Strangest Genius
| Author | : Lucy Costigan |
| Publisher | : The History Press Ireland |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1845889711 |
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Unfair to Genius
| Author | : Gary Rosen |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2012-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199733481 |
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Through author Gary Rosen's deeply researched account of Ira B. Arnstein, "the unrivaled king of copyright infringement plaintiffs," Unfair to Genius provides an unlikely history of the evolution of copyright law in the United States.
Strange Brains and Genius
| Author | : Clifford A. Pickover |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 1999-05-19 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0688168949 |
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Never has the term mad scientist been more fascinatingly explored than in internationally recognized popular science author Clifford Pickover's richly researched wild ride through the bizarre lives of eccentric geniuses. A few highlights: "The Pigeon Man from Manhattan" Legendary inventor Nikola Tesla had abnormally long thumbs, a peculiar love of pigeons, and a horror of women's pearls. "The Worm Man from Devonshire" Forefather of modern electric-circuit design Oliver Heaviside furnished his home with granite blocks and sometimes consumed only milk for days (as did Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison). "The Rabbit-Eater from Lichfield" Renowned scholar Samuel Johnson had so many tics and quirks that some mistook him for an idiot. In fact, his behavior matches modern definitions of obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette's syndrome. Pickover also addresses many provocative topics: the link between genius and madness, the role the brain plays in alien abduction and religious experiences, UFOs, cryonics -- even the whereabouts of Einstein's brain!
The Strange Genius of Mr. O
| Author | : Carolyn Eastman |
| Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
| Total Pages | : 361 |
| Release | : 2020-12-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1469660520 |
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When James Ogilvie arrived in America in 1793, he was a deeply ambitious but impoverished teacher. By the time he returned to Britain in 1817, he had become a bona fide celebrity known simply as Mr. O, counting the nation's leading politicians and intellectuals among his admirers. And then, like so many meteoric American luminaries afterward, he fell from grace. The Strange Genius of Mr. O is at once the biography of a remarkable performer--a gaunt Scottish orator who appeared in a toga--and a story of the United States during the founding era. Ogilvie's career featured many of the hallmarks of celebrity we recognize from later eras: glamorous friends, eccentric clothing, scandalous religious views, narcissism, and even an alarming drug habit. Yet he captivated audiences with his eloquence and inaugurated a golden age of American oratory. Examining his roller-coaster career and the Americans who admired (or hated) him, this fascinating book renders a vivid portrait of the United States in the midst of invention.
Possessing Genius
| Author | : Carolyn Abraham |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Brain |
| ISBN | : 9781840466256 |
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One of Galileo's fingers is in a museum in Florence, Napoleon's severed penis is in the hands, as it were, of an American urologist. And the brain of the greatest thinker of the 20th century lay until recently in two muday cookie jars under a box behind a beer cooler in Wichita, Kansas. On Einstein's death in 1955 Princeton pathologist Thomas Harvey seized the chance to salvage the great thinker's brain. Possessed by the idea that it might hold the key to the enigma of Einstein's genius, Harvey became the unlikely custodian of the organ responsible for the Theory of Relativity - a theory whose centenary is celebrated in 2005. The author tells the bizarre story of Einstein's brain as it roamed the world in mayonnaise jars and courier packages, taking over one man's life for half a century.
The Strangest Man
| Author | : Graham Farmelo |
| Publisher | : Basic Books |
| Total Pages | : 562 |
| Release | : 2009-08-25 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0465019927 |
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Paul Dirac was among the greatest scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of Einstein's most admired colleagues, he helped discover quantum mechanics, and his prediction of antimatter was one of the greatest triumphs in the history of physics. In 1933 he became the youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. Dirac's personality, like his achievements, is legendary. The Strangest Man uses previously undiscovered archives to reveal the many facets of Dirac's brilliantly original mind.
Fragments of Genius
| Author | : Michael J. A. Howe |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : |
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Strange Genius
| Author | : Mike Foster |
| Publisher | : Court Wayne Press |
| Total Pages | : 476 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
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"The legendary explorer who is said to have "put Yellowstone on the map," both figuratively and literally, Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden is generally credited with having revealed the structure of western geology to both the scientific community and the public at large during the great surveys of the late nineteenth century ... But, as a tremendously self-absorbed man, an often insensitive friend, and an aggressive adversary, Hayden was more times than not his own worst enemy. This fascinating paradox is the subject of this major biography, the first ever of the man who, along with George Wheeler, John Wesley Powell, and Clarence King, conducted the great surveys of the American West."--Front flap.
Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right
| Author | : Erica Grieder |
| Publisher | : Public Affairs |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2014-04-22 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1610393759 |
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Erica Grieder’s Texas is a state that is not only an outlier but an exaggeration of some of America’s most striking virtues and flaws. Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right is a witty, enlightening inquiry into how Texas works, and why, in the future, the rest of America may look a lot like Texas.
1000 Drawings of Genius
| Author | : Victoria Charles |
| Publisher | : Parkstone International |
| Total Pages | : 1173 |
| Release | : 2014-11-24 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1783109491 |
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Long thought of as the neglected stepchild of painting, the art of drawing has recently begun to enjoy a place in the sun. With major museums around the world, from the Met to the Uffizi, mounting exhibitions focused on the art of draughtsmanship, drawing is receiving more critical and academic attention than ever before. This captivating text gives readers a sweeping analysis of the history of drawing, from Renaissance greats like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, to Modernist masters like M.C. Escher, Pablo Picasso, and everyone in between.
