Albert Einstein: Out of My Later Years Through His Own Words

by Castle Books

• ISBN13: 9780785820451
• ISBN10: 0785820450
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-06-30
• Publisher: Book Sales

Table of Contents

1. Publisher's Preface	1	(2)
Convictions and Beliefs
2. Self-Portrait (1936)	3	(1)
3. Ten Fateful Years (1939)	4	(3)
4. Moral Decay (1937)	7	(2)
5. Message for Posterity (1938)	9	(1)
6. On Freedom (1940)	10	(3)
7. Morals and Emotions (1938)	13	(6)
8. Science and Religion (I-1939; II-1941)	19	(10)
9. On Education (1936)	29
Science
10. The Theory of Relativity (1949)	39	(8)
11. E =MC² (1946)	47	(5)
12. What is the Theory of Relativity? (1919)	52	(7)
13. Physics and Reality (1936)
General Consideration Concerning the Method of Science	59	(6)
Mechanics and the Attempts to Base all Physics Upon It	65	(9)
The Field Concept	74	(4)
The Theory of Relativity	78	(7)
Quantum Theory and the Fundamentals of Physics	85	(8)
Relativity Theory and Corpuscles	93	(3)
Summary	96	(2)
14. The Fundaments of Theoretical Physics (1940)	98	(13)
15. The Common Language of Science (1941)	111	(3)
16. The Laws of Science and the Laws of Ethics (1950)	114	(2)
17. An Elementary Derivation of the Equivalence of Mass and Energy (1946)	116	(7)
Public Affairs
18. Why Socialism? (1949)	123	(9)
19. The Negro Question (1946)	132	(3)
20. Science and Society (1935)	135	(3)
21. Towards a World Government (1946)	138	(3)
22. The Way Out (1946)	141	(5)
23. On Receiving the One World Award (1948)	146	(2)
24. Science and Civilization (1933)	148	(4)
25. A Message to Intellectuals (1948)	152	(6)
26. Open Letter to the General Assembly of the United Nations (1947)	158	(3)
27. Dr. Einstein's Mistaken Notions-An Open Letter from Sergei Vavilov, A.N. Frumkin, A.F. Joffe, and N.N. Semyonov (1947)	161	(18)
A Reply to the Soviet Scientists (1948)	169	(10)
Science and Life
28. For an Organization of Intellectual Workers (1945)	179	(2)
29. "Was Europe a Success?" (1934)	181	(2)
30. At a Gathering for Freedom of Opinion (1936)	183	(2)
31. Atomic War or Peace (I-1945; II-1947)	185	(15)
32. The War is Won but Peace is Not (1945)	200	(4)
33. The Menace of Mass Destruction (1947)	204	(3)
34. The Schools and the Problem of Peace (1934)	207	(2)
35. On Military Service (1934)	209	(3)
36. Military Intrusion in Science (1947)
The Military Mentality	212	(3)
37. International Security (1933)	215	(4)
Personalities
38. Isaac Newton (1942)	219	(5)
39. Johannes Kepler (1949)	224	(3)
40. Marie Curie in Memoriam (1935)	227	(2)
41. Max Planck in Memoriam (1948)	229	(2)
42. Paul Langevin in Memoriam (1947)	231	(2)
43. Walther Nernst in Memoriam (1942)	233	(3)
44. Paul Ehrenf est in Memoriam (1934)	236	(4)
45. Mahatma Gandhi (1939)	240	(1)
46. Carl von Ossietzky (1946)	241	(4)
My People
47. Why Do They Hate the Jews? (1938)	245	(9)
Just What Is a Jew?	248	(2)
Where Oppression Is a Stimulus	250	(4)
48. The Dispersal of European Jewry (1948)	254	(3)
49. Let's Not Forget (1934)	257	(1)
50. Unpublished Preface to a Blackbook (1945)	258	(2)
51. The Goal of Human Existence (1943)	260	(2)
52. Our Debt to Zionism (1938)	262	(3)
53. To the Heroes of the Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto (1944)	265	(1)
54. Before the Monument to the Martyred Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto (1948)	266	(2)
55. The Calling of the Jews (1936)	268	(1)
56. Moses Maimonides (1935)	269	(2)
57. Stephen Wise (1949)	271	(1)
58. To the University of Jerusalem (1949)	272	(1)
59. The American Council for Judaism (1945)	273	(1)
60. The Jews of Israel (1949)	274	(3)
Acknowledgments	277	(4)
Index	281