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Sojourner Truth: a women’s rights activist

The first of five volumes appeared in 1845, when Humboldt was seventy-six. (Jefferson by now had been in his grave at Monticello for nearly

knowing nothing of life in the jungle, virtually unequipped by modern standards, had been both amazingly presumptuous and reckless. Bonpland did not even know

William Drewry, founding partner at Pursuit Advisory, a boutique investment firm specializing in media. Kenneth Lerer, BuzzFeed’s chairman and a managing partner of Lerer

Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann—who transformed Paris with dazzling avenues, parks and other lasting renovations between 1853 and 1870—are few and far between. As journalist and

There are these individual lions that through their curiosity end up finding some odd passageway that no other animal has used,” says Vickers. “It’s

In perhaps the most notorious incident, a male lion killed one of his sons and its mother when she tried to protect her offspring.

Aristotle’s Way by Edith Hall; happiness not through hedonism but long term happiness Rand – her non fiction specifically calls out Aristotle, and her

How to lose a guy in ten days – male lead (Matthew Macconehey) is macho ladies man ad guy with accounts in beer and

Aristotle would have been the first to insist that no form of philosophical or scientific work can be purely theoretical. Our ideas, self-understanding and