Author: Time-Life Books
Publisher: Time Life Education
ISBN: 9780783555133
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Offers brief profiles of hundreds of influential men and women, including political leaders, scientists, musicians, artists, writers, athletes, and business people
People who Shaped the Century
Author: Time-Life Books
Publisher: Time Life Education
ISBN: 9780783555133
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Offers brief profiles of hundreds of influential men and women, including political leaders, scientists, musicians, artists, writers, athletes, and business people
Publisher: Time Life Education
ISBN: 9780783555133
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Offers brief profiles of hundreds of influential men and women, including political leaders, scientists, musicians, artists, writers, athletes, and business people
People of the Century
Author: CBS News
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684870932
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The one hundred most influential people of the twentieth century, as selected by the editors of Time magazine and featured in a series of documentaries produced by CBS.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684870932
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The one hundred most influential people of the twentieth century, as selected by the editors of Time magazine and featured in a series of documentaries produced by CBS.
People who Shaped the Century
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780965005630
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Offers brief profiles of hundreds of influential men and women, including political leaders, scientists, musicians, artists, writers, athletes, and business people.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780965005630
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Offers brief profiles of hundreds of influential men and women, including political leaders, scientists, musicians, artists, writers, athletes, and business people.
100 People Who Changed 20th-Century America [2 volumes]
Author: Mary Cross
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
Book Description
To what extent does a person's own success result in social transformation? This book offers 100 answers, providing thought-provoking examples of how American culture was shaped within a crucial time period by individuals whose lives and ideas were major agents of change. 100 People Who Changed 20th-Century America provides a two-volume encyclopedia of the individuals whose contributions to society made the 20th century what it was. Comprising contributions from 20 academics and experts in their field, the thought-provoking essays examine the men and women who have shaped the modern American cultural experience—change agents who defined their time period as a result of their talent, imagination, and enterprise. Organized chronologically by the subjects' birthdates, the essays are written to be accessible to the general reader yet provide in-depth information for scholars, ensuring that the work will appeal to many audiences.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
Book Description
To what extent does a person's own success result in social transformation? This book offers 100 answers, providing thought-provoking examples of how American culture was shaped within a crucial time period by individuals whose lives and ideas were major agents of change. 100 People Who Changed 20th-Century America provides a two-volume encyclopedia of the individuals whose contributions to society made the 20th century what it was. Comprising contributions from 20 academics and experts in their field, the thought-provoking essays examine the men and women who have shaped the modern American cultural experience—change agents who defined their time period as a result of their talent, imagination, and enterprise. Organized chronologically by the subjects' birthdates, the essays are written to be accessible to the general reader yet provide in-depth information for scholars, ensuring that the work will appeal to many audiences.
Great Souls
Author: David Aikman
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739104385
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
From his unique vantage point as a senior journalist with TIME magazine, David Aikman witnessed some of the most important world events and interviewed many of the prominent global power figures of his time. Aikman profiles six of these figures who embody specific virtues sorley needed today:Billy Graham (salvation),Nelson Mandela (forgiveness) ,Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (truth), Mother Treasa (compassion), Pope John Paul ll (human dignity), and Elie Wiesel (remembrance).
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739104385
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
From his unique vantage point as a senior journalist with TIME magazine, David Aikman witnessed some of the most important world events and interviewed many of the prominent global power figures of his time. Aikman profiles six of these figures who embody specific virtues sorley needed today:Billy Graham (salvation),Nelson Mandela (forgiveness) ,Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (truth), Mother Treasa (compassion), Pope John Paul ll (human dignity), and Elie Wiesel (remembrance).
What Everyone Should Know About The 20Th Century
Author: Adams Media TBD
Publisher: Adams Media
ISBN: 9781580620666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
From the Wright Brothers to the election of Nelson Mandela, this engaging, reader-friendly compendium--from the authors of the enormously successful What Every American Should Know about American History--provides capsule summaries of the 200 most important events in world history since 1900.
Publisher: Adams Media
ISBN: 9781580620666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
From the Wright Brothers to the election of Nelson Mandela, this engaging, reader-friendly compendium--from the authors of the enormously successful What Every American Should Know about American History--provides capsule summaries of the 200 most important events in world history since 1900.
Timelines of War
Author: David M. Brownstone
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
ISBN: 9780316114479
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Provides information on all wars, revolutions, battles, and weapons from ancient Assyria to the Russian Insurrection of 1993
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
ISBN: 9780316114479
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Provides information on all wars, revolutions, battles, and weapons from ancient Assyria to the Russian Insurrection of 1993
The Most Intriguing People of the Century
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781883013783
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781883013783
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The Century for Young People: Changing America, 1961-1999
Author: Peter Jennings
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780385906821
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Experience the greatest moments of the 20th century with an accessible narrative that makes history come alive. Adapted from the #1 national bestseller especially for young readers! The twentieth century was a time of tremendous change, the most eventful hundred years in human history. Join Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster for a fascinating journey back in time to experience, through vivid first-person accounts, the most surprising and the most terrifying events of the past hundred years. These are the voices of ordinary people--children and adults--who were a part of history in the making. Their joys and sorrows, their hopes and fears provide a compelling insider's look at momentous events that have reshaped the world. The Century for Young People is a riveting read and an essential research resource. It is the story of our time for all time.
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780385906821
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Experience the greatest moments of the 20th century with an accessible narrative that makes history come alive. Adapted from the #1 national bestseller especially for young readers! The twentieth century was a time of tremendous change, the most eventful hundred years in human history. Join Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster for a fascinating journey back in time to experience, through vivid first-person accounts, the most surprising and the most terrifying events of the past hundred years. These are the voices of ordinary people--children and adults--who were a part of history in the making. Their joys and sorrows, their hopes and fears provide a compelling insider's look at momentous events that have reshaped the world. The Century for Young People is a riveting read and an essential research resource. It is the story of our time for all time.
The Martians of Science
Author: István Hargittai
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195365569
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
If science has the equivalent of a Bloomsbury group, it is the five men born at the turn of the twentieth century in Budapest: Theodore von Kármán, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, and Edward Teller. From Hungary to Germany to the United States, they remained friends and continued to work together and influence each other throughout their lives. As a result, their work was integral to some of the most important scientific and political developments of the twentieth century. István Hargittai tells the story of this remarkable group: Wigner won a Nobel Prize in theoretical physics; Szilard was the first to see that a chain reaction based on neutrons was possible, initiated the Manhattan Project, but left physics to try to restrict nuclear arms; von Neumann could solve difficult problems in his head and developed the modern computer for more complex problems; von Kármán became the first director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, providing the scientific basis for the U.S. Air Force; and Teller was the father of the hydrogen bomb, whose name is now synonymous with the controversial "Star Wars" initiative of the 1980s. Each was fiercely opinionated, politically active, and fought against all forms of totalitarianism. Hargittai, as a young Hungarian physical chemist, was able to get to know some of these great men in their later years, and the depth of information and human interest in The Martians of Science is the result of his personal relationships with the subjects, their families, and their contemporaries.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195365569
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
If science has the equivalent of a Bloomsbury group, it is the five men born at the turn of the twentieth century in Budapest: Theodore von Kármán, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, and Edward Teller. From Hungary to Germany to the United States, they remained friends and continued to work together and influence each other throughout their lives. As a result, their work was integral to some of the most important scientific and political developments of the twentieth century. István Hargittai tells the story of this remarkable group: Wigner won a Nobel Prize in theoretical physics; Szilard was the first to see that a chain reaction based on neutrons was possible, initiated the Manhattan Project, but left physics to try to restrict nuclear arms; von Neumann could solve difficult problems in his head and developed the modern computer for more complex problems; von Kármán became the first director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, providing the scientific basis for the U.S. Air Force; and Teller was the father of the hydrogen bomb, whose name is now synonymous with the controversial "Star Wars" initiative of the 1980s. Each was fiercely opinionated, politically active, and fought against all forms of totalitarianism. Hargittai, as a young Hungarian physical chemist, was able to get to know some of these great men in their later years, and the depth of information and human interest in The Martians of Science is the result of his personal relationships with the subjects, their families, and their contemporaries.