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Quicklets: Learn More. Read Less. Steve Jobs is Walter Isaacson's fourth major biography, and it was his account of the lives of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin that led Steve Jobs to approach Isaacson about writing his own biography. Isaacson attended Harvard University where...

Max Planck (SparkNotes Biography Guide) Making the reading experience fun! SparkNotes Biography Guides examine the lives of historical luminaries, from Alexander the Great to Virginia Woolf. Each biography guide includes: An examination of the historical context in which the person lived A...

ABOUT THE BOOK The Emperor of All Maladies not only describes the nature and biology of cancer, it discusses a topic most readers care just as much, if not more about: The possibility of a cure. For close to a century, doctors have been hoping for and working on creating a magic bullet, a...

"Readers will emerge with a great deal of respect for a fiercely independent woman who battled sexism to reach the pinnacle of her profession" (Publishers Weekly). Before taking her place as the second woman on the Supreme Court of the United States, Ruth Bader Ginsburg quietly led...

TOM CLANCY BOOKS IN ORDER How To Make Great Thrillers Even Better! 2019 Edition: This is the most comprehensive Tom Clancy book order and checklist available. It's a complete bibliography and biography, which includes: • Jack Ryan series in order • Jack Ryan Jr series in order •...

"Price emerges as one of his most complex characters in this entertaining and touching biography," observed The New York Times of Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography. In this candid and heartfelt biography, Victoria Price traces her father's 65-year career from his radio days to his movie,...

MARTINA COLE BOOKS IN ORDER How To Make Great Thrillers Even Better! 2019 Edition: This is the most comprehensive Martina Cole book order and checklist available. It's a complete bibliography and biography, which includes: • DI Kate Burrows books in order • a complete list...

ROBERT CRAIS BOOKS IN ORDER How To Make Great Thrillers Even Better! 2019 Edition: This is the most comprehensive Robert Crais book order and checklist available. It's a complete bibliography and biography, which includes: • Elvis Cole and Joe Pike books in order • a complete...

CRAIG JOHNSON BOOKS IN ORDER How To Make Great Thrillers Even Better! 2019 Edition: This is the most comprehensive Craig Johnson book order and checklist available. It's a complete bibliography and biography, which includes: • Walt Longmire series in order • Walt Longmire...

GREG ILES BOOKS IN ORDER How To Make Great Thrillers Even Better! 2019 Edition: This is the most comprehensive Greg Iles book order and checklist available. It's a complete bibliography and biography, which includes: • Penn Cage books in order • Penn Cage short stories in...

This epic biography, with its remarkable new research and vivid, fast-paced writing, will delight anyone who wants to understand the tangled history of politics and the press in modern America.” —Debby Applegate, author of The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher “James...

Georgia O'Keeffe (SparkNotes Biography Guide) Making the reading experience fun! SparkNotes Biography Guides examine the lives of historical luminaries, from Alexander the Great to Virginia Woolf. Each biography guide includes: An examination of the historical context in which the person...

Looking Back is the unusual memoir of a Holocaust survivor and physician who became prominent in American psychoanalysis and a leader of the psychoanalytic Self Psychology movement. “Paul Ornstein's remarkable life has taken him from a cheder in a Hungarian town, to the Budapest Rabbinical...

Memoir: How I Read, Write and Use It by Helen Epstein (3,400 words) This is an essay for students of memoir. Making meaning in writing memoir is similar to creating narrative in psychotherapy. What differentiates memoir from that work is the public nature of the literary product, its aim to...