Renaissance Technology

In this masterful work, listeners will encounter: the poets Petrarch and Boccaccio, the fathers of the Renaissance; the paintings, sculptures, and architecture of Milan, Florence, and Venice; the life and accomplishments of Leonardo DaVinci; the Catholic church and the popes of Avignon and Rome; the politicians and philosophers of Italy, including the Borgia family, Julius II, and Machiavelli; the Italian Wars, the conflicts with France, and the country's decline.

The future belongs to those who stop doing what machines can do—and start owning what they can’t. AI didn’t eliminate work. It redefined where human value actually lives. As automation accelerates, speed, volume, and technical execution are becoming cheap. What’s becoming rare is judgment—the ability to decide what matters, what doesn’t, and where attention should be spent. The people gaining the most leverage from AI aren’t trying to keep up with machines. They’re stepping out of execution and into direction. They’re delegating the routine and reclaiming the decisions that shape outcomes.

Betrayed by the ruling families of Italy, Ezio Auditore embarks upon an epic quest for vengeance. To eradicate corruption and restore his family's honor, he will learn the art of the Assassins. Along the way, Ezio will call upon the wisdom of such great minds as Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò Machiavelli, knowing that survival is bound to the skills by which he must live.To his allies, he will become a force for change in his fight for freedom and justice.

“A journey as epic, and varying, as the Silk Road itself...[The Fabric of Civilization is] like a swatch of a Florentine Renaissance brocade: carefully woven, the technique precise, the colors a mix of shade and shine and an accurate representation of the whole cloth” (The New York Times)...

Discover the extraordinary true story of Jim Simons, the mathematician who became the wealthiest scientist in history. The Wealthiest Scientist in History: Jim Simons—The Mathematician Who Solved the Market explores his remarkable journey from groundbreaking mathematical research and Cold War codebreaking to founding Renaissance Technologies and creating the legendary Medallion Fund, the most successful hedge fund ever. Learn how advanced mathematics, algorithms, probability, artificial intelligence, and data science transformed Wall Street and reshaped modern investing. This ...

A standalone audio exclusive set in the world of the Red Knight. Taking place in Etrusca, Terra Antica, thousands of miles from Alba and Liviapolis, an ancient power is rediscovered.

In Capitalism Created the Climate Crisis and Capitalism Will Solve It: The Market Forces Catalyzing a Climate Technology Renaissance, distinguished author Kentaro Kawamori delivers a fascinating and timely exploration of the interplay between capitalism and climate change. He explains how the capitalist system helped to contribute to the current crisis of global warming and how that same system will help to end it.

Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped—and have been shaped by—the cultures in which they arose. In this edition, Misa brings his acclaimed text up to date by drawing on current scholarship while retaining sharply drawn portraits of individual people, artifacts, and systems. A masterful analysis of technology and culture, Leonardo to the Internet frames a history that illuminates modern-day problems and prospects of a technology-dependent world.

The Renaissance was not built by genius alone. It was built by tools. When we think of the European Renaissance, we picture painters, inventors, explorers, physicians, philosophers, and scientists. We remember Leonardo, Gutenberg, Copernicus, Vesalius, and the great cities of Europe that seemed to awaken after centuries of darkness. But behind every Renaissance genius stood something quieter. Paper. Maps. Clocks. Instruments. Surgical tools. Pharmacies. Water machines. Gears. Contracts. Ledgers. Trade routes. Workshops. Measuring devices. Scientific diagrams. Technical manuals. Practical ...

The Analog Renaissance: Life Without Computers by Vygintas Varnas is a thought-provoking exploration of a world where the digital ghost has vanished, leaving humanity to navigate life without computers, screens, or algorithms. Through vivid chapters on society, economy, education, healthcare, transportation, and human psychology, this ebook imagines a reality defined by physical effort, local communities, and slower, more deliberate living. From the friction of manual labor to the return of handwritten ledgers, face-to-face conversation, and the rhythms of nature, Varnas paints a compelling...

More than ever before, the Renaissance stands out as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics, and even humanity itself emerged in ways that continue to affect not only Europe but the entire world. In this wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton shows the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement, cultural experimentation, and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. 

In a world where AI makes everything possible, what becomes truly valuable? The Infinite Age is a manifesto for a civilization on the edge of rebirth — a philosophical, educational, and strategic framework for the next Renaissance. Authored within the Goldstonian canon, it bridges theology, technology, and governance to answer the defining question of our time: how do we find meaning in a world of infinite creation? Across twenty-four chapters, Dr. Justin Goldston and his AI co-author map the architecture of the Infinite Age — an era where curiosity replaces conformity, service replaces...

What if Leonardo da Vinci's greatest invention cracked reality itself? Florence, 1503. Steam engines roar to life centuries before their time. Mechanical beings awaken to consciousness. Airships darken Renaissance skies. Reality fractures into infinite possibilities. When young artist Luca Bernardi becomes something between human and machine—a living bridge between two forms of consciousness—he discovers Leonardo's steam revolution has split the world itself, creating multiple timelines where different versions of history unfold simultaneously. The New Renaissance plunges readers into a...

They never knew how he did it. Few composers write more than one or two symphonies in their lifetimes. Beethoven spent a year on his shorter symphonies but more than six years on his 9th Symphony. The prodigy Mozart finished his last three symphonies (39, 40, and 41) in the span of a few weeks. His 25th Symphony took only two days.

We live in times where we wield unprecedented power over our surroundings, and much seems possible in the future. In 1962 science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated his famous Three Laws, of which the third law is: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." It could be said we live in magical times. But much knowledge and magic have been lost. This knowledge was revered and studied by the ancients through to the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Today we have current fictional pop culture wizards like Gandalf and Dumbledore. But in the past, this type of ...

Can we envision a world that was truly united and organized to serve humans, our environment, and all living beings? As the process of planetary acceleration of time and energy continues, many previous patterns of interaction may no longer serve humanity. We are in the midst of enormous change. Although it is easy to write those words, it is difficult to comprehend the changing of everything we take for granted: our financial, political, medical, educational, scientific, and religious systems are shifting. The purpose of A Planetary Vision is to create a blueprint that summarizes the areas ...

We Are All Magi Now: Immortality, Infinite Knowledge, and Unlimited Power in the Age of Technology For thousands of years, the Magus—the seeker of immortality, wealth, knowledge, and power—stood at the edge of science and magic. From Hermes Trismegistus and John Dee to Paracelsus, Giordano Bruno, and Isaac Newton, these visionaries sought the secrets of creation itself. Today, their dreams are no longer myth. With AI, genetic engineering, nuclear energy, and digital networks, humanity now wields the very powers the Magi once pursued in secret. In this provocative book, John Cousins ...

The Renaissance spawned the use of the label "Renaissance man" to describe a person who is extremely talented in multiple fields, and no discussion of the Renaissance is complete without the original Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci. Indeed, if 100 people are asked to describe Leonardo in one word, they might give 100 answers.

John Dee's 1570 Mathematicall Praeface introduced English readers to a vision of mathematics far broader than calculation alone. Written for Henry Billingsley's first complete English translation of Euclid's Elements and printed in London by John Day, it begins with the status of mathematical objects, moves through number and magnitude, and branches into a wide-ranging catalogue of arts. Optics, astronomy, music, surveying, mechanics, medicine, architecture, navigation, image making, artificial marvels, and Archemastrie all enter Dee's order of knowledge. This edition offers a complete ...

Published to great acclaim in 1873, Walter Pater’s compendium of idiosyncratic, impressionistic essays on the Renaissance gained him a reputation as a daring modern philosopher. Oscar Wilde called it the “holy writ of beauty.” It was Pater’s cry of “art for art’s sake” that became the manifesto for the aesthetic movement. He believed that art should be sensual and that beauty should rank as the highest ideal. Marked by elegant fluency, Pater’s essays discuss Botticelli, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and other artists who, for him, embodied the spirit of the Renaissance.