Describes the life and achievements of the hardworking scientist who was awarded a joint Nobel Prize for physics with her husband in 1903 and later a Nobel Prize for chemistry.
Presents profiles of eight men who preyed upon the fears and prejudices of people to attract followers to their causes, whether pursuing alleged witches, pointing a finger at imagined communists, or persecuting minorities.
Examines the lives of eight men and one woman, including Sam Walton, L.L. Bean, Walt Disney, and Rose Totino, who built once-small businesses into well-known enterprises.
Profiles the lives of eight African-American leaders, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Booker T. Washington, who were instrumental in abolishing slavery or helping former slaves achieve full citizenship.
Profiles the careers of seven women elected to head their respective countries, including Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Coraz?n Aquino, Benazir Bhutto, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, and Gro Harlem Brundtland.
Profiles the lives and famous cases of eight American attorneys including Andrew Hamilton, John Adams, Belva Lockwood, Abraham Lincoln, Clarence Darrow, Robert Jackson, Joseph Welch, and Morris Dees.
Profiles eight successful women entrepreneurs engaged in a variety of enterprises, including Mary Kay Ash, Marilyn Hamilton, Louise Woerner, Ellen Terry, Leeann Chin, Helen Boehm, Ella Musolino, and Masako Boissonnault.
Contains biographical profiles of six key figures in World War II, including Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hirohito, and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Surveys the history of the Soviet Union through the exploits and achievements of the seven men who were its leaders from 1917 to 1991; Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, and Mikhail Gorbachev.
