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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 934
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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Includes cumulative subject index of the entire set. 1 v.
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Includes cumulative subject index of the entire set. 1 v.
Book Review Digest
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Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Schopenhauer
Author: David E. Cartwright
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521825989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive biography of Schopenhauer written in English. Placing him in his historical and philosophical contexts, David E. Cartwright tells the story of Schopenhauer's life to convey the full range of his philosophy. He offers a fully documented portrait in which he explores Schopenhauer's fractured family life, his early formative influences, his critical loyalty to Kant, his personal interactions with Fichte and Goethe, his ambivalent relationship to Schelling, his contempt for Hegel, his struggle to make his philosophy known, and his reaction to his late-arriving fame.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521825989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive biography of Schopenhauer written in English. Placing him in his historical and philosophical contexts, David E. Cartwright tells the story of Schopenhauer's life to convey the full range of his philosophy. He offers a fully documented portrait in which he explores Schopenhauer's fractured family life, his early formative influences, his critical loyalty to Kant, his personal interactions with Fichte and Goethe, his ambivalent relationship to Schelling, his contempt for Hegel, his struggle to make his philosophy known, and his reaction to his late-arriving fame.
Steve Jobs
Author: Walter Isaacson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451648545
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451648545
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
American Game Changers
Author: Hw Wilson
Publisher: H. W. Wilson
ISBN: 9781642652604
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Languages : en
Pages :
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This new resource from H.W. Wilson chronicles the remarkable lives and ideas of over 500 individuals who changed the way the world works. Whether by developing a groundbreaking idea, building a company that shifts the current paradigm, or by leading a life that impacts the world at large, these individuals brought about significant change and deserve a place in the history books.
Publisher: H. W. Wilson
ISBN: 9781642652604
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Languages : en
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Book Description
This new resource from H.W. Wilson chronicles the remarkable lives and ideas of over 500 individuals who changed the way the world works. Whether by developing a groundbreaking idea, building a company that shifts the current paradigm, or by leading a life that impacts the world at large, these individuals brought about significant change and deserve a place in the history books.
Current Biography
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 934
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 934
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Oprah Winfrey Book
Author: University Press
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Languages : en
Pages : 60
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University Press returns with another short and captivating biography of one of history's most compelling figures, Oprah Winfrey. Oprah Winfrey has been ranked the most influential woman in the world. As a world-renowned talk show host, television producer, movie actress, best-selling author, celebrity interviewer, and generous philanthropist, she has used her empathy, authenticity, and wit to completely revolutionize American media. Born in Kosciusko, Mississippi in 1954 to an unmarried teenage mother, Oprah Gail Winfrey was raised in extreme poverty, wore dresses made of potato sacks, suffered abuse, became pregnant, lost her son to a premature birth, became an honors student, was voted "Most Popular Girl" in her high school, won a full college scholarship, became the youngest - and first black female - television news anchor in Nashville, took the lowest-rated show in Chicago and turned it into the number-one daytime talk show in America, and became America's first black multi-billionaire. This short book tells the intensely human story of a woman who is changing the world in a way that no one else can.
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Languages : en
Pages : 60
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University Press returns with another short and captivating biography of one of history's most compelling figures, Oprah Winfrey. Oprah Winfrey has been ranked the most influential woman in the world. As a world-renowned talk show host, television producer, movie actress, best-selling author, celebrity interviewer, and generous philanthropist, she has used her empathy, authenticity, and wit to completely revolutionize American media. Born in Kosciusko, Mississippi in 1954 to an unmarried teenage mother, Oprah Gail Winfrey was raised in extreme poverty, wore dresses made of potato sacks, suffered abuse, became pregnant, lost her son to a premature birth, became an honors student, was voted "Most Popular Girl" in her high school, won a full college scholarship, became the youngest - and first black female - television news anchor in Nashville, took the lowest-rated show in Chicago and turned it into the number-one daytime talk show in America, and became America's first black multi-billionaire. This short book tells the intensely human story of a woman who is changing the world in a way that no one else can.
The American Mayor
Author: Melvin G. Holli
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271042343
Category : Mayors
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271042343
Category : Mayors
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Current Biography Yearbook
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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The Register, and Magazine of Biography
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Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Languages : en
Pages : 604
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