Visionääri vai arvaamaton öykkäri? ”Niille, joita olen loukannut, haluan sanoa vain, että minä keksin uudestaan sähköauton ja aion lähettää ihmisiä avaruusaluksella Marsiin. Luulitteko, että olisin vain tavallinen rento tyyppi?” Kaikilla on mielipide Elon Muskista, mutta mikä hän on miehiään? Sen paljastaa palkitun tietokirjailijan Walter Isaacsonin kattava elämäkerta Muskista, yhdestä aikamme merkittävimmästä ihmisestä. Hänen perustamansa sähköautoyhtiö Tesla mullisti autoilun, SpaceX avaruusmatkailun, ja lukuisilla lennokkailla innovaatioillaan, esimerkiksi aivoihin asennettavalla mikrosirulla, Musk aikoo mullistaa ihmiselämän sellaisena kuin sen tunnemme. Musk varttui rikkinäisessä kodissa Etelä-Afrikassa, muutti 17-vuotiaana Kanadaan, teki miljoonia PayPalilla ja perusti lopulta Teslan. Viime ajat Musk on pysynyt otsikoissa Twitterin uutena, äkkivääränä omistajana. Elämäkerturi Isaacson on seurannut Muskia kahden vuoden ajan ja päässyt niin ystävien kuin vihamiesten puheille. Tuloksena on vauhdikas ja syvällinen henkilökuva, joka paljastaa mikä Muskia ajaa eteenpäin ja mikä on hänen menestyksensä salaisuus. Walter Isaacson (s. 1952) on yhdysvaltalainen kirjailija ja journalisti, joka on kirjoittanut suositut elämäkerrat muun muassa Steve Jobsista, Albert Einsteinista ja Leonardo da Vincistä. Pitkän uransa aikana hän on työskennellyt muun muassa CNN-mediayhtiön toimitusjohtajana ja Time-lehden vastaavana päätoimittajana.

Elon Musk

Steve Jobs on digiajan ikoni. Hänen elämäkertansa on kertomus aikamme vallankumouksellisimmasta yritysjohtajasta. Jobsin innovaatiot vaikuttavat ihmisten elämään kaikkialla maailmassa. Elämäkerta perustuu kahden vuoden aikana tehtyihin kymmeniin Jobsin haastatteluihin, sekä perheenjäsenten, ystävien, vihamiesten, kilpailijoiden ja kollegoiden haastatteluihin. Jobs ei ole asettanut Isaacsonille minkäänlaisia vaatimuksia kirjan sisällön suhteen. Lisäksi hän rohkaisi tuntemiaan ihmisiä puhumaan avoimesti ja rehellisesti. Särmikäs Jobs saattoi ajaa ihmiset ympärillään raivoon ja epätoivoon mutta myös huippusuorituksiin. Hänen kontrollipakkomielteensä, taiteellisuutensa, intohimoisuutensa ja kunnianhimonsa näkyivät niin hänen johtamistyylissään kuin yksityiselämässäänkin.

Steve Jobs

2012 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year Walter Isaacson’s “enthralling” (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in 21st century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. Although Jobs cooperated with the author, he asked for no control over what was written. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted. Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values. Steve Jobs is the inspiration for the movie of the same name starring Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, and Jeff Daniels, directed by Danny Boyle with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin.

Read by acclaimed actor Alfred Molina, star of The Da Vinci Code, An Education and Chocolat, this is the definitive biography of Leonardo Da Vinci. Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo’s genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. Da Vinci produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and technology. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of Vitruvian Man, made him history’s most creative genius. His creativity, like that of other great innovators, came from having wide-ranging passions. He peeled flesh off the faces of cadavers, drew the muscles that move the lips, and then painted history’s most memorable smile. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. Isaacson also describes how Leonardo’s lifelong enthusiasm for staging theatrical productions informed his paintings and inventions. Leonardo’s delight at combining diverse passions remains the ultimate recipe for creativity. So, too, does his ease at being a bit of a misfit: illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted, and at times heretical. His life should remind us of the importance of instilling, both in ourselves and our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to question it – to be imaginative and, like talented misfits and rebels in any era, to think different. Hear to the true story of Leonardo Da Vinci, brought to life by the brilliant Alfred Molina.

Leonardo Da Vinci

The #1 New York Times and global bestseller from Walter Isaacson—the acclaimed author of Steve Jobs, Einstein: His Life and World, Benjamin Franklin, and Leonardo da Vinci—is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating, controversial innovator of modern times. For two years, Isaacson shadowed Elon Musk as he executed his vision for electric vehicles at Tesla, space exploration with SpaceX, the AI revolution, and the takeover of Twitter and its conversion to X. The result is the definitive portrait of the mercurial pioneer that offers clues to his political instincts, future ambitions, and overall worldview. When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist. His father’s impact on his psyche would linger. He developed into a tough yet vulnerable man-child, prone to abrupt Jekyll-and-Hyde mood swings, with an exceedingly high tolerance for risk, a craving for drama, an epic sense of mission, and a maniacal intensity that was callous and at times destructive. At the beginning of 2022—after a year marked by SpaceX launching thirty-one rockets into orbit, Tesla selling a million cars, and him becoming the richest man on earth—Musk spoke ruefully about his compulsion to stir up dramas. “I need to shift my mindset away from being in crisis mode, which it has been for about fourteen years now, or arguably most of my life,” he said. It was a wistful comment, not a New Year’s resolution. Even as he said it, he was secretly buying up shares of Twitter, the world’s ultimate playground. Over the years, whenever he was in a dark place, his mind went back to being bullied on the playground. Now he had the chance to own the playground. For two years, Isaacson shadowed Musk, attended his meetings, walked his factories with him, and spent hours interviewing him, his family, friends, coworkers, and adversaries. The result is the revealing inside story, filled with amazing tales of triumphs and turmoil, that addresses the question: are the demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress?

Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award–winning actor Geoffrey Rush as Einstein. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how Einstein’s scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom. Einstein 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 the universe. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals. Einstein, the classic #1 New York Times bestseller, is a brilliantly acclaimed account of the most influential scientist of the twentieth century, “an illuminating delight” (The New York Times). The basis for the National Geographic series Genius, by the author of The Innovators, Steve Jobs, and Benjamin Franklin, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein.

Einstein

Now a docuseries from Ken Burns on PBS! The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” (The New Yorker). Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson “deftly reveals an intimate Leonardo” (San Francisco Chronicle) in a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo’s genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of Vitruvian Man, made him history’s most creative genius. In the “luminous” (Daily Beast) Leonardo da Vinci, Isaacson describes how Leonardo’s delight at combining diverse passions remains the ultimate recipe for creativity. So, too, does his ease at being a bit of a misfit: illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted, and at times heretical. His life should remind us of the importance to be imaginative and, like talented rebels in any era, to think different. Here, da Vinci “comes to life in all his remarkable brilliance and oddity in Walter Isaacson’s ambitious new biography…a vigorous, insightful portrait” (The Washington Post).

Leonardo da Vinci

In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character. Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin’s life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Walter Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the runaway apprentice who became, over the course of his eighty-four-year life, America’s best writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and business strategist, as well as one of its most practical and ingenious political leaders. He explores the wit behind Poor Richard’s Almanac and the wisdom behind the Declaration of Independence, the new nation’s alliance with France, the treaty that ended the Revolution, and the compromises that created a near-perfect Constitution. In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin’s amazing life, showing how he helped to forge the American national identity and why he has a particular resonance in the twenty-first century.

Benjamin Franklin

Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award­–winning actor Geoffrey Rush as Einstein. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how Einstein’s scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom. Einstein 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 the universe. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals. Einstein, the classic #1 New York Times bestseller, is a brilliantly acclaimed account of the most influential scientist of the twentieth century, “an illuminating delight” (The New York Times). The basis for the National Geographic series Genius, by the author of The Innovators, Steve Jobs, and Benjamin Franklin, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein.

2015 Audie Award Finalist for Nonfiction Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving” (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the internet. What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail? The Innovators is a masterly saga of collaborative genius destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution—and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. Isaacson begins the adventure with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee, and Larry Page. This is the story of how their minds worked and what made them so inventive. It’s also a narrative of how their ability to collaborate and master the art of teamwork made them even more creative. For an era that seeks to foster innovation, creativity, and teamwork, The Innovators is “a sweeping and surprisingly tenderhearted history of the digital age” (The New York Times).

The Innovators

#1 New York Times non-fiction bestseller #2 Sunday Times non-fiction bestseller SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY APPLE, AMAZON, THE TIMES AND FINANCIAL TIMES Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk offers the most intimate, complete and revelatory portrait of the most fascinating and controversial innovator in the world. For two years, Isaacson had unprecedented access to Musk, his workplaces, his family, friends, coworkers and adversaries – nothing was off-limits. Musk’s journey from humble beginnings to one of the wealthiest people on the planet is a thrilling, mind-bending story and nobody could tell it better. Filled with amazing tales of triumph and turmoil, and lessons about leadership and business, it ultimately addresses the question everyone wants to ask: why is Elon Musk so successful?

Albert Einstein ist der Inbegriff des Genies. Kein Wissenschaftler des 20. Jahrhundert hat unser Verständnis vom Universum so revolutioniert wie er. Neben den teils verschlungenen Wegen zu seinen Theorien, widmet sich das Hörbuch auch dem Menschen, der diese Wege beschritt. Es beschreibt, wie Einsteins Kindheit in Deutschland, seine Arbeit im Schweizer Patentamt, aber auch sein komplexer Charakter und die daraus folgenden familiären Begebenheiten den großen Wissenschaftler formten.

Einstein - Sein Leben, Seine Forschung, Sein Vermächtnis

Die CRISPR-Methode und die Zukunft der MedizinWas macht die Natur, wenn ein neuer Feind auftaucht? Sie findet eine neue Strategie. Wenn eine Bakterie von einem Virus attackiert wird, verteidigt sie sich beispielsweise, indem sie ihre genetische Struktur ändert. Doch wie können diese Mechanismen nachgewiesen werden? Und welchen Nutzen hat dieses Wissen für die Medizin?Der Amerikanerin Jennifer Doudna und der Französin Emmanuelle Charpentier sind bahnbrechende Erkenntnisse im Bereich der Biochemie gelungen: Die beiden Forscherinnen konnten die Verteidigungsstrategien der Natur auf grundlegendster Ebene, auf jener der Zelle, entdecken und nachbauen. Das Ergebnis heißt »CRISPR«. Diese Genschere kann den genetischen Bauplan punktgenau ändern. Die Sternstunde der Forschung: Blicken Sie den berühmten Wissenschaftlerinnen über die Schulter! Was trieb Jennifer Doudna und Emmanuelle Charpentier zu dieser Höchstleistung an? Welche Rückschläge und Erfolge begegneten den Forscherinnen auf ihrem Weg zum Durchbruch? Wie wurde aus einer Idee, die zunächst wie Science-Fiction klang, ein Projekt, das die Welt der Wissenschaft für immer verändern würde?Walter Isaacson erzählt in diesem fundierten Sachbuch nicht nur die Geschichte der CRISPR-Methode, sondern lässt Sie auch hinter die Kulissen blicken: in die Labore, in denen der Wettlauf der Biosciences entschieden wurde. Ein packendes Wissenschaftsbuch, das Forschung und Biografie verbindet!- Ausgezeichnet mit dem Nobelpreis für Chemie: Die Erfolgsgeschichte des Code-Breakers- Die Erfindung von CRISPR: So funktioniert die Technologie des Gen-Editierens- Frauen in der Wissenschaft: Jennifer Doudna und Emmanuelle Charpentier im persönlichen Porträt- Moralische und ethische Fragen, die bei der Genforschung bedacht werden müssen- So kann die Genschere in der Virus-Bekämpfung eingesetzt werden-

Der Codebreaker: Wie die Erfindung der Genschere die Zukunft der Menschheit für immer verändert

För första gången i mänsklighetens historia kan vi nu gå in i våra gener och ändra i deras sammansättning. För sin upptäckt av gensaxen CRISPR belönades biokemiforskaren Jennifer Doudna med Nobelpriset. Genredigeringen innebär stora möjligheter för oss att kunna bota svåra sjukdomar, bekämpa pandemier och få friskare barn. Men samtidigt måste vi sätta gränser för hur långt vi kan gå med denna revolutionerande teknik. Hamnar tekniken i fel händer och utnyttjas för tvivelaktiga syften kan det få förödande konsekvenser för oss alla. I Livets kod berättar den internationellt bästsäljande biografen Walter Isaacson om hur vårt liv förändras i grunden genom tillgången till denna revolutionerande teknik – och om den kvinna som knäckte koden.

Livets kod : Den genetiska revolutionen och mänsklighetens framtid

One of America's most versatile writers, author of bestselling biographies such as Steve Jobs and Benjamin Franklin, has assembled a gallery of portraits of (mostly) Americans that celebreate genius, talent, and versatility, and traces his own education as a writer and biographer. In this collection of essays, the brilliant, acclaimed biographer Walter Isaacson reflects on lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, and other interesting characters he has chronicled both as biographer and journalist. The people he writes about have an awesome intelligence, but that is not the secret to their success. They had qualities that were even more rare, such as imagination and true curiousity. Isaacson also reflects on how he became a writer, the lessons he learned from various people he met, and the challenges for journalism in the digital age. He also offers loving tributes to his hometown of New Orleans, which offers many of the ingredients for a creative culture, and to the Louisiana novelist Walker Percy, who was an early mentor. In an anecdotal and personal way, Isaacson describes the joys of writing and the way that tales about the lives of fascinating people can enlighten our own lives.

American Sketches

The best-selling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns. In 2012, Nobel Prize winning scientist Jennifer Doudna hit upon an invention that will transform the future of the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions. It has already been deployed to cure deadly diseases, fight the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, and make inheritable changes in the genes of babies. But what does that mean for humanity? Should we be hacking our own DNA to make us less susceptible to disease? Should we democratise the technology that would allow parents to enhance their kids? After discovering this CRISPR, Doudna is now wrestling these even bigger issues. THE CODE BREAKERS is an examination of how life as we know it is about to change – and a brilliant portrayal of the woman leading the way.

The Code Breaker

A 2022 Audie Award Finalist A Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Time, and The Washington Post The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a “compelling” (The Washington Post) account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would. Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she would help to make what the book’s author, James Watson, told her was the most important biological advance since his codiscovery of the structure of DNA. She and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions. The development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. The past half-century has been a digital age, based on the microchip, computer, and internet. Now we are entering a life-science revolution. Children who study digital coding will be joined by those who study genetic code. Should we use our new evolution-hacking powers to make us less susceptible to viruses? What a wonderful boon that would be! And what about preventing depression? Hmmm…Should we allow parents, if they can afford it, to enhance the height or muscles or IQ of their kids? After helping to discover CRISPR, Doudna became a leader in wrestling with these moral issues and, with her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, won the Nobel Prize in 2020. Her story is an “enthralling detective story” (Oprah Daily) that involves the most profound wonders of nature, from the origins of life to the future of our species.

Walter Isaacson’s #1 New York Times bestselling history of our third scientific revolution: CRISPR, gene editing, and the quest to understand the code of life itself, is now adapted for young readers! When Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in Hilo, Hawaii, she came home from school one afternoon and found a book on her bed. It was The Double Helix, James Watson’s account of how he and Francis Crick had discovered the structure of DNA, the spiral-staircase molecule that carries the genetic instruction code for all forms of life. This book guided Jennifer Doudna to focus her studies not on DNA, but on what seemed to take a backseat in biochemistry: figuring out the structure of RNA, a closely related molecule that enables the genetic instructions coded in DNA to express themselves. Doudna became an expert in determining the shapes and structures of these RNA molecules—an expertise that led her to develop a revolutionary new technique that could edit human genes. Today gene-editing technologies such as CRISPR are already being used to eliminate simple genetic defects that cause disorders such as Tay-Sachs and sickle cell anemia. For now, however, Jennifer and her team are being deployed against our most immediate threat—the coronavirus—and you have just been given a front row seat to that race.

The Code Breaker -- Young Readers Edition

Forfatteren af "Steve Jobs" og andre storsælgende biografier går tæt på en af vor tids mest fascinerende og kontroversielle opfindere – Elon Musk, en grænseoverskridende visionær, som har bragt verden ind i en æra af elbiler, privat rumforskning og kunstig intelligens. Walter Isaacson har fulgt Musk og menneskerne omkring ham gennem to år. Resultatet er blevet en fyldestgørende biografi om en excentrisk personlighed, der deler vandene med sin radikale risikovillighed og i sidste ende rejser spørgsmålet: Er Musks dæmoner også en forudsætning for nytænkning og fremskridt? Om forfatteren: Walter Isaacson (f. 1952) er professor i historie, journalist samt forfatter og er især kendt for at være en af vor tids største biografister med fokus på at portrættere visionære og innovative personligheder, der har sat deres præg på verden.

BIOGRAFIE ELON MUSK VAN BESTSELLERAUTEUR WALTER ISAACSON Bestsellerauteur Walter Isaacson vertelt in deze biografie het verrassend intieme verhaal van een van de meest fascinerende en controversiële ondernemers van deze tijd: Elon Musk. Een baanbrekende pionier die de wereld naar het tijdperk van elektrische voertuigen, private ruimtevaart en kunstmatige intelligentie heeft geleid. O, en hij heeft Twitter overgenomen. Toen Elon Musk als kind in Zuid-Afrika woonde, werd hij regelmatig in elkaar geslagen door pesters. Op een dag werd hij door een groepje van een betonnen trap geduwd en daarna getrapt tot zijn gezicht bol en gezwollen was. Hij lag een week in het ziekenhuis. Maar de lichamelijke littekens waren niets vergeleken met de emotionele schade die werd toegebracht door zijn vader, een ingenieur, schoft en charismatische fantast. Zijn vaders invloed op zijn mentale gesteldheid bleef aanhouden. Hij veranderde in een stoere maar kwetsbare, soms zelfs kinderlijke volwassene, vatbaar voor Jekyll-and-Hyde-achtige stemmingswisselingen en met een extreem hoge tolerantie voor risico's, een hunkering naar drama, buitenproportionele doelen en een manische intensiteit die soms hard en destructief is. In het begin van 2022 – een jaar nadat zijn bedrijf SpaceX 31 succesvolle raketlanceringen deed, Tesla bijna een miljoen auto's verkocht en hij de rijkste man op aarde werd – sprak Musk berouwvol over zijn drang om drama te creëren. 'Ik moet mijn manier van denken weg krijgen van de crisismodus waarin ze de afgelopen veertien jaar, of eigenlijk al mijn hele leven, stond,' zei hij. Het was een weemoedige uitspraak, geen goed voornemen. En ondertussen kocht hij toch stiekem aandelen van Twitter, 's werelds grootste speeltuin. Wanneer hij in een diep dal zat, bracht dat hem telkens weer terug naar de pesterijen in de speeltuin. Nu had hij de kans om zelf de baas van de speeltuin te zijn. Isaacson volgde Musk twee jaar lang. Hij woonde zijn vergaderingen bij, liep samen met hem door zijn fabrieken en spendeerde uren aan interviews met hem, zijn familie, vrienden, collega's en vijanden. Het resultaat is een onthullend verhaal van binnenuit, vol met fantastische anekdotes over triomf en beroering, dat maar één vraag doet oplaaien: zijn de demonen die Musk drijven ook hetgeen wat nodig is voor innovatie en vooruitgang? Walter Isaacson is hoogleraar geschiedenis aan Tulane University en bekend als auteur van meerdere biografieën die alom worden geprezen. Hij schreef biografieën over onder anderen Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein en Leonardo da Vinci. Daarnaast was hij CEO van het Aspen Institute, chairman van CNN en hoofdredacteur van Time.

Ingen människa präglar vår tid lika definitivt som technörden och företagsledaren Elon Musk. I den här boken skildras den trotsige visionären och innovatören som lotsat världen in i elbilarnas, den privata rymdkapplöpningens och den artificiella intelligensens tidevarv. Ja, och så tog han ju över Twitter – och döpte om det till X. I två år har Isaacson följt Musk som en skugga, suttit med på hans möten, gått fabriksronderna och ägnat timme efter timme åt att intervjua Elon själv, hans släkt och vänner samt hans medarbetare och motståndare. Resultatet är en avslöjande skildring från insidan, fylld till brädden av fantastiska berättelser om triumfer och katastrofer, som får oss att ställa frågan: Är de demoner som driver Musk helt enkelt det som krävs för att driva innovation och framsteg?

"Plus que tout autre livre consacré à de Vinci, celui-ci est le seul qui le dépeint comme un être humain à part entière et permet de comprendre à quel point il était exceptionnel." Bill Gates Léonard de Vinci était enfant illégitime, homosexuel, gaucher, végétarien, distrait et parfois hérétique. Cette inadéquation aux moeurs de l'époque a décuplé sa créativité. À travers les milliers de pages de ses carnets et les plus récentes découvertes des historiens, Walter Isaacson dépeint l'émergence de son génie, alimenté par une curiosité passionnée, une capacité d'observation de tous les instants et une imagination sans limites. Sa capacité à combiner l'art et la science reste, aujourd'hui encore, la recette ultime de l'innovation. Son exemple nous rappelle l'importance, pour nous mêmes et nos enfants, de remettre en question nos connaissances, de faire preuve d'imagination et, à l'instar de tous les rebelles talentueux, de penser différemment.

Léonard de Vinci

De geheimen van de grootste genie uit de geschiedenis Leonardo da Vinci wordt gezien als het meest creatieve genie ooit. Naast zijn wereldberoemde werk als schilder was hij ook uitvinder, schrijver, architect, beeldhouwer, componist, anatomist, filosoof, natuurkundige, scheikundige en ingenieur. Op basis van duizenden pagina's van Da Vinci's aantekenboeken en nieuwe ontdekkingen over zijn leven en werk vertelt Isaacson een prachtig verhaal over hoe Da Vinci's kunst verweven is met de wetenschap. Hij laat zien hoe Da Vinci's genialiteit gebaseerd was op vaardigheden die we in de hand hebben, zoals zijn onstilbare nieuwsgierigheid, zorgvuldige observatie en verbeeldingskracht die grenst aan fantasie.

Elon Musk – geniet, entreprenören och den kontroversielle visionären. Han är en av vår tids mest fascinerande och omdiskuterade personer. Han har förändrat världen med elbilar, privat rymdforskning, och satsningar på artificiell intelligens. Och, ja – han köpte också Twitter. Han har även dykt upp som en viktig person i amerikansk politik. Det här är en snabbläst version av författaren Walter Isaacsons biografi om Elon Musk. Den ger en unik inblick i Musks liv och tankevärld. Under två år följde Isaacson Musk på nära håll och tillbringade otaliga timmar med honom. Han intervjuade dessutom Musks familj, vänner och kollegor för att skapa en komplett bild av en excentrisk och gränslös entreprenör. Den här boken innehåller också ett uppdaterat kapitel om vad som har hänt i Musks liv och i hans olika bolag, efter att biografin skrevs. Vägen till framgång är vår biografi-serie om personer som på olika sätt nått toppen. Det kan vara allt från entreprenörer och företagare, till kulturella eller politiska personer. Först ut är Kylie Jenner och Elon Musk. Det här är en snabbläst bok från Piece of Cake.

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Walter Isaacson vertelt het verhaal van DNA-expert en Nobelprijswinnaar Jennifer Doudna NEW SCIENTIST BOEK VAN DE MAAND 'Een pageturner over de vrouw achter CRISPR-Cas.' •••• NRC In oktober 2020 ontving biochemicus Jennifer Doudna samen met haar collega Emmanuelle Charpentier de Nobelprijs voor de Scheikunde voor hun doorslaggevende bijdrage aan de ontwikkeling van CRISPR-Cas. Met deze techniek kunnen wetenschappers het menselijk genoom bewerken door te knippen en plakken in DNA-sequenties. Net als de ontdekking van de structuur van DNA in de jaren vijftig door Watson en Crick bracht deze doorbaak een medische revolutie op gang: CRISPR wordt onder andere ingezet bij de bestrijding van Covid-19. In De codekraker vertelt Walter Isaacson het bijzondere verhaal van Doudna en haar grensverleggende onderzoek. Hij volgt haar wetenschappelijke reis naar de Nobelprijs en laat ons kennismaken met de techniek achter CRISPR en de belangrijke personen in Doudna's leven en carrière. Ook staat hij stil bij de morele vragen die deze techniek oproept. Waar ligt de grens voor genetische manipulatie? Moeten we willen dat welgestelde ouders hun kinderen perfectioneren? Het resultaat is een belangrijk boek over een van de grootste wetenschappers van onze tijd en de toekomst van de mens. 'De codekraker geeft met deze uitvoerigheid een prachtige inkijk in hoe de wetenschapswereld functioneert. [...] Een vlot leesbaar en mooi journalistiek werk.' FD 'Isaacson laat ons de vlijmscherpe randjes van de academische wereld zien, zodat deze wetenschappelijke biografie regelmatig leest als een detectiveroman.' New Scientist 'Het genot van een Isaacson-biografie is dat de auteur niet in cynische zaken blijft hangen; hij vertelt verhalen van mensen die per definitie onnavolgbaar zijn.' The New York Times

De codekraker

Baseret på mere end fyrre interviews med Steve Jobs selv og en lang række samtaler med familie, venner, modstandere, konkurrenter og kolleger har Walter Isaacson skrevet et hudløst og nuanceret portræt af Steve Jobs’ intense og ekstraordinære liv. Biografien giver indblik i det enestående og solide brand, som Jobs har skabt omkring Apple – og ikke mindst sig selv. Walter Isaacson går bag om brandet og skriver ærligt om Steve Jobs’ smittende kreativitet og engagement, men også om hvordan han kæmpede med perfektionisme og et overdrevent behov for kontrol. Det er en fortælling, som både er til inspiration og advarsel, når Walter Isaacson også forholder sig til de omkostninger, det har haft for Steve Jobs at revolutionere tech-industrien med hans kompromisløse tilgang og innovative designs. Om forfatteren: Walter Isaacson (f. 1952) er professor i historie, journalist samt forfatter og er især kendt for at være en af vor tids største biografister med fokus på at portrættere visionære og innovative personligheder, der har sat deres præg på verden.

America’s bestselling biographer reveals the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines who we are as Americans—and explains how it should shape our politics today. To celebrate America’s 250th anniversary, Walter Isaacson takes readers on a fascinating deep dive into the creation of one of history’s most powerful sentences: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” Drafted by Thomas Jefferson and edited by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, this line lays the foundation for the American Dream and defines the common ground we share as a nation. Isaacson unpacks its genius, word by word, illuminating the then-radical concepts behind it. Readers will gain a fresh appreciation for how it was drafted to inspire unity, equality, and the enduring promise of America. With clarity and insight, he reveals not just the power of these words but describes how, in these polarized times, we can use them to restore an appreciation for our common values.

The Greatest Sentence Ever Written

La biographie événement traduite en 30 langues. + 2 millions de lecteurs à travers le monde " Un Einstein humain et immensément charismatique " New York Times Albert Einstein est l'une des plus grandes icônes de notre époque : ce scientifique fuyant l'oppression, avec ses cheveux en bataille et ses yeux pétillants, son humanité attachante et son intelligence hors du commun, est devenu synonyme de génie. S'appuyant sur des sources jusqu'alors inédites, telles les lettres personnelles d'Einstein, ce livre explore comment un simple employé de l'Office des brevets, un père de famille engagé dans un mariage difficile, qui ne parvenait pas à obtenir de doctorat ni de poste d'enseignant, a révolutionné la science moderne et notre compréhension de l'univers. Il y est parvenu en remettant en question les idées reçues et en s'émerveillant de mystères qui paraissaient banals à d'autres. Cela l'a conduit à adopter une morale et des convictions politiques fondées sur le respect de la liberté des individus et des esprits. D'une lecture captivante, ce livre dresse le portrait d'un Einstein humain – aussi imparfait et faillible que le reste d'entre nous – et immensément charismatique. BEST-SELLER DU NEW YORK TIMES - "Un chef-d'œuvre de narration... Un livre passionnant, par un grand écrivain, sur un homme d'exception –; une biographie foisonnante et parfaite." The New York Sun Table des matières : Chapitre 1 : Le chevalier de la lumière Chapitre 2 : L'enfance, 1879-1896 Chapitre 3 : L'École polytechnique de Zurich, 1896-1900 Chapitre 4 : Les amants, 1900-1904 Chapitre 5 : L'année miraculeuse, Molécules et quanta, 1905 Chapitre 6 : La relativité restreinte, 1905 Chapitre 7 : La plus heureuse des idées, 1906-1909 Chapitre 8 : Le professeur errant, 1909-1914 Chapitre 9 : La relativité générale, 1911-1915 Chapitre 10 : Le divorce, 1916-1919 Chapitre 11 : L'univers d'Einstein, 1916-1919 Chapitre 12 : La gloire, 1919 Chapitre 13 : Le sioniste errant, 1920-1921 Chapitre 14 : Prix Nobel, 1921-1927 Chapitre 15 : La théorie du champ unifié, 1923-1931 Chapitre 16 : Cinquante ans, 1923-1931 Chapitre 17 : Le Dieu d'Einstein Chapitre 18 : Le réfugié, 1932-1933 Chapitre 19 : L'Amérique Chapitre 20 : L'intrication quantique Chapitre 21 : La bombe, 1939-1945 Chapitre 22 : Vers un monde uni, 1945-1948 Chapitre 23 : Le monument Einstein, 1948-1963 Chapitre 24 : La peur des Rouges, 1951-1954 Chapitre 25 : La fin, 1955 Épilogue : Le cerveau et l'esprit d'Einstein

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