On Leonardo’s Notebooks & Works

Bambach, Carmen, Editor. Leonardo da Vinci:  Master Draftsman. New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Press, 2003. 

Kemp, Maritn, Editor. Leonardo On Painting. New York, NY: Yale University Press, 1989.

Marani, Pietro. Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Paintings. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 2000.

Richter, Jean Pual, Eidtor. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci: in Two Volumes. New York, NY: Dover Publications, 1970.

Readings Towards a New Renaissance

Sustainable Industries Journal, Portland Oregon, Celilo Group Media, monthly journal

Brown, Lester R. Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2001.

Brown, Lester R. Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2003.

Capra, Fritjof. The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living. New York, NY: Anchor Books; A Division of Random House Inc., 2004.

Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York, NY: Penguin Group USA Inc., 2005.

Elgin, Duane. Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanities Future. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 2000.

Friedman, Thomas, L. The World is Flat. New York, NY: Farrar, Staus and Giroux, 2005

Korten, David C. The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism. San Francisco, CA & West Hartford, CT: Berrett-Koehler Publishers; Kumarian Press, Inc., 1999.

Korten, David C. The Great Turning; From Empire to Earth Community. San Francisco, CA., Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc. & Bloomfield, CT Kumarian Press, Inc., 2006

Hawken, Paul, Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1999.

McDonough, William, and Michael Braungart. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. New York, NY: North Point Press, 2002.

Rifkin, Jeremy. The Hydrogen Economy: The Next Great Economic Revolution. New York, NY: Penguin Putnam Inc., 2002.

Rifkin, Jeremy. The Eurpean Dream; How Europe’s Vision of the Future is Eclipsing the American Dream. New York, NY: Penguin Group USA Inc., 2004.

Wackernagel, Mathis & Rees, William. Our Ecological Footprint; Reducing Human Impact on Earth. Gabriola Publishers, BC. Canada, 1996.

Wilson, Edward O. The Future of Life. New York, NY: Vintage Books; A Division of Random House Inc., 2003.

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Leonardo Biographies
Bramly, Serge. Leonardo, Discovering the Life of Leonardo da Vinci. New York, NY: Edward Burlingame Books, 1991.

Nicholl, Charles. Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind. New York, NY: Penguin
Group, 2004.

Whiting, Roger. The Art of Leonardo da Vinci: A portrait of the Renaissance Man. London: Quantum Publishing, Ltd. 2002. 

Renaissance Background

Broton, Jerry. The Renaissance Bazaar; From the Silk Road to Michelangelo. New York, NY: Oxford University Press Inc., 2002

Historical Fiction

Dann, Jack. The Memory Cathedral. New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1995

Dunant, Sarah. The Birth of Venus. New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 2003.

King, Ross. Brunelleschi’s Dome. New York, NY: Penguin Putnam Inc., 2001.

Konigsburg, E.L. The Second Mrs. Giaconda. New York, NY: Aladdin Paperbacks, 1981.

Masters, Roger D. Fortune is a River.  New York, NY: Penguin Putnam Inc., 1999.

Merejcovski, Dmitri. The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci. New York, NY: The Heritage Press, 1938.

For Personal Development

Gelb, Michael J.  How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day. Delacorte Press, 1998.

Reading List for Young People

Cole, Alison. The Renaissance: The essential guide to the art of the Northern and Italian Renaissance, from the 14th to the 16th century. New York, NY: Dorling Kindersley, Inc., 1994.

Doeser, Linda. The Life and Works of Leonardo da Vinci. Great Britain: Parragon Book Service Limited, 1994.

Farrow, Andrew, Editor. The Renaissance: See Through History Series. New York, NY: Viking Books; Penguin Books, 1993.

Fritz, Jean, and Hudson Talbott. Leonardo’s Horse. New York, NY: G. P. Putman’s Sons, 2001.

Herbert, Janis. Leonardo da Vinci for Kids: His Life and Ideas (21 Activities). Chicago, IL: Chigaco Review Press, Inc., 1998.

Morley, Jacqueline, and Mark Peppe. A Renaissance Town. New York, NY: Peter Bedrick Books, 1996.

Mühlberger, Richard. What Makes a Leonardo a Leonardo?. New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Viking; Penguin Books USA Inc., 1994.

Provensen, A. & M. Leonardo da Vinci: The Artist, Inventor, Scientist, in Three Dimensional, Moveable Pictures. New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1984.

Romei, Francesca. Leonardo da Vinci: Artist, Inventor and Scientist of the Renaissance. New York, NY: Peter Bedrick Books, 1994.

Stanley, Diane. Leonardo da Vinci. New York, NY: Morrow Junior Books, 1996.

Ventura, Piero. Michelangelo’s World. New York, NY: G. P. Putman’s Sons, 1988.