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Author | : Jean Becker |
Publisher | : Twelve |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2021-06-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1538735296 |
A heartfelt portrait of President George H.W. Bush—and his post-presidential life—by the confidante who knew him best.
Author | : David N. Schwartz |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 503 |
Release | : 2017-12-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0465093124 |
The definitive biography of the brilliant, charismatic, and very human physicist and innovator Enrico Fermi In 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved what no one had before: a nuclear chain reaction. At the forefront of this breakthrough stood Enrico Fermi. Straddling the ages of classical physics and quantum mechanics, equally at ease with theory and experiment, Fermi truly was the last man who knew everything -- at least about physics. But he was also a complex figure who was a part of both the Italian Fascist Party and the Manhattan Project, and a less-than-ideal father and husband who nevertheless remained one of history's greatest mentors. Based on new archival material and exclusive interviews, The Last Man Who Knew Everything lays bare the enigmatic life of a colossus of twentieth century physics.
Author | : Sebastian Mallaby |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 833 |
Release | : 2017-12-05 |
Genre | : Economists |
ISBN | : 1408830957 |
WINNER OF THE 2016 FT & McKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD, this is the biography of one of the titans of financial history over the last fifty years. Born in 1926, Alan Greenspan was raised in Manhattan by a single mother and immigrant grandparents during the Great Depression but by quiet force of intellect, rose to become a global financial 'maestro'. Appointed by Ronald Reagan to Chairman of the Federal Reserve, a post he held for eighteen years, he presided over an unprecedented period of stability and low inflation, was revered by economists, adored by investors and consulted by leaders from Beijing to Frankfurt. Both data-hound and eligible society bachelor, Greenspan was a man of contradictions. His great success was to prove the very idea he, an advocate of the Gold standard, doubted: that the discretionary judgements of a money-printing central bank could stabilise an economy. He resigned in 2006, having overseen tumultuous changes in the world's most powerful economy. Yet when the great crash happened only two years later many blamed him, even though he had warned early on of irrational exuberance in the market place. Sebastian Mallaby brilliantly shows the subtlety and complexity of Alan Greenspan's legacy. Full of beautifully rendered high-octane political infighting, hard hitting dialogue and stories, The Man Who Knew is superbly researched, enormously gripping and the story of the making of modern finance.
Author | : Greg Laurie |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2021-04-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1684510597 |
Pastor Greg Laurie sheds light on Graham's lesser-known struggles--such as a broken heart before he met the love of his life and a crisis of faith from which he emerged stronger than ever. Explore the evangelist's private challenges and public successes to his disappointments and joys in this portrait of one of history's most well-known Christian lives.
Author | : Robert Kanigel |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2016-04-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1476763496 |
A biography of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. The book gives a detailed account of his upbringing in India, his mathematical achievements, and his mathematical collaboration with English mathematician G. H. Hardy. The book also reviews the life of Hardy and the academic culture of Cambridge University during the early twentieth century.
Author | : Perseus |
Publisher | : Carroll & Graf |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 2003-10-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780786712427 |
A fascinating twist on the assassination of JFK explores the life and times of Richard Nagell, a man who insisted that he had been hired to kill Oswald and then spent years in prison trying to prove that he was sane. Reprint.
Author | : Edgar Wallace |
Publisher | : House of Stratus |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2008-01-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0755115074 |
A youth lies dead. A Constable is at the scene, as is John Martin's nephew. Also May Nuttall, whose father was Martin's best friend. A small, shabby man in a frock coat pulls a newspaper advert from the deceased's pocket. 'At the Yard, ' whispers the constable, 'we call him The Man who Knows.'
Author | : Marilee Peters |
Publisher | : Annick Press |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2017-10-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781554519736 |
Even the man who knew everything was wrong some of the time.
Author | : Paula Findlen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2004-08-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135948445 |
First published in 2004.Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) -- German Jesuit, occultist, polymath - was one of most curious figures in the history of science. He dabbled in all the mysteries of his time: the heavenly bodies, sound amplification, museology, botany, Asian languages, the pyramids of Egypt -- almost anything incompletely understood. Kircher coined the term electromagnetism, printed Sanskrit for the first time in a Western book, and built a famous museum collection. His wild, beautifully illustrated books are sometimes visionary, frequently wrong, and yet compelling documents in the history of ideas. They are being rediscovered in our own time. This volume contains new essays on Kircher and his world by leading historians and historians of science, including Stephen Jay Gould, Ingrid Rowland, Anthony Grafton, Daniel Stoltzenberg, Paula Findlen, and Barbara Stafford.-
Author | : George W. Bush |
Publisher | : Crown/Archetype |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2010-11-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 030788824X |
With more than 200 photographs, videos, letters, and speeches, this Deluxe eBook edition of Decision Points brings to life the critical decisions of George W. Bush’s presidency. George W. Bush served as president of the United States during eight of the most consequential years in American history. The decisions that reached his desk impacted people around the world and defined the times in which we live. Decision Points takes readers inside the Texas governor’s mansion on the night of the 2000 election, aboard Air Force One during the harrowing hours after the attacks of September 11, 2001, into the Situation Room moments before the start of the war in Iraq, and behind the scenes at the White House for many other historic presidential decisions on the financial crisis, Hurricane Katrina, Afghanistan, and Iran. In addition, it offers intimate new details on his quitting drinking, his discovery of faith, and his relationship with his family. The Deluxe eBook edition also includes: • Videos from the defining moments of the presidency, including Bush’s inspiring Ground Zero speech to the 9/11 rescue workers, intimate family home movies, and a special introduction to the edition from the president himself • Full texts of his most important speeches, including his addresses to the nation about 9/11, Afghanistan and Iraq, and his second Inaugural • Handwritten letters from the president’s personal correspondence • And more than 50 new photos not contained in the print version of Decision Points A groundbreaking first in bringing multimedia to presidential memoir, the Deluxe eBook edition of Decision Points will captivate supporters, surprise critics, and change perspectives on eight remarkable years in American history—and on the man at the center of events.