Thomas Jefferson : a modern Prometheus / by Moses, Wilson Jeremiah, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…"Openness, brilliance, and leadership" -- A Renaissance man in the age of the Enlightenment -- Baconism and natural science -- Anthropology and ethnic cleansing: white "rubbish" blacks, and Indians -- Education, religion, and social control -- Women and the count of Monticello -- Debt, deference and consumption -- Defining the presidency.…”
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Reinventing the South : versions of a literary region / by Winchell, Mark Royden, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The Nashville Renascence -- This Land Is Your Land -- Arkansas Traveler -- Renaissance Man -- The Legacy of Monroe K. Spears -- Incarnate Words -- "What They Have to Say about Us" -- Part Two. …”
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Time is of the essence /

Table of Contents: “…Arc of the pendulum / Michael Brecker (8:59) -- Sound off / Larry Goldings (6:05) -- Half past late / Michael Brecker (7:54) -- Timeline / Pat Metheny (6:06) -- The morning of this night / Michael Brecker (7:41) -- Renaissance man : for Eddie Harris / George Whitty (8:34) -- Dr. …”
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Citizen-general : Jacob Dolson Cox and the Civil War era / by Schmiel, Gene

Table of Contents: “…Citizen of the Western Reserve: maturing in peace, girding for war -- A citizen-general secures (West) Virginia -- Citizen-general on the national stage: the Maryland Campaign -- Citizen/political general: political wars outside the mainstream -- Division and army commander: the Atlanta Campaign -- Citizen-warrior: the Franklin-Nashville Campaign and war's end -- From citizen-general to state and national political leader -- Citizen-statesman -- Civil War historian -- Renaissance man in the Gilded Age.…”
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The beginnings of Ladino literature : Moses Almosnino and his readers / by Borovai︠a︡, O. V.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: Jewish vernacular culture in fifteenth-century Iberia -- Ladino in the sixteenth century: the emergence of a new vernacular literature -- Almosnino's epistles: a new genre for a new audience -- Almosnino's chronicles: the Ottoman Empire through the eyes of court Jews -- The first Ladino travelogue: Almosnino's treatise on the extremes of Constantinople -- Rabbis and merchants: new readers, new educational projects -- Epilogue: Moses Almosnino, a renaissance man? -- Appendix: The extremes of Constantinople.…”
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Renaissance art : a very short introduction / by Johnson, Geraldine A.

Table of Contents: “…; 2 The art of the altarpiece; 3 Story-telling in Renaissance art; 4 The challenge of nature and the antique; 5 Portraiture and the rise of 'Renaissance man'; 6 Did women have a Renaissance?; 7 Objects and images for the domestic sphere; 8 The story of a square: art and urbanism in Florence; 9 Michelangelo: the birth of the artist and of art history; References; Further reading; Glossary; Index.…”
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Black bodies and quantum cats : tales from the annals of physics / by Ouellette, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Preface -- Renaissance man -- Talkin' 'bout a revolution -- Lens crafters -- Good heavens -- Gravity's guru -- Drawing down the fire -- Trompe I'oeil -- Rules of attraction -- Ingenious engines -- Emperors of the air -- Disorderly conduct -- Queens of science -- Calling mister watson -- Thrill seekers -- Current affairs -- Shadow casters -- Radio days -- Mysterious rays -- A thousand points of light -- Quantum leap -- It's all relative -- Rocket man -- That darn cat -- Copy that -- Life during wartime -- Gimme shelter -- Tiny bubbles -- Mimicking mother nature -- Energize me -- Small world -- Contemplating chaos -- Kamikaze cosmos -- When particles collide -- Checkmate -- Much ado about nothing -- The case of the missing neutrinos -- Icarus descending -- String section -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.…”

Thomas Jefferson : life, liberty and the pursuit of everything / by Kalman, Maira

Against the tide : Rickover's leadership principles and the rise of the nuclear Navy / by Oliver, Dave, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Never Beat a Compass So True ; 15. Renaissance Man ; 16. Innovation and Change; 17. A Culture of Adaptation ; Afterword: Memorial Day; Notes; Bibliography ; Index ; About the Author.…”
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Leonardo da Vinci. by Müntz, Eugène, 1845-1902

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Dr Rudolph Virchow, the Father of Pathology. by Norman, Robert A.

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Maxims and reflections / by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832

This is Orson Welles / by Welles, Orson, 1915-1985

Leonardo da Vinci. by Müntz, Eugène, 1845-1902

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Digital Da Vinci : computers in music /

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A history of modern political thought : the question of interpretation / by Browning, Gary K.

Table of Contents: “…Part 2 Interpretations of modern political thinkers : Machiavelli: modernity and the Renaissance man -- Hobbes: the politics of absolutism -- Locke: history and political thought -- Rousseau: nature and society -- Kant: morality, politics, and cosmopolitanism -- Hegel: the politics of modernity -- Karl Marx: one or many? …”

Digest. by Pardlo, Gregory

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Contents; Written by Himself; Marginalia; Preamble; Problemata; Problema 1; Problema 2; Problema 3; Problema 4; Attachment: Atlantic City Pimp; Corrective Lenses: Creative Reading and (Recon)textual/ization; Four Improvisations on Ursa Corregidora; Copyright; Renaissance Man; Shades of Green: Envy and Enmity in the American Cultural Imaginary; Copenhagen, 1991; Ghosts in the Machine: Synergy and the Dialogic System; Palling Around; Raisin; Philadelphia, Negro; The Conatus Improvisations; Heraclitus; St. …”
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Shen Gua's Empiricism. by Zuo, Ya

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Daniel Patrick Moynihan : the intellectual in public life /

Table of Contents: “…Katzmann -- The federal executive / Stephen Hess -- The American ambassador / Suzanne R. Garment -- A Renaissance man in the Senate / Michael Barone -- The third branch / Richard K. …”