Simple text and photographs introduce the life of Mother Teresa, who founded an order of nuns called the Missionaries of Charity to take care of the poor in India.
Examines the life and leadership skills of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the peace process after the 1973 war with Israel.
A biography of Nelson Mandela, who spent twenty-seven years in jail for his political beliefs, focusing on his fight against apartheid, South Africa's system of segregation and oppression based on color.
A short biography of late nineteenth-century German microbiologist Robert Koch that profiles his life and works which included his study of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and anthrax and his recognition as the founder of modern bacteriology.
Presents a brief biography of Albert Einstein, the twentieth-century physicist whose theories of relativity revolutionized the way the world looks at space and time, and includes Einstein's 1934 essay "The World As I See It.".
Profiles the Nobel Prize-winning chemist who described the nature of chemical bonds and made other important discoveries in the fields of quantum mechanics and immunology.
Examines the life of the Nobel Prize-winning Italian physicist who, among other achievements, developed the world's first nuclear reactor as part of the effort to create the first nuclear bomb.
