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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Henry J Heinz, the man who invented tomato ketchup • William Lever who made millions from soap • Michael Marks, founder of the Marks and Spencer stores • Henry Ford, who mass-produced cars and made them affordable • Coco Chanel, the businesswoman who changed fashion for women • Ray Kroc, the man who created the McDonald's chain of restaurants BRITISH ENGLISH • Word count:...
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The inspiring stories of 5 people who changed history. Contents: • Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, who helped humans to fly • Louis Blériot, the first person to cross the sea in an aeroplane • Charles Lindbergh, first to cross the Atlantic alone • Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic • Amy Johnson, the British woman who broke flying records BRITISH ENGLISH • Word count: 9,498 • Headword count: 906 • PLUS: visit...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Galileo who wanted to show that the earth went around the sun • René Descartes, the Frenchman who famously said 'I think, therefore I am' • Sir Isaac Newton who proved how gravity works • Carl Friedrich Gauss, 'the Prince of Mathematicians' • Charles Babbage who invented computers • Ada Lovelace who wrote the first computer program BRITISH ENGLISH • Word count: 8,351...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Johann Sebastian Bach who wrote the Brandenburg Concertos • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the child genius • Giuseppe Verdi who wrote the operas Aida and La Traviata • Johann Strauss, 'The Waltz King' • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky who wrote the ballet Swan Lake • Irving Berlin who wrote There's No Business Like Show Business BRITISH ENGLISH • Word count: 8,344 • Headword count:...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Gaius Julius Caesar, the powerful Roman leader • Queen Elizabeth I who ruled England for 45 years • George Washington, the first president of the USA • King Louis XVI, the last king of France • Winston Churchill who led Britain in the Second World War • Che Guevara, the Argentinian doctor who fought for revolution BRITISH ENGLISH • Word count: 18,924 • Headword count:...
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The Sunday Times national newspaper is famous for its insight investigative journalist team. This book profiles the major stories from the famous insight team that have had the most impact from the Thalidomide case to the Coronavirus investigation. News-breaking stories as told from The Sunday Times with commentary setting each story in context. These stories are a result of often years of work and painstaking investigations. The reports ripped away...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Alessandro Volta, inventor of the battery • Michael Faraday, inventor of the electric motor • Marie Curie, famous for her work on radioactivity • Albert Einstein, creator of the Theory of Relativity • Alexander Fleming, discoverer of the first antibiotic • Linus Pauling, chemist and peace activist BRITISH ENGLISH • Word count: 15,287 • Headword count: 1,631 • PLUS:...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher • Socrates, the great Greek philosopher • Aristotle, the first to organize scientific knowledge • William Wilberforce who ended the British slave trade • Karl Marx who wrote The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital • Mahatma Gandhi who helped free India from British rule BRITISH ENGLISH • Word count: 16,058 • Headword count: 1,701...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Mayer Amschel Rothschild who started a bank which made his family rich • Cornelius Vanderbilt who became one of the richest people in the USAW. K. Kellogg who started the world's biggest cereal company • Elizabeth Arden who built the Elizabeth Arden cosmetics company • Walt Disney who started the famous entertainment company • Soichiro Honda who started the Honda motorbike...
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The inspiring stories of 5 people who changed history. Contents: • Leonardo da Vinci who painted the Mona Lisa • Christopher Wren who rebuilt London • Antoni Gaudí who built the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona • Pablo Picasso, the famous Spanish painter • Frida Kahlo, the famous Mexican female artist BRITISH ENGLISH • Word count: 10,172 • Headword count: 941 • PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • William the Conqueror, the first Norman King of England • Saladin, historic Muslim leader • Genghis Khan, famous leader of the Mongol empire • Catherine the Great, the woman who turned Russia into an empire • Abraham Lincoln who stopped slavery in the USA • Queen Victoria, the famous British Queen BRITISH ENGLISH • Word count: 6,360 • Headword count: 628 • PLUS: visit...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Alfred Nobel, creator of the Nobel Prize • Andrew Carnegie, the businessman who built libraries for poor people • John D. Rockefeller who made money from oil and gave it all away • Thomas Barnardo who created homes for poor children • Henry Wellcome who used his money for medical research • Madam C. J. Walker who gave her money to the African-American community BRITISH...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Antoine Lavoisier who wrote the first modern chemistry textbook • Humphry Davy who discovered 'laughing gas' • Charles Darwin who changed people's ideas with his theory of evolution • Gregor Mendel who first discovered the science of genetics • Louis Pasteur who saved millions of lives by killing germs • Francis Crick who helped to discover the structure of DNA BRITISH...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Geoffrey Chaucer, writer of the first great works of English Literature • William Shakespeare, writer of the greatest plays in history • Charles Dickens who wanted to make England a better place • Victor Hugo, the French writer who cared about the poor • Leo Tolstoy, the man who wrote War and Peace • Rudyard Kipling who wrote The Jungle Book and won a Nobel Prize BRITISH...
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The compelling true story of one young nurse's heroism, heartache and happiness in wartime. The second world war could not have been won without the bravery and selflessness of women on the Home Front. Women like Kathleen Johnstone. This first-hand story of one extraordinary but unheralded member of Britain's 'Greatest Generation' brings home with extraordinary lucidity and compassion the realities of wartime Lancashire. In 1943, Kathleen, then thirty,...
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This remarkable collection of quotations by John, Robert, and Edward Kennedy offers a wealth of advice and wisdom on leading a meaningful life. Within the book, the brothers opine, advise, and muse on many of life's issues and questions, from taking risks to solitude.
At once poignant, witty, and insightful, this small anthology-which includes twenty-four pages of beautiful photography of the Kennedys over the course of their lives-is a treasure...
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Memoirs of Successful Women is a collection of stories from women who have lived, breathed, and elevated their brand.
Memoirs of Successful Women showcases the big-break moments, taking a woman from a dreamer to an entrepreneurial visionary in business.
Memoirs of Successful Women offers a snapshot of career CEOs, change-makers, and thought leaders, told by women who are unstoppable in their pursuit for success and global prowess.
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Acclaimed writers, family, friends, and more pay homage to the celebrated Southern author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini.
New York Times—bestselling writer Pat Conroy (1945—2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year career. In sharing their stories of Conroy, his fellow writers...
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A love letter to New York Mets fandom- the triumphs, the heartbreak, and everything in between Childhood for Evan Roberts was defined by outings to the old Shea Stadium with his father, always with a scorebook in hand. What began as a gameday ritual replete with misspelled player names and scrawled symbols turned into an obsession with scoring every game he watched, one which persisted as Roberts rose through the ranks at WFAN. Taken together,...
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This is the powerful memoirs which an ailing Dmitri Shostakovich dictated to a young Russian musicologist, Solomon Volkov. When it was first published in 1979, it became an international bestseller. This 25th anniversary edition includes a new foreword by Vladimir Ashkenazy, as well as black-and-white photos. "Testimony changed the perception of Shostakovich's life and work dramatically, and influenced innumerable performances of his music." – New...
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