Strangest Genius
| Author | : Lucy Costigan |
| Publisher | : The History Press Ireland |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1845889711 |
Strangest genius
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Unfair to Genius
| Author | : Gary Rosen |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2012-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199733481 |
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 |
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 |
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.
Labourism and the English Genius
| Author | : Gregory Elliott |
| Publisher | : Verso |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 1993-11-17 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780860916710 |
Labour's fourth successive electoral defeat in 1992 rekindled the muffled controversy over its future.
Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right
| Author | : Erica Grieder |
| Publisher | : Public Affairs |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2014-04-22 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1610393759 |
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.
Uncommon Genius
| Author | : Denise Shekerjian |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 1991-02-01 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 0140109862 |
Drawing on interviews with 40 winners of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship—the so-called "genius awards"—the insightful study throws fresh light on the creative process.
Dark Beauty
| Author | : Lucy Costigan |
| Publisher | : Merrion Press |
| Total Pages | : 362 |
| Release | : 2019-09-16 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1785372351 |
Dark Beauty focuses on the minute detail in Harry Clarke’s stained-glass windows, particularly in the borders and lower panels of his work. Clarke’s brilliance as a graphic artist is clearly visible in his book illustrations, which are imbued with precise attention to intricate designs, and he applied the same lavish focus to every facet of his stained glass. The title ‘Dark Beauty’ refers to the duality of Clarke’s work that sees delicate angels juxtaposed with macabre, grotesque figures, and represents the partially hidden details that dwell in the background of his windows – motifs, accessories, flora, fauna and diminutive characters – which may be missed in light of the dominance of the central subjects. The authors spent many years photographing Clarke’s windows in Ireland, England, America and Australia, and the resulting 60,000 photos have been carefully whittled down to 500 glorious images. Dark Beauty will provide lovers of Clarke’s stained glass with the opportunity to view previously obscured or unnoticed details in all their unique beauty and inspire their own travels to view Clarke’s work.
The Strangest Man
| Author | : Graham Farmelo |
| Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
| Total Pages | : 554 |
| Release | : 2009-01-22 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0571250076 |
'A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael Frayn The Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called the British Einstein. He was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in twentieth-century science: quantum mechanics. The youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize for Physics, he was also pathologically reticent, strangely literal-minded and legendarily unable to communicate or empathize. Through his greatest period of productivity, his postcards home contained only remarks about the weather.Based on a previously undiscovered archive of family papers, Graham Farmelo celebrates Dirac's massive scientific achievement while drawing a compassionate portrait of his life and work. Farmelo shows a man who, while hopelessly socially inept, could manage to love and sustain close friendship.The Strangest Man is an extraordinary and moving human story, as well as a study of one of the most exciting times in scientific history. 'A wonderful book . . . Moving, sometimes comic, sometimes infinitely sad, and goes to the roots of what we mean by truth in science.' Lord Waldegrave, Daily Telegraph
