mimi10v3Intellectual lives in context: Hopper, Gödel, Oppenheimer, Boyd, Schulz, and other difficult originals whose work changed the systems around them. Ideas and institutions are treated as part of the person.
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Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age
About the bookThis biography traces the career of Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, a central figure in the early development of computer programming. Beyer examines Hopper's transition from naval se…
8/10About a Person : BiographyBoyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
About the bookRobert Coram’s biography traces the extraordinary career of John Boyd, a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot whose influence extended far beyond the cockpit. Coram details how Boyd’s energy ma…
8/10About a Person : BiographyThe Invention of Air
About the bookSteven Johnson traces the life of Joseph Priestley, a figure who straddled the worlds of eighteenth-century chemistry, religious dissent, and political radicalism. While Priestley is be…
8/10About a Person : BiographyThe Meanest Man in Congress: Jack Brooks and the Making of an American Century
About the bookThis biography traces the four-decade congressional career of Jack Brooks, a Texas representative whose tenure spanned the latter half of the twentieth century. Born during the Great De…
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| American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer | Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin | 2005 | 7.5 | Read | → |
| Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War | Robert Coram | 2002 | 8 | Read | → |
| Einstein: His Life and Universe | Walter Isaacson | 2007 | — | Unread | → |
| Emerson: The Mind on Fire | Robert D. Richardson Jr. | 1995 | 6 | Read | → |
| Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age | Kurt W. Beyer | 2009 | 9 | Read | → |
| John Adams | David McCullough | 2001 | — | In catalog | → |
| Schulz and Peanuts | David Michaelis | 2007 | 7 | Read | → |
| Seabiscuit | Laura Hillenbrand | 2001 | — | Read | → |
| The Invention of Air | Steven Johnson | 2008 | 8 | Read | → |
| The Man Who Solved the Market | Gregory Zuckerman | 2019 | — | Unread | → |
| The Meanest Man in Congress: Jack Brooks and the Making of an American Century | Brendan McNulty, Timothy McNulty | 2019 | 8 | Read | → |
| The Radioactive Boy Scout | Ken Silverstein | 2004 | 6 | Read | → |
| Waiting for an Angel | Helon Habila | 2002 | 5 | Read | → |
| Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla | Marc J. Seifer | 1996 | 6 | Read | → |