She is best known for her curve, the witch of Agnesi, which appears in almost all high school and undergraduate math books. She was a child prodigy who frequented the salon circuit, discussing mathematics, philosophy, history, and music in multiple languages. She wrote one of the first vernacular textbooks on calculus and was appointed chair ......
Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-President
Collects Woodrow Wilson's most influential work, from early essays on religion to his famous Fourteen Points speech, which introduced the idea of the League of Nations. His writings allow us to trace the intellectual struggle that took the nation from a position of neutrality in World War I to its role as a central player on the world stage.
Despite numerous obstacles, Jean-Baptiste Louvet, author of the romance Les Amours du Chevalier de Faublas, survived the French Revolution through a combination of luck, imagination, and determination. This book traces his journey from a frail bookstore clerk to a powerful pol...
In With Honor and Integrity, Mael Embser-Herbert and Bree Fram introduce us to the brave individuals who are on the front lines of this issue, assembling a powerful, accessible, and heartfelt collection of first-hand accounts from transgender military personnel in the United States
With a light touch and a great, though not always uncritical, affection for its subject, this wide-ranging collection of anecdotes reveals many little known facets of Churchill and his incredible life. This fully illustrated book contains anecdotes relating to Churchill throughout his life, Snippets that capture the essence of the great man.
In this trenchant work, James Barrett traces the political journey of a leading worker radical whose life and experiences encapsulate radicalism's rise and fall in the United States. A self-educated wage earner raised in the slums of a large industrial city, William Z. Foster became a brilliant union organizer who helped build the American ......
Peter Deakin takes an intriguing look at 25 current and former leaders, musicians, politicians, artists and actors. He dissects each of these individuals and describes how each of them was able to summon ‘whatever it takes’ to surmount any opposition or obstacle lying in their path, in order to leave an indelible mark on the world.
Princess Helene of France, Duchess of Aosta 1871-1951
Helene's adventuresome life went from an ill-fated romance in Queen Victoria's court to an Italian royal marriage. She fled from boredom to explore and hunt in Africa, but returned to serve Italy in the national crises of earthquake, epidemic and war-heading the Red Cross nurses in the front lines of the Great War-and watched its move into ......
The life of the great Guyanese scholar and revolutionary Walter Rodney burned with a rare intensity. The son of working class parents, Rodney showed great academic promise and was awarded scholarships to the University of the West Indies in Jamaica and the School of African and Oriental Studies in London. He received his PhD from the latter at the ......
