Wieder einmal ein Sachbuch

Nach all den literarischen Schmankerln die ich seit dem Urlaub gelesen habe, ist mir heute der Sinn nach einem Sachbuch gewesen. Ich hab also wieder meinen Stapel ungelesener Bücher umgeräumt, in einige Kartons geschaut und mich schließlich doch für ein Buch entschieden, das relativ weit oben auf dem Stapel lag. Was ich bisher gelesen habe, gefällt mir auch ausnehmend gut - selbst wenn ich nun nicht die große Physikerin bin.

Das  ist meine neue Lektüre:

Albert EINSTEIN
The Einstein Reader

Synopsis: This work presents letters from a legend: a rare collection of essays, articles and correspondence. It offers an exclusive collection of more than 65 essays, letters and articles written during the later years of Einstein's career. Albert Einstein was more than "just" a scientist (more, even, than "just" the single most influential figure in the whole of post-Galilean science) - he was a pre-eminent thinker, a humanist deeply concerned with the application and consequence of all branches of knowledge. "The Einstein Reader" is a celebration of Einstein's life and innermost thoughts, focusing on the crucial years at the end of his career - 1934 to 1950. The enlightening pieces collected within explore a wide range of subjects, including freedom; international security; Zionism; morals; and the atomic threat to world peace. Famously a fateful contributor to that threat, Einstein's final musings on the subject are as illuminating and urgent now as they were when they were written. Perhaps, even more so.

This remarkable volume also contains Einstein's writings on such personalities as Mahatma Gandhi, Isaac Newton and Marie Curie, plus explanations of his major scientific works and theories.