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Thinkers<\/em>\u00a0is a guided tour through a vast array of great works and the minds behind them, providing the inspiration and enthusiasm that will encourage both young adult and adult readers to learn to think about thinking and the way the mind works.<\/p>\n

In each chapter, Michael discusses an author\u2019s work along with the author, providing quotes from the work and valuable insight into the mind behind the creation.<\/p>\n

The authors and their works profiled in the twenty essays are:<\/p>\n

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  1. Charles Van Doren,\u00a0A History of Knowledge<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. Sir Kenneth Clarke,\u00a0Civilisation<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. Richard Preston,\u00a0The Hot Zone<\/em><\/li>\n
  4. Stephen Hawking,\u00a0A Brief History of Time<\/em><\/li>\n
  5. George Eliot,\u00a0Middlemarch<\/em><\/li>\n
  6. Daniel J. Boorstin,\u00a0The Creators<\/em><\/li>\n
  7. Jonathan Swift,\u00a0Gulliver\u2019s Travels<\/em><\/li>\n
  8. Fyodor Dostoevsky,\u00a0Crime and Punishment<\/em><\/li>\n
  9. Vasari,\u00a0The Lives of the Artists<\/em><\/li>\n
  10. James Burke,\u00a0The Day the Universe Changed<\/em><\/li>\n
  11. A.C. Bradley,\u00a0Shakespearean Tragedy<\/em><\/li>\n
  12. Kaye Gibbons,\u00a0Ellen Foster<\/em><\/li>\n
  13. Nathaniel Hawthorne,\u00a0The Scarlet Letter<\/em><\/li>\n
  14. Mark Twain,\u00a0The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/em><\/li>\n
  15. Walt Whitman,\u00a0Leaves of Grass<\/em><\/li>\n
  16. Kate Chopin,\u00a0The Awakening<\/em><\/li>\n
  17. Eugene O\u2019Neill,\u00a0Long Day\u2019s Journey into Night<\/em><\/li>\n
  18. Carl Sagan,\u00a0The Demon-Haunted World<\/em><\/li>\n
  19. Sylvia Plath,\u00a0The Bell Jar<\/em><\/li>\n
  20. Frederick Douglass,\u00a0The Narrative of Frederick Douglass<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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