Five intimate portraits of exceptional women include Mileva Maric, scientist wife of Einstein; Lee Krasner, artist married to Jackson Pollock; Maria Goppert Mayer, scientist, mother, and Nobel Prize winner; architect Denise Scott Brown; and Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. From Publishers Weekly The difficulty of reconciling a career with marriage is dramatically illu...(展开全部)

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Although Einstein was the greatest genius of the 20th century, many of his ground-breaking discoveries were blighted by mistakes, ranging from serious misconceptions in physics to blatant errors in mathematics. For instance, Einstein's first theoretical proof of the famous formula E = mc2 was incomplete and only approximately valid; he struggled with this problem for many years...(展开全部)

Einstein's breakthroughs in special and general relativity, cosmology, black holes, the principle of the expanding universe, quantum physics and unified scientific theory are some of the best-known discoveries of the previous century. But how these discoveries were linked to the findings of those who came before him - Galileo, Newton, Copernicus and Eddington, to name a few - i...(展开全部)

Women, Art, and Power-seven landmark essays on women artists and women in art history-brings together the work of almost twenty years of scholarship and speculation.

Women, Art, and Power-seven landmark essays on women artists and women in art history-brings together the work of almost twenty years of scholarship and speculation.

恩斯特·卡西尔（Ernst Cassirer，1874/07/28－1945/04/13），生于波兰弗罗茨瓦夫，于1939年成为瑞典公民，逝于美国纽约。受学于马尔堡的新康德主义传统，卡西尔发展出一套独特的文化哲学，在科学哲学领域颇有建树。 此外，他亦撰写了一系列关于认识论、科学论、哲学史的著作，包括《自由与形式》、　《神话思维的概念形式》、 《语言与神话》、　《人论》等。

恩斯特·卡西尔（Ernst Cassirer，1874/07/28－1945/04/13），生于波兰弗罗茨瓦夫，于1939年成为瑞典公民，逝于美国纽约。受学于马尔堡的新康德主义传统，卡西尔发展出一套独特的文化哲学，在科学哲学领域颇有建树。 此外，他亦撰写了一系列关于认识论、科学论、哲学史的著作，包括《自由与形式》、　《神话思维的概念形式》、 《语言与神话》、　《人论》等。