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This exclusive boxed set from beloved New York Times bestselling author Walter Isaacson features his definitive biographies Steve Jobs Einstein Benjamin Franklin and Leonardo da Vinci If anybody in America understands genius its Walter Isaacson SalonCelebrated historian journalist and bestselling author Walter Isaacsons biography collection of geniuses now available in one boxed setthe perfect gift for history lovers everywhere Steve Jobs The enthralling The New Yorker worldwide bestselling biography of legendary Apple cofounder Steve Jobs The story of the rollercoaster life and intense creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries personal computers animated movies music phones tablet computing and digital publishing Isaacsons portrait touched millions of readers Einstein How did his mind work What made him a genius Isaacsons biography of Albert Einsteinalso the basis for the tenpart National Geographic series starring Geoffrey Rushshows how Einsteins scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom Benjamin Franklin In this colorful and intimate narrative Isaacson provides the full sweep of Ben Franklins amazing life showing how the most fascinating Founding Father helped forge the American national identity Leonardo da Vinci Historys consummate innovator and most creative thinker Isaacson illustrates how Leonardos genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves such as passionate curiosity careful observation and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy
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This exclusive boxed set from beloved New York Times bestselling author Walter Isaacson features his definitive biographies Steve Jobs Einstein Benjamin Franklin and Leonardo da Vinci If anybody in America understands genius its Walter Isaacson SalonCelebrated historian journalist and bestselling author Walter Isaacsons biography collection of geniuses now available in one boxed setthe perfect gift for history lovers everywhere Steve Jobs The enthralling The New Yorker worldwide bestselling biography of legendary Apple cofounder Steve Jobs The story of the rollercoaster life and intense creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries personal computers animated movies music phones tablet computing and digital publishing Isaacsons portrait touched millions of readers Einstein How did his mind work What made him a genius Isaacsons biography of Albert Einsteinalso the basis for the tenpart National Geographic series starring Geoffrey Rushshows how Einsteins scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom Benjamin Franklin In this colorful and intimate narrative Isaacson provides the full sweep of Ben Franklins amazing life showing how the most fascinating Founding Father helped forge the American national identity Leonardo da Vinci Historys consummate innovator and most creative thinker Isaacson illustrates how Leonardos genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves such as passionate curiosity careful observation and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy
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By the time Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973 he had become according to the Gallup Poll the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the worlds imagination Yet Kissinger was also reviled by large segments of the American public ranging from liberal intellectuals to conservative activists Kissinger explores the relationship between this complex mans personality and the foreign policy he pursued Drawing on extensive interviews with Kissinger as well as 150 other sources including US presidents and his business clients this first fulllength biography makes use of many of Kissingers private papers and classified memos to tell his uniquely American story The result is an intimate narrative filled with surprising revelations that takes this centurys most colorful statesman from his childhood as a persecuted Jew in Nazi Germany through his tortured relationship with Richard Nixon to his later years as a globetrotting business consultant
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Leo Szilard has long been overshadowed by such luminaries as Einstein Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermiwith whom he codesigned the first nuclear reactor in 1942 A shy witty eccentric the Hungarian born Szilard lived both sides of the arms race working first to prevent then to hasten and finally to outlaw nuclear weaponsLanouettes book is eminently readable An excellent book spiced with telling anecdotes about a strange man who influenced world historyMax F Perutz New York Review of BooksLanouettes exhaustively researched and artfully written account of one of the most underrated figures of the atomic age establishes Szilard as both a curmudgeon and a posthumously honored prophetGregg Herken NatureWilliam Lanouette has written the most sensitive and lively biography The book gives an excellent picture of the man and makes most interesting reading I strongly recommend itHans Bethe Physics TodayA wonderful book about this endlessly fascinating man one of the most entertaining stories in recent years A keeperDick Teresi New York Times Book Review
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Provides a review of the formative years and early inspirations of this brilliant chemist who discovered a new family of fibers and the incredibly strong Kevlar compound an invention that has saved thousands of lives through its use in body armor
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A chronicle of the life of the great scientist Albert Einstein features a simple yet informative text that focuses not only on his scientific discoveries but on his personal life including his Jewish pride and his hatred of violence
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A biography of the author of Sister Carrie discusses Jamess troubled family life his struggles as an artist and his expatriate years By the author of Dickens A Biography 35000 first printing 25000 adpromo
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A vivid study of the life and times of seventeenthcentury scientist Robert Hooke captures the diverse facets of his life as an astronomer inventor anatomist diarist and more examining his contributions in an era in which Hookes reputation was dramatically overshadowed by those of such contemporaries as Sir Christopher Wren and Sir Isaac Newton Reprint
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One of the most influential novelists Henry James led a life that was as rich as his writing Born into an eccentric and difficult family he left the United States for Europe where he quickly became a fixture of the expatriate writing community Fred Kaplan recreates the world of Henry James his friendships with Edith Wharton and Joseph Conrad his love of all things exquisiteincluding exquisite writingand his quest for understanding human nature As James himself advocated and would have wanted this is an artful dramatic biography placing the chronological narrative of Jamess life in the historical context of his timesThe twentyoneyearold Henry James Jr preferred to be a writer rather than a soldier His motives for writing were clear to himself and they were not unusual he desired fame and fortune Whatever additional enriching complications that were to make him notorious for the complexity of his style and thought the initial motivation remained constant Deeply stubborn and persistently willful he wanted praise and money the rewards of recognition of what he believed to be his genius on terms that he himself wanted to establish The one battle he thought most worth fighting was that of the imagination for artistic expression The one empire he most coveted the land that he wanted for his primary home was the empire of artfrom Henry James The Imagination of Genius
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Recounts the life and accomplishments of the Croatianborn engineer who developed alternatingcurrent technology and invented the radio
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As a young child who built an electronics laboratory in his familys attic this young genius had his mind set on experimentation and creation growing up to be the awardwinning inventor of the first laser and other amazing inventions
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Original material and recently acquired documents form the foundation of a biography of the man who served as an inspiration for modern electrical inventions
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First published in 1944 and long a favorite of Tesla fans this is a definitive biography of the man without whom modern civilization would not exist Nikola Tesla pioneer of electrical engineering was a close friend of Pulitzer Prizewinning author ONeill and here ONeill captures the man as a scientist and as a public figure exploring how Teslas father inspired his life in engineering why Tesla clung to his theories of electricity in the face of opposition how the shy but newly popular Tesla navigated the social life of New York in the gay 1890s Teslas friendship with Mark Twain the story of Teslas lost Nobel Prize Teslas dabblings in the paranormal and much more JOHN JOSEPH ONEILL b 1889 also wrote Engineering the New Age and You and the Universe What Science Reveals
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Wellknown names such as Albert Einstein Enrico Fermi J Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller are usually those that surround the creation of the atom bomb One name that is rarely mentioned is Leo Szilard known in scientific circles as father of the atom bomb The man who first developed the idea of harnessing energy from nuclear chain reactions he is curiously buried with barely a trace in the history of this wellknown and controversial topicBorn in Hungary and educated in Berlin he escaped Hitlers Germany in 1933 and that first year developed his concept of nuclear chain reactions In order to prevent Nazi scientists from stealing his ideas he kept his theories secret until he and Albert Einstein pressed the US government to research atomic reactions and designed the first nuclear reactor Though he started his career out lobbying for civilian control of atomic energy he concluded it with founding in 1962 the first political action committee for arms control the Council for a Livable WorldBesides his career in atomic energy he also studied biology and sparked ideas that won others the Nobel Prize The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla California where Szilard spent his final days was developed from his concepts to blend science and social issues
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Galileo made the first effective use of the refracting telescope to discover important new facts about astronomy His observations led him to support Copernicuss claim that Earth and the other planets circled the sun This conflicted with the teachings of the Catholic Church and brought Galileo before the judges of the Inquisition He spent his final years under house arrestGalileos genius lay in the way he approached scientific problems He reduced problems to simple terms on the basis of experience and commonsense logic Then he analyzed and resolved the problems according to simple mathematical descriptions thus opening the way for the development of modern mathematical physicsNational Geographic supports K12 educators with ELA Common Core ResourcesVisitnbspwwwnatgeoedorgcommoncorenbspfor more information
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