's life and work in the context of world and political events that shaped both, from WWI and II and their aftermath through the Cold War. Isaacson presents Einstein's research—his efforts to understand space and time, resulting in four extraordinary papers in 1905 that introduced the world to special relativity, and his later work on unified field theory—without equations and for the general reader. Isaacson focuses more on Einstein the man: charismatic and passionate, often careless about personal affairs; outspoken and unapologetic about his belief that no one should have to give up personal freedoms to support a state. Fifty years after his death, Isaacson reminds us why Einstein (1879–1955) remains one of the most celebrated figures of the 20th century. *500,000 firsr printing, 20-city author tour, first serial to *Time*; confirmed appearance on *Good Morning America*. (Apr.)*

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