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Thomas Aquinas

Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 – 1274) was a Roman Catholic priest in the Dominican Order known for his philosophy and theology work. “Aquinas” indicates his residence – not his surname – so he is sometimes referred to as Thomas. Thomas is the father of the Thomistic school of philosophy and theology. He was the foremos....[more]

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]

Averroes

Also known as Ibn Rushd. Averroes was a man of many talents, including mathematics, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, and physics. Born in modern day Spain in 1126, Averroes’ career began in earnest when he was tasked with providing a better Arabic translation of Aristotle’s works. Eventually, just like his father and g....[more]

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]

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]

Glenda Abramson

Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Poetry

Karel B. Absolon

Medical, Psychology

Yehuda Amichai

Performing Arts, Poetry

Yehuda Amichai was born in Germany and immigrated to Palestine in 1936. His novels and poetry are innovative in their use of Hebrew terms. Following World War II and Israel's War of Independence in 1948, Amichai began to introduce new words of technical, legal, and administrative meaning into his poetry to replace sacr....[more]

William W. Atkinson

Body, Mind & Spirit, Philosophy, Psychology, Self-help

William Walker Atkinson

Body, Mind & Spirit, Health & Fitness, Philosophy, Psychology, Self-help

Jacques Barzun

History, Social Science

Jacques Barzun, a historian and cultural critic, is one of the most prolific and wide-ranging American writers of the twentieth century. Barzun was born in Greteil, France, in 1907. He came to the United States in 1920, entered Columbia University in 1923, and graduated magna cum laude in 1927. He joined Columbia's fac....[more]