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Title: Einstein's Mirror by Tony Hey, Patrick Walters ISBN: 0-521-43532-3 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 31 July, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Einstein's Mirror
Comment: Well written for the non-professional scientist.

Rating: 5
Summary: Light, as it should be
Comment: I could say that this one is a book that achieves a happy, delicate balance between lightness and heaviness. But why?
In numbers: 291 pages, eleven chapters, one appendix,
a glossary and, more important, hundreds of pictures with small
comments that sometimes are biographies. This makes it "greater in quantity or quality than the average of its kind or class".
But be sure, it is not a book
only for those wanting to learn relativity and, also, it is not an
Einstein's biography: it complements both with a lot of general
information. The final chapter, "Relativity and science fiction",
though not very complete, gives to the book a special taste.
In brief: it makes a good companion to Kip Thorne's "Black holes
and time warps" (cited in the book as a suggestion
for further reading) and a very good (light, as it should be)
introduction to Einstein's life and work and its influence
in our culture.

Rating: 5
Summary: Clear, understandable and Interesting
Comment: At last, a book that explains Einstein's Theories of Relativity in a concise, interesting and entertaining way. The book maps out the history of physics from the ancient Greeks to Richard Feynman with interesting and whimsical anecdotes about the people who try to figure out how things work. Well illustrated, even my mother will "Get It" Be sure to pick up the companion book "The Quantum Universe" I never thought Relativity could be light reading.

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