Books like Pro and con by Walter Isaacson

Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs draws on more than forty interviews with the pioneer and the perspectives of family, friends, competitors, and colleagues, portraying his relentless drive, meticulous perfectionism, and profound influence on personal computing, animation, music, phones, tablets and digital publishing.

Walter Isaacson’s biography reveals Leonardo da Vinci as a restless genius whose notebooks and inventions connect his celebrated paintings to groundbreaking science, illustrating how curiosity, observation, and imagination forge lasting creativity.

Walter Isaacson chronicles the minds that forged the digital age, from Ada Lovelace to Larry Page, showing how vision, collaboration, and engineering transformed abstract ideas into the computers, Internet, and technology we use today.

A biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan that traces his upbringing in India, his extraordinary mathematical achievements, and his collaboration with G. H. Hardy at Cambridge.

A scientific biography of Jennifer Doudna, co‑developer of the CRISPR gene‑editing tool, exploring her life and the market impact of her invention.

Library Journal: The Native American (NA) experience as presented in children's books is reviewed through essays, poetry, book reviews, guidelines for evaluating books, a resource list of organizations, a bibliography of books by and about NAs, American Indian authors for young readers, and illustrations. The essays may help or hinder Native American concerns. There is hostility: You know us (NAs) only as enemies.'' No location is given for the cited Iroquois document which states: ``Even the form of our government seems to owe a greater debt to the Constitution of the Six Nations of the Iroquois than to any European document.'' One positive suggestion is offered: ``Visit with living American Indian people, try to find out more about their ways of life and their languages.'' The book reviews are similar to the essays, and the illustrations are traditional.

This book provides advice for aspiring leaders on how to become great leaders and succeed in their ventures.

A collection of essays by renowned historians examines the leadership of Washington, Willkie, FDR, Hoover, Eisenhower, Grant, Bobby Kennedy, and Pauli Murray, revealing the enduring principles that have defined effective political and business leaders.

Six American statesmen—Harriman, Acheson, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy, and Bohlen—whose friendship and intellect reshaped U.S. foreign policy after WWII, shaping the Cold War and laying foundations that still guide American diplomacy today.