Werner, Vivian L

Discusses six innovative scientists who were frequently at odds with their contemporaries: Charles Babbage, Ada Augusta, Gregor Mendel, Sigmund Freud, Charles Drew, and Nicolai Vavilov.

Traces the development of ballet from its roots in fifteenth-century France and Italy to the present day.

Retells the story of the Stravinsky ballet, in which the puppet Petrouchka earns a real human soul.