It's About Time: Understanding Einstein's Relativity

This readable and complete exposition of the nature of time as addressed in Einstein's special theory of relativity is accessible to readers without training in the sciences. Published on the 100th anniversary of Einstein's famous 1905 paper, it assumes only competency in simple high school algebra and a bit of elementary plane geometry.

The premise of the book is that relativity ought to be an important part of everyone's education because it is largely about time, a subject with which all a…