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3-Minute Einstein: Digesting his life, theories and influence in 3-minute morsels

Hardback

Main Details

Title 3-Minute Einstein: Digesting his life, theories and influence in 3-minute morsels
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Paul Parsons
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:160
Dimensions(mm): Height 230,Width 180
ISBN/Barcode 9781743361443
ClassificationsDewey:530.092
Audience
Children's (6-12)

Publishing Details

Publisher Murdoch Books
Imprint Pier 9
Publication Date 1 September 2012
Publication Country Australia

Description

The 3-Minute series offers the essence of history's most important figures with all the padding removed. It divides up their lives into 60 three-minute chunks, each presented as an easily digestible visual snack. Divided into three thematic sections on Life, Theories, and Influence each containing an hour's worth of fascinating facts the 3-Minute series is a whole new style of biography. Spend 15 minutes a day in the company of a colossus from the world of science, politics, or culture, and you will soon have a whole biographical dictionary in your head. And what better subject to kick off a series of timed biographies than Einstein, the scientist whose space-time theories laid the foundations for modern physics. Time magazine's Person of the Twentieth Century, Einstein was not only an unparalleled scientific genius, but a human rights campaigner, a political activist, and the iconic archetype of the mad professor. Is it any wonder that Einstein continues to fascinate scientists and non-scientists alike? 3-Minute Einstein will show you why at approximately the speed of light.

Author Biography

Paul Parsons is a science writer who has long been fascinated by the theories and ideas of Albert Einstein. He holds a Ph.D. in cosmology and was formerly editor of the award-winning monthly science and technology magazine BBC Focus.