Lifting the lid on the lives and times of seven historical figures, including Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc and Charles Darwin, this book provides an alternative l
Discover the world's most famous, brilliant, and crazy characters! Informative narrative text, fictionalized diary entries, and fascinating facts tell the stori
In this fascinating book, Steve Skiena and Charles Ward bring quantitative analysis to bear on ranking and comparing historical reputations by aggregating the t
In the tradition of his own bestselling masterpieces The Story of Civilization and The Lessons of History, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Will Durant traces
Listing of 100 people from around the world and from many different fields of endeavor, whose actions--the author has determined--have had, or will have, the gr