Great lives

Traces the life of the British monarch from birth through her coronation in 1953 and looks at her royal duties and private life.

Presents biographical profiles of twenty-eight anthropologists and archaeologists, including Jane Goodall, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Leakey.

The life of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who originated the raised dot system of reading and writing used throughout the world by the blind.

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.