Walter Isaacson

@WalterIsaacson

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Walter Isaacson este un biograf și istoric renumit, cu o carieră diversificată în media și mediul academic.
A ocupat funcția de CEO al Aspen Institute, președinte al CNN și editor al revistei Time.
Isaacson este cunoscut pentru biografiile sale de succes despre figuri influente precum Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein și Benjamin Franklin.
Stilul său de scriere este apreciat pentru profunzimea și accesibilitatea sa.
În prezent, profesor la Universitatea Tulane, Isaacson continuă să contribuie la discursul public prin cărțile, articolele și prezența sa pe rețelele sociale.
Lucrările sale explorează adesea intersecția dintre inovație, leadership și impact cultural.

Cărți de Walter Isaacson

Steve Jobs

de 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

Imersive

Steve Jobs

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

de Walter Isaacson 2011 630 pagini

4.16

1.000.000+ evaluări

🖥️ Tech Industry History 🔄 Corporate Turnarounds 🔨 Obsessive Craftsmanship

Elon Musk

de 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

Imersive

Elon Musk

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

de Walter Isaacson 2023 688 pagini

4.32

77.000+ evaluări

🧠 Founder Psychology 🏭 Vertical Integration ⚡ Crisis Leadership

Einstein

de 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

Einstein

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

de Walter Isaacson 2007 675 pagini

4.17

200.000+ evaluări

🧬 Scientific Biography ⚛️ History Of Physics 🧠 Scientific Genius

Benjamin Franklin

de 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

Benjamin Franklin

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

de Walter Isaacson 2003 586 pagini

4.05

100.000+ evaluări

🏛️ Founding Fathers ⚔️ American Revolution 🧠 Polymath Biography

Leonardo da Vinci

de 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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

de Walter Isaacson 2017 600 pagini

4.18

100.000+ evaluări

🏛️ Renaissance Figures 🎨 Art And Science Fusion 👁️ Visual Thinking

The Code Breaker

de 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

The Code Breaker

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

de Walter Isaacson 2021 536 pagini

4.28

41.000+ evaluări

🧬 Genetic Engineering 🧪 Molecular Biology ⚗️ Biotechnology

The Innovators

de 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

The Innovators

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

de Walter Isaacson 2011 542 pagini

4.12

40.000+ evaluări

🖥️ Computing History 🌉 Silicon Valley Origins 🤝 Collective Invention

The Wise Men

de 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

The Wise Men

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

de Walter Isaacson 1997 864 pagini

4.11

4.000+ evaluări

💼 Knowledge Work ⚙️ Productivity Systems 🎯 Deep Focus

American Sketches

de 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

American Sketches

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

de Walter Isaacson 2009 308 pagini

3.77

1.000+ evaluări

📝 Biographical Essays 🇺🇸 20th Century America 📰 Narrative Journalism

The Code Breaker -- Young Readers Edition

de 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

The Code Breaker -- Young Readers Edition

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

de Walter Isaacson 2022 332 pagini

4.23

137 evaluări

🧬 Gene Editing 🔬 Molecular Biology 👩‍🔬 Women In Science

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