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Meet Alexander the Great: Ambition and Its Bill

Undefeated at thirty-two, tutored by Aristotle, first over every wall — and a cautionary tale he'd tell you himself.

The rarest act in the history of power: winning it, and then giving it back — twice.

He sat on the most explosive idea in science for twenty years — collecting evidence until the case was undeniable.

Thirteen short chapters written 2,500 years ago — still the most practical book on strategy ever composed.

Plague closed his university, so a 23-year-old went home to a farm and invented calculus, optics, and gravitation.

Founder of the West's first university, and author of the most famous thought experiment ever written.

He invented logic, organized every science of his age, and taught that excellence is not an act but a habit.

Two years in hiding, one red-checkered diary — and one of the most honest accounts of a human being ever written.

She left a comfortable convent with five rupees and built a global order — one dying stranger at a time.

From a prison cell, he copied the dictionary by hand — and emerged one of the sharpest debaters of his century.