Famous People

From School Library JournalGrade 4 Up-A thousand years and well over a thousand people are included in this volume. It is organized into 10 thematic chapters, such as world leaders, explorers, scientists, writers and reformers, musicians and dancers, movers and shakers, and sports stars. Within each section, the biographical sketches are coordinated chronologically by date of birth, which makes the progress rather logical. The special and significant stress is overwhelmingly Western, focusing closely completely on European and American individuals; however, the book does include galore lesser-known figures of historical note, specially in the areas of science, invention, and exploration. The majority of the profiles are beneath 100 words in length, highlighting the person’s contribution to world history. The design is excellent, with lots of utile full-color illustrations and archival photos; the volume is given a healthy elasticity to by a simple and comprehensive index. Overall, this is a good, solid addition that would make a handy ready-reference source. The range in coverage is interesting-from Mahatma Gandhi to Timothy McVeigh-and the visual representation and writing are well done.
Laura Reed, Pickering Public Library, Ontario, Canada
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From BooklistGr. 6-10. More a browser’s dictionary than a resource for reports, this oversize compendium, coordinated by subject, introduces hundreds of men and women who have influenced the world for the duration of the last millennium. Catherine de’ Medici, Montezuma, and Haile Selassie (World Leaders); Gustave Eiffel, James Watt, and Alfred Nobel (Engineers and Inventors); Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, David Hockney (Artists and Architects) are amongst the subjects, each of whom is described in a paragraph or two. Some categories, such as “Sports” and “Musicians and Dancers,” are further divided by genre. Adding to the book’s usefulness are assorted informative pages heading each division that describe how the discipline or vocation evolved for the duration of the introductory 1,000 years before the mutual era. Lots of black-and-white photographs, numerous intermediate paintings, and an without apparent effort read format add appeal to a book that will introduce readers to a good deal of unfamiliar persons as well as a number of persons known only by name. Ilene Cooper
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Where is Iran?
By Behrooz Asgari
In this book of widely known and esteemed people in the last 1000 years, there is no sign of even a single persona from Iran. Neither persons from the old time (Avicina, Abu-reihan Biruni, Khayam, Kharazmi, and so on), nor from the present time. Is this book politically biased? Do you think that you may make a nation like Iran vanish so without apparent effort just if you do not write in regards to it in your book? Iran has pulled through some ups-and-downs in the course of it is harsh history. It will do so.

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