New Releases by Walter Isaacson

What are the roots of creativity? What makes for great leadership? In this collection of essays, Isaacson reflects on the lessons to be learned from Ben Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, and various other interesting characters he has chronicled. The people he writes about have qualities that were rare, such as imagination and true curiosity. He reflects on how he became a writer, the lessons he learned from various people he met, and the challenges he sees for journalism in the digital age. He offers tributes to his hometown of New Orleans which offered the ingredients for a creative culture, and to the Louisiana novelist Walker Percy, an early mentor.

A simultaneous global release of Steve Jobs: A Biography by Walter Isaacson. Release date: 10/24/2011. Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two yearsas well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues. Traditional Chinese edition. PB In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Sebuah kisah tentang jatuh-bangunnya seorang pengusaha kreatif dengan kepribadiannya yang menggugah. Dengan keinginan besar akan kesempurnaan dan kontrol gila-gilaan yang berhasil merevolusi enam industri: komputer pribadi, film animasi, musik, ponsel, komputer tablet dan penerbitan digital.

Based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--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.

愛因斯坦傳記權威定本 解開愛因斯坦一生七大謎團 2008年美國國家科學院傳播貢獻獎 2007年鵝毛筆最佳傳記類獎 紐約時報、華盛頓郵報、洛杉磯時報、丹佛郵報等銷售第一 沒什麼人懂他的相對論，但他卻是二十世紀知名度最高的科學家，也是牛頓之後最偉大的科學家。他的理論，變成流行商品貼在百貨公司門口，他的亂髮，成為天才的正字標記，他的臉孔，成為二十世紀的封面人物。這位十六歲就想像乘著光束飛行的少年，以單槍匹馬的騎士精神，在人間跌跌撞撞，他曾經語言遲緩、學業中輟、失業、未婚生子，然而他始終保持樂觀自信，相信自己的判斷與良心，拋棄國籍與宗教信仰，決定當一個世界公民，沒有任何主義束縛，因此發現了宇宙至美，1905年他寫出科學史上最著名的方程式E=mc2，被稱為奇蹟之年。 到底愛因斯坦是獨立思考的象徵，是天才、生活白癡、人格障礙還是武器製造者？本書為2006年愛因斯坦私人檔案首度公開後，第一本研究成果，也是至今最權威、最能全面瞭解愛因斯坦成長、家庭、婚姻、政治與科學發現之謎的一本書。愛因斯坦的一生，讓我們明白，原來人類如此精彩，也體認到科學的獨立精神是公民社會的重要一環。此書獻給所有懷念愛因斯坦的科學家與讀者。 光束騎士愛因斯坦，在地球停留七十六年。 本書解開愛因斯坦一生七大謎團： ＊從小數學差勁 ＊曾有個私生女，生死不明 ＊奇蹟之年如何誕生 ＊第二任妻子的女兒才是他心儀對象 ＊諾貝爾獎獎金被當成離婚贍養費 ＊原子彈幕後黑手 ＊到以色列選總統

As his parents finished packing the few personal belongings they were permitted to take out of Germany, the bespectacled 15-year-old stood in the corner of the apartment memorizing the details of the scene. He was a bookish and reflective child, with that odd mixture of ego and insecurity that can come from growing up smart yet persecuted. "I''ll be back someday," he said to the customs inspector who was surveying the boxes. Years later, he would recall how the official looked at him "with the disdain of age" and said nothing. Henry Kissinger was right: he did come back to his Bavarian birthplace, first as a soldier with the U.S. Army counterintelligence corps, then as a renowned scholar of international relations, and eventually as the dominant statesman of his era. By the time he was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to the Gallup Poll, the most admired person in America. In addition, as he conducted foreign policy with the air of a guest of honor at a cocktail party, he became one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world''s imagination. Yet Kissinger was reviled by large segments of the American public, ranging from liberal intellectuals to conservative activists, who in varying ways considered him a Strangelovean power manipulator dangerously devoid of moral principles. Kissinger''s power-oriented approach to global politics resulted in a messy conclusion to the Vietnam War that included the secret bombing and invasion of Cambodia and the Christmas bombing of Hanoi. Yet he was also able to design a triangular balance based on detente with Russia and an opening to China that preserved America''s influence in the world. He had an instinctive feel for power, but it was not matched by a feel for the openness of America''s democratic system or for the moral values that are a basic source of its world influence. This book, the first full biography of Kissinger, explores the relationship between his complex personality - brilliant, conspiratorial, furtive, prone to power struggles, charming yet at times deceitful - and the foreign policy he pursued. It draws on extensive interviews with Kissinger as well as 150 other sources, including Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, H.R. Haldeman, former South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, Russian diplomats, cabinet colleagues, disillusioned aides, childhood friends, and business clients. In addition, it makes use of many of Kissinger''s private papers, personal letters, recorded telephone conversations, his desk diaries and those of various officials, memos of classified meetings, and transcripts of FBI wiretaps. The result is an intimate narrative, filled with surprising revelations, that takes this century''s most colorful statesman from his childhood as a persecuted Jew in Nazi Germany, through his tortured relationship with Richard Nixon, to his twilight years as a globe-trotting business consultant.

A selection of Benjamin Franklin’s writings, with an introduction and commentary by renowned author Walter Isaacson. Selected and annotated by the author of the acclaimed Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, this collection of Franklin’s writings shows why he was the bestselling author of his day and remains America’s favorite founder and wit. Includes an introductory essay exploring Franklin’s life and impact as a writer, and each piece is accompanied by a preface and notes that provide background, context, and analysis.

During his 84-year life Benjamin Franklin was America''s best scientist, inventor, publisher, business strategist, diplomat, and writer. He was also one of its most practical political thinkers. America''s first great publicist, he carefully crafted his own persona, portrayed it in public and polished it for posterity. In this riveting new biography Walter Isaacson provides readers with a full portrait of Franklin''s public and private life - his loyal but neglected wife, his bastard son with whom he broke over going to war with England, his endless replacement families and his many amorous, but probably unconsummated, liaisons. But this is not just a biography of Benjamin Franklin but rather a fascinating look at American and European political history at that time. Isaacson examines the run up to the Revolutionary War, the intimate relations between Britain, France and the colonies and the decisive events that led to America''s independence. Just as David McCullough brought life to the historic figure of John Adams, Isaacson portrays Franklin in the flesh, showing readers how this radical man helped define America''s national character and personality.

Presents both sides of the arguments concerning controversial topics, such as the draft, gun control, abortion, religious cults, television, and smoking