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Norbert Wiener and Cybernetics
Famous for inventing the discipline of Cybernetics and his communications theory, Norbert Wiener introduced the concept of feedback mechanism, and terms input and output.
Small Business Ideas from Successful Businesses
Business attributes and ideas, learned and credited, from successful businesses and business owners.
Bing Crosby's Christmas Show Stopper Songs
Christmas carols have always been a lovely blend of old and new songs as each generation honours the Yuletide with their own experiences. Bing Crosby sang three top hits.
Adam Smith and His Theory of Wealth
Philosophy and doctrine of Adam Smith, the man who founded economics, noted for modern free market, classical economics, laissez-faire, and division of labour.
Nikolai Gogol Biography
Brief biography of Russian novelist, playwright, and short-story writer Nikolai Gogol, famous for masterpiece epic Dead Souls, a satirical long short-story fiction.
How to Successfully Close a Sale
Customer management and marketing tips to effectively close a sale, considered the most difficult in the selling process before forging a new customer relationship.
John Stuart Mill's Happiness and Pain
Brief biography and works of John Stuart Mill, known for his philosophy on morality, in particular the pursuit of happiness (or pleasure) and reduction of pain.
André Gide Biography
Brief biography of French novelist, playwright and critic André Gide, 1947 Nobel Prize Winner for literature, best known for The Immoralist and The Counterfeiters.
How to Sustain Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty
Ways to maintain customers' satisfaction, and ensure they keep coming back for more sales orders.
Business Marketing Ideas in High-Tech Age
Marketing ideas for the small/home based business owner, and insights how to keep up with advances in technologies and fluctuating market trends.
Ilya Prigogine Biography
Brief biography of Ilya Prigogine, 1977 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, best known for development of irreversible processes in thermodynamics, with "arrow of time."
Marketing Ideas to Stimulate Business Owners
Ideas and insights to stimulate business owners handle challenges with their products, customers, and competition.
Key Staff Motivators Employers Should Factor In
Important key motivators that employers should seriously consider to ensure a positive workplace culture with satisfied staff. Highly motivated staff perform best.
Tips and Ideas for Wealth Creation
Tips and ideas how to achieve financial stability not only through traditional financial planning but with the right attitude towards money.
Customer Complaints Should Be Taken Seriously
Customer complaints should be listened to and appreciated. It is an important way to improve products and services, to satisfy customers and keep them.
Sextus Propertius Biography
Brief biography of Roman Poet Sextus Propertius, best known for elegies of passionate love. His name is mentioned alongside Horace and Ovid.
How to Follow-Up a Business Sale
Tips for how to manage customers, like following up after a business sale and why it should be done, without disregarding their needs despite their promise of a sale.
Tips on Successful Business Succession Planning
Succession planning tips for a small/home business or family-run business to ensure continuity of the business well-being.
Business Marketing Ideas with Customer Focus
Brilliant ideas and insights to keep customers via successful marketing strategies, promotions, campaigns, and other marketing tactics.
Succession Planning for Small /Home Business
Ideas and insights that need to be carefully addressed to prepare a business succession plan for a small/home based business.
Francis Bacon Philosophy and Works
Philosophy and works of English philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon. Best known books include The Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum and New Atlantis.
Earn More Money by Learning
Investing in business program education boosts earnings and sustains income growth, adhering to a business marketer's quote, "to earn more, learn more."
How to Negotiate Successfully
Practical tips how to use effective negotiation skills to produce better results by creating a win-win situation.
William Carlos Williams Biography
American poet, short story writer and novelist W.C. Williams, also an obstetrician, was a prolific poet and writer. He is best known for Pictures from Brueghel.
Thornton Wilder Biography
Brief biography of American writer Thornton Wilder, multi-awarded Pulitzer Prize winner of The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Our Town, and The Skin of Our Teeth.
How to Delegate Tasks and Manage Efficiently
Ways how to delegate assigned tasks successfully, and improving efficiency through proper planning, defined goals, and clear communication.
How Business Owners Can Work Less and Enjoy Life
Ideas how business owners and managers can free up hours and find more time to enjoy with family and indulge in things they love to do.
Paul Ehrlich Biography
Brief biography and work of Paul Ehrlich, German scientist in immunology and hematology. He coined the word chemotherapy, the chemical that kills cancerous cells.
Sean O'Casey Biography
Brief biography of Irish playwright Sean O'Casey, famous for Mirror in My House and The Shadow of a Gunman.
History of Internet and WWW Revisited
A rewind and brief history of Internet and the World Wide Web, WWW Inventor Tim Berners-Lee, the early Internet players, ISPs, the Net now, broadband and wireless.
Jean Rhys Biography
Brief biography of Dominican-born British novelist and short story writer Jean Rhys, whose fiction echoes her childhood, best known for Wide Sargasso Sea.
Luigi Pirandello Biography
Brief biography of Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello, best known for Six Characters in Search of an Author and Right You Are, If You Think You Are.
Thomas Hobbes and His Philosophy
Philosophy of English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, noted for his concept of materialism and social contract theory projected in Leviathan. He also wrote De Cive.
Quotes from Famous Christmas Birthday Celebrants
Short quotes from famous Christmas Day birthday celebrants Isaac Newton, Anwar Al Sadat, Bogart Humphrey, and Robert LeRoy Ripley.
Ray Bradbury Biography
Brief biography and books of Ray Bradbury, one of the founders of modern science fiction, best known for Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and other sci-fi novels.
Best Christmas Gifts to Self
Valuable tips what to give one self for Christmas. When a person is at peace, thankful, healthy, and spiritually connected, he or she becomes a gift.
How to Spend Less on Christmas
Tips on how to spend less money during the Yuletide season and still buy good and meaningful gifts to capture the true spirit of Christmas.
Eudora Welty Biography
Brief biography of American Southern author Eudora Welty, 1973 Pulitzer Prize winner for her The Optimist's Daughter.
Hilaire Belloc Biography
Brief biography of Hilaire Belloc, a versatile English writer and parliamentarian best known for children's verses like Cautionary Tales and Bad Child's Book of Beasts.
Why Christmas Day is December 25
A brief history why December 25 has been accepted as the Nativity, as Christians worldwide celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ on Christmas Day.
Jean Anouilh Biography
Brief biography of prolific French playwright Jean Anouilh, best known for Antigone, Becket, The Lark, and The Traveller without Luggage.
Kurt Gödel Philosophy
Philosophy and logic of Czech-American Kurt Gödel, 20th century's mathematician, logician and philosopher, best known for his theory of Incompleteness.
Alfred Tarski and His Philosophy
The philosophy of Alfred Tarski, best known for his contribution to logic, metamathematics, semantics and the philosophy of language.
Douglas Moore Opera The Wings of the Dove
The Wings of the Dove, an English drama by Douglas Moore: opera plot summary, character list, and other Moore opera information.
Eugene O'Neill Biography
Brief biography of American playwright Eugene O'Neil, best known for dramatic plays of modern town life such as Long Day's Journey into Night and The Iceman Cometh.
Octavio Paz Biography
Brief biography of Mexican poet Octavio Paz, famous for The Labyrinth of Solitude, Sun Stone and other poetry on the theme of harmony.
How to Prepare for Job Interviews
Tips and important job interview techniques to prepare, improve interview performance, and best of all, succeed.
Tips to Prepare a Winning Resumé
Resumé tips and basic guidelines for job searchers on how to prepare for a professional resumé writing.
Offenbach Le Pont des Soupirs
Le Pont des Soupirs (The Bridge of Sighs,) a French operetta by Jacques Offenbach: opera plot summary, character list, and other Offenbach opera information.
Igor Stravinsky Opera The Soldier's Tale
The Soldier's Tale, a morality play by Igor Stravinsky. Drama plot summary, character list, and other opera information.
Halloween Treat from Classical Music
Horrifying classical music sounds for Halloween and haunting pieces for ghouls and goblins, an All Saints' Eve Treat.
David Hilbert Biography
Brief biography of mathematician David Hilbert, who introduced the concepts of formalism into mathematics and the Invariant Theory.
William Hazlitt Biography
Brief biography of William Hazlitt, one of the greatest English writers of essays, famous for Characters of Shakespeare's Plays and Life of Napoleon.
Arnold Bennett Biography
Brief biography of British writer Arnold Bennett, England's exponent of realistic writing, his novels set in the Potteries.
Quotes and Sayings from Great Philosophers
Short quotes on life, hope, and other human interests, from the best works of great philosophers Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, and Bertrand Russell.
Kepler and the Star of Bethlehem
German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler came up with a planetary conjecture of planets Jupiter and Saturn, he called The Star of Bethlehem.
Friedrich von Schiller as Writer
A biography of German philosopher Friedrich von Schiller, with focus on his work as a playwright and poet, best known for Ode to Joy, The Robbers, and historical dramas.
Most Popular Victorian Christmas Carols
Brief historical notes of the most popular Christmas Victorian Carols that include Silent Night, The First Noël, The Wassail Song, and God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.
Scientist Linus Pauling Biography
Brief biography of chemist Linus Pauling, so far the only Nobel laureate of two unshared Nobel Prizes, Chemistry and Peace, and known for The Nature of the Chemical Bond.
Christmas Carols in the Victorian Era
Christmas carols were reinvented in the 19th century, regarded as a Victorian phenomenon. Songs include the famous Silent Night and The First Noel.
Christmas Carols Revisited
The significance of Christmas, and the popularity and easy access of the Christmas carols have helped ensure their survival.
Vladimir Mayakovsky Biography
Brief biography of Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian playwright and poet of early 20th century Lenin era, best known for his revolutionary literary works.
Quotes from the Wisdom of King Solomon
Insightful and great quotes dealing with the wisdom of living and handling money, from the Bible's considered wisest man, King Solomon.
Michel de Montaigne Biography
Brief biography of essay inventor Michel de Montaigne, French writer and philosopher, famous for Essays containing his beliefs.
Alford and Elvey Thanksgiving Sacred Song
Traditional loved thanksgiving and harvest Christian song, with tune name St. George's Windsor, collaborated by Henry Alford and George Elvey.
History of Hymn - Come Ye Thankful People Come
Thanksgiving sacred song "Come, Ye Thankful People, Come" brief history, and profiles of hymn writer Henry Alford and composer George Elvey.
Samuel Beckett Biography
Brief biography of Irish writer Samuel Beckett, influential British writer of the 20th century, leading dramatist and Nobel laureate in literature.
Knut Hamsun Biography
Brief biography of Norwegian author Knut Hamsun, one of Scandinavia's greatest novelists. Aside from The Growth of the Soil, he is known for the novels Hunger and Pan.
Nobel Wisdom Quotes Book
Perfect gift for Christmas or any occasion, Nobel Wisdom is a collection of quotes from Nobel Prize winners, with 250 laureates profile, and Nobel Prize brief history.
Jean Jacques Rousseau Biography
Brief biography and works of Jean Jacques Rousseau, known for Émile or on Education, Dissertation, the New Héloïse, Social Contract, Discourses on the Sciences and Arts.
Edward Lear Biography
Brief biography of children's writer and artist Edward Lear, best known for his limericks, laughable lyrics and poetry like The Owl and the Pussycat.
Thanksgiving Quotes and Sayings from the Bible
Thanksgiving quotes from the Bible to thank the Creator for His gifts, and to praise Him for all the blessings that continuously flow.
Jean de La Fontaine Biography
Brief biography of French writer Jean de La Fontaine, known for his children's writings.
Friendship Quotes and Sayings from the Bible
The Bible has numerous friendship quotes and sayings that motivate and inspire. These great quotes also serve as keystones of caring relationships.
Willard Van Orman Quine Philosophy
Philosophy and work of American analytic philosopher and logician Willard Van Orman Quine, who believed that philosophy is not conceptual analysis.
Scientist James Lovelock Brief Biography
Brief biography of English scientist James Lovelock who introduced the Gaia hypothesis that the Earth is a single living organism evolving to sustain itself.
Francesco Petrarca Biography
Life and times of Francesco Petrarca, Petrarch, one of the most influential poets of the Middle Ages, famous for passionate sonnets to his lady love, Laura.
Insomnia Quotes and Sayings from the Bible
Short compilation of insomnia quotes and sayings from the Bible including symptoms of insomnia and sleeplessness with a purpose.
Labor Quotes and Sayings from the Bible
Great quotes and sayings from the Bible about labor, and the relationships between employers and laborers.
A.A. Milne Biography
Brief biography of A.A. Milne, one of the greatest children's writers who created the classic fictional characters Winnie-the-Pooh or Pooh Bear and his friends.
Lillian Hellman Biography
Brief biography of American playwright, screenwriter and memoirist Lillian Hellman, known for The Little Foxes, Pentimento and An Unfinished Woman.
Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, known for his own concept of noumena, post-Kantian phenomena, and the world made-up of desires and ideas.
God Quotes and Sayings from Book of Job
The biblical book of Job that gives an account of Job's sufferings and his trust in God has great quotes about the immensity of God's love, power and greatness.
Philosopher Machiavelli as Political Writer
Works of Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian philosopher, writer, statesman, diplomat and great political theorist of the Italian Renaissance.
Life and Essays of Michel de Montaigne
Philosophy of Michel de Montaigne, famous for scepticism and relativism, three essays including On Cannibals, and his motto, "What do I know?"
Health Quotes and Sayings from the Bible
The Bible has numerous health quotes that motivate and serve as reminders of the value and importance in being healthy and fit for life.
Jean-Paul Sartre Novelist and Playwright
Works of French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre as a novelist and playwright. Best-known for his philosophy book Being and Nothingness.
Hope Quotes and Sayings from the Bible
The Bible has numerous God quotes and insights of hope that springs eternal. These quotations serve as a reminders of God's hope of glory.
Charles Baudelaire Biography
Brief biography of Charles Baudelaire, radical but influential poet famous for The Flowers of Evil, a collection of poetry, including sonnets.
Theory of Theodor Kaluza and Oskar Klein
Brief biographies and work of physicists Theodor Kaluza and Oskar Klein, who conceived the idea of the higher level fifth-dimension of unifying forces.
William of Occam and His Philosophy
The philosophy of William of Occam advocated the idea that it is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer, and that in reality, everything is singular.
Finance Quotes and Sayings from the Bible
Through quotes in verses, the Bible provides insights on financing and banking services during the biblical times, including loans and debts.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca Biography
Brief biography of Spanish dramatist and poet Pedro Calderón de la Barca, best known for his sacred pieces, autos sacramentales.
Henry Ford Brief Biography
Brief biography of American car maker and automobile industrialist, Henry Ford, developed a working gasoline automobile, Model T, and founder of Ford Motors.
Commerce Quotes from the Bible
Through quotes and verses, the Bible shows insights how commerce and trading transpired and affected people's lives in ancient Biblical times.
Dante Alighieri Brief Biography
Life and works of Dante Alighieri, whose story-poem Divina Commedia brought alive his imaginary worlds of Inferno, Purgatory and Heaven, and reunion with Beatrice.
Robert Burns Brief Biography
Short profile and work of Scottish poet and tax collector, Robert Burns, national poet of Scotland.
Rimsky-Korsakov Opera The Golden Cockerel
Opera The Golden Cockerel (Le Coq d'Or) by Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: plot synopsis, character description, and other Rimsky-Korsakov opera information.
Life Quotes from the Bible
The Bible has numerous quotes on how to live the right way. These quotes serve as a reminder its inspired words of wisdom about life and living.
Puccini Opera Manon Lescaut
Manon Lescaut, an Italian lyric tragedy drama by Giacomo Puccini: opera plot summary, character list, and other Puccini opera information.