Added by: eliker bahij | Karma: 250.44 | Non-Fiction, Other | 24 January 2013
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Mother-Teresa
On a rainy Saturday afternoon in September 1997, thousands of mourners—rich and poor, Hindus, Muslims, and Chris- Otians alike—lined the streets of Calcutta to watch the city’s most famous resident—Mother Teresa—come home for the last time. As a mark of the esteem in which it held the tiny nun, the Indian government had given Mother Teresa its highest honor: a state funeral
A Beautiful Mind is a story based on the life of the famous mathematician John Forbes Nash. His contributions to mathematics are outstanding. When he was an undergraduate, he proved Brouwer's fixed point theorem. He then broke one of Riemann's most perplexing mathematical problems and became famous for the Nash Solution. From then on, Nash provided breakthrough after breakthrough in mathematics. In 1958 John Forbes Nash was described as being 'the most promising young mathematician in the world'.
"The Sea Wolf" is a fascinating story of the gentleman Humphrey van Weyden, who got shipwrecked and gets picked up by the sealing-schooner "Ghost". Here he is confronted with the sadistic philosophy and violent action of the highly intelligent Wolf Larson. "The Sea Wolf" is one of the most impressive documents of American naturalism, and probably the most famous adventure-story in the world.