Profiles

Profiles seven adventurous women who explored the world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Provides biographies of six key players during the Vietnam War.

A biography of the imprisoned leader of the African National Congress who, with his wife Winnie, continues to struggle for black majority rights in South Africa.

Discusses efforts to create perfect societies by such individuals as: Ann Lee and Joseph Meacham and the Shakers, Christian Metz and the Amana Colonies, George Rapp and the Harmony Society, Robert Owen and New Harmony, George Ripley and Brook Farm, John Humphrey Noyes and Oneida, and Katherine Tingley and the Point Loma community.

Profiles three Soviet cosmonauts and four American astronauts who accomplished "firsts" for their nations: Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, Alexei Leonov, Wally Schirra, Neil Armstrong, John Young, and Eileen Collins.

"Focuses on six of the most inspiring and courageous men and women who have worked to pioneer peaceful solutions to violent conflicts throughout history"--Back cover.

A biography of six women activists in American history.

Profiles eight women who broke gender, racial, and other barriers to become doctors.

Presents information on the lives and work of the economists Thomas Gresham, Adam Smith, Thomas Robert Malthus, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman, and Alan Greenspan.

Traces the history of the labor movement in the United States through brief biographies of labor leaders: Samuel Gompers, Eugene Debs, William Haywood, "Mother" Jones, John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Jimmy Hoffa, and Cesar Chavez.