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People Whose Correspondence Reveals an Extraordinary Mind
People Whose Correspondence Reveals an Extraordinary Mind
by curious_compiler  • 
2 in common: Rabindranath Tagore and W. E. B. Du Bois
For a biography reader, letters can reveal how an idea is tested, explained or turned into a piece of work. These are my choices across science, literature, art, philosophy and public life, using...
People
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Liberal Thinkers Who Shaped Modern Rights Debates
Liberal Thinkers Who Shaped Modern Rights Debates
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: John Dewey
Liberals agree that individuals have rights, then disagree about almost everything else: whether liberty means non-interference or the capacity to act, whether justice requires redistribution, how...
Politics
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Anti-Colonial Thinkers Who Imagined Different Futures
Anti-Colonial Thinkers Who Imagined Different Futures
by list_wrangler  • 
In common: Rabindranath Tagore
The people who argued against empire agreed that it had to end and disagreed about almost everything after that: whether to build nation states or federations, socialism or capitalism, modern...
Politics
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Feminist Political Thinkers Worth Reading Together
Feminist Political Thinkers Worth Reading Together
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Bell hooks
Feminism is a family of arguments rather than one doctrine. Its thinkers disagree about whether equality means the same rights as men or a change in the rules, whether the root problem is law, the...
Politics
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Women Writers Who Changed What the Novel Could Do
Women Writers Who Changed What the Novel Could Do
by book_guy  • 
On a similar theme
A reading map for discovering how a novel can change the way time, thought and a speaking voice reach us. Each writer has a suggested book that makes her particular experiment tangible, from...
Books
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Classics Worth Revisiting Beyond the Classroom
Classics Worth Revisiting Beyond the Classroom
by book_guy  • 
On a similar theme
A familiar school text can become a different reading experience when there is time to hear its jokes, follow its suspense and recognise the compromises its people make. These choices offer ways...
Books
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People Who Made Statistics Useful Outside Mathematics
People Who Made Statistics Useful Outside Mathematics
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: W. E. B. Du Bois
Statistics became a practical tool because people outside pure mathematics needed answers: brewers checking barley, doctors testing treatments, officials counting the poor and pollsters...
People
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People Who Made Difficult Subjects Easier to Understand
People Who Made Difficult Subjects Easier to Understand
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Bell hooks
A clear explanation gives you something you can use: a question to ask, a picture to think with or a connection to follow. These are my choices for sustained public communication across science...
People
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Influential People Who Connected Two Very Different Fields
Influential People Who Connected Two Very Different Fields
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: W. E. B. Du Bois
A second job is not automatically a second field of influence. These biographies are here because a sustained practice in one area met substantial work in another, producing a useful method, a...
People
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Conservators Who Saved Significant Cultural Objects
Conservators Who Saved Significant Cultural Objects
by curious_compiler  • 
More from curious_compiler
A shattered statue, a fragile flag, and a waterlogged ship each ask a different kind of patience. These conservators helped their teams decide what could be lifted, cleaned, joined, or left in...
History
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Classic Vintage Gas Stations Still Standing
Classic Vintage Gas Stations Still Standing
by curious_compiler  • 
More from curious_compiler
From a giant teapot in Washington to Frank Lloyd Wright's only built gas station, these photos show filling stations from the golden age of the road trip that you can still go and see. Each one...
Business
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Weird Medieval Manuscript Marginalia
Weird Medieval Manuscript Marginalia
by curious_compiler  • 
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Medieval painters filled the edges of psalters, prayer books and even law books with scenes that have nothing to do with the text beside them: rabbits hunting hunters, men squaring up to snails...
Funny
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Illustrators Whose Work Shaped Childhood Reading
Illustrators Whose Work Shaped Childhood Reading
by curious_compiler  • 
On a similar theme
For many children the first thing a book teaches is how to read a picture: where to look, what a face is feeling, what happens in the gap between pages. This list, in order of birth, follows...
Arts & Design
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English Grammar Books for Learners and Their Teachers
English Grammar Books for Learners and Their Teachers
by curious_compiler  • 
On a similar theme
Grammar books for people learning English and for the teachers who answer their questions. Each one earned its place by explaining grammar in plain terms, showing it in realistic examples and, for...
Education
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People Who Helped Others Achieve Their Best Work
People Who Helped Others Achieve Their Best Work
by curious_compiler  • 
On a similar theme
A biography often follows the name on the cover, the stage or the discovery. These profiles follow another thread: the editor who asks a better question, the teacher who develops a skill, the...
People
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Novels About Artists That Understand the Work
Novels About Artists That Understand the Work
by book_guy  • 
On a similar theme
A creative life is made from repeated decisions about materials, time, other people and the money needed to continue. These novels pay attention to that work across ceramics, textiles...
Books
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People Whose Ideas Became More Influential After Their Death
People Whose Ideas Became More Influential After Their Death
by curious_compiler  • 
On a similar theme
An idea can outgrow its first audience through later editions, new evidence, translations or institutions. These are my choices for lives whose intellectual or creative influence expanded after...
People
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Political Figures Behind Major Education Reforms
Political Figures Behind Major Education Reforms
by curious_compiler  • 
On a similar theme
Education reform can mean opening schools, preparing teachers, removing fees, changing selection or giving families a voice in governance. These historical cases compare those mechanisms rather...
Politics
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People Whose Apprenticeships Shaped an Unusual Career
People Whose Apprenticeships Shaped an Unusual Career
by curious_compiler  • 
On a similar theme
Apprenticeship rarely gets the credit that a university degree does, yet many remarkable careers started with years of hands-on training in a workshop, kitchen, print shop or tailor's. This list...
People
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Executives Who Made Staff Development Part of the Job
Executives Who Made Staff Development Part of the Job
by curious_compiler  • 
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Training becomes more useful when it connects to work, responsibility and opportunities to progress. These executives backed or strengthened identifiable systems, from company schools and...
Business
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