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Leo
"My relationship with Sam Bronfman, and his sons Edgar and Charles, has sometimes been compared to that of Robert Duvall as Tom Hagen, the consigliere to the Corleone family in The Godfather, in the sense that I was a surrogate son as well as an adviser to the father, and a friend as well as a counsellor to the sons. There's a certain amount of truth to that, in that I was brought into the family as an outsider, and became privy to its secrets." Thus begins Leo Kolber's account, written with L. Ian MacDonald, of his remarkable relationship with the Bronfman dynasty, from the founding father to his sons, and eventually to the dissolution of a great business empire. For thirty years, Leo Kolbe...
Becoming Leonardo
A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the Year “A truly intimate portrait of one of the greatest creators in human history,” this biography of Leonardo Da Vinci “has the pace, elegance, and authorial omnipresence of a novel,” bringing both artist and Renaissance Italy to life (Noah Charney, author of The Art of Forgery) Why did Leonardo Da Vinci leave so many of his major works uncompleted? Why did this resolute pacifist build war machines for the notorious Borgias? Why did he carry the Mona Lisa with him everywhere he went for decades, yet never quite finish it? Why did he write backwards, and was he really at war with Michelangelo? And was he gay? In a book unl...
Handbook of Research on Promoting Economic and Social Development Through Serious Games
While gaming has become an increasingly popular leisure activity in society, the success of the videogame market has also contributed to the application of serious games in many different contexts and most importantly for learning purposes. This technological novelty is the basis for an innovative change in myriad environments such as education, commerce, marketing, healthcare, and many more. It is of great import to understand these applications in order to improve organizational development. The Handbook of Research on Promoting Economic and Social Development Through Serious Games provides reflection on the multidisciplinary applications of serious games. This book contextualizes the importance of serious games in organizational and societal improvement. Covering topics such as cultural heritage, mental health, and tourism, this book is a dynamic resource for policymakers, academicians, interdisciplinary researchers, graduate and post-graduate students, technology developers, faculty of K-12 and higher education, and government officials.
Desktop Grid Computing
Desktop Grid Computing presents common techniques used in numerous models, algorithms, and tools developed during the last decade to implement desktop grid computing. These techniques enable the solution of many important sub-problems for middleware design, including scheduling, data management, security, load balancing, result certification, and fault tolerance. The book’s first part covers the initial ideas and basic concepts of desktop grid computing. The second part explores challenging current and future problems. Each chapter presents the sub-problems, discusses theoretical and practical issues, offers details about implementation and experiments, and includes references to further reading and notes. One of the first books to give a thorough and up-to-date presentation of this topic, this resource describes various approaches and models as well as recent trends that underline the evolution of desktop grids. It balances the theory of designing desktop grid middleware and architecture with applications and real-world deployment on large-scale platforms.
Leonardo's Universe
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A Curious Vision
Collection of Leonardo's drawings from Windsor Castle. Includes preparatory sketches for paintings, designs for equestrian monuments, war machines & costumes for court entertainments, maps & studies in anatomy; quarto.
Characters, Tales and Tragedies In the Boston Fire Department
The characters and tales from the author’s 42 years with the BFD will be sure to hold your interest and put a smile on your face. There may just be a tear in your eye when you read about the tragedies he has seen over the years. It is written not only for the lay person, but the firefighter as well. You are sure to be entertained.
Leonardo's Horse
Meanwhile, R-, a 20th century historian writing a novel about Leonardo, meditates upon the same question in the midst of an apocalyptic traffic jam, as military helicopters fill the air with tear gas, AIDS demonstrators run amok, and a hospital evacuates its patients onto a nearby sidewalk.
The Fabrication of Leonardo da Vinci’s Trattato della pittura (2 vols.)
The basis for our understanding of Leonardo’s theory of art was, for over 150 years, his Treatise on Painting, which was issued in 1651 in Italian and French. This present volume offers both the first scholarly edition of the Italian editio princeps as well as the first complete English translation of this seminal work. In addition, It provides a comprehensive study of the Italian first edition, documenting how each editorial campaign that lead to it produced a different understanding of the artist’s theory. What emerges is a rich cultural and textual history that foregrounds the transmission of artisanal knowledge from Leonardo’s workshop in the Duchy of Milan to Carlo Borromeo’s Milan, Cosimo I de’ Medici’s Florence, Urban VIII’s Rome, and Louis XIV’s Paris.
Gold Love - L'élu du gangster
Léonardo n'a qu'une vingtaine d'années et n'attend pas grand-chose de la vie. Son père est devenu alcoolique après la mort de sa mère, et maintenant Léonardo doit occuper deux emplois pour payer les factures de la famille, ainsi qu'une partie des dettes de son père en les boites de nuit. Il en a assez de vivre pour sortir son père des ennuis, avec des problèmes différents toutes les heures, ce qui lui a coûté quatre emplois. Léonardo rentre chez lui fatigué et, dès qu'il ouvre la porte, il est choqué de trouver trois autres hommes dans la pièce, en plus de son père blessé, l'un d'eux pointant une arme sur la tête de son père. L'homme tourna la tête pour le regarder froidement, et à cette vue et à l'homme qui l'examinait de la tête aux pieds, Léonardo ne ressentit que des frissons dans le dos. -Ton cher père me doit de l'argent. Je lui ai donné un délai, mais il ne l'a pas respecté et je suis venu recouvrer la dette. - Quelle est la valeur de la dette ? - Vingt-huit mille dollars. - Quoi? Il a ensuite été acculé par le gangster Frank Gold, qui semblait vouloir quelque chose de plus que de l'argent......
