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Goethe by Peter Boerner; Nancy Boerner (Translator)
Category: Biography | Series: Life &Times Ser.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was one of the greatest thinkers of the modern age: a world-famous writer, scientist, and statesman, his influence was already far-reaching during his lifetime, and his literary and intellectual legacy continues to reverberate throughout contemporary culture. In th ...Show more
Gutenberg by Stephen Füssel; Peter Lewis (Translator)
Category: Biography | Series: Life and Times Ser.
Named "Man of the Millennium" in 1999, Johannes Gutenberg was the creator of one of the most influential and revolutionary inventions in Europe's history: a printing press with mechanical movable type. This development sparked the printing revolution, which is regarded as the milestone of the second mil ...Show more
Mao Zedong by Jonathan Clements
Category: Biography | Series: Life and Times Ser.
Mao Zedong went from being a poor farmer's son to a revolutionary leader, a general in World War II and the ruler of the world's most populous nation. Alternately glorified and demonized, not only in the Western world, but also in the China that he once ruled, his influence persists to this day. This ne ...Show more
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