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1) Beethoven
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A brief biography of the German musician who composed some of his greatest works after he became deaf.
2) Exploration
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Presents biographical sketches of twenty-five significant individuals in the history of world exploration, arranged alphabetically from Roald Amundsen to Amerigo Vespucci.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein is generally considered as one of the most influential philosophers of modern times. A scion of a wealthy and troubled family in turn-of-the-century Austria (three of his brothers committed suicide), Wittgenstein is remembered today for his two great works, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) and Philosophical Investigations (1953), which remain both relevant and controversial to this day. In Simply Wittgenstein, Professor...
6) Tchaikovsky
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Presents a biography of the nineteenth-century Russian composer.
10) Human rights
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Biographical portraits of twenty-nine individuals who fought for human rights, from Roger Williams and Thomas Paine to Eleanor Roosevelt and Martin Luther King.
12) Human culture
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Presents biographical profiles of twenty-eight anthropologists and archaeologists, including Jane Goodall, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Leakey.
13) Mother Teresa
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Discusses the contributions of the Albanian nun who travelled to the slums of Calcutta to ease human suffering and continues to travel around the world caring for those in need.
14) Medicine
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Short biographies of more than thirty men and women who excelled in the field of medical science. Includes Hippocrates, Harvey, Ehrlich, Roentgen, Blackwell, Freud, and Salk.
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Relates the life stories of thirty-six significant individuals who held important public offices and contributed to the development of the United States from the Declaration of Independence to the nuclear age, including presidents, judges, leaders of the national legislature, and female and minority leaders.
19) Napoleon
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Traces the life of the powerful French military and political leader, focusing on his triumphs and defeats in the Napoleonic Wars.
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