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Rabbi Moshe Goldberger is a prolific writer and lecturer on popular Jewish Subjects. You can follow his daily "Gems" at www.GemsOfTorah.com and audio classes at http://bit.ly/cUPzZi on Kol Halashon
Jurgen Habermas is a German sociologist who studied at the universities of Gottingen, Zurich, and Bonn. He taught at Frankfurt am Main, Marburg, and Heidelberg before becoming professor of philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. His works, widely translated, have made him one of the most influential social theorists....[more]
Michael Parenti received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University. He has taught at a number of colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad. Some of his writings have been translated into Arabic, Azeri, Bangla, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, ....[more]
Biography & Autobiography, Cooking, Family & Relationships, Fiction, Foreign Language Study, History, Juvenile Fiction, Literary Criticism, Medical, Psychology, Social Science
As niece of fallen Chilean president Salvador Allende, Isabel Allende attracted immediate interest when she appeared on the U.S. literary scene in the mid-1980s. On its own merits, though, The House of the Spirits (1982; English translation 1985) is a superb novel. Four generations of Chilean women-female descendants o....[more]
Business & Economics, Fiction, Foreign Language Study, History, Language Arts & Disciplines, Law, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Social Science, Technology & Engineering
Noam Avram Chomsky was born December 7, 1928, in Philadelphia. Son of a Russian emigrant who was a Hebrew scholar, Chomsky was exposed at a young age to the study of language and principles of grammar. During the 1940s, he began developing socialist political leanings through his encounters with the New York Jewish int....[more]
Art, Biography & Autobiography, Drama, Fiction, History, Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Social Science
That E. L. Doctorow is a professional writer in the best sense may be indicated by the fact that he has yet to write two books alike. A New Yorker by birth and schooling, he prepared himself for the writing trade by attending Kenyon College when its literary program under John Crowe Ransom was at full crest, going on t....[more]
Biography & Autobiography, History, Juvenile Fiction, Language Arts & Disciplines, Political Science
President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961. He graduated with a degree in political science from Columbia University in 1983. Before moving to Chicago in 1985, he worked at Business International Corporation and then at the New York Public Interest Research Group. In Chicago, he worked as a c....[more]
Salman Rushdie was born in India, raised in Pakistan, and educated in England, where he now lives. His Rabelaisian skill for telling stories teeming with fantasy and history, and the virtuosity of his style, with its sly transliterations of Indo-English idioms, won him a delighted audience with the publication of Midni....[more]
Architecture, Art, Biography & Autobiography, Drama, Fiction, History, Humor, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections, Literary Criticism, Music, Performing Arts, Poetry, Religion, Sports & Recreation
American novelist, poet, and critic John Updike was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on March 18, 1932. He received an A.B. degree from Harvard University, which he attended on a scholarship, in 1954. After graduation, he accepted a one-year fellowship to study painting at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxfo....[more]
Business & Economics, History, Political Science
History, Language Arts & Disciplines, Political Science, Religion, Social Science
Yonah Alexander is Professor and Director, Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies; Senior Fellow and Director, International Center for Terrorism Studies, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies; and Co-Director, Inter-University Center for Legal Studies, International Law Institute.
Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science
History, Political Science
Eric Alterman is a political & cultural columnist for "The Nation", MSNBC.com, & Intellectual Capital.com & is a senior fellow of the World Policy Institute. He has contributed to "Rolling Stone", "Mother Jones", "Elle", "The New Yorker", "Vanity Fair", "Harper's", "The New Republic", "The New York Times" & "The Washin....[more]
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