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Giants of science (Viking) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 4
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This biography profiles the life and times of German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, whose contributions to the field earned him a Nobel Prize.
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The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. Biographer Isaacson 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 locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional...
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 x 21 cm.
Description
"Even when he was a kid, Albert Einstein did things his own way. He thought in pictures instead of words, and his special way of thinking helped him understand big ideas like the structure of music and why a compass always points north. Those ideas made him want to keep figuring out the secrets of the universe. Other people thought he was just a dreamer, but because of his curiosity, Einstein grew up to be one of the greatest scientists the world...
11) Albert Einstein
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Pub. Date
2021.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, photographs ; 25 cm.
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A biography of the scientist Albert Einstein.
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The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. It is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated and may have been inspired by her own profound and very personal insight. Mitza Maric has always been a little different from other girls. Most twenty-year-olds are wives by now,...
13) Albert Einstein
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Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Description
Describes the life and work of the twentieth-century physicist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking.
14) Einstein
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Presents the story of Albert Einstein and his fifteen-year battle to prove his Theory of General Relativity amid the violence of war and his tumultuous personal life.
15) Caught
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Series
The missing volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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When Jonah and Katherine travel to early 1900s Switzerland and Serbia to return Albert Einstein's daughter, Lieserl, to history, her mother Mileva grasps entirely too much about time travel and has no intention of letting her daughter go.
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Hank Zipzer volume 8
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
157 p. ; 19 cm.
Description
Stuck in summer school while his friends enjoy a "Passport to Hawaii," nearly-eleven-year-old Hank needs to earn an A on an oral report about Einstein in order to participate in Magik 3's talent show act at the luau extravaganza.
17) Genius: Season 1
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 500 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dramatization of Albert Einstein's life from his days as a student to his later years after World War II.
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Charlie Thorne volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
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392 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
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"The CIA forces twelve-year-old Charlotte "Charlie" Thorne, a rebellious genius, to use her code-breaking skills on an epic global chase to locate Einstein's last equation before dangerous agents discover it and unlock the solution to harnessing energy"--
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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A biography of immigrant scientist Gabriela González, who, armed with modern technology, completed the work that Albert Einstein had begun one hundred years earlier, confirming his theory of gravitational waves and breaking new ground for space-time research.
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Last in a three-part series in which acclaimed documentary filmmakers present ten pivotal moments in American history and their often unforeseen repercussions. This segment of three documentary films records events that changed the way Americans saw themselves. Albert Einstein's letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt on July 16, 1939, urged the development of the atomic bomb through the Manhattan Project. Elvis Presley's appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show...
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