Stannard - Relativity: a very short introduction

For readers interested in the historical development of the subject:

Jean Eisenstaedt, The Curious History of Relativity (Princeton University Press, 2006)

Abraham Pais, Subtle is the Lord (Oxford University Press, 1982)

Books at a similar level to the present one:

Albert Einstein, Relativity (reprinted in the Routledge Classics series, 2001 [1954])

Max Born, Einstein's Theory of Relativity (Dover, 1962)

Hermann Bondi, Relativity and Common Sense (Dover, 1964)

Domenico Giulini, Special Relativity: A First Encounter (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time (Bantam, 2005)

N. David Mermin, It's About Time (Princeton University Press, 2003)

Bernard Schutz, Gravity from the Ground Up (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

John Taylor, Black Holes (Souvenir Press, 1998)

Somewhat more mathematical treatments of the subject:

George F. R. Ellis and Ruth M. Williams, Flat and Curved Space-Times (Oxford University Press, 2000)

W. S. C. Williams, Introducing Special Relativity (Taylor and Francis, 2002)

Wolfgang Rindler, Relativity (Oxford University Press, 2006)

Vesselin Petkov, Relativity and the Nature of Spacetime (Springer, 2004)

A full understanding of general relativity requires a sophisticated grasp of mathematics. There are many books written at this level, including the following:

Richard A. Mould, Basic Relativity (Springer, 1994)

Robert M. Wald, General Relativity (University of Chicago Press, 1984)

Hans C. Ohanian and Remo Ruffini, Gravitation and Spacetime (Norton, 1994)

Ta-Pei Cheng, Relativity, Gravitation, and Cosmology (Oxford University Press, 2005)

James B. Hartle, Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity (Addison Wesley, 2005)

And at the opposite end of the spectrum, for children of ten years and upwards:

Russell Stannard, The Time and Space of Uncle Albert (Faber and Faber, 1989)

Russell Stannard, Black Holes and Uncle Albert (Faber and Faber, 1991)

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