874 results for '"Albert Einstein'

"- Naturellement, vous savez ce que c'est, Rieux ? - J'attends le résultat des analyses. - Moi, je le sais. Et je n'ai pas besoin d'analyses. J'ai fait une partie de ma carrière en Chine, et j'ai vu...

It was home to Einstein in decline, the place where Kurt Göedel starved himself in paranoid delusion, and where J. Robert Oppenheimer rode out his political persecution in the Director's mansion. It...

From July 12th 2019 to January 5th 2020, the Fondation Cartier presented Trees, an ambitious exhibition devoted to trees, these exceptional living beings with unexpected faculties and yet widely...

“[A] skillfully told history of the quest to find black holes.” —Manjit Kumar, Financial Times Black holes are the best-known and least-understood objects in the universe. In Einstein’s Monsters,...

And overview -- The 1920s: birth, insurgency, retrenchment -- Militancy and combat: third period communism, 1929-1934 -- The popular front against fascism, 1935-1945 -- Cold War and demise, 1945--

This book has much of the modern sense of the individual being at a loss, but a partial answer comes from the inexhaustible freshness and splendor of the environment, a possession that can come back...

Color, complete, and create wallpaper patterns inspired by a dazzling range of historical designsThe choice of wallpaper—an intricate floral motif, a complex repeat pattern, or a bold abstract...

Attempts to show how these novelists are more akin to the anti-realists of the 1960s and 1970s and to each other than they were to the majority of novelists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

In this study Brian Bosworth looks at the critical period between 329 and 325 BC, when Alexander the Great was active in Central Asia and what is now Pakistan. He documents Alexander's relations with...

A series of essays by the Columbia University professor emeritus and author of Dreams and Delusions: The Drama of German History explores Germany in the first half of the nineteenth century--a...