Lives and Legacies Series
Isaac Newton
$18.95
hardback,
Nov 2005
ISBN13: 9780195300703ISBN10: 019530070X
A concise, vibrant life of a true giant of science, written by an eminent science biographer
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Walt Whitman
$17.95
hardback,
Jan 2005
ISBN13: 9780195170092ISBN10: 0195170091
A marvelous, compact look at the life and work of Walt Whitman, placing the poet against the vibrant backdrop of nineteenth-century America
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Mark Twain
$17.95
hardback,
Oct 2004
ISBN13: 9780195170191ISBN10: 0195170199
A marvelous, compact introduction to the life and legacy of Mark Twain
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Benjamin Franklin
$17.95
hardback,
Feb 2006
ISBN13: 9780195305357ISBN10: 0195305353
Published for the tricentennial of Benjamin Franklin's birth, a compact, delightfully readable biography of the great Founding Father
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
$17.95
hardback,
Mar 2006
ISBN13: 9780195305364ISBN10: 0195305361
A succinct biography of one of the most important figures ever to sit on the United States Supreme Court
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