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Product: Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance Man. The Entire Life Story. Biography, Facts & Quotes (Great Biographies Book 32)
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Leonardo da Vinci achieved great things in the areas of Renaissance painting and sculpture, engineering, cartography, astronomy, geology, botany, human anatomy, history and many other areas. Uncharacteristically for the time, he traveled quite widely and worked in many disparate subject areas, because he did not really consider himself to be primarily a painter, even though he is best remembered today as the painter of two of the most critical pieces of renaissance art.

Inside you’ll read about

Early life
Apprenticeship with Verrocchio
Leonardo, Master of his Craft
Mastery of Chiaroscuro
Working in Milan
Human Anatomy
Flight from Milan
Return to Florence
Military Engineer for Cesare Borgia
The Battle of Anchiaro
Sojourn in Milan
Rome
Final Years
Leonardo’s Private Life

And much more!

Leonardo had some strange attributes: he was left-handed at a time when this was not widely accepted as appropriate, he was gay at a time when it was not only socially unacceptable but illegal, and he was a free thinker at a time when northern Italian society was extremely stratified. We are about to embark on a journey through the known life and work of the world’s greatest creative genius, examining many of the lesser known facts of his creative and personal life.
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Product: Leonardo da Vinci [Spanish Edition]: La biografía
Description: El aclamado autor de los best sellers Steve Jobs y Einstein nos vuelve a cautivar con la vida del genio más creativo de la historia en esta fascinante biografía.

Basándose en las miles de páginas de los cuadernos manuscritos de Leonardo y nuevos descubrimientos sobre su vida y su obra, Walter Isaacson teje una narración que conecta el arte de Da Vinci con sus investigaciones científicas, y nos muestra cómo el genio del hombre más visionario de la historia nació de habilidades que todos poseemos y podemos estimular, tales como la curiosidad incansable, la observación cuidadosa y la imaginación juguetona. Su creatividad, como la de todo gran innovador, resultó de la intersección entre la tecnología y las humanidades. Despellejó y estudió el rostro de numerosos cadáveres, dibujó los músculos que configuran el movimiento de los labios y pintó la sonrisa más enigmática de la historia, la de la Mona Lisa. Exploró las leyes de la óptica, demostró como la luz incidía en la córnea y logró producir esa ilusión de profundidad en la Última cena.

La habilidad de Leonardo da Vinci para combinar arte y ciencia - esplendorosamente representada en el Hombre de Vitruvio - continúa siendo la regla de oro de la innovación. La apasionante vida de este gran hombre debe recordarnos la importancia de inculcar el conocimiento, pero sobre todo la voluntad contagiosa de cuestionarlo: ser imaginativos y pensar de manera diferente.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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Product: Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Brand: Audible
Description: Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us - an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings.

In best-selling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin turns to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. In Benjamin Franklin, Isaacson shows how Franklin defines both his own time and ours.

The most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself. America's first great publicist, he was consciously trying to create a new American archetype. In the process, he carefully crafted his own persona, portrayed it in public, and polished it for posterity. His guiding principle was a "dislike of everything that tended to debase the spirit of the common people". Few of his fellow founders felt this comfort with democracy so fully, and none so intuitively.

In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin's amazing life, from his days as a runaway printer to his triumphs as a statesman, scientist, and Founding Father. He chronicles Franklin's tumultuous relationship with his illegitimate son and grandson, his practical marriage, and his flirtations with the ladies of Paris. He also shows how Franklin helped to create the American character and why he has a particular resonance in the 21st century.
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Product: American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane
Description: What are the roots of creativity? What makes for great leadership? How do influential people end up rippling the surface of history?

In this collection of essays, Walter Isaacson reflects on the lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, and various other interesting characters he has chronicled as a biographer and journalist. The people he writes about have an awesome intelligence, in most cases, but that is not the secret of their success. They had qualities that were even more rare, such as imagination and true curiosity.

Isaacson reflects on how he became a writer, the lessons he learned from various people he met, and the challenges he sees for journalism in the digital age.

He also offers loving tributes to his hometown of New Orleans, which both before and after Hurricane Katrina offered many of the ingredients for a creative culture, and to the Louisiana novelist Walker Percy, who was an early mentor. In an anecdotal and personal way, Isaacson describes the joys of the "so-called writing life" and the way that tales about the lives of fascinating people can enlighten our own lives.
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Product: Leonardo. The Complete Paintings and Drawings
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Product: Leonardo da Vinci. The Complete Paintings
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Product: Leonardo. The Complete Drawings
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Taschen
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Product: Walter Isaacson: The Genius Biographies: Benjamin Franklin, Einstein, Steve Jobs, and Leonardo da Vinci
Brand: Simon & Schuster
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Product: The da Vinci Legacy: How an Elusive 16th-Century Artist Became a Global Pop Icon
Brand: Apollo Publishers
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Product: Leonardo's Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master (Notebook Series)
Brand: Black Dog & Leventhal
Leonardo s Notebooks
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Product: 101 Things You Didn't Know about Da Vinci: Inventions, Intrigue, and Unfinished Works
Brand: Adams Media
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Product: Walter Isaacson: The Genius Biographies: Benjamin Franklin, Einstein, and Steve Jobs
Brand: Simon & Schuster
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Product: Leonardo da Vinci
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Product: The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made
Brand: Simon & Schuster
Simon Schuster
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Product: Leonardo Da Vinci: His Life and Works in 500 Images
Brand: Lorenz Books
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Product: Leonardo: The Artist and the Man
Brand: Penguin Books
Color: Orange
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