| 101 Men and Women Who Shaped Our World
Students completing homework assignments will turn to Lincoln Library of Shapers of Society. In seven volumes, this new title presents lively narrative biographies of historical figures from Aristotle to the Wright brothers, illustrated with historic photos and documents and contemporary graphic-novel-style illustrations.
Each entry includes:
• Abstract summarizing key facts about the person’s life and why he or she is notable
• Narrative biography
• Timeline of events, illustrated
• Memorable quotes
• Primary source documents (letters, patent drawings, speeches, etc.)
• Suggestions of print and online sources for further study
Volume Features
Read these sample entries:
Alexander Graham Bell: Alexander Graham Bell entry in Adobe PDF format.
Henry Ford: Henry Ford entry in Adobe PDF format.
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Franklin D. Roosevelt entry in Adobe PDF format.
Profiles Featured:
Alexander the Great
|
Euclid
|
Cyrus McCormick
|
Susan B. Anthony
|
Michael Faraday
|
Gregor Mendel
|
Aristotle
|
Philo T. Farnsworth
|
Michelangelo
|
Neil Armstrong
|
Carlos Finlay
|
Moses
|
Augustus
|
Sandford Fleming
|
Mario José Molina
|
Leo Hendrik Baekeland
|
Henry Ford
|
Muhammad
|
Ludwig van Beethoven
|
Benjamin Franklin
|
Napoleon Bonaparte
|
Alexander Graham Bell
|
R. Buckminster Fuller
|
Isaac Newton
|
Buddy Bolden
|
Galileo
|
Florence Nightingale
|
Buddha
|
Mohandas Gandhi
|
Louis Pasteur
|
Julius Caesar
|
Robert H. Goddard
|
Pablo Picasso
|
Miguel de Cervantes
|
Goethe
|
Plato
|
Coco Chanel
|
Billy Graham
|
Rembrandt
|
Charlemagne
|
Johannes Gutenberg
|
Paul Robeson
|
Winston Churchill
|
Homer
|
Franklin D. Roosevelt
|
Cleopatra
|
Charles Ives
|
Jonas Edward Salk
|
Christopher Columbus
|
Thomas Jefferson
|
William Shakespeare
|
Confucius
|
Jesus of Nazareth
|
Socrates
|
Nicolaus Copernicus
|
Joan of Arc
|
Tecumseh
|
Francis Crick and James Watson
|
Steve Jobs
|
Mother Teresa
|
Marie Curie
|
John Paul II
|
Nikola Tesla
|
Dante
|
James Weldon Johnson
|
Henry David Thoreau
|
Charles Darwin
|
Percy Lavon Julian
|
Linus Benedict Torvalds
|
Charles de Gaulle
|
Martin Luther King Jr.
|
Sojourner Truth
|
Walt Disney
|
Antoine Lavoisier
|
Ts’ai Lun
|
Frederick Douglass
|
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
|
Victoria
|
W. E. B. Du Bois
|
Leonardo da Vinci
|
Richard Wagner
|
Isadora Duncan
|
Abraham Lincoln
|
Booker T. Washington
|
Thomas Alva Edison
|
Martin Luther
|
George Washington
|
Albert Einstein
|
Ferdinand Magellan
|
James Watt
|
Dwight D. Eisenhower
|
Nelson Mandela
|
Eli Whitney
|
Elizabeth I
|
Guglielmo Marconi
|
The Wright Brothers
|
Ralph Waldo Emerson
|
Jan Ernst Matzeliger
|
Frank Lloyd Wright
|
|
|
|
  
|
|
|
Copyright © 2008-2009 the Lincoln Library Press, Inc.
|
|
The Lincoln Library Press, 812 Huron Road E., Ste. 401, Cleveland, OH 44115
|
|
Tel: (800) 516-2656 / (216) 781-9594 Fax: (216) 781-9559
|
|
