Lebrecht, Norman
Summary: "In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the way we see the world. Many of them are well known--Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished from collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily lives. Without Karl Landsteiner, for instance, there would be no blood transfusions or major surgery. Without Paul Ehrlich, no chemotherapy. Without...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.009 LEBIsaacson, Walter
Summary: Leonardo da Vinci created 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 engineering. 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks, Simon & Schuster Audio 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 DA VINCI, LEONARDO ISAIsaacson, Walter
Summary: "He was history's most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography. 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Spalding, Katie
Summary: "Overturn everything you knew about history's greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between "genius" and "idiot" than we've previously known. As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is a genius - but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." So begins Katie...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023