Ideas and opinions : based on Mein Weltbild / edited by Carl Seelig, and other sources ; new translations and revisions by Sonja Bargmann.

The world as I see it -- The meaning of life -- The true value of a human being -- Good and evil -- On wealth -- On academic freedom -- On freedom -- Religion and science -- About education -- The university courses at Davos -- Teachers and pupils -- Education and educators -- Education and world peace -- On education -- On classic literature -- Ensuring the future of mankind -- Education for independent thought -- The question of disarmament -- Peace -- Why socialism? -- On the Jewish people -- Addresses on reconstruction in Palestine -- Christianity and Judaism -- Is there a Jewish point of view? -- Our debt to Zionism -- Why do they hate the Jews? -- What is the Theory of Relativity?

Here is a new edition of the most definitive collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings, gathered under the supervision of Einstein himself. The selections range from his earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such subjects as relativity, nuclear war or peace, and religion and science, to human rights, economics, and government.