Walter Isaacson

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.

La biograf a definitiva de Steve Jobs, el fundador de Apple, escrita con su colaboraci n. La muerte de Steve Jobs ha conmocionado al mundo. Tras entrevistarlo en m s de cuarenta ocasiones en los ltimos dos a os, adem s de a un centenar de personas de su entorno, familiares, amigos, adversarios y colegas, Walter Isaacson nos presenta la nica biograf a escrita con la colaboraci n de Jobs, el retrato definitivo de uno de los iconos indiscutibles de nuestro tiempo, la cr nica de la agitada vida y abrasiva personalidad del genio cuya creatividad, energ a y af n de perfeccionismo revolucionaron seis industrias: la inform tica, el cine de animaci n, la m sica, la telefon a, las tabletas y la edici n digital. Consciente de que la mejor manera de crear valor en el siglo XXI es conectar la creatividad con la tecnolog a, Jobs fund una empresa en la que impresionantes saltos de la imaginaci n van de la mano de asombrosos logros tecnol gicos. Aunque Jobs colabor en el libro, no pidi ning n control sobre el contenido, ni siquiera ejerci el derecho a leerlo antes de su publicaci n. No rehuy ning n tema y anim a la gente que conoc a a hablar con franqueza. «He hecho muchas cosas de las que no me siento orgulloso, como dejar a mi novia embarazada a los veintitr s a os y c mo me comport entonces, pero no hay ning n cad ver en mi armario que no pueda salir a la luz . Jobs habla con una sinceridad a veces brutal sobre la gente con la que ha trabajado y contra la que ha competido. De igual modo, sus amigos, rivales y colegas ofrecen una visi n sin edulcorar de las pasiones, los demonios, el perfeccionismo, los deseos, el talento, los trucos y la obsesi n por controlarlo todo que modelaron su visi n empresarial y los innovadores productos que logr crear. Su historia, por tanto, est llena de ense anzas sobre innovaci n, car cter, liderazgo y valores. La vida de un genio capaz de enfurecer y seducir a partes iguales. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHIES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND ALBERT EINSTEIN, THIS IS THE EXCLUSIVE BIOGRAPHY OF STEVE JOBS. Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than a hundred 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, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first 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 this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. 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.

This long overdue monograph presents a panorama of portraits from the photographer William Coupon. Coupon was given wide access to artists, musicians, politicians, authors, and the world’s indigenous people on assignment from major publications like Time , Rolling Stone , The New York Times , Esquire , and The Washington Post . He photographed his subjects against a mottled backdrop of hand-painted Belgian linen, often in a classically lit medium shot format, inspired by Dutch masters such as Rembrandt and Holbein. Coupon has remained true to this method, whether working in the Oval Office in Washington D. C. or a tribal hut amongst the Pygmy in the Central African Republic, or the Caraja in the Brazilian Amazon. Environmental images compliment the more formal portraits. Portraits includes iconic images of Mick Jagger, Miles Davis, Elie Wiesel, David Byrne, Presidents Nixon, Carter, Bush, Trump, George Steinbrenner, Jean Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, and Prince Philip among many others from Haiti, Panama, Holland, Northern Scandinavia, Australia, Malaysia, Turkey, Italy, Peru, Mexico and other places. Coupon has created a collection that documents his times but also captured his generation in all its vibrancy. In his work, he seeks to present a truly egalitarian portrait of humanity integrating common people with the wealthy, powerful, and famous.

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).

In Leading Matters, current Chairman of Alphabet (Google's parent company), former President of Stanford University, and "Godfather of Silicon Valley," John L. Hennessy shares the core elements of leadership that helped him become a successful tech entrepreneur, esteemed academic, and venerated administrator. Hennessy's approach to leadership is laser-focused on the journey rather than the destination. Each chapter in Leading Matters looks at valuable elements that have shaped Hennessy's career in practice and philosophy. He discusses the pivotal role that humility, authenticity and trust, service, empathy, courage, collaboration, innovation, intellectual curiosity, storytelling, and legacy have all played in his prolific, interdisciplinary career. Hennessy takes these elements and applies them to instructive stories, such as his encounters with other Silicon Valley leaders including Jim Clark, founder of Netscape; Condoleezza Rice, former U. S. Secretary of State and Stanford provost; John Arrillaga, one of the most successful Silicon Valley commercial real estate developers; and Phil Knight, founder of Nike and philanthropist with whom Hennessy cofounded Knight-Hennessy Scholars at Stanford University. Across government, education, commerce, and non-profits, the need for effective leadership could not be more pressing. This book is essential reading for those tasked with leading any complex enterprise in the academic, not-for-profit, or for-profit sector.

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).

Vad är det som gör att vissa uppfinnare och entreprenörer kan omvandla sina visionära idéer till verklighet? Vad är det som leder fram till deras kreativa genombrott? Varför lyckas vissa, medan andra misslyckas? Efter den bästsäljande biografin om Steve Jobs har Walter Isaacson nu skrivit berättelsen om människorna bakom den digitala revolutionen. Datorn och internet är två av vår tids viktigaste uppfinningar, men ändå vet få vilka som skapade dem. Det var inget som skedde i hemlighet, av ett ensamt geni, tvärtom har de flesta digitala innovationer växt fram i kollektiv. Isaacson skriver om de hackare, genier och nördar som skapat det digitala samhälle vi lever i idag. Vi möter Ada Lovelace, lord Byrons dotter, som var en pionjär inom dataprogrammering redan på 1840-talet, och här finns också personer som Alan Turing, Bill Gates och Steve Jobs. Innovatörerna är berättelsen om hur de tänkte och vad som gjorde dem så nyskapande. Hur de sammanförde humaniora med teknologi, konst med vetenskap, och hur deras förmåga att samarbeta och jobba i team gjorde dem ännu mer framgångsrika." Det avundsvärda med Isaacson är hans förmåga att översätta komplex vetenskap till ett språk vi alla förstår. De som läst hans biografier om Einstein och Steve Jobs vet att Isaacson är en levande Rosettasten när det gäller fysik och dataprogrammering." The Atlantic

Steve Jobs oli digiajan ikoni, luova hullu ja aikamme vallankumouksellisin yritysjohtaja Steve Jobs onnistui Applen toiminnassa yhdistämään luovan mielikuvituksen ja insinööritaidot ennennäkemättömäksi menestystarinaksi. Huimat ideat muuntuivat tuotteiksi, jotka mullistivat useita teollisuudenaloja tietokone- ja musiikkiteollisuudesta matkapuhelimiin ja digitaaliseen kustantamiseen. Jobsin innovaatiot vaikuttavat ihmisten elämään kaikkialla maailmassa. Elämäkerta perustuu kahden vuoden aikana tehtyihin kymmeniin Jobsin itsensä sekä perheenjäsenten, ystävien, vihamiesten, kilpailijoiden ja kollegoiden haastatteluihin. Haastateltujen kertomasta välittyy kaunistelematon kuva Jobsin poikkeuksellisesta persoonasta. Särmikäs Jobs saattoi ajaa ihmiset ympärillään raivoon ja epätoivoon, mutta myös huippusuorituksiin. Hänen pakkomielteensä, taiteellisuutensa, intohimonsa ja kunnianhimonsa näkyivät niin hänen johtamistyylissään kuin yksityiselämässään. Teoksen kirjoittaja Walter Isaacson on yhdysvaltalaisen Aspen Instituten toimitusjohtaja. Aiemmin hän on työskennellyt muun muassa CNN-kanavan toimitusjohtajana sekä päätoimittajana Time-lehdessä.

Autorisert biografi om Steve Jobs. Apple-gründer Steve Jobs døde 5. oktober. Nå kommer den autoriserte biografien om en av verdens største oppfinnere og innovatører. De siste månedene brukte Jobs på å gjennomføre en rekke intervjuer med forfatter Walter Isaacson. Samtalene danner nå grunnlaget for en helt unik fortelling - den ufiltrerte historien om Steve Jobs liv. Biografien vil avsløre mange nye og ukjente sider ved Jobs liv og virke, og den internasjonale lanseringen av boken regnes som en av de mest betydelige på lang tid. Boken er skrevet av tidligere TIME-redaktør Walter Isaacson, som før dette har biografert en annen omfattende størrelse, Albert Einstein. Han forandret våre liv og klarte å oppnå noe som de aller færreste gjør; han forandret måten hver enkelt av oss ser verden på. Slik ordla president Barack Obama seg i en tale kort tid etter at dødsfallet ble kjent. Arbeidet med den norske utgaven har vært i gang i flere måneder, og har vært underlagt strenge sikkerhetstiltak for å ivareta konfidensialitet i forhold til bokens innhold. Steve Jobs var ikke bare en av verdens fremste innovatører. Han satte mange av premissene for våre medievaner. Å kunne legge frem den ufiltrerte fortellingen om et så ekstraordinært liv, er uhyre spennende og et privilegium for oss, sier forlagssjef for sakprosa i Cappelen Damm, Ida Berntsen.

From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs' professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with Jobs' family members, key colleagues from Apple and its competitors, Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation.

This presentation of the neighborhoods of New Orleans offers an expert's perspective on the city's architectural diversity and details, one block at a time. New Orleans Times-Picayune columnist Stephanie Bruno presents the best of her "StreetWalker" column in this illustrated resource. From the Garden District to Mid-City, each block included features photographs of the homes, a description of the buildings, and a map for easy access.

In this pioneering book, four senior managers of the global consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton show how leaders in business, government, and civil society can reach across national and sector divisions, forming collaborative 'megacommunities' that are directed toward a common goal. The authors share the success stories of megacommunities already at work today, looking at examples that range from tackling monopolies to urban revitalization to conservation efforts. They also explain to leaders how to achieve balance between organizational differences and be able to operate optimally. What Megacommunities around the globe can achieve: IMPROVING ENERGY AVAILABILITY AROUND THE WORLD In order to tackle one of today's major problems, local companies need to be working with national energy providers, residents, government bodies, NGOS, and universities HELPING COMMUNITIES GROW In changing neighborhoods like Harlem, the megacommunity includes local small businesses, community groups, global companies, and foundations like Bill Clinton's CONSERVING THE ENVIRONMENT In saving the world's rainforests, providers, distributors, sellers, and consumers of lumber team up with local communities, the World Wildlife Fund, and Goldman Sachs PREVENTING THE SPREAD OF HIV/AIDS In India, a megacommunity brings together both public, private, and civil-sector organizations, including PepsiCo, the Gates Foundation, U. S. healthcare experts, UN development programs, and local NGOs

The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available -- a fully realised portrait of this extraordinary human being, and great genius.