Books like Leonardo da Vinci
12 books with a reading profile close to Leonardo da Vinci by Martin Kemp. Deep and outward-looking; a moderate read.
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Saint Patrick Retold
by Roy Flechner
Also deep and outward-looking · history, biography
Roy Flechner reconstructs the life of the historical Patrick by situating his fifth-century mission within the legal and economic structures of late antiquity.
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
Angela Davis connects disparate liberation efforts through a framework of intersectional internationalism.
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Scenes from Deep Time
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
In Scenes from Deep Time, M.
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Stravinsky
Also outward-looking · history, biography
In this biography, Stephen Walsh reconstructs the first fifty years of Igor Stravinsky’s life, spanning his upbringing in tsarist Russia to his established career in 1930s France.
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History of Beauty
by Umberto Eco
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Umberto Eco examines the shifting definitions of aesthetics in Western civilization from ancient Greece to the dawn of the twenty-first century.
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Art Under Control in North Korea
by Jane Portal
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Jane Portal examines the institutional mechanisms through which the North Korean state dictates artistic production.
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Powers and Prospects
by Noam Chomsky
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
In this collection of essays and lectures, Noam Chomsky analyzes the intersection of international relations, geopolitical power, and elite control over economic policy.
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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
by Jon Meacham
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Jon Meacham portrays Thomas Jefferson as a pragmatic political operative rather than a detached philosopher.
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
Richard Rothstein identifies the specific local, state, and federal policies that created and enforced residential segregation across the United States.
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