"This edition published ... by arrangement with Philosophical Library, Inc."--Title page verso. "Copyright Ã1934 by Covici-Friede, Inc."--Title page verso. "'The world as I see it' in its original form includes essays by Einstein on Judaism, Germany, politics and pacifism and sundry other topics. These have been omitted in the present abridged edition"--Preface.

Principles of research -- Inaugural address to the Prussian Academy of Sciences -- On scientific truth -- On the method of theoretical physics -- Johannes Kepler -- The mechanics of Newton and their influence on the development of theoretical physics -- Clerk Maxwell's influence on the evolution of the idea of physical reality -- Niels Bohr -- On the Theory of Relativity -- What is the Theory of Relativity? -- The problem of space, ether, and the field in physics -- Notes on the origin of the general Theory of Relativity -- The cause of the formation of meanders in the courses of rivers and of the so-called Beer's Law -- The Flettner Ship -- Relativity and the ether -- Addresses Columbia University.