Based on newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter 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 mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and universe. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This left him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, freee spirits, and free individuals.
These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age.
"Isaacson has managed the extraordinary feat of preserving Einstein's monumental stature while at the same time bringing him to such vivid life that we come to feel as if he could be walking in our midst. - Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals
Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick WintersMajor Dick Winters with Colonel Cole C. KingseedNarrated By : Tom WeinerPublished By : Blackstone Audio Inc10 hoursCategories : BiographyDownload Price : $19.95
The immortalized Band of Brothers suffered huge casualties while liberating Europe, an unparalleled record of bravery under fire. Dick Winters was their commander, and only he was present from the ... View...
|
Audience With Barry Norman, AnBarry NormanNarrated By : Barry NormanPublished By : Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks1 hour 30 minutesCategories : Autobiography
|
Nailing ItNorman DietzNarrated By : Norman DietzPublished By : Blackstone Audio Inc3 hoursCategories : BiographyDownload Price : $25.95 $12.95
Nailing It is a warm, knowing, and often hilarious commemoration of small-town life during the Great Depression of the 1930s. A celebration of the humor and indomitability of the human spirit, the ... View...
|
John Adams (Unabridged)David McCulloughNarrated By : Nelson RungerPublished By : Simon & Schuster30 hoursCategories : Historical
|