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Reluctant Genius

2011-08-01 Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Reluctant Genius by : Charlotte Gray

Download or read book Reluctant Genius written by Charlotte Gray. This book was released on 2011-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular image of Alexander Graham Bell is that of an elderly American patriarch, memorable only for his paunch, his Santa Claus beard, and the invention of the telephone. In this magisterial reassessment based on thorough new research, acclaimed biographer Charlotte Gray reveals Bell’s wide-ranging passion for invention and delves into the private life that supported his genius. The child of a speech therapist and a deaf mother, and possessed of superbly acute hearing, Bell developed an early interest in sound. His understanding of how sound waves might relate to electrical waves enabled him to invent the “talking telegraph” be- fore his rivals, even as he undertook a tempestuous courtship of the woman who would become his wife and mainstay. In an intensely competitive age, Bell seemed to shun fame and fortune. Yet many of his innovations—electric heating, using light to transmit sound, electronic mail, composting toilets, the artificial lung—were far ahead of their time. His pioneering ideas about sound, flight, genetics, and even the engineering of complex structures such as stadium roofs still resonate today. This is an essential portrait of an American giant whose innovations revolutionized the modern world.

Reluctant Genius

2011-02-27 Fiction
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Release : 2011-02-27
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Reluctant Genius by : Henry Slesar

Download or read book Reluctant Genius written by Henry Slesar. This book was released on 2011-02-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is said that Life crawled up from the slime of the sea-bottoms and became Man because of inherent greatness bred into him before the dawn of time. But perhaps this urge was not as formless as we think.

C. S. Lewis -- A Life

2013-02-18 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2013-02-18
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis C. S. Lewis -- A Life by : Alister McGrath

Download or read book C. S. Lewis -- A Life written by Alister McGrath. This book was released on 2013-02-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ECPA 2014 Christian Book Award Winner (Non-Fiction)! Fifty years after his death, C. S. Lewis continues to inspire and fascinate millions. His legacy remains varied and vast. He was a towering intellectual figure, a popular fiction author who inspired a global movie franchise around the world of Narnia, and an atheist-turned-Christian thinker. In C.S. Lewis—A Life, Alister McGrath, prolific author and respected professor at King’s College of London, paints a definitive portrait of the life of C. S. Lewis. After thoroughly examining recently published Lewis correspondence, Alister challenges some of the previously held beliefs about the exact timing of Lewis’s shift from atheism to theism and then to Christianity. He paints a portrait of an eccentric thinker who became an inspiring, though reluctant, prophet for our times. You won’t want to miss this fascinating portrait of a creative genius who inspired generations.

Reluctant Genius

2010-09-27 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2010-09-27
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Book Synopsis Reluctant Genius by : Charlotte Gray

Download or read book Reluctant Genius written by Charlotte Gray. This book was released on 2010-09-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impeccably researched, and written with Charlotte Gray’s unerring eye for personal and historical detail, Reluctant Genius tells the story of a man very different from his public image. Most of us think of Alexander Graham Bell as a white-bearded sage, but the young Alec Bell was a passionate and wild-eyed genius, a man given to fits of brilliance and melancholy. His technologies for photophones, tetrahedrals, flying machines and hydrodomes laid the groundwork for future achievement. And he adored his wife, Mabel, a beautiful, deaf young woman from a blueblood Boston family. Gray goes where no other writer has gone, delving deeply into Bell’s personality and into his intense relationship with Mabel, whose background and temperament were a startling contrast to his own. Reluctant Genius takes us on an intimate journey into the golden age of invention and the vibrant life of a man whose work shaped our world.

Millicent Min, Girl Genius (The Millicent Min Trilogy, Book 1)

2015-04-28 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2015-04-28
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Synopsis Millicent Min, Girl Genius (The Millicent Min Trilogy, Book 1) by : Lisa Yee

Download or read book Millicent Min, Girl Genius (The Millicent Min Trilogy, Book 1) written by Lisa Yee. This book was released on 2015-04-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who would have thought being smart could be so hard (and funny)? Millicent Min is having a bad summer. Her fellow high school students hate her for setting the curve. Her fellow 11-year-olds hate her for going to high school. And her mother has arranged for her to tutor Stanford Wong, the poster boy for Chinese geekdom. But then Millie meets Emily. Emily doesn't know Millicent's IQ score. She actually thinks Millie is cool. And if Millie can hide her awards, ignore her grandmother's advice, swear her parents to silence, blackmail Stanford, and keep all her lies straight, she just might make her first friend.What's it going to take? Sheer genius.

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