Global profiles

Presents twelve essays, each illuminating the life and achievements of a scientist or physician who has made an important contribution to the fight against disease since 1950, and includes photographs, chronologies, and references for further reading.

Profiles nine men, including Sun Yat-sen of China, Gandhi of India, Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam, and Emilio Aguinaldo of the Philippines, who struggled to free their respective countries from colonial rule or monarchy.

Profiles ten men and women who have written about or whose writings were influenced by their experiences during the Holocaust.

Profiles eight modern African political leaders, including Nelson Mandela and Haile Selassie.

Profiles ten significant figures in the world-wide struggle for human rights, including Mother Teresa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Joan Baez, Jimmy Carter, and Fang Lizhi.

Profiles men and women whose contributions to the environmental movement have significantly changed how we see the world around us.

A collective biography profiling the lives of eight Latin American writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez, Jorge Amado, and Isabel Allende.

Profiles eight Arab and Israeli leaders who have been instrumental in shaping the turbulent and sometimes triumphant histories of their lands.

Profiles eight leaders for their attempts to introduce functional democracy in their respective countries: Andrei Sakharov, Alexander Dubcek, Boris Yeltsin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa, Father Jerzy Popieluszko, and Pastor Laszlo Tokes.