Results for: books tagged ‘Genius’
Good Will Hunting: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
Wildly charismatic, impossibly brilliant, totally rebellious - Will Hunting is a mathematical genius who lives on the fringes of society, refusing to accept the talent that he has for maths ... More
Jacqueline du Pre: Elizabeth Wilson
Authorized by du Pré's husband, Daniel Barenboim, this is the fullest account yet of the life of the brilliant cellist, struck down in her prime by multiple sclerosis. Charting her ... More
John Butler Yeats Letters: J. B. Yeats
John Butler Yeats was born in County Down in 1839. Both his father and grandfather were Church of England rectors. He followed them into Trinity College, but trained as a ... More
Proof: David Auburn
Following the death of her brilliant mathematician father, Catherine struggles to come to terms with his legacy. Inheriting some of both his brilliance and his instability, she is torn between ... More
A Beautiful Mind: Sylvia Nasar
At the age of thirty-one, John Nash, mathematical genius, suffered a devastating breakdown and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Yet after decades of leading a ghost-like existence, he was to re-emerge ... More
Darwin and the Barnacle: Rebecca Stott
The story of one tiny creature and history's most spectacular scientific breakthrough.In 1846, Charles Darwin has a secret: an essay, sealed in an envelope and locked in his study drawer, ... More
Bobby Fischer Goes to War: David Edmonds and John Eidinow
For decades, the USSR had dominated world chess. Evidence, according to Moscow, of the superiority of the Soviet system. But in 1972 along came the American, Bobby Fischer - insolent, ... More
Orson Welles: Peter Conrad
Peter Conrad, author of The Hitchcock Murders, now turns his eye to the mercurial life and work of the enigmatic maestro who made Citizen Kane, remembered to this day as ... More
The Perfect 10: Richard Williams
In ten chapters on eleven great footballers, Richard Williams unravels the fact, legend and myth of the shirt number that encapsulates everything that excites about the beautiful game. From Ferenc ... More
The Marvellous Boy: Linda Kelly
In 1770, at the end of his tether, the seventeen-year-old poet Thomas Chatterton, penniless and starving, despairing of success and tormented by a sense of failure, committed suicide in his ... More
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