Author: Eric Levin
Publisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN: 9781883013141
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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A pictorial presentation of some of the most interesting people of the 20th century.

Author: The most intriguing people of the century
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781883013141
Category : .At head of title: People weekly./ Includes index
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In this sequel to Intellectuals and Creators, Paul Johnson continues his engaging history series, approaching the subject of heroism with stirring examples of men and women from every age, walk of life and corner of the world who have inspired and transformed not only their own cultures but the whole world as well. Heroes includes Samson, Judith and Deborah, Alexander and Julius Caesar, Henry V and Joan of Arc, Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey, Mary Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I and Walter Ralegh, George Washington, the Duke of Wellington and Lord Nelson, Emily Dickinson, Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee, Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle, Mae West and Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II.

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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781883013783
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Author: Richard L. Harris
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1468531905
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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Here is a book made for a wide variety of readers and browsers who enjoy learning about people, particularly those who have been the newsmakers of history, along with their contributions to life in their age. This face-based handbook on the past century provides a variety of opportunities to enhance that pleasure as: - an attractive coffee table conversation starter and stimulator; - an inviting vehicle for a stroll down memory lane in private or with company; - an abbreviated and visual reference to yesteryear's people of power, glitterati, heroes, heroines, nation builders, geniuses, stars, winners, losers, villains and miscreants; - a valuable tutor for parlor games such as "Who Am I?," "Personality Charades," "Who Owns This Headline?," etc.; and - a quick-look opportunity to check on over 900 of the 20th Century's headline grabbers (whom you thought you knew).

Author: Jeanne E. Arnold
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
ISBN: 1938770900
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 181

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Winner of the 2014 John Collier Jr. Award Winner of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century cross-cuts the ranks of important books on social history, consumerism, contemporary culture, the meaning of material culture, domestic architecture, and household ethnoarchaeology. It is a distant cousin of Material World and Hungry Planet in content and style, but represents a blend of rigorous science and photography that these books can claim. Using archaeological approaches to human material culture, this volume offers unprecedented access to the middle-class American home through the kaleidoscopic lens of no-limits photography and many kinds of never-before acquired data about how people actually live their lives at home. Based on a rigorous, nine-year project at UCLA, this book has appeal not only to scientists but also to all people who share intense curiosity about what goes on at home in their neighborhoods. Many who read the book will see their own lives mirrored in these pages and can reflect on how other people cope with their mountains of possessions and other daily challenges. Readers abroad will be equally fascinated by the contrasts between their own kinds of materialism and the typical American experience. The book will interest a range of designers, builders, and architects as well as scholars and students who research various facets of U.S. and global consumerism, cultural history, and economic history.

Author: Roger Kuder
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1583486992
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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If you have seen other joke and riddle books that called themselves the "best" or the "greatest," but were disappointed because they did not deliver, then fear not. This is the best of the best. The cream of the crop. Read it for laughs. You won't be disappointed. Jokes and riddles that are to the point, without unnecessary embellishment. Also included is a third section on wisdom, which will give to you more joy and happiness. Learn how anyone can become happy, healthy and wealthy in all aspects of life. Learn too how to get along with others. You can even learn how to find and keep the great love of your life. It's all there for you in the best collection ever.

Author: Ian Whitelaw
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781770221307
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Author: Ken Follett
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101543558
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1010

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Ken Follett’s magnificent historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man’s world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson’s White House. . . . A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with a German spy. . . . And two orphaned Russian brothers embark on radically different paths when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution. From the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty, Fall of Giants takes us into the inextricably entangled fates of five families—and into a century that we thought we knew, but that now will never seem the same again. . . .

Author: The Editors of TIME
Publisher: Time
ISBN: 9781603209977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In this mesmerizing book, TIME chronicles the fascinating lives and revolutionary times of history's 100 Most Infl uential People. Here are royals and revolutionaries, spiritual leaders and scientists, artists and explorers, philosophers and philanthropists. Here are heroes and villains, Christ and the Buddha, Galileo and Einstein, Joan of Arc and Alexander the Great, Aristotle and Jefferson. Here are the individuals whose lives shaped the destinies of millions and changed history in its flight.

Author: Arthur Moses
Publisher: Arthur Moses
ISBN: 9780972793889
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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