Neo Leo
Title | Neo Leo PDF eBook |
Author | Gene Barretta |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 2009-08-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0805087036 |
Looks at Leonardo da Vinci love of nature and how it inspired many of his ideas.
Neo Leo
Title | Neo Leo PDF eBook |
Author | Gene Barretta |
Publisher | Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2009-08-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1466818832 |
An introduction to Leonardo da Vinci's genius focusing on his famous notebook sketches and the modern inventions they predicted. In 1781, Thomas Paine came up with a model for a single-span bridge; in 1887, Adolf Eugen Fick made the first pair of contact lenses; and in 1907, Paul Cornu built the first helicopter. But Leonardo da Vinci thought of all these ideas more than five hundred years ago! At once an artist, inventor, engineer, and scientist, da Vinci wrote and drew detailed descriptions of what would later become hang gliders, automobiles, robots, and much more. In Neo Geo, Gene Barretta cleverly shows how Leonardo's ideas—many inspired by his love of nature—foreshadowed modern inventions, offering a window into the future.
Leo Strauss
Title | Leo Strauss PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Howse |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2014-09-08 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1107074991 |
This book analyzes Leo Strauss's writings on political violence, considering also what he taught in the classroom on this subject.
Timeless Thomas
Title | Timeless Thomas PDF eBook |
Author | Gene Barretta |
Publisher | Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2012-07-17 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1466816848 |
What do record players, batteries, and movie cameras have in common? All these devices were created by the man known as The Wizard of Menlo Park: Thomas Edison. Edison is most famous for inventing the incandescent lightbulb, but at his landmark laboratories in Menlo Park & West Orange, New Jersey, he also developed many other staples of modern technology. Despite many failures, Edison persevered. And good for that, because it would be very difficult to go through a day without using one of his life-changing inventions. In this enlightening book, Gene Barretta enters the laboratories of one of America's most important inventors.
Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire
Title | Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Norton |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780300109733 |
This provocative book examines the teachings of political theorist Leo Strauss and the ways in which they have been appropriated, or misappropriated, by senior policymakers.
Leo Strauss and the Theopolitics of Culture
Title | Leo Strauss and the Theopolitics of Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Philipp von Wussow |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2020-04-15 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1438478410 |
2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title In this book, Philipp von Wussow argues that the philosophical project of Leo Strauss must be located in the intersection of culture, religion, and the political. Based on archival research on the philosophy of Strauss, von Wussow provides in-depth interpretations of key texts and their larger theoretical contexts. Presenting the necessary background in German-Jewish philosophy of the interwar period, von Wussow then offers detailed accounts and comprehensive interpretations of Strauss's early masterwork, Philosophy and Law, his wartime lecture "German Nihilism," the sources and the scope of Strauss's critique of modern "relativism," and a close commentary on the late text "Jerusalem and Athens." With its rare blend of close reading and larger perspectives, this book is valuable for students of political philosophy, continental thought, and twentieth-century Jewish philosophy alike. It is indispensable as a guide to Strauss's philosophical project, as well as to some of the most intricate details of his writings.
Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile
Title | Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene Sheppard |
Publisher | Brandeis University Press |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2007-01-31 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 158465600X |
A probing study that demystifies the common portrayal of Leo Strauss as the inspiration for American neo-conservativism by tracing his philosophy to its German Jewish roots.