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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 109. Chapters: Mikhail Gorbachev, John Adams, Krzysztof Penderecki, Pierre Boulez, Louis Andriessen, Samuel P. Huntington, Gyorgy Ligeti, Harrison Birtwistle, Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, Witold Lutos awski, Howard Gardner, Toru Takemitsu, Martha Nussbaum, Jurgen Moltmann, Gareth Evans, Elizabeth Loftus, John Hick, Albert Bandura, Jonathan Sacks, Joan Tower, Karel Husa, Thomas Ades, Gyorgy Kurtag, Aaron Temkin Beck, Unsuk Chin, York Holler, E. P. Sanders, John B. Cobb, Marilynne Robinson, Walter Mischel, Timothy Tyson, Tan Dun, Lee Shulman, Brett Dean, Aaron Wildavsky, John Corigliano, Kaija Saariaho, Mike Rose, Peter Lieberson, Kieran Egan, Stephen L. Carter, Derek Bok, Richard Neustadt, Kevin Bales, Diana L. Eck, Carol Gilligan, David Rumelhart, Luke Timothy Johnson, Robert Keohane, Grawemeyer Award, Miroslav Volf, Herman Daly, William G. Bowen, Francis Deng, Simon Bainbridge, Robert Jervis, Aaron Jay Kernis, Donald Akenson, Sebastian Currier, George Tsontakis, James McClelland, Herbert Kelman, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Sister Margaret Farley, Ivan Tcherepnin, Elliot W. Eisner, Chinary Ung, James Kugel. Excerpt: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian: , tr. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachyov, IPA: born 2 March 1931) is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the USSR, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991. He was the only general secretary in the history of the Soviet Union to have been born during the Communist rule. Gorbachev was born in Stavropol Krai into a peasant Ukrainian-Russian family, and in his teens operated combine harvesters on collective farms. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1955 with a degree in law. While he was at the university, he joined the Communist Party of the So...
