100 People Who Made History: Meet the People Who Shaped the Modern World

Ben Gilliland

Penguin, Jan 30, 2012 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 128 pages

There are nearly 7 billion people in the world today. We are living longer, healthier, and better lives than anyone who has gone before. And this is the result of a whole chain of people who have invented or discovered something that has changed our world. Where would we be without inventors, philosophers, economists, politicians, explorers, and other "ideas" people? Some of our historical heroes were lone geniuses but many were influenced by other great thinkers and ideas. There would be no Facebook without the internet-and no internet with computers. And there could be no computers without the great mathematicians and philosophers of ancient times. So who's the Genius-Mark Zuckerberg, or Pythagoras?

We think it's both. This is why every spread features a panel called "They couldn't have done it without...", revealing the people who made earlier contributions to the cause. With chapters on medicine and food processes, entertainment and culture, there's something in 100 People Who Made History for everyone. Full of true-life stories and famous celebs, 100 People proves that history can be exciting and relevant. So let's hear it for the heroes from throughout the ages: those who save lives, those who improve lives, and those who make our lives just that bit more enjoyable.

Contents

• 8 Marco Polo: 8
• 9 Ibn Battuta: 9
• 10 Christopher Columbus: 10
• 12 Galileo Galilei: 12
• 14 Isaac Newton: 14
• 16 Dmitri Mendeleev: 16
• 18 Charles Darwin: 18
• 20 Medical marvels Edward Jenner Louis Pasteur Joseph Lister Wilhelm Roentgen Alexander Fleming: 20
• 22 Albert Einstein: 22
• 24 Marie Curie: 24
• 25 Ernest Rutherford: 25
• 26 Watson and Crick: 26
• 28 Mary Anning: 28
• 29 Mary Leakey: 29
• 30 Inspirational Inventors: 30
• 32 Cai Lun: 32
• 33 Johann Gutenberg: 33
• 34 James Watt: 34
• 36 Alessandro Volta: 36
• 37 Michael Faraday: 37
• 38 Everyday inventions Charles Goodyear Levi Strauss George Eastman Wallace Carothers: 38
• 40 Alexander Graham Bell: 40
• 41 Thomas Edison: 41
• 42 Alfred Nobel: 42
• 44 Food made easy Peter Durand Clarence Birdseye Percy Spencer Ray Kroc: 44
• 46 Guglielmo Marconi: 46
• 47 John Logie Baird: 47
• 48 The Wright brothers: 48
• 50 Henry Ford: 50
• 52 Steve Jobs Steve Wozniak: 52
• 54 Tim BernersLee: 54
• 55 Mark Zuckerberg: 55
• 56 Thoughtful Thinkers: 56
• 58 Confucius: 58
• 60 Aristotle: 60
• 62 Karl Marx: 62
• 63 Sigmund Freud: 63
• 64 Mary Seacole: 64
• 65 Mother Teresa: 65
• 66 Joan of Arc: 66
• 68 Martin Luther King: 68
• 70 Religious leaders Gautama Buddha Jesus Muhammad Guru Nanak: 70
• 72 Emmeline Pankhurst: 72
• 74 Eleanor Roosevelt: 74
• 75 Aung San Suu Kyi: 75
• 76 Jane Goodall: 76
• 78 Leading Leaders: 78
• 80 Alexander the Great: 80
• 82 Augustus Caesar: 82
• 84 Charlemagne: 84
• 86 Cool queens Hatshepsut Cleopatra Maria Teresa Catherine the Great Queen Victoria: 86
• 88 Genghis Khan: 88
• 90 Saladin: 90
• 92 Martin Luther: 92
• 94 Up the revolution Maximilien Robespierre Simón Bolívar Vladimir Lenin Mao TseTung Fidel Castro: 94
• 96 Napoleon Bonaparte: 96
• 98 George Washington: 98
• 100 Mahatma Gandhi: 100
• 102 Deng Xiaoping: 102
• 103 Mikhail Gorbachev: 103
• 104 Nelson Mandela: 104
• 106 Cluedup Creatives: 106
• 108 Writers on the block William Shakespeare Voltaire Aleksandr Pushkin Lu Xun Virginia Woolf: 108
• 110 Thomas Cook: 110
• 112 Walt Disney: 112
• 114 Gallery of artists Leonardo da Vinci Auguste Rodin Vincent van Gogh Pablo Picasso Frida Kahlo: 114
• 116 Coco Chanel: 116
• 117 David Ogilvy: 117
• 118 Ole Kirk Kristiansen: 118
• 120 Musicians Johann Sebastian Bach Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Ali Akbar Khan Toru Takematisu: 120
• 122 Elvis Presley: 122
• 124 Lets applaud These people who made American and Canadian history: 124
• 126 Glossary: 126
• 127 Index: 127
• 128 Acknowledgments: 128

About the author

Philip Parker is a writer, consultant and publisher specializing in ancient and medieval political and military systems. He studied history at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and is the author of A History of Britain in Maps (2016), the DK Eyewitness Companion Guide to World History (2010) and many more. He was the general editor of Anova's Great Trade Routes (2010), and winner of a Certificate of Merit for the Mountbatten Maritime Award in the Maritime Media Awards 2013. As a publisher he ran The Times books list, including works on ancient civilizations and The Times History of the World. He lives in London with his partner and daughter.

Bibliographic information

• Title: 100 People Who Made History: Meet the People Who Shaped the Modern World
• Author: Ben Gilliland
• Contributor: Philip Parker
• Publisher: Penguin, 2012
• ISBN: 0756698669, 9780756698669
• Length: 128 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Juvenile Nonfiction / History / General; Juvenile Nonfiction / People & Places / General