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1,000 Years, 1,000 People: Ranking the Men and Women Who Shaped the Millennium
Agnes H Gottlieb
Paperback (Kodansha/see Oxford U, )This text presents a list of 1000 of the most important, influential and intriguing figures of the past millennium. Among the figures profiled are philosophers and artists, statesmen and warlords, inventors and explorers. Each person is profiled with a brief autobiography.
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1,000 Years, 1,000 People: Ranking the Men and Women Who Shaped the Millennium
Agnes Hooper Gottlieb, Brent Bowers, Henry Gottlieb, Barbara Bowers
Paperback (Kodansha USA Inc, Nov. 1, 1998)From George Washington to Babe Ruth, Adolf Hitler to Mother Teresa, this fascinating study profiles--and rates--the one thousand individuals, including philosophers, artists, statesmen, inventors, and explorers, who have shaped the history of the last one thousand years. Simultaneous.
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1,000 Years, 1,000 People: Ranking the Men and Women Who Shaped the Millennium 1St edition by Barbara Bowers, Brent Bowers, Henry Gott
Henry Gott Barbara Bowers, Brent Bowers
Hardcover (Fall River, March 15, 2006)Now that we've successfully navigated the end of the millennium, it would be interesting to know who the real frontrunners were in that thousand-year marathon of the human race. Who had the greater impact, Martin Luther or Isaac Newton? Thomas Aquinas or Charles Darwin? Beethoven or Bach? But how do we establish a yardstick for measuring such a weighty subject? The authors of 1,000 Years, 1,000 People have come up with a method that grades the candidates according to five key criteria: lasting influence, contribution to wisdom and/or beauty, influence on contemporaries, singularity of contribution, and charisma. Then, they've sifted through the centuries and rated thousands of candidates. You may be surprised to learn that some of the major figures of our own time did not make the cut, while those in less high-profile, publicity-driven ages and places turned out to be millennial superstars. Or you may be astonished by the relative positions of, say, Jane Addams, John Marshall, and Bert
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1,000 Years, 1,000 People: Ranking the Men and Women Who Shaped the Millennium
Agnes Hooper Gottlieb, Henry Gottlieb, Barbara Bowers, Brent Bowers
Hardcover (Kodansha USA Inc, Nov. 1, 1998)Ranks individual in the arts, the sciences, government, religion, business, and other fields according to their positive or negative contributions, contemporary and lasting influences, uniqueness, and fame
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1,000 Years, 1,000 People: Ranking the Men and Women Who Shaped the Millennium
Agnes Gottleib, Agnes Hooper Gottlieb, Henry Gottlieb, Barbara Bowers, Brent Bowers
Library Binding (Bt Bound, Oct. 15, 1999)None