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A tekintélyes TIME magazin főszerkesztő-helyettese, Walter Isaacson kiváló életrajzi kötetet írt Henry Kissingerről, a 20. sz. egyik legizgalmasabb, legkiemelkedőbb politikusegyéniségéről. Az életrajzból elénk tárul Kissinger és a washingtoni nagypolitikai establishment, a Kennedy- és a Johnson-kormányzatok kapcsolata, majd a Nixon- és Ford-kormányokban 1968-tól 1976-ig betöltött pozíciói. Tematikusan, időrendi sorrendben, fejezetről fejezetre haladva képet kapunk a korszak amerikai külpolitikáját érintő legfontosabb hazai és nemzetközi eseményekről.

From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs' professional and personal life. Drawn from three years o f exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with Jobs' family members, key colleagues from Apple and its competitors, Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation.

The phenomenal worldwide bestseller from the author of the acclaimed biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein. From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs' professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with Jobs' family members, key colleagues from Apple and its competitors, Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation.

V roce 2011 se z Isaacsonova převratného životopisu zakladatele Applu Steva Jobse stal globální fenomén a jedna z nejprodávanějších knih literatury faktu všech dob. Nyní Walter Isaacson přichází s příběhem lidí, kteří nástup Jobse a digitálního věku umožnili. Pokud chcete pochopit, jak k inovacím skutečně dochází a jak spolupráce vede ke kreativitě, pak jsou Inovátoři tou správnou volbou. Tato kniha má naději stát se klasickým textem o dějinách digitální revoluce a nepostradatelným průvodcem světem inovací. Isaacsonova mistrná sága začíná Adou Lovelaceovou, dcerou lorda Byrona, jež se ve čtyřicátých letech 19. století stala průkopnicí počítačového programování. Zkoumá fascinující osobnosti, které stvořily stávající digitální revoluci, jako například Vannevara Bushe, Alana Turinga, Johna von Neumanna, J. C. R. Licklidera, Douga Engelbarta, Roberta Noyce, Billa Gatese, Steva Wozniaka, Steva Jobse, Tima Bernerse-Lea a Larryho Page. Tento příběh vypráví o tom, jakým způsobem uvažovali a proč byli tak vynalézaví. Je také vyprávěním o jejich schopnosti spolupracovat a osvojit si umění týmové spolupráce, díky níž pak byli ještě kreativnější. Nacházíme se v éře, která inovace, tvořivost a týmovou spolupráci podporuje. Inovátoři nám ukazují, jak k těmto jevům dochází.

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovatorsis Walter Isaacson's story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and a guide to how innovation really works. What talents allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their disruptive ideas into realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail? In his exciting saga, Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He then explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee and Larry Page. This is the story of how their minds worked and what made them so creative. It's also a narrative of how their ability to collaborate and master the art of teamwork made them even more creative. For an era that seeks to foster innovation, creativity and teamwork, this book shows how they actually happen.

Inspiráló könyv a zsenialitásról, és arról, hogy a csapatmunka elengedhetetlen az igazi kreativitáshoz, az ötletek megvalósításához és a sikerhez Walter Isaacson, a világsikerű Steve Jobs életrajzi kötet írója ezúttal a digitális forradalom, az emberi zsenialitás és a kreativitás lenyűgöző történetét meséli el. Az életrajzírók az egekig magasztalják a magányos farkasként bemutatott vagy inkább misztifikált feltalálókat, pedig a digitális kor majd 200 éves történetének nagy találmányai leginkább csapatmunka eredményei. Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, Neumann János, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee és Larry Page nagy tehetségek, sőt zsenik, de rengeteg lenyűgöző személyiség vett részt a munkájukban. A könyv a digitális forradalom számos hackerének, feltalálójának és vállalkozójának a története arról szól, kik voltak, milyen rugóra járt az agyuk, és mitől voltak olyan kreatívak; illetve miért tette őket a csapatmunkára való képességük még kreatívabbá.

The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein from the author of The Innovators, Steve Jobs and Benjamin Franklin. **Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush** How did Einstein's mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how Einstein's scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom. Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk - a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate - became the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom, and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marvelling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits and free individuals. Einstein, the classic No.1New York Times bestseller, is a brilliantly acclaimed account of the most influential scientist of the twentieth century, 'An illuminating delight' New York Times 'Dramatic and revelatory' Sunday Times 'Beautifully written' Sunday Telegraph 'Astonishing' Mail on Sunday

'To read this magnificent biography of Leonardo da Vinci is to take a tour through the life and works of one of the most extraordinary human beings of all time in the company of the most engaging, informed, and insightful guide imaginable. Walter Isaacson is at once a true scholar and a spellbinding writer. And what a wealth of lessons there are to be learned in these pages.' David McCullough Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo’s 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. He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and technology. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of Vitruvian Man, made him history’s most creative genius. His creativity, like that of other great innovators, came from having wide-ranging passions. He peeled flesh off the faces of cadavers, drew the muscles that move the lips, and then painted history’s most memorable smile. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. Isaacson also describes how Leonardo’s lifelong enthusiasm for staging theatrical productions informed his paintings and inventions. Leonardo’s delight at combining diverse passions remains the ultimate recipe for creativity. So, too, does his ease at being a bit of a misfit: illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted, and at times heretical. His life should remind us of the importance of instilling, both in ourselves and our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to question it—to be imaginative and, like talented misfits and rebels in any era, to think different.

This long overdue monograph presents a panorama of portraits from the photographer William Coupon. Coupon was given wide access to artists, musicians, politicians, authors, and the world's indigenous people on assignment from major publications like Time , Rolling Stone , The New York Times , Esquire , and The Washington Post . He photographed his subjects against a mottled backdrop of hand-painted Belgian linen, often in a classically lit medium shot format, inspired by Dutch masters such as Rembrandt and Holbein. Coupon has remained true to this method, whether working in the Oval Office in Washington D. C. or a tribal hut amongst the Pygmy in the Central African Republic, or the Caraja in the Brazilian Amazon. Environmental images compliment the more formal portraits. Portraits includes iconic images of Mick Jagger, Miles Davis, Elie Wiesel, David Byrne, Presidents Nixon, Carter, Bush, Trump, George Steinbrenner, Jean Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, and Prince Philip among many others from Haiti, Panama, Holland, Northern Scandinavia, Australia, Malaysia, Turkey, Italy, Peru, Mexico and other places. Coupon has created a collection that documents his times but also captured his generation in all its vibrancy. In his work, he seeks to present a truly egalitarian portrait of humanity integrating common people with the wealthy, powerful, and famous.

`Walter Isaacson is not an art historian, he's simply a lover of Leonardo, who manages to communicate the sheer joy of this remarkable man' Books of the Year - The Times `Walter Isaacson keeps the mortal man to the fore. For all his supernatural gifts as an artist and natural scientist. Leonardo was resolutely human (illegitimate, vegan, in need of patrons) rather than the near deity of legend. Isaacson is an assured guide to Leonardo's fallibility - so many projects started, so few completed - as well as his extraordinary curiosity and his even more remarkable painterly skills that were sharpened by intense observation.' Michael Prodger, Books of the Year - The Sunday Times 'Infinitely curious, easily distracted, vain and vegetarian, Leonardo is brought to vivid life in this accomplished biography.' - The SundayTimes. 'an illuminating guide to the output of one of the last millennium's greatest minds.' - The Observer 'Isaacson doesn't claim to make any fresh discoveries, but his book is intelligently organised, simply written and beautifully illustrated.' Book of the Day, The Guardian. 'Isaacson's scholarship is impressive-he cites not only primary sources but secondary materials by art critics, essayists, and da Vinci's other biographers. This is a monumental tribute to a titanic figure.' - Publisher's Weekly "A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it."-The New Yorker "Vigorous, insightful."-The Washington Post "A masterpiece."-San Francisco Chronicle "Luminous."-The Daily Beast 'To read this magnificent biography of Leonardo da Vinci is to take a tour through the life and works of one of the most extraordinary human beings of all time in the company of the most engaging, informed, and insightful guide imaginable. Walter Isaacson is at once a true scholar and a spellbinding writer. And what a wealth of lessons there are to be learned in these pages.' David McCullough The creator of Salvator Mundi (Saviour of the World) officially sold at auction in New York in November 2017 for the record-breaking sum of GBP341 million. He was history's most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's 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. He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and technology. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of Vitruvian Man, made him history's most creative genius. His creativity, like that of other great innovators, came from having wide-ranging passions. He peeled flesh off the faces of cadavers, drew the muscles that move the lips, and then painted history's most memorable smile. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. Isaacson also describes how Leonardo's lifelong enthusiasm for staging theatrical productions informed his paintings and inventions. Leonardo's delight at combining diverse passions remains the ultimate recipe for creativity. So, too, does his ease at being a bit of a misfit: illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted, and at times heretical. His life should remind us of the importance of instilling, both in ourselves and our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to question it-to be imaginative and, like talented misfits and rebels in any era, to think different.

Leonardo bámulatos jegyzetfüzeteinek több ezer oldalát, s szintúgy az életét és munkásságát érintő legújabb felfedezéseket feldolgozva Walter Isaacson megírta azt a könyvet, amely nemcsak összefoglalja meglévő ismereteinket minden idők legsokoldalúbb zsenijéről, hanem igyekszik a titkot is megfejteni: miből fakad ez a szárnyaló kreativitás? Leonardo tudományos munkássága, ahogy azt a szerző számtalan példán át meggyőzően bemutatja, elválaszthatatlan művészi zsenijétől; s mindkettőt olyan tulajdonságok táplálták, melyeket mindannyian fejleszthetünk magunkban: mint a szenvedélyes kíváncsiság, a gondos megfigyelés és a féktelen, játékos fantázia. Leonardo alkotta minden idők két leghíresebb festményét, az Utolsó vacsorát és a Mona Lisát; ám ő önmagát legalább annyira tekintette tudósnak és mérnöknek. Néha már rögeszméssé váló szenvedéllyel kutatta az emberi anatómiát, a szív működését, botanikai, geológiai, optikai és ezerféle egyéb tanulmányokat folytatott, új fegyvereket tervezett… és repülni vágyott ember alkotta szerkezettel. Matematikailag vizsgálta az optikát, tanulmányozta a fény útját a szaruhártyán át, majd a változó perspektívák illúzióját alkotta meg az Utolsó vacsorán, amely ugyanakkor bámulatosan gazdag festmény-elbeszélés a bibliai történetről, és felülmúlhatatlanul mély Jézus-ábrázolás. Isaacson Leonardo minden nagy művét elemzi ebből a nézőpontból: ahogy a tudományos elme és az érző lélek együtt hozta létre az alkotás csodáját. Részben ez volt a leonardói zsenialitás receptje; részben pedig a különcsége – rengeteg dologban volt ő más, mint az emberek többsége: fattyú volt, vegetáriánus, homoszexuális, balkezes, gyakran támadtak eretnek gondolatai, és – az ő korában még egészen rendkívüli módon – nem tisztelt semmilyen tekintélyt: mindenről a saját szemével, a saját eszével, gyakran leleményes kísérletek révén akart meggyőződni.

Vynikající dílo, které poprvé zpracovává Einsteinův život v celé jeho šíři, neboť Hebrejská univerzita v Jeruzalémě podle poslední vůle Einsteinovy nevlastní dcery uvolnila přes 3 000 stran nových dokumentů, především Einsteinových dopisů jeho první a druhé ženě a dětem. Autor měl možnost v knize uplatnit i další nové, dosud nezpracované materiály. Podrobně v knize líčí všechny (nejen tradičně "evropské", i "americké") etapy života tohoto velkého génia, jeho nefonformní rysy, vztah k filozofii, náboženství, ale i jeho vnitřní, jak vědecké, tak i osobní problémy. Doslov hodnotí jeho pražský pobyt a vliv jeho osobnosti a díla na naši vědu i kulturu (Čapek, Březina, Martinů, Šalda).

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and a guide to how innovation really works. What talents allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their disruptive ideas into realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail? In his exciting saga, Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He then explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee and Larry Page. This is the story of how their minds worked and what made them so creative. It's also a narrative of how their ability to collaborate and master the art of teamwork made them even more creative. For an era that seeks to foster innovation, creativity and teamwork, this book shows how they actually happen.

Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years - as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues - this is the acclaimed, internationally bestselling biography of the ultimate icon of inventiveness. Walter Isaacson tells the story of the rollercoaster life and searingly intense personality of creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies,music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written, nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.

The best-selling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns. In 2012, Nobel Prize winning scientist Jennifer Doudna hit upon an invention that will transform the future of the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions. It has already been deployed to cure deadly diseases, fight the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, and make inheritable changes in the genes of babies. But what does that mean for humanity? Should we be hacking our own DNA to make us less susceptible to disease? Should we democratise the technology that would allow parents to enhance their kids? After discovering this CRISPR, Doudna is now wrestling these even bigger issues. THE CODE BREAKERS is an examination of how life as we know it is about to change - and a brilliant portrayal of the woman leading the way.