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Featuring great thinkers all, their ideas and major works: philosophers - Rousseau, Voltaire, Kant, Foucault, Locke, Machiavelli, Sartre, Proust, Beauvoir, Fayol, Confucius; scientists & inventors - Faraday, Marie Curie, Einstein, Copernicus, Edison, Newton; writers & authors - Shakespeare, Milton, Woolf, Maupassant, Tolstoy; explorers & pioneers - J. Cook, Lindbergh; composers; artists - van Gogh, Matisse; innovators - Da Vinci, Freud, Jung; historians; teachers - Boulanger, Montessori; impresario - Sergei Diaghilev, Cousteau; business & management gurus - Drucker, Fayol; and world leaders.
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Charles Lyell and Principles of Geology
In: Great Scientists
Foremost geologist of his day, Charles Lyell's highly popular principles of geology had a huge influence on Charles Darwin. more...
In: Great Scientists
Life and works of Sir Edward Frankland who laid the foundation for the theory of valence and discovered the science of organometallic compounds. more...
In: Great Writers
Brief biography of Marguerite Duras, regarded as France's most famous woman author of the late 20th century. more...
Anthony Burgess Brief Biography
In: Great Writers
Brief biography and works of author Anthony Burgess, known for his portrayal of a violent youth in his famous novel. more...
Insights to ideas of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky, best-known for his emphasis on the role of social and cultural factors in the development of cognition. more...
J.L. Austin How to Do Things with Words
Works of British philosopher John Langshaw Austin, best-known for his individualistic analysis of human thought, derived his writings from the study of ordinary language. more...
In: Great Writers
A brief biography of English novelist Kinsgley Amis who belonged to a group of British writers known as the "Angry Young Men." more...
In: Great Writers
A brief biography of Maurice Maeterlinck, best-known for plays Pellèas and Mélisande and The Blue Bird, and his involvement with French literary movement symbolism. more...
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