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The ideal gift for all science lovers.
This beautifully designed book features a significant number of previously unreleased documents and photographs from the Albert Einstein Archives and links them together with short introductions to chapters about Einstein’s private life, his scientific achievements and his political activities.

The new volume represents a substantially enlarged English edition of a title originally published as a version to supplement the permanent exhibition on Albert Einstein at the Jewish National and University Library,


From The Critics

The Los Angeles Times Book Review, October 28, 2007.

"Reading this book feels like meeting him in person."
From issue 2634 of New Scientist magazine, 15 December 2007, page 48

“This book has been developed with love, the photos are astonishing.” Die Zeit, Germany

“Of all the books dedicated to the memory of Albert Einstein, this is surely one of the most beautiful.”
The Parliament, weekly paper of the German Bundestag

"…….An insightful account primarily using the resources of the Einstein Archives."
"Rosenkranz and Wolff;s Albert Einstein The Persistent Illusion of Transience gives us…insight and dimension"
"It is lavish with copies of Einstein's scientific papers, and some never before published personal letters and photographs….. the work of Rosenkranz and Wolff is scholarly, and multidimensional"
"The R and W book, through its collection of documents and photographs and accompanying text gives us new insight into this man of science and heart."
"Students of history will be greatly assisted by this well organized and erudite documentary account."
From a review by Professor Herbert M. Druks, Brooklyn College, CUNY

"It is my opinion that “Illusion'' possesses the quality of a far more intimate presentation of the remarkable life of one of the most iconic individuals of the twentieth century.  …. this books feels as though it could have been written by his life-long butler (had such an individual existed)… "
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S. J. Gates, Jr, John S. Toll Physics Professor & the Director of the Center for String and Particle Theory at the University of Maryland in the U.S., and also an expert on Einstein.