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Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with such encyclopaedic interests. All too often these individuals are remembered for just one part of their valuable achievements. In this account, renowned cultural historian Peter Burke argues for a more rounded view. Identifying 500 western...
Author
Publisher
E.P. Dutton
Pub. Date
c1986
Language
English
Description
Marya was a survivor. From the brutal lessons of an abandoned childhood to the darker, more complicated games of the adult world, she rose up to perilous heights of fame. This is her story. "Brilliant ... thrillingly alive ... stunning!"--Chicago Tribune
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light. The views of individual intellectuals have spanned the spectrum, but the views of intellectuals as a whole have tended to cluster. Indeed, these views have clustered at one end of the spectrum in the early...
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
Grove Press is pleased to reissue Bateson's deeply satisfying treatise on the improvisational lives of five extraordinary women. Using their personal stories as her framework, Dr. Bateson delves into the creative potential of the complex lives we live today, where ambitions are constantly refocused on new goals and possibilities. With balanced sympathy and a candid approach to what makes these women inspiring, examples of the newly fluid movement...
10) Thinkers
Author
Series
Publisher
Garrett Educational Corp
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Biographical capsules of significant individuals who have influenced the world of ideas, from Plato to Nelson Mandela.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A riveting, fictional rendering of the life of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the greatest Russian poet of the twentieth century -- and one of the few artists in Soviet Russia who daringly refused to pay creative homage to Joseph Stalin.
Author
Series
Women and history volume 2
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1994, c1993
Language
English
17) Howards End
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"First published in 1910, Howards End is the novel that earned E. M. Forster recognition as a major writer. At its heart lie two families - the wealthy and business-minded Wilcoxes and the cultured and idealistic Schlegels. When the beautiful and independent Helen Schlegel begins an impetuous affair with the ardent Paul Wilcox, a series of events is sparked - some very funny, some very tragic - that results in a dispute over who will inherit Howards...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of one man's life-long education in the school of hard knocks, as his journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story of the dramatically changing times in which this personal odyssey took place." "The vignettes of the people and places that made an impression on Thomas Sowell at various stages of...
19) Ancient Greece
Author
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Text and color illustrations present background information on the ancient Greeks, a time line, glossary, pronunciation guide, and further-reading list, and profiles of nine significant Greeks such as Socrates and Sappho.