Author: Don Brown
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547349955
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
When he was born, Albert was a peculiar, fat baby with an unusually big and misshaped head. When he was older, he hit his sister, bothered his teachers, and didn’t have many friends. But in the midst of all of this, Albert was fascinated with solving puzzles and fixing scientific problems. The ideas Albert Einstein came up with during his childhood as an odd boy out were destined to change the way we know and understand the world around us . . .
Odd Boy Out
Author: Don Brown
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547349955
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
When he was born, Albert was a peculiar, fat baby with an unusually big and misshaped head. When he was older, he hit his sister, bothered his teachers, and didn’t have many friends. But in the midst of all of this, Albert was fascinated with solving puzzles and fixing scientific problems. The ideas Albert Einstein came up with during his childhood as an odd boy out were destined to change the way we know and understand the world around us . . .
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547349955
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
When he was born, Albert was a peculiar, fat baby with an unusually big and misshaped head. When he was older, he hit his sister, bothered his teachers, and didn’t have many friends. But in the midst of all of this, Albert was fascinated with solving puzzles and fixing scientific problems. The ideas Albert Einstein came up with during his childhood as an odd boy out were destined to change the way we know and understand the world around us . . .
The Lion and Albert
Author: Marriott Edgar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780416584509
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Thora Hird, Roy Hudd and others read seventeen of Marriott Edgar's memorable monologues.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780416584509
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Thora Hird, Roy Hudd and others read seventeen of Marriott Edgar's memorable monologues.
Official Register of the United States
Author: United States. Department of the Interior
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1610
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1610
Book Description
Albert & Thomas
Author: Simon Tugwell
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809130221
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Contains writings by two 13th-century Dominicans, both Doctors of the Church, St. Albert the Great (1200-1280), patron saint of natural scientists, and the 'common doctor,' St. Thomas Aquinas (1226-1274), both famous for their contributions to philosophy and theology.
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809130221
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Contains writings by two 13th-century Dominicans, both Doctors of the Church, St. Albert the Great (1200-1280), patron saint of natural scientists, and the 'common doctor,' St. Thomas Aquinas (1226-1274), both famous for their contributions to philosophy and theology.
Albert Schweitzer
Author: Nils Ole Oermann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191087041
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
This biography provides a versatile insight into the life, work, and thought of Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965). Nils Ole Oermann offers a detailed account of the multifaceted life of Albert Schweitzer who was a theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary. Schweitzer's life was not a straight path from the parsonage in Alsace to the University of Strasbourg, then on to the hospital in Lambarene, and ending with the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. In every life there are highs and lows, victories and defeats--and Schweitzer's life was no exception. These ups and downs, however, are barely discernible in Schweitzer's 1931 autobiography, Out of my Life and Thought, where he presents his life as an enormous, purposefully constructed edifice, the cornerstone of which was the principle of Reverence for Life, and the almost inevitable outcome of which was the Nobel Peace Prize. To date, biographers, journalists, and hagiographers have told and retold the story of Schweitzer following this basic pattern with relatively little critical modification. Their Schweitzer was a man whose demeanour and charisma set him apart from other intellectual giants of his time. But not everything Schweitzer records in his autobiography corresponds with what is found in the archives and in his unpublished writings. It is on the basis of these historical sources and more recent publications that Oermann attempts to sketch a more realistic picture of Albert Schweitzer. Oermann draws on newly uncovered personal papers which shed light on Schweitzer's dealings with the East German authorities and his role in the anti-nuclear movement. He also builds on a number of interviews from those associated with Schweitzer--most notably his daughter.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191087041
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
This biography provides a versatile insight into the life, work, and thought of Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965). Nils Ole Oermann offers a detailed account of the multifaceted life of Albert Schweitzer who was a theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary. Schweitzer's life was not a straight path from the parsonage in Alsace to the University of Strasbourg, then on to the hospital in Lambarene, and ending with the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. In every life there are highs and lows, victories and defeats--and Schweitzer's life was no exception. These ups and downs, however, are barely discernible in Schweitzer's 1931 autobiography, Out of my Life and Thought, where he presents his life as an enormous, purposefully constructed edifice, the cornerstone of which was the principle of Reverence for Life, and the almost inevitable outcome of which was the Nobel Peace Prize. To date, biographers, journalists, and hagiographers have told and retold the story of Schweitzer following this basic pattern with relatively little critical modification. Their Schweitzer was a man whose demeanour and charisma set him apart from other intellectual giants of his time. But not everything Schweitzer records in his autobiography corresponds with what is found in the archives and in his unpublished writings. It is on the basis of these historical sources and more recent publications that Oermann attempts to sketch a more realistic picture of Albert Schweitzer. Oermann draws on newly uncovered personal papers which shed light on Schweitzer's dealings with the East German authorities and his role in the anti-nuclear movement. He also builds on a number of interviews from those associated with Schweitzer--most notably his daughter.
Albert A. Peña Jr.
Author: José Angel Gutiérrez
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628953020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The political and social impact that Albert A. Peña Jr. had on the lives of Mexican Americans, and later Chicanos, is by all counts immeasurable. However, in part because Chicano biography has traditionally been a neglected research area among academics generally and Chicano Studies scholars specifically, his life’s work has not featured prominently in any biographical work to date, making this volume the first of its kind. It provides a richly detailed documentation of Peña’s life and career, from blue collar worker to judge and essay writer, spanning nearly ninety years. Readers will find that at the heart of his story is a focus on grassroots organizing and politics, sharing leadership, and a commitment to social justice.
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628953020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The political and social impact that Albert A. Peña Jr. had on the lives of Mexican Americans, and later Chicanos, is by all counts immeasurable. However, in part because Chicano biography has traditionally been a neglected research area among academics generally and Chicano Studies scholars specifically, his life’s work has not featured prominently in any biographical work to date, making this volume the first of its kind. It provides a richly detailed documentation of Peña’s life and career, from blue collar worker to judge and essay writer, spanning nearly ninety years. Readers will find that at the heart of his story is a focus on grassroots organizing and politics, sharing leadership, and a commitment to social justice.
Everybody's Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Hutchinson's Washington and Georgetown Directory
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alexandria (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alexandria (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
Driving Mr. Albert
Author: Michael Paterniti
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN: 038533303X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Albert Einstein's brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling across America. Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti. Sitting next to him is an eighty-four-year-old pathologist named Thomas Harvey, who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 -- then simply removed the brain and took it home. And kept it for over forty years. On a cold February day, the two men and the brain leave New Jersey and light out on I-70 for sunny California, where Einstein's perplexed granddaughter, Evelyn, awaits. And riding along as the imaginary fourth passenger is Einstein himself, an id-driven genius, the original galactic slacker with his head in the stars. Part travelogue, part memoir, part history, part biography, and part meditation, Driving Mr. Albert is one of the most unique road trips in modern literature.
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN: 038533303X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Albert Einstein's brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling across America. Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti. Sitting next to him is an eighty-four-year-old pathologist named Thomas Harvey, who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 -- then simply removed the brain and took it home. And kept it for over forty years. On a cold February day, the two men and the brain leave New Jersey and light out on I-70 for sunny California, where Einstein's perplexed granddaughter, Evelyn, awaits. And riding along as the imaginary fourth passenger is Einstein himself, an id-driven genius, the original galactic slacker with his head in the stars. Part travelogue, part memoir, part history, part biography, and part meditation, Driving Mr. Albert is one of the most unique road trips in modern literature.
Albert Einstein
Author: Joyce Goldenstern
Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 9780766028388
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
A biography of the life and achievements of Albert Einstein, one of the most important scientists of the twentieth century.
Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 9780766028388
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
A biography of the life and achievements of Albert Einstein, one of the most important scientists of the twentieth century.