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  Scientists and Inventors -...

  Kelly Mass

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  This is a bundle of biographies of scientists and inventors that have paved the way for the technology and society we enjoy today. Their genius ideas and out-of-the-box thinking have been inspiring and courageous, to say the least. These are the inventors we will discuss in this great combo of books: 
  Alan Turing: The Famous Cryptographer Who Broke the Nazi Enigma Code 
  Albert Einstein: One of the Greatest Physicists of All Time 
  George Stephenson: His Inventions in the Industrial Revolution 
  Isaac Newton: His Theories on Gravity, His Inventions, and His Philosophy 
  Marie Curie: History of the Pioneer Radioactivity Researcher 
  Michael Faraday: Theories about Electromagnetism and Electrochemistry 
  Nikola Tesla: History of His Inventions, Engineering and Electric Projects, and Predictions 
  Nostradamus: The Prophesies of an Astrologer, Physician, and Reputed Seer 
  Thomas Edison: His Inventions, His Business, and His Electric Power Generation 
  Wright Brothers: History of Their Reputation, Invention, and First Flight

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  Taylor Swift - In Her Own Words

  Helena Hunt

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  Get inside the head of one of the most influential musicians of our time with this collection of her most inspiring and revealing quotes. 
   
  The quotations in this book have been carefully curated from Taylor Swift’s numerous public statements—interviews, op-eds, social media posts, and more. It’s a comprehensive picture of her meteoric rise to the top, her ever-savvy business sense, and her increasingly forthright perspective on the music world and beyond. 
   
  Swift’s catchy, chart-topping songs have propelled her to become one of the bestselling musicians of all time. But in the more than fifteen years she’s been making music, she has also amassed enough power to buck the norms of an industry notorious for controlling the images of its often very young female artists. She’s stood up for herself and for other artists, championing their rights to fair royalties, and inspired tens of thousands of fans to register to vote. Swift’s achievements have earned her spots on both Forbes’s Most Powerful Women and Time’s 100 Most Influential People lists. Now, for the first time, you can find her most inspirational, thought-provoking quotes in one place.

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  Was Muhammad Crazy?

  Frédéric Joy

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  Through a careful psychological re-reading of the Qur'an and other biographical sources about Muhammad, the author identifies the pathological symptoms of the prophet of Islam. His diagnosis is unambiguous: the man suffered from a querulous paranoia with dissociative identity disorder. 
  The author shows that Mohammed identified himself with previous prophets (Jesus and Moses in particular), whom he plagiarized. Adapting their words and deeds to the culture of the Arab world, he imposed these new doctrines on his people primarily through direct aggression and political manipulation. Yet, Islam was phenomenally successful during his lifetime and over the centuries. 
  At this point, another question arises: How did Muhammad manage to convince the masses? The author then analyzes the personality of the submissive people and the success of this religion through the centuries. The author also deconstructs all the scientific and philosophical presuppositions behind the Muslim religion (cosmology, biology, psychology, etc.). Muhammad's moral and political discourse is confronted with its own contradictions.

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  The Last Sea Dog - 6 solo...

  Jean-Luc Van Den Heede

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  The Last Sea Dog tells the story of Jean-Luc Van Den Heede's life and his many sailing adventures, focussing on his triumph in the 2018/19 Golden Globe Race. Jean-Luc has rounded Cape Horn 12 times and completed six solo circumnavigations. These have resulted in five race podiums and one world record, which he still currently holds. He has been on the podium twice in the Vendée Globe single-handed race around the world, coming third in 1990 and second in 1993. More recently he won the Golden Globe Race in 2018/19 at the age of 73. This race was run as a fiftieth anniversary of the 1968 race of the same name won by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston. While the restriction of no assistance and no stopovers were not particularly unusual, more challenging were the requirements to sail the race 'as in 1968' with yachts similar to those available in that year and, except for safety equipment, no modern technology allowed. No satellite-based navigation aids were available to the sailors and they had to use a sextant to navigate around the world as Robin had done fifty years previously. Jean-Luc was born in Amiens, far from the sea, and he became a maths teacher. Nevertheless, he developed a passion for competitive sailing. He is friendly and easy to approach, but he is also a formidable competitor with an abundance of courage and perseverance. This personal account of his life and the Golden Globe Race is an amazing story of a man who has faced the toughest times and sea and won through

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  Leonardo da Vinci: The Man...

  David West

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  Leonardo da Vinci has been called the greatest genius who ever lived. He has been reproduced on coffee mugs, euro coins, and motivational posters. He has become the automatic answer to the question of what human greatness looks like at its absolute limit. 
  This book argues that we have been looking at him wrong. 
  Not because he was ordinary — he was not. But the myth we have built around Leonardo has done something quietly destructive. It has made him useless. You cannot learn from a god. You can only feel small in comparison. 
  Leonardo da Vinci: The Man Behind the Myth tells a different story. It follows the specific, complicated, frequently frustrating human being who was born illegitimate in a Tuscan hill town in 1452 and died in a borrowed house in France in 1519, leaving behind unfinished paintings, unpublished notebooks, and five thousand pages of the most restlessly curious mind in recorded history. 
  Leonardo was late. He was guarded. He was chronically unable to finish what he started and constitutionally unwilling to share what he knew. He was human in all the ways that word implies — not just in his brilliance but in his contradictions and his flaws. 
  This is not a book about a genius. It is a book about what genius actually looks like from the inside — restless, obsessive, unfinished, and unmistakably, irreducibly human.

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  Taiki Bansei

  Gaspare Campanella

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  What an incredible journey! But just how much more can it possibly entail? I hope my autobiography will captivate you, offering both entertainment and insight. So, join me on this remarkable voyage – one that has been fun, peculiar, overwhelming at times, but always deeply educational. Life has taught me plenty, and along the way, I've encountered unforgettable characters – some amusing, some obscure, but all leaving their mark. Their names have been changed to protect both the innocent and those who will never be innocent. To be brief: I was born in England, raised in northern Italy and Sicily, then found myself in the Bronx. My journey took me across vast oceans, through the war in Vietnam, into the depths of drug addiction, and finally, toward a steady path of rehabilitation. And there is still so much more to tell. So, ride with me. And don't let the Japanese title baffle you – believe me, it will all make sense in the end.

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