Original thinkers

Examines revolutionary advances in mathematics, physics, science, chemistry, biology and medicine by revealing the lives of the people responsible for them.

Profiles leaders, such as John Calvin, Ibn al-Arabi, Hillel the Elder, and Gobind Singh, who have had a major impact on religious thought.

Surveys fifty individuals and ten political movements representing some of history’s most critical schools of thought.

Features biographical overviews of some of the most thought-provoking philosophers of the last 2000 years.

This book presents the life and work of 50 individuals who have shaped the history of medicine.

Profiles the most important economists in order to explain the complicated and important social science field of economics.