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The Life and Times of Stephen Hawkings by Mahesh Sharma
Stephen Hawking is one of the greatest geniuses of our time. After Albert Einstein, he is one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history. Though this great cosmologist is afflicted with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), it did not deter him from pursuing Physics.
This book is an unbeatable person’s biography in an engaging manner. It sketches a candid portrait of this one of a kind personality giving insight into his personal and professional life. In a simple language, the complex and confuing world of science have been explained that Hawking as a scientist has traversed through his life. Thus it is comprehensible to even a lay person.
The book unravels the life of Hawking’s from the time he was a college student, to becoming a great cosmologist. An inspiring book which will help the reader know one of the greatest minds of the present age.
The Life and Times of Steve Jobs by Mahesh Sharma
Sometimes, when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”
These words are of Steve Paul Jobs, who revolutionized the world through computer technology. One of the co-founders of Apple, he took the industry towards new heights and changed the computing industry.
Right from the beginning he had a passion for electronics and was mostly engrossed in making small gadgets in the garage. With his friend Wozniak he launched Apple and made computers a common word in the world. It is due to his untiring efforts that the world has come closer and people are connected with each other.
This book is the story of an extraordinary genius Steve Jobs whose innovative acumen has made the computers and other electronic gadgets available to common man.
The Life and Times of Subhash Chandra Bose by Praveen Bhalla
Give me blood and I’ll give you freedom’, declared Subhash Chandra Bose. This was exactly what he believed in. The moderate ways of the Congress were not for him. Therefore, he formed the Azad Hind Fauj to overthrow the British. Burning with patriotic zeal, he tried his best to oust the British from his motherland. He was respectfully addressed as ‘Netaji’ and he dedicated his entire life for the freedom of his country.The annals of history have not done justice to this great patriot. It is time that he should be known by the people of India and given his due recognition. This book attempts to bring his life into spotlight and illuminate it so that the reader is conversant with it and appreciates his efforts.
The Life and Times of Swami Vivekananda by Nandini Saraf
Swami Vivekananda philosophy was a blend of the traditional values and modern thoughts, as well as human values and superhuman thoughts. Although he lived only for thirty-nine years, he influenced the thinking of multitudes around the world. His charismatic personality and intellectual speeches made an impact that altered people’s concept of Hinduism and India globally. Even today, his teachings are capable of transforming all who are keen to imbibe them.
Vivekananda was born when Calcutta was India’s capital under the British Raj. It was a time when the British Raj sought to change the governing system of India after the Mutiny of 1857. Swami Vivekananda preferred a modern approach to deal with the existing social problems and favoured Western ideas. This book tries to cover the life and philosophy of Swami Vivekananda comprehensively and give an insight about his personality.
The Life and Times of Thomas Alva Edison by Vinod Kumar Mishra
Thomas Alva Edison, who transformed his childhood problem of deafness into an exemplary quality of concentration, did not get tired till his last. Despite being deprived of formal education, this great scientist studied literature and science with immense interest, acquired new patents on an average in every 15 days of his active life. Through him, the world entered into the modern era and it led to an onset of consumerism.
The Life and Times of Veer Savarkar by A.K. Gandhi
Vinayak Damodar Sarvarkar popularly known as Veer Sarvarkar has a unique place in the annals of history. Controversy surrounds his name. Some consider him to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the freedom struggle of India while others think of him to be a communalist. However, there is no doubt that he was a freedom fighter, who not only fought for his country but also evoked feelings of patriotism in fellow citizens through his writings.
His biography is an eye-opener for it depicts the trials and tribulations of a person, who was sentenced to 50 years of hard imprisonment in the Cellular Jail of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, also called the ‘Kala Pani’. From his prison cell, he sent his poems to the mainland, memorized by the prisoners who were released.
An inspiring biography of a true nationalist.
The Life and Times of Warren Buffett by Dinkar Kumar
Warren Buffett is most successful and followed investor of the world. He has always been one of the wealthiest people in the world. Besides being richest, he is one of the most known people for donating personal wealth.
Buffett was born in 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska of distant French Huguenot descent. Buffett graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1947.
Buffett displayed an interest in business and investing at a young age. While still in high school, he made money delivering newspapers, selling golf balls and stamps, and detailing cars, among other means. He formed Buffett Partnership Ltd. In 1956, and by 1965 he has assumed control of Berkshire Hathaway.
In 2008, Buffett became the richest person in the world, with a total net worth of estimated at $ 62 billion by Forbes and at $ 58 billion by Yahoo, overtaking Bill Gates, who had been number one on the Forbes list for 13 consecutive years. Buffett is renowned for his wit and wisdom.
He has set various standards of simple living despite being wealthy men on earth. Even though he is recognized as the world’s third richest man with a fortune of $ 46 billion, investor Warren Buffett, the ‘Wizard of Omaha’, still lives in the same modest home he bought in 1958 for $ 31,500 only.
The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Vol. II) by Washington Irving
American writer Washington Irving set about, in the 1820s, to create the complete account of the great explorer and his journeys. This is that account, sweeping in its scope, as intimate as a novel, as thrilling as a grand adventure story. In this, the second of two volumes, Irving begins with Columbus’s establishment of a chain of military posts in the New World and continues through his final journeys; this volume also includes extensive appendices. With a dedication to historical accuracy combined with a flair for engaging storytelling, Irving bestows upon us one of the classic works of history of the Age of Exploration.
The Life and Work of James A. Garfield by John Clark Ridpath
Dean Swift describes the tomb as a place where savage enmity can rend the heart no more. Here, in the ominous shadow of the cypress, the faults and foibles of life are forgotten, and the imagination builds a shining pathway to the stars. Ascending this with rapid flight, the great dead is transfigured as he rises; the clouds close around him, and, in the twinkling of an eye, he is set afar on the heights with Miltiades and Alexander.
The tendency to the deification of men is strongest when a sudden eclipse falls athwart the disk of a great life at noontide. The pall of gloom sweeps swiftly across the landscape, and the beholder, feeling the chill of the darkness, mistakes it for the death of nature. So it was three hundred years ago when the silent Prince of Orange, the founder of Dutch independence, was smitten down in Delft. So it was when the peerless Lincoln fell. So it is when Garfield dies by the bullet of an assassin.
The Life of a Fossil Hunter by Charles H. Sternberg
I wish to call the attention of the reader of my story “The Life of a Fossil Hunter” to the fact that I am under obligations especially to Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, President and Curator of Paleontology of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He has supplied me with many of the most beautiful of the illustrations that illumine these pages and has assisted the work in many ways.
The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons by H.S. Olcott
What are the lessons to be derived from the life and teachings of this heroic prince of Kapilavasṭu? Lessons of gratitude and benevolence. Lessons of tolerance for the clashing opinions of men who live, move and have their being, think and aspire, only in the material world. Lessons of manly self-reliance, of equanimity in breasting whatsoever of good or ill may happen. Lessons of the meanness of the rewards. Lessons of the necessity for avoiding every species of evil thought and word, and for doing, speaking and thinking everything that is good, and for the bringing of the mind into subjection so that these may be accomplished without selfish motive or vanity.
—From this Book
The Life of Buddha by Andre Ferdinand Herold
A very readable book about the life Of Siddhartha Gautama and his journey from birth to Buddha to death. Contains stories about his disciples, his parents and his wife and son.
The Life of Charlemagne (Charles the Great) by Thomas Hodgkin
In attempting to compress the history of the great Emperor Charles within the narrow limits of the present volume, I have undertaken a difficult task, and I trust that my fellow-historians will consider, not how much has been omitted, but how much, or rather how little, it was possible to insert.
The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The Life of Charlotte Brontë is the posthumous biography of Charlotte Brontë by fellow novelist Elizabeth Gaskell. The first edition was published in 1857. A major source was the hundreds of letters sent by Brontë to her lifelong friend Ellen Nussey. Gaskell had to deal with some sensitive issues. She toned down some of her material: in the case of her description of the Clergy Daughters’ School this was to avoid legal action from the Rev. William Carus Wilson. The published text does not go so far as to blame the school’s founder for the deaths of two Brontë sisters, but even so Wilson published a short “refutation” of the biography. Although quite frank in many places, Gaskell suppressed details of Charlotte’s love for Constantin Héger, a married man, on the grounds that it would be too great an affront to contemporary morals and a possible source of distress to Charlotte’s still-living friends, father Patrick Brontë and husband. She also suppressed any reference to Charlotte’s romance with George Smith, her publisher, who was also publishing the biography.
The Life of Christ: An Illustrated Novel for All Ages
Follow the life of Jesus Christ through Bible quotes and with beautiful illustrations. A graphic novel that follows the miraculous birth of Jesus, his miracles, his teachings and his ultimate sacrifice to save all of mankind. Great for new Christians and those who have been part of the faith all their lives.
The Life of Christopher Columbus by Edward Everett Hale
Classic biography from the late 19th century American author, Unitarian clergyman and Anti-slavery activist. The best known of his tales was The Man Without a Country (1863), which did much to strengthen the Union cause in the North.
