Another Book Review...ABC of Relativity

Ok..This is another book which kind of fascinated me by its very name...Now, i had a baggage of expections with me as i started reading this book with great gusto. Russel is a wonderful writer and definitely one of the "selected" few who was able to comprehend with a substantial degree of clarity the challenging concept of "relativity"...Now this man is a real western philosophy maven,and it goes without saying that his knowledge in this elusive field is quite impeccable and exclusive..However, i think that the book really did not saitiate my thirst of the knowledge of relativity....In all fairness to him, he attempted , at least at the outset, to build up the knowledge frame by frame...But somewhere down the line, he fumbles...He makes a wonderful attempt, and succesful at that too, to differentiate between mass and weight...That portion was pretty engrossing indeed...But as i said, somewhere in the middle he lost that silken touch of "frame by frame" learning, and i had to look for other refernces to catch on to what he was saying....There were quite a few instances of his rapier like wit(his wisecracks and all)...but honestly, I found it hard to sustain my (flagging) interest till the end...Another thing he could have done (Look who is saying) is to unpack his views with appropiate graphs, charts, diagrams et al. I felt that he could not walk the tightrope between getting theoretical or too analytical(mathematical)..By its inherent nature itself, the relativity theory has tons of mathematical implications-the kinds of which cannot be neglected in their entirety..Those much sought-for deductions were missing in the book, so conceptualizing and visualizing the stuff in a holistic way was kind of tough...But then again,this might be a biased view of an engineer who is used to facts being presented in an empirical and mathematical fashion..
So,I guess this is still a good book for someone whose knowledge in the field is past the beginner's phase..
Now there is another book in my repertoire: The Philosophical Consequences of Relativity.... Let me see if that gets into my now-cluttered head...;-)...will post soon...with the mid sem over(well..almost), I m again on a reading spree...:-)