Fiona Mackenzie
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
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• Voltaire, the French writer who believed in equality for all
• Charlotte Brontë, the British novelist who wrote Jane Eyre
• Mark Twain, the American who wrote Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer
• Jacques Prévert, the writer known in France as 'the People's Poet'
• Ayn Rand, whose writing expressed her own philosophical ideas
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn who wrote about...
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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 and car company
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: Pablo Casals, the Catalan cello-player Louis Armstrong, the American trumpet-player and singer Frank Sinatra, the Italian-American singer and actor Édith Piaf, France's famous singing star Maria Callas, the Greek opera singer Elvis Presley, the man who changed pop music.
Level 3 is equivalent to CEF level B1. About the Amazing People series: A unique opportunity for learners of English...
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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 Rene 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.
Level 2 is equivalent to CEF level A2-B1. About the Amazing People series: A unique opportunity for...
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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
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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
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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
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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
This book is Level...
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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.
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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
This book is Level 1 in the Collins ELT Readers series.
Level 1 is equivalent to CEF level A2.
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
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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
This book is Level 3 in the...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
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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
This book is Level 4 in the Collins ELT Readers series.
Level 4 is equivalent to CEF level B2.
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents:
Edward Jenner, the man who fought the terrible disease, smallpox
Florence Nightingale, the nurse known as 'the lady with the lamp'
Elizabeth Garrett, England's first female doctor
Carl Jung, the doctor who wanted to understand the human mind
Jonas Salk who defeated the dangerous illness, polio
Christiaan Barnard, the first man to replace a human heart
This book is Level 2 in the Collins...
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A modern day romance, Ally, Melanie, and Ben (Paulina Cerilla, Kaniehtiio Horn, and Sam Clark) are best friends, roommates, and bandmates who hatch a plan to get married and inherit money to make their first record album. But new lovers, old flames, and their parents have other ideas for them as they discover that family is actually who you choose to love and the greatest success of all is friendship.
