Presents an overview of the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, explaining the genius of his political savvy, and describes the context in which he assigned a cadre of his fiercest rivals as his closest cabinet advisors.

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD AND THE NEBULA AWARD The classic novel that inspired the Academy Award-winning movie Charly Daniel Keyes, the author of eight books, was born in Brooklyn, New York, and received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from ...

A biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994.

Hunger is the story of a Norwegian artist who wanders the streets of Christiana (now Oslo), struggling on the edge of starvation while trying to sell his articles to the local newspaper.

Michael must save his mother--and protect his powers--in the electric sequel to the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling "Michael Vey."

Luzhin is a coarse, strange yet oddly endearing chess-playing genius.

An analysis of Abraham Lincoln's political talents identifies the character strengths and abilities that enabled his successful election, in an account that also describes how he used the same abilities to rally former opponents in winning ...

In this text, Harold Bloom dares to define genius. He ranges across 2500 years, from the 5th century BC through to the year 2002, and touches on all the principal cultures both east and west.

"A myth of genius has been our way of making good the losses our romantic modernity entails," Taylor writes.