Title page -- Preface -- Contents -- Albert Einstein: A Portrait -- Mechanics and Electromagnetism in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Dynamics of Maxwell's Ether -- Mechanistic Science, Thermodynamics, and Industry at the End of the Nineteenth Centur y -- The Origins and Concepts of Special Relativity -- General Relativity: Gravitation as Geometry and the Machian Programme -- The Rebirth of Cosmology: From the Static to the Expanding Universe -- Testing Relativity -- Einstein and Quantum Theory -- The Quantum Debate: From Einstein to Bell and Beyond -- Special Relativity and the Development of High-Energy Particle Physics -- Quantum Theory and Gravitation -- Superluminal Waves and Objects: Theory and Experiments. A Panoramic Introduction -- Standard Cosmology and Other Possible Universes.