Revered today as, perhaps, the greatest of Renaissance painters, Leonardo da Vinci was a scientist at heart. The artist who created the Mona Lisa also designed functioning robots and digital computers, constructed flying machines and built the first heart valve. His intuitive and ingenious approach—a new mode of thinking—linked highly diverse areas of inquiry in startling new ways and ushered in a new era.
In Leonardo's Legacy, award-winning science journalist Stefan Klein deciphers the forgotten legacy of this universal genius and persuasively demonstrates that today we have much to learn from Leonardo's way of thinking. Klein sheds light on the mystery behind Leonardo's paintings, takes us through the many facets of his fascination with water, and explains the true significance of his dream of flying. It is a unique glimpse into the complex and brilliant mind of this inventor, scientist, and pioneer of a new world view, with profound consequences for our times.

Leonardo's Legacy: How Da Vinci Reimagined the World

Arts & Photography

Klein, Stefan

History & Criticism

Da Capo Press

Revered today as perhaps the greatest of Renaissance painters, Leonardo da Vinci was a scientist at heart. The artist who created the Mona Lisa also designed functioning robots and digital computers, constructed flying machines, and built the first heart valve. His intuitive, ingenious approacha new mode of thinkinglinked highly diverse areas of inquiry in startlingly original ways, ushering in a whole new era.
In Leonardo's Legacy, award-winning science journalist Stefan Klein provides an illuminating new look at Leonardo's unique genius” (Publishers Weekly), which delves into the brilliant, complex mind of this quintessential Renaissance man.

Biographies & Memoirs

Popular science at its very best, The Secret Pulse of Time awakens us to and empowers us with the idea that time is far more at our disposal than we have previously realized. Award-winning journalist Stefan Klein whose previous book, The Science of Happiness, is a longtime international bestsellerhere provides what are essentially operating instructions” for time. Through a combination of original investigation and reportage, personal revelation, and a commanding presentation of scientific research (among disciplines including brain physiology, social psychology, philosophy, and Einsteinian physics), The Secret Pulse of Time teaches readers not only to better master time but also to understand why they so often fail to do so.

The Secret Pulse of Time: Making Sense of Life's Scarcest Commodity

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Da Capo Lifelong Books

The Secret Pulse of Time

Avalon Publishing Group

A sterling roster of natural and social scientists in conversation with top-flight journalist Stefan Klein shedding new light on their work, their lives, and what they still hope to discoverWhen acclaimed science writer Stefan Klein asks Nobel Prize winning chemist Roald Hoffmann what sets scientists apart, Hoffmann says, First and foremost, curiosity. In this collection of intimate conversations with nineteen of the world s best-known scientists (including three Nobel Laureates), Klein lets us listen in as today s leading minds reveal what they still hope to discover and how their paradigm-changing work entwines with their lives outside the lab.From the sports car that physicist Steven Weinberg says helped him on his quest for the theory of everything to the jazz musicians who gave psychologist Alison Gopnik new insight into raising children, these scientists explain how they find inspiration everywhere. Hear from renowned scientists including: evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins on selfishness, anthropologist Sarah Hrdy on motherhood, primatologist Jane Goodall on animal behavior, neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran on consciousness, geographer Jared Diamond on chance in history, andmany other luminaries."

We Are All Stardust Lib/E: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

Professionals & Academics

Blackstone Publishing

Popular science at its very best, The Secret Pulse of Time awakens us to and empowers us with the idea that time is far more at our disposal than we have previously realized. Award-winning journalist Stefan Klein whose previous book, The Science of Happiness, is a longtime international bestsellerhere provides what are essentially operating instructions” for time. Through a combination of original investigation and reportage, personal revelation, and a commanding presentation of scientific research (among disciplines including brain physiology, social psychology, philosophy, and Einsteinian physics), The Secret Pulse of Time teaches readers not only to better master time but also to understand why they so often fail to do so.

Science & Math

Physics

“What distinguishes scientists, in your eyes?”—Stefan Klein
“First and foremost, curiosity.”—Roald Hoffmann, Nobel Prize–winning chemist
When Stefan Klein, an acclaimed journalist, sits down to talk with 18 of the world’s leading scientists, he finds they’re driven by, above all, curiosity. When they talk about their work, they turn to what’s next, to what they still hope to discover. And they see inspiration everywhere: From the sports car that physicist Steven Weinberg says helped him on his quest for “the theory of everything” to the jazz musicians who gave psychologist Alison Gopnik new insight into raising children, they reveal how their paradigm-changing work entwines with their lives outside the lab. We hear from extraordinary natural and social scientists, including:
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<li>Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins on ego and selflessness</li>
<li>Primatologist Jane Goodall on chimpanzee behavior</li>
<li>Neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran on consciousness</li>
<li>Geographer Jared Diamond on chance in history</li>
<li>Anthropologist Sarah Hrdy on motherhood</li>
<li>And cosmologist Martin Rees on how “ultimately we ourselves are stardust.”</li>
</ul>

We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

The Experiment

Title: Survival of the Nicest( How Altruism Made Us Human and Why It Pays to Get Along) Binding: Hardcover Author: StefanKlein Publisher: Experiment

Survival of the Nicest: How Altruism Made Us Human and Why It Pays to Get Along

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014 This revelatory tour de force by an acclaimed and internationally bestselling science writer upends our understanding of “survival of the fittest”—and invites us all to think and act more altruistically The phrase “survival of the fittest” conjures an image of the most cutthroat individuals rising to the top. But Stefan Klein, author of the #1 international bestseller The Science of Happiness, makes the startling assertion that altruism is the key to lasting personal and societal success. In fact, altruism defines us: Natural selection favored those early humans who cooperated in groups, and with survival more assured, our altruistic ancestors were free to devote brainpower to developing intelligence, language, and culture—our very humanity. Klein’s groundbreaking findings lead him to a vexing question: If we’re really hard-wired to act for one another’s benefit, why aren’t we all getting along? He believes we’ve learned to mistrust our instincts because success is so often attributed to selfish ambition, and with an extraordinary array of material—current research on genetics and the brain, economics, social psychology, behavioral and anthropological experiments, history, and modern culture—he makes the case that generosity for its own sake remains the best way to thrive.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

An eye-opening celebration of the marvels of space, time, the cosmos, and more How to Love the Universe is a new kind of science writing by an author truly enamored of the world around him. In ten short chapters of lyrical prose—each one an ode to a breathtaking realm of discovery—Stefan Klein uses everyday objects and events as a springboard to meditate on the beauty of the underlying science. Klein sees in a single rose the sublime interdependence of all life; a day of stormy weather points to the world’s unpredictability; a marble conjures the birth of the cosmos. As he contemplates the deepest mysteries—the nature of reality, dark matter, humanity’s place among the galaxies, and more—Klein encourages us to fall in love with the universe the way scientists do: with a grasp of the key ideas and theories of twenty-first-century physics that bring to life the wonders of, really, everything. You won’t look at a rose—or at our world—the same way again.

How to Love the Universe: A Scientist’s Odes to the Hidden Beauty Behind the Visible World

Astronomy & Space Science

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Leonardo's Legacy: How Da Vinci Reimagined the World

Leonardo's Legacy: How Da Vinci Reimagined the World

The Secret Pulse of Time: Making Sense of Life's Scarcest Commodity

The Secret Pulse of Time

We Are All Stardust Lib/E: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

The Secret Pulse of Time: Making Sense of Life's Scarcest Commodity

We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

Survival of the Nicest: How Altruism Made Us Human and Why It Pays to Get Along

Survival of the Nicest: How Altruism Made Us Human and Why It Pays to Get Along

How to Love the Universe: A Scientist’s Odes to the Hidden Beauty Behind the Visible World