The best books about scientists are the ones that also give you a peek into the everyday life of a genius at work. You can learn about their motivations, their struggles, and their triumphs. Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love
The Best Books About Public Policy, as voted on by fans. Current Top 3: The Disability Reader, Democratic Realism, A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, ...
In 1765, ruthless killers are targeting messengers working for secret committees, whose leaders include Benjamin Franklin, in different American cities. In this superior fourth mystery featuring Scottish ex-pat Duncan McCallum, Pattison does a brilliant job of showing how political events of the era ...
7. Benjamin Franklin, Carl Van Doren 8. I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Ogden Nash 9. Alone, Richard E. Byrd 10. Fanny Kemble, Margaret Armstrong 1 9 3 9 Fiction 1. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck 2. All This, and Heaven Too, Rachel Field 3. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier 4. ...
Leonardo DaVinci, Benjamin Franklin, Lebron James, Elon Musk…what allowed these greats to reach these high levels of performance and push innovation within their field?Is it that they were lucky enough to be gifted some special “talent” that the rest of us to not possess? Or can we all...
Not only a great chess player, Franklin is also known to play the violin ,the harp (竖琴), and the guitar. He used some glasses to produce a clear and sweet sound just like birds’ singing.Benjamin Franklin died at his home in the USA at the age of 84. There were about 20,000 ...
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham (investment advisor) The Best Behavioral Economics Books Books about behavioral economics investigate the cognitive, emotional, psychological, and social factors that shape our economic decisions. It’s an interesting field that addresses the underlying factors tha...
Disney has been making animated movies (and even one live-action film) based on the Pooh books for decades. This is terrific for young kids to watch, and has some impressive 2D hand drawn animation. It’s also an extremely short movie, which should please really young kids. ...
Also ranks #5 on The Best Sci-Fi Movies Based On Books Also ranks #8 on The Funniest Movies About the End of the World 73 Enemy Mine Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett, Brion James 2,202 votes During a war between humans and the reptilian Drac race, spaceship pilot Willis Davidge (Dennis Qua...
34. ‘Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.’–Benjamin Franklin 35. ‘We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.’–Martin Luther King, Jr. 36. ‘Collaboration allows us to know more than we are capable of knowing ourselves.’...