Christian Doppler was an Austrian mathematician and physicist best known for articulating a principle known as the 'Doppler effect.'

Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher best known for his book The World as Will and Representation, and for his pessimistic views of human nature.

Influential German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is known for his writings on good and evil, the end of religion in modern society and the concept of a "super-man."

Rudolf Virchow was a 19th century German pathologist and politician known for his significant findings in social medicine.

The trailer for Christian Bale's new movie, 'Vice,' was released and showed Bale's dramatic transformation in Dick Cheney. For the role. Bale shaved his head, bleached his eyebrows and put on 40 pounds. Commitment to a character is nothing new for the actor - for 2004's 'The Machinist,' he lost 60 pounds.

Max Weber was a 19th-century German sociologist and one of the founders of modern sociology. He wrote The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism in 1905.

A favorite among the likes of Kanye West and Natalie Portman, you, too, can own Christian Dior...on your coffee table. The 256-page book, produced with the House of Dior, covers the history of the fashion house starting with Dior himself in 1947.

German philosopher Friedrich von Schelling explored the concept of freedom in his 1809 book, Of Human Freedom. Immanuel Kant largely inspired his work.

Philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was one of the creators of German Idealism. He explored how contradictions ultimately integrated to create the whole.