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Richard Bradley

Richard Bradley is began his career as a research scientist and was the CEO of several medical products companies. He holds several patents, and is the author of two textbooks, Design Controls for the Medical Device Industry, and The Radiation Technology Handbook, both published by Marcel Dekker, Inc., in New York. H....[more]

Joan Druett

It all began when I fell into a hole on the tropical island of Rarotonga and found the grave of a whaling wife at the bottom. A Fulbright Award to research the life of this unfortunate young woman was followed by a John Lyman Award, a residency in New York, and the L. Byrne Waterman Award. In the year 2000 a Stout ....[more]

David Boyd Haycock

I was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, but grew up in Nigeria, Boston (Lincolnshire) and Ripon (North Yorkshire). I read 'Modern History' at St John's College, Oxford, and did an MA in Art History at the University of Sussex and a PhD at the University of London. I currently live in Oxford.

Aristotle

Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher who wrote about physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, dance, philosophy, psychology, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, morality, biology, botany, agriculture, and zoology. He was a student of the Classical Greek philosopher Plato and went on to te....[more]

Avicenna

One of the most brilliant Persian scholars, Avicenna, also known by his Arabic name of Ibn Sina, was an influential philosopher and physician. Born sometime around 980, Avicenna was declared a child prodigy after he memorized the Qur’an at the age of 10. By 18, he was a qualified physician, taking great pride in treati....[more]

E. A. Wallis Budge

E. A. Wallis Budge (Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge) (July 27, 1857 - November 23, 1934) Budge was born in Bodmin, Cornwall, England to Mary Ann Budge. His father is unknown. He went to live with his grandmother and aunt in London as a young man. He was interested in languages by the age of ten, but left s....[more]

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Emanuel Swedenborg

Barbara Ehrenreich

Business & Economics, Fiction, Health & Fitness, History, Humor, Medical, Political Science, Social Science

Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of "Blood Rites"; "The Worst Years of Our Lives"; "Fear of Falling", which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, & eight other books. A frequent contributor to Time, Harper's, Esquire, The New Republic, Mirabella, The Nation, The New York Magazine, she lives near Key W....[more]

William Gibson

Biography & Autobiography, Drama, Fiction, Humor, Juvenile Nonfiction, Medical, Religion

William Gibson was born on March 17, 1948 in Conway, S.C.. He grew up in a small town in Virginia and developed an interest in science fiction. He dropped out of high school and moved to Canada, where he eventually graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1977. Gibson earned his place in science fiction lit....[more]

Colin Wilson

Biography & Autobiography, Body, Mind & Spirit, Crafts & Hobbies, Fiction, History, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections, Literary Criticism, Music, Nature, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Reference, Religion, Science, Social Science, True Crime

Colin Wilson was born on 26 June 1931, in Leicester, England. He considered himself a genius, a born writer, and an outsider, and left school at the age of sixteen. During the next few years he drifted and traveled around England and Continental Europe. After a six-month period in the Royal Air Force, he held a success....[more]