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  Robert Langdon: Book 2

  The Da Vinci Code

  by Dan Brown

  Robert Langdon, Harvard Professor of symbology, receives an urgent late-night call while in Paris: the curator of the Louvre has been murdered. Alongside the body is a series of baffling ciphers. Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Da Vinci - and further. The curator, part of a secret society named the Priory of Sion, may have sacrificed... (more)
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  Leonardo

  The First Scientist

  by Michael White

  Celebrated as a painter and engineer during his lifetime, Leonardo da Vinci was the very embodiment of the Renaissance Man. But few guessed at the extent of his scientific investigations and experiments. In a vast collection of notebooks (over 5,000 pages), Leonardo meticulously detailed his research on optics, mechanics, astronomy, and anatomy. He kept his findings hidden for fear his ideas would be stolen. Had... (more)
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  Vanished Smile

  The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa

  by R. A. Scotti

  On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happened–Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. More than twenty-four hours passed before museum officials realized she was gone. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art. As French detectives using the latest methods of criminology, including fingerprinting, tried to trace the... (more)
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  Growing Up With Technology: Young Children Learning in a Digital Age

  by Lydia Plowman, Christine Stephen, Joanna McPake

  Growing Up with Technology explores the role of technology in the everyday lives of three- and four-year-old children, presenting the implications for the children’s continuing learning and development. Children are growing up in a world where the internet, mobile phones and other forms of digital interaction are features of daily life. The authors have carefully observed children’s experiences at home... (more)
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  Leonardo da Vinci (Forgotten Books)

  by Maurice Walter Brockwell

  Leonardo has succeeded in producing the effect of the coup de theatre at the moment when Jesus said "One of you shall betray me." Instantly the various apostles realise that there is a traitor among their number, and show by their different gestures their different passions, and reveal their different temperaments. On the left of Christ is St. John who is overcome with grief and is interrogated by the impetuous... (more)
• Introduction à la Méthode de Léonard de Vinci (Collection Idées, No. 54)Paul Valéry

  

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  Introduction à la Méthode de Léonard de Vinci (Collection Idées, No. 54)

  by Paul Valéry

  Valéry aborde la peinture, les mathématiques, l'architecture, la mécanique et la physique avec une aisance et une érudition déconcertantes. Par delà la réflexion à caractère scientifique, ce premier essai en prose contient les grandes lignes de l'esthétique de Valéry. <Text in French>
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  The Romance of Leonardo Da Vinci

  by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

  At the turn of the 20th century, a brilliant Russian writer, Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky (1865-1941), wrote this novel, "The Romance of Leonardo Da Vinci", a profound meditation on art and religion. Merezhkovsky portrays Leonardo as a man of many facets, some of which may be grouped as pagan, some of which are Christian. Leonardo was filled with conflict and doubts. This book is filled with historical... (more)
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  Trailblazer Biography

  Leonardo Da Vinci

  Renaissance Genius

  by Barbara O'Connor

  Grade 5-8-Outstanding writing and design result in a compelling and accessible portrait of this master artist. O'Connor begins with Leonardo's childhood in the Italian village of Vinci, whose name was adopted by Leonardo's family, and continues through the artist's death. The book also discusses some of his famous paintings, including the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and the extraordinary stories of their... (more)
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  Leonardo's Machines: Insights into Leonardo Da Vinci's Engineering Notions With Four Paper Models to Cut Out and Glue Together

  by Bernard Ambrose

  A collection of paper models which explore some of Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical ideas. They are supported by a commentary into Leonardo's thoughts, understandings and sometimes, misunderstandings.
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  Leonardo: The machines

  by Carlo Pedretti

  Text: English (translation) Original Language: Italian
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  Das Wolkenvolk: Book 1

  Seide und Schwert

  by Kai Meyer

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  In Death: Book 3

  Immortal in Death

  by J. D. Robb

  In a time when technology can create beauty and youth, passion and greed can destroy them...She was one of the most sought after women in the world. A top model who would stop at nothing to get what she wanted--even another woman's man. And now she was dead, the victim of a brutal murder. Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas put her professional life on the line to take the case when suspicion fell on her best... (more)
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  Léonard de Vinci

  by Serge Bramly