Great lives

Describes the life and achievements of the woman who worked to improve hospital conditions and make nursing an honorable profession.

Presents biographies of more than twenty actors and playwrights who have left their mark on the theater, including Anton Chekhov, Edwin Booth, Sarah Bernhardt, George Bernard Shaw, and Paul Robeson.

Short biographies of more than thirty men and women who excelled in the field of medical science. Includes Hippocrates, Harvey, Ehrlich, Roentgen, Blackwell, Freud, and Salk.

Tells the story of the life and career of Golda Meir as Prime Minister of Israel.

Presents biographical sketches of twenty-five world leaders from the early nineteenth century to the present day.

Tells the inspiring story of Gandhi's life and outlines his major achievements.

A brief account of the life of that complex personality, King Henry VIII of England.

A biography of the two brothers who built and flew the first powered airplane in 1903.

A biography of Richard the Lionhearted, King of England, who was a famous crusader and knight.

A biography of the nineteenth-century British monarch whose sixty-three year reign over one-quarter of the world's population covered a period of great industrial and social change.