{"product_id":"einstein-for-beginners-9780375714597","title":"Einstein for Beginners","description":"Amusing, irreverent, sophisticated and highly accessible, Einstein for Beginners is the perfect introduction to Einstein's life and thought. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReaching back as far as Babylon (for the origins of mathematics) and the Etruscans (who thought they could handle lightning), this book takes us through the revolutions in electrical communications and technology that made the theory of relativity possible. In the process, we meet scientific luminaries and personalities of imperial Germany, as well as Galileo, Faraday, and Newton; learn why moving clocks run slower than stationary ones, why nothing can go faster than the speed of light; and follow Albert's thought as he works his way toward E = mc2, the most famous equation of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Schwartz\u003c\/b\u003e is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and writer and is the author of \u003ci\u003eEinstein for Beginners\u003c\/i\u003e. He has had appointments in physics and psychiatry at Columbia University and the City University of New York. Since 1983, he has had a clinical practice in London. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael McGuinness\u003c\/b\u003e is the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eEinstein for Beginners\u003c\/i\u003e with Joseph Schwartz and \u003ci\u003eIntroducing Jung\u003c\/i\u003e with Maggie Hyde.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50917616058642,"sku":"9780375714597","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_45d7bcad-596f-4935-8399-85b559208324.jpg?v=1738868575","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/einstein-for-beginners-9780375714597","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}