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This outstanding volume introduces Albert Einstein to laymen.  It is organized around three basic themes of his career: the special theory of relativity, the general theory of relativity (said to be the most aesthetically beautiful creation in the history of science), and the important Einstenian contributions to quantum physics.  As well as reviewing Einstein's scientific achievements, Jeremy Bernstein gives us an absorbing report on the man's life.  "My hope," Mr. Bernstein writes, is to "bring the reader deeper and deeper into the workings of the man insofar as I am able to understand them myself."