Walter Isaacson

@WalterIsaacson

Biografie Historie Věda

Walter Isaacson je renomovaný biograf a historik s rozmanitou kariérou v médiích a akademické sféře.
Působil jako generální ředitel Aspen Institute, předseda CNN a redaktor časopisu Time.
Isaacson je známý svými bestsellerovými biografiemi vlivných osobností, jako jsou Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein a Benjamin Franklin.
Jeho styl psaní je chválen pro svou hloubku a přístupnost.
V současnosti je profesorem na Tulane University a nadále přispívá k veřejné diskusi prostřednictvím svých knih, článků a přítomnosti na sociálních médiích.
Jeho práce často zkoumá průnik inovací, vedení a kulturního dopadu.

Knihy autora Walter Isaacson

Steve Jobs

od Walter Isaacson • 2011

Jobs handpicked his biographer while dying. The result won't separate the genius from the cruelty.

4.16

1 000 000+

🖥️ Tech Industry History 🔄 Corporate Turnarounds 🔨 Obsessive Craftsmanship 🏗️ Organizational Design 📜 Authorized Biography

Imerzivní

Steve Jobs

Jobs handpicked his biographer while dying. The result won't separate the genius from the cruelty.

od Walter Isaacson 2011 630 stran

4.16

1 000 000+ hodnocení

🖥️ Tech Industry History 🔄 Corporate Turnarounds 🔨 Obsessive Craftsmanship 🏗️ Organizational Design 📜 Authorized Biography

Elon Musk

od Walter Isaacson • 2023

His rockets and his cruelty share one origin: the boy who learned to feel nothing.

4.32

77 000+

🧠 Founder Psychology 🏭 Vertical Integration ⚡ Crisis Leadership 🚀 Space Industry 🎯 Mission-Driven Companies

Imerzivní

Elon Musk

His rockets and his cruelty share one origin: the boy who learned to feel nothing.

od Walter Isaacson 2023 688 stran

4.32

77 000+ hodnocení

🧠 Founder Psychology 🏭 Vertical Integration ⚡ Crisis Leadership 🚀 Space Industry 🎯 Mission-Driven Companies

Einstein

od Walter Isaacson • 2007

The greatest physicist of the twentieth century was also its most stubborn dissenter.

4.17

200 000+

🧬 Scientific Biography ⚛️ History Of Physics 🧠 Scientific Genius 🕳️ Relativity 🌊 Quantum Mechanics

Einstein

The greatest physicist of the twentieth century was also its most stubborn dissenter.

od Walter Isaacson 2007 675 stran

4.17

200 000+ hodnocení

🧬 Scientific Biography ⚛️ History Of Physics 🧠 Scientific Genius 🕳️ Relativity 🌊 Quantum Mechanics

Benjamin Franklin

od Walter Isaacson • 2003

A runaway apprentice who tamed lightning, charmed Paris, and lost a son to the crown.

4.05

100 000+

🏛️ Founding Fathers ⚔️ American Revolution 🧠 Polymath Biography 💡 Enlightenment Era 🔨 Self-Made Lives

Benjamin Franklin

A runaway apprentice who tamed lightning, charmed Paris, and lost a son to the crown.

od Walter Isaacson 2003 586 stran

4.05

100 000+ hodnocení

🏛️ Founding Fathers ⚔️ American Revolution 🧠 Polymath Biography 💡 Enlightenment Era 🔨 Self-Made Lives

Leonardo da Vinci

od Walter Isaacson • 2017

He learned optics for sunsets, anatomy for smiles. Leonardo drew no line between art and science.

4.18

100 000+

🏛️ Renaissance Figures 🎨 Art And Science Fusion 👁️ Visual Thinking 🔍 Empirical Observation 🦴 Anatomy For Artists

Leonardo da Vinci

He learned optics for sunsets, anatomy for smiles. Leonardo drew no line between art and science.

od Walter Isaacson 2017 600 stran

4.18

100 000+ hodnocení

🏛️ Renaissance Figures 🎨 Art And Science Fusion 👁️ Visual Thinking 🔍 Empirical Observation 🦴 Anatomy For Artists

The Code Breaker

od Walter Isaacson • 2021

How a bacterial defense system handed us the power to rewrite our own evolution.

4.28

41 000+

🧬 Genetic Engineering 🧪 Molecular Biology ⚗️ Biotechnology ⚖️ Gene Editing Ethics 🏁 Scientific Rivalry

The Code Breaker

How a bacterial defense system handed us the power to rewrite our own evolution.

od Walter Isaacson 2021 536 stran

4.28

41 000+ hodnocení

🧬 Genetic Engineering 🧪 Molecular Biology ⚗️ Biotechnology ⚖️ Gene Editing Ethics 🏁 Scientific Rivalry

The Innovators

od Walter Isaacson • 2011

Collaboration, not solitary genius, built the computer. The human story of the digital revolution.

4.12

40 000+

🖥️ Computing History 🌉 Silicon Valley Origins 🤝 Collective Invention 📚 Group Biography 💾 Hacker Culture

The Innovators

Collaboration, not solitary genius, built the computer. The human story of the digital revolution.

od Walter Isaacson 2011 542 stran

4.12

40 000+ hodnocení

🖥️ Computing History 🌉 Silicon Valley Origins 🤝 Collective Invention 📚 Group Biography 💾 Hacker Culture

The Wise Men

od Walter Isaacson • 1997

Concentration is now rarer than talent. Rebuild it, protect it, and do the work machines cannot.

4.11

4 000+

💼 Knowledge Work ⚙️ Productivity Systems 🎯 Deep Focus 🧠 Attention Management 🔄 Habit Design

The Wise Men

Concentration is now rarer than talent. Rebuild it, protect it, and do the work machines cannot.

od Walter Isaacson 1997 864 stran

4.11

4 000+ hodnocení

💼 Knowledge Work ⚙️ Productivity Systems 🎯 Deep Focus 🧠 Attention Management 🔄 Habit Design

American Sketches

od Walter Isaacson • 2009

Einstein, FDR, Churchill, Katrina: Isaacson's portraits of leadership when it mattered most.

3.77

1 000+

📝 Biographical Essays 🇺🇸 20th Century America 📰 Narrative Journalism 💻 Digital Media Disruption 🔬 Scientific Biography

American Sketches

Einstein, FDR, Churchill, Katrina: Isaacson's portraits of leadership when it mattered most.

od Walter Isaacson 2009 308 stran

3.77

1 000+ hodnocení

📝 Biographical Essays 🇺🇸 20th Century America 📰 Narrative Journalism 💻 Digital Media Disruption 🔬 Scientific Biography

The Code Breaker -- Young Readers Edition

od Walter Isaacson • 2022

Bacteria invented gene editing. One scientist who ignored every 'no' taught us to use it.

4.23

137

🧬 Gene Editing 🔬 Molecular Biology 👩‍🔬 Women In Science ⚖️ Bioethics 🏁 Scientific Rivalries

The Code Breaker -- Young Readers Edition

Bacteria invented gene editing. One scientist who ignored every 'no' taught us to use it.

od Walter Isaacson 2022 332 stran

4.23

137 hodnocení

🧬 Gene Editing 🔬 Molecular Biology 👩‍🔬 Women In Science ⚖️ Bioethics 🏁 Scientific Rivalries

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