Born in Vienna into an extremely wealthy and highly cultured family, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-19...

Simply Darwin tells the story of Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) and his theory of evolution th...

Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) was born in Austria-Hungary (now the Czech Republic) and grew up in an eth...

Nobel Laureate and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner William Faulkner (1897-1962) was one of America...

'A seasoned author and Hemingway scholar, Scott Donaldson brings this remarkable story to life wi...

Born in Paris, Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was largely raised by his mother and his maternal gra...

Born and raised in a small town in Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) began his car...

Born to a poor Lutheran pastor in what is today the Federal Republic of Germany, Bernhard Riemann...

Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born at Yasnaya Polyana, his ancestral estate located about 120...

Generally considered one of the greatest modern writers, James Joyce (1882-1941) grew up in Dubli...

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was born in Ulm in the German Empire and received his academic teachi...

Born into a Jewish family in the Moravian town of Freiberg, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) entered the...

'Michael Olinick has written a vibrant and absorbing biography of Alan Turing. Turing's work as a...

Born and raised in St. Petersburg, Russia, Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) divided his time between l...

The first emperor of France and one of the shrewdest military leaders of all time, Napoleon Bonap...

Born in Dublin on Good Friday, Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) attended Trinity College and taught bri...

René Descartes was born in La Haye en Touraine, France, onMarch 31, 1596. He attended a Jesuit co...

Born in Bonn, Germany, Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) showed musical talent from an early age a...

Oliver Twist. A Christmas Carol. David Copperfield. Bleak House. A Tale of Two Cities. Great Expe...

From Dial M for Murder and Vertigo to North by Northwest, Psycho and The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock ...

Marcel Proust (1871-1922)was born in Paris during a time of great social and political upheaval, ...

Though he was born in St. Louis, Missouri and attended Harvard University, at the age of 26, Thom...

'What a fantastic entrée into the life of Paul Dirac and the exotic world of Quantum Mechanics, o...

Born in the port city of Taganrog in southern Russia, Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) survived a diffic...

Loved by many, hated by some, Noam Chomsky is an outspoken, world-renowned activist for social ch...

'Simply Austen is simply a must for anyone just starting off their Janeite journey or for those w...

Born in Oak Park, Illinois, Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) traveled the globe, transforming his exp...

Founder of the Mongol Empire and one of the most feared conquerors of all time, Genghis Khan (116...

Born in Vienna, Austria, Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961) was the only child of a Catholic father an...

Born in a small town near Warsaw, Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) was a musical prodigy who began giv...

'Robert Wicks has achieved the near-miracle of presenting the whole of Hegel's thought in a way t...