Einstein: His Life and Times (The Library of Great Lives)

xvii, 298, xii pp. 8vo. Red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Color frontispiece, illustrated with black-and-white photographs and diagrams. Translated from a German manuscript by George Rosen, edited and revised by Shuichi Kusaka, foreword by Isaac Asimov. "Much has been written about Albert Einstein, technical and biographical, but very little remains as valuable as this unique hybrid of a book written by Einstein’s colleague and contemporary. Both rich in personal insights and grounded in a deep knowledge of twentieth-century science, Phillip Frank's biography anchors the reader with a lucid overview of physics and draws an intimate portrait of the Nobel Prize–winner."