Walter Isaacson Livres

Il a été le génie le plus créatif de l’histoire. Quels secrets peut-il encore nous apprendre? Léonard de Vinci était enfant illégitime, homosexuel, gaucher, végétarien, distrait et parfois hérétique. Cette inadéquation aux mœurs de l’époque a décuplé sa créativité. À travers les milliers de pages de ses carnets et les plus récentes découvertes des historiens, Walter Isaacson dépeint l’émergence de son génie, alimenté par une curiosité passionnée, une capacité d’observation de tous les instants et une imagination sans limites. La créativité de Léonard de Vinci trouve sa source à la croisée des sciences et de la technologie. Il a épluché la chair des cadavres, dessiné les muscles des lèvres, puis peint le plus mémorable sourire de l’Histoire sur La Joconde. Il a exploré les mathématiques de l’optique, montré comment les rayons lumineux frappent la rétine et produisent les perspectives changeantes de La Cène. Sa capacité à combiner l’art et la science reste, aujourd’hui encore, la recette ultime de l’innovation. Son exemple nous rappelle l’importance, pour nous-mêmes et pour nos enfants, de remettre en question nos connaissances, de faire preuve d’imagination et, à l’instar de tous les rebelles talentueux, de penser différemment.

Cet ouvrage résulte d'un travail de plus de deux ans, mené à partir d'interviews des proches, des rivaux, des collègues, mais aussi d'entretiens avec le cofondateur de la firme Apple, Steve Jobs. Atteint d'un cancer, Steve Jobs évoquait sa carrière que certains qualifient d'exemplaire.

This riveting biography captures the transformation of modern life in the information age through the lens of its supernaturally gifted subject. Based on over forty interviews with Steve Jobs and more than a hundred conversations with family, friends, adversaries, and colleagues, it chronicles the intense personality and rollercoaster life of a creative entrepreneur whose relentless pursuit of perfection revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. Jobs cooperated fully, requesting no control over the content or the opportunity to review it before publication, encouraging honesty from those who knew him. He speaks candidly about his experiences, and his friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, and compulsion for control that defined his business approach and the innovative products he created. In a new afterword commemorating the tenth anniversary of his death, the author highlights how Jobs's vision remains vital today.

"A gripping account of how the pioneering scientist Jennifer Doudna, along with her colleagues and rivals, launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and enhance our children"--

The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available -- a fully realised portrait of this extraordinary human being, and great genius.

Walter Isaacson's #1 New York Times bestselling history of our third scientific revolution: CRISPR, gene editing, and the quest to understand the code of life itself, is now adapted for young readers!When Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in Hilo, Hawaii, she came home from school one afternoon and found a book on her bed. It was The Double Helix, James Watson's account of how he and Francis Crick had discovered the structure of DNA, the spiral- staircase molecule that carries the genetic instruction code for all forms of life. This book guided Jennifer Doudna to focus her studies not on DNA, but on what seemed to take a backseat in biochemistry: figuring out the structure of RNA, a closely related molecule that enables the genetic instructions coded in DNA to express themselves. Doudna became an expert in determining the shapes and structures of these RNA molecules-an expertise that led her to develop a revolutionary new technique that could edit human genes. Today gene-editing technologies such as CRISPR are already being used to eliminate simple genetic defects that cause disorders such as Tay-Sachs and sickle cell anemia. For now, however, Jennifer and her team are being deployed against our most immediate threat-the coronavirus-and you have just been given a front row seat to that race.

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.

Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin's life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the spunky runaway apprentice who became, during his 84-year life, America's best writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and business strategist, as well as one of its most practical and ingenious political leaders. He explores the wit behind Poor Richard's Almanac and the wisdom behind the Declaration of Independence, the new nation's alliance with France, the treaty that ended the Revolution, and the compromises that created a near-perfect Constitution. Above all, Isaacson shows how Franklin's unwavering faith in the wisdom of the common citizen and his instinctive appreciation for the possibilities of democracy helped to forge an American national identity based on the virtues and values of its middle class.

A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar Averell Harriman, the freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelt's special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the secretary of state who was more responsible for the Truman Doctrine than Truman and for the Marshall Plan than General Marshall; George Kennan, self-cast outsider and intellectual darling of the Washington elite; Robert Lovett, assistant secretary of war, undersecretary of state, and secretary of defense throughout the formative years of the Cold War; John McCloy, one of the nation's most influential private citizens; and Charles Bohlen, adroit diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union.

A hurricane strikes a city; terrorists attack a nation; global warming threatens the environment—these issues are too vast for any single authority to tackle alone. Our interconnected world demands a new kind of tri-sector leadership where business, government, and nonprofits collaborate in ongoing negotiation. To succeed, future leaders must bridge national and sector divides to create a collaborative "megacommunity." Drawing from interviews with over 100 global leaders, including Bill Clinton and Henry Kissinger, this work presents a groundbreaking framework for addressing today's complex challenges. Written by four senior consultants from Booz Allen Hamilton, with a Foreword by Walter Isaacson, the book illustrates how a megacommunity approach can effectively confront pressing issues. For instance, in India, a megacommunity unites public, private, and civil-sector organizations to combat HIV/AIDS, involving PepsiCo, the Gates Foundation, U.S. healthcare experts, and local NGOs. In environmental conservation, stakeholders from the lumber industry collaborate with local communities and organizations like the World Wildlife Fund to save rainforests. In neighborhoods like Harlem, a diverse group of local businesses, community organizations, and foundations, including those linked to Bill Clinton, work together for community growth. The authors emphasize the need for leaders who can identify shared interests and pursue mutual

A selection of Benjamin Franklin’s writings, with an introduction and commentary by renowned author Walter Isaacson.Selected and annotated by the author of the acclaimed Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, this collection of Franklin’s writings shows why he was the bestselling author of his day and remains America’s favorite founder and wit. Includes an introductory essay exploring Franklin’s life and impact as a writer, and each piece is accompanied by a preface and notes that provide background, context, and analysis.

By the time Henry 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 world's 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 man's personality and the foreign policy he pursued. Drawing on extensive interviews with Kissinger as well as 150 other sources, including U.S. presidents and his business clients, this first full-length biography makes use of many of Kissinger's private papers and classified memos to tell his uniquely American story. The result is an intimate narrative, filled with surprising revelations, that takes this grandly 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 globe-trotting business consultant.

In this collection of essays, the brilliant, acclaimed biographer Walter Isaacson reflects on lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, and other interesting characters he has chronicled both as biographer and journalist. He writes also about how he became a writer, the challenges for journalism in the digital age, and offers loving tributes to his hometown of New Orleans.

The computer and the internet are among the most important innovations of our era, but few people know who created them. They were not conjured up in a garret or garage by solo inventors suitable to be singled out on magazine covers or put into a pantheon with Edison, Bell, and Morse. Instead, most of the innovations of the digital age were done collaboratively. There were a lot of fascinating people involved, some ingenious and a few even geniuses. This is the story of these pioneers, hackers, inventors, and entrepreneurs—who they were, how their minds worked, and what made them so creative. It’s also a narrative of how they collaborated and why their ability to work as teams made them even more creative.”

Ekskluzywna biografia Steve'a Jobsa, stworzona we współpracy z nim przez Waltera Isaacsona, autora znanych biografii, opiera się na ponad czterdziestu wywiadach z Jobs'em oraz rozmowach z setkami osób z jego otoczenia. Książka przedstawia fascynującą opowieść o życiu i osobowości twórczego przedsiębiorcy, który zrewolucjonizował sześć branż: komputery, filmy animowane, muzykę, telefony, tablety i DTP. W obliczu współczesnych wyzwań, Jobs pozostaje ikoną innowacyjności, łącząc kreatywność z technologią. Jego firma stała się miejscem, gdzie wyobraźnia i nowoczesna technika współistniały w harmonii. Jobs, choć współpracował przy powstawaniu książki, nie ingerował w treść ani nie domagał się jej weryfikacji przed publikacją. Zachęcał innych do szczerości, co pozwoliło na odkrycie jego pasji, perfekcjonizmu i obsesji. Jego osobowość, pełna sprzeczności, potrafiła wywoływać skrajne emocje w otoczeniu. Historia Jobsa ukazuje, jak ważne są pomysłowość, siła charakteru, umiejętności przywódcze oraz wierność własnym wartościom w dążeniu do sukcesu.

Nová monografie největšího vědce za posledních sto let – Alberta Einsteina – se opírá o exkluzivní dokumenty a informace z rodinného archivu. Kniha se tedy nevěnuje jen vědeckým teoriím, ale odkrývá i Einsteinův osobní život: jeho léta dospívání a první experimenty v Německu, práci na švýcarském patentovém úřadě, dvě manželství a děti, jeho roli při vývoji atomové bomby nebo nabídku stát se prezidentem Izraelského státu.

V této sbírce spisů najdete jedinečné a originální myšlenky a nápady Jeffa Bezose, které během let poskytoval různým akcionářům a novinářům. Máte tak možnost nahlédnout do minulosti a vývoje jeho kariéry. V knize najdete Bezosův pohled na obchodní a veřejnou politiku, inovace, změnu klimatu a další aktuální témata naší doby. Kniha je napsaná přímočarým stylem a nabízí mistrovskou lekci z podnikání.

Zbiór esejów wybitnego architekta, jednego z współtwórców modernizmu, założyciela Bauhausu. W przystępnych, eleganckich i pełnych pasji tekstach autor skupia się na najważniejszych dla niego zagadnieniach: jaka jest rola architekta we współczesnym świecie? W jaki sposób rozwijać się jako projektant? Co powinno być ambicją młodych twórców? Czym był Bauhaus? Napisana w rozkwicie ery przemysłowej książka jest zaskakująco aktualna w początkach ery cyfrowej, zwłaszcza w naszym kraju. Gropius podkreśla wagę wszechstronnego wykształcenia oraz praktyki, zachęca do odejścia od sterylnego świata architektonicznych pracowni, postuluje rozwój urbanistyki, który mógłby zawstydzić współczesnych architektów oraz decydentów. Nowoczesność Gropiusa jest mądra, wrażliwa, demokratyczna w najszlachetniejszym znaczeniu tego słowa: książka zrywa z technokratyczną wizją modernizmu, pokazując jego humanistyczne i wrażliwe oblicze. Pełnia architektury to książka, z której największy pożytek będą mieli młodzi architekci (i humaniści w ogóle – do jej zrozumienia niepotrzebna jest specjalistyczna wiedza): udowadnia, że nawet w skomercjalizowanym świecie warto pozostać idealistą; podpowiada, w jaki sposób wykorzystać zapał i wiarę we wspólne dobro w codziennej pracy. Pozycja obowiązkowa dla wszystkich, którzy wątpią, że to możliwe.

Analytische annotatie: Biografie van de Zuid-Afrikaans-Canadees-Amerikaanse ingenieur en ondernemer (1971), oprichter van SpaceX en mede-oprichter van Zip2, PayPal en Tesla. Met zwart-witfoto's.