There's no better short book that explains just what Einstein did than Einstein's Cosmos. Keying Einstein's crucial discoveries to the simple mental images that inspired them, Michio Kaku finds a revealing new way to discuss his ideas, and delivers an appealing and always accessible introduction to Einstein's work.
This was the first book authored by Michio Kaku that I read. This is a good book that (very) briefly covers Einstein's experiences in short, single sweep. Has a quite a collection of facts on the early life of the genius: his schooling, curiousity and inspiration. This is not however the best book to understand Einstein's theories, or even the developments in modern physics. It has very little depth, and provides anecdotal "explanations". It does do a fair job of linking Einstein's developmen...