MARC details
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02880cam a22003618i 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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zmeld2 b10027756 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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ME |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20250203143831.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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180320s2018 pica b 001 0beng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1933480475 (pbk.) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781933480473 (pbk.) |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)1080207579 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
NLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
NLC |
| Modifying agency |
OCLCO |
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GFC |
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OCLCF |
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MiTN |
| 041 1# - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| Language code of original |
ger |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
QC16 .E5 |
| Item number |
P2513 2018 |
| 055 #0 - CLASSIFICATION NUMBERS ASSIGNED IN CANADA |
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| Classification number |
QC16 .E5 |
| Item number |
P2513 2018 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
530.092 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Padova, Thomas de, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1965- |
| 240 10 - UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
Allein gegen die Schwerkraft. |
| Language of a work |
English. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Alone against gravity : |
| Remainder of title |
Einstein in Berlin: The turbulent birth of the theory of relativity, 1914-1918 / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Thomas De Padova. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Bunim & Bannigan, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2018. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
274 p. : |
| Other physical details |
ill., |
| Dimensions |
22 cm. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
text |
| Content type code |
txt |
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rdacontent. |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Media type term |
unmediated |
| Media type code |
n |
| Source |
rdamedia. |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Carrier type term |
volume |
| Carrier type code |
nc |
| Source |
rdacarrier. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
"Marking the 100th anniversity of WWI 1918-2018."-Cover. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Translation of: Allein gegen die Schwerkraft. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"Thomas De Padova's biography sheds new light on Einstein's general theory of relativity and its emergence in the midst of the First World War. The book focuses on a pivotal period of four years, 1914-1918, in the life and work of Albert Einstein in Berlin. The years between 1914 and 1918 were years of scientific wonder. Einstein completed and presented his general theory of relativity; his most significant scientific achievement that opened science a completely new perspective on space and time and the structure of our universe. His linking of space and time, matter and gravity, introduced questions that occupy physicists and philosophers to this day. (Only recently in 2017, proving the ripples in spacetime predicted by Einstein's theory, won the Nobel Prize for physics). But these were also years of horror, of unleashing the violence of nationalism. Einstein's idyllic research institute transformed into a lab that developed the first weapons of mass destruction. "Our highly acclaimed technological progress, our civilization in general, is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal," Einstein declared bitterly in the midst of the war. Witnessing his colleagues' chauvinism and the events of the war politicized Einstein who became an active pacifist. Using parallel events, Thomas De Padova takes us into the historical and social context of World War 1, unfolding the story of Einstein's inner and outer worlds; his scientific struggle to decipher and resist gravity and his social struggle to resist nationalism and violence."-- |
| Assigning source |
Provided by publisher. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Einstein, Albert, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1879-1955. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Physicists |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Relativity (Physics) |
| 9 (RLIN) |
3192 |