The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.Contents:Alfred Nobel, creator of the Nobel PrizeAndrew Carnegie, the businessman who built libraries for poor peopleJohn D. Rockefeller who made money from oil and gave it all awayThomas Barnardo who created homes for poor childrenHenry Wellcome who used his money for medical researchMadam C. J. Walker who gave her money to the African-American communityBRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 13,950Headw ...
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.Contents:Pablo Casals, the Catalan cello-playerLouis Armstrong, the American trumpet-player and singerFrank Sinatra, the Italian-American singer and actorEdith Piaf, France's famous singing starMaria Callas, the Greek opera singerElvis Presley, the man who changed pop musicBRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 14,723Headword count: 1,121Visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and ...
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.Contents:Galileo who wanted to show that the earth went around the sunRene Descartes, the Frenchman who famously said ‘I think, therefore I am’Sir Isaac Newton who proved how gravity worksCarl Friedrich Gauss, ‘the Prince of Mathematicians’Charles Babbage who invented computersAda Lovelace who wrote the first computer programBRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 8,351Headword count: 790Visit www.collins ...
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.Contents:Mayer Amschel Rothschild who started a bank which made his family richCornelius Vanderbilt who became one of the richest people in the USAW. K. Kellogg who started the world’s biggest cereal companyElizabeth Arden who built the Elizabeth Arden cosmetics companyWalt Disney who started the famous entertainment companySoichiro Honda who started the Honda motorbike and car companyBRITISH ...
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.Contents:Johann Sebastian Bach who wrote the Brandenburg ConcertosWolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the child geniusGiuseppe Verdi who wrote the operas Aida and La TraviataJohann Strauss, ‘The Waltz King’Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky who wrote the ballet Swan LakeIrving Berlin who wrote There’s No Business Like Show BusinessBRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 8,344Headword count: 723Visit www.collinselt.com/readers ...
The inspiring stories of 5 people who changed history.Contents:Leonardo da Vinci who painted the Mona LisaChristopher Wren who rebuilt LondonAntoni Gaudi who built the Sagrada Familia in BarcelonaPablo Picasso, the famous Spanish painterFrida Kahlo, the famous Mexican female artistBRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 10,172Headword count: 941PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study materials.This book is Level 2 ...
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.Contents:Voltaire, the French writer who believed in equality for allCharlotte Bronte, the British novelist who wrote Jane EyreMark Twain, the American who wrote Huckleberry Finn and Tom SawyerJacques Prevert, the writer known in France as ‘the People’s Poet’Ayn Rand, whose writing expressed her own philosophical ideasAleksandr Solzhenitsyn who wrote about life in a Soviet Labour CampBRITISH ...
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.Contents:Confucius, the great Chinese philosopherSocrates, the great Greek philosopherAristotle, the first to organize scientific knowledgeWilliam Wilberforce who ended the British slave tradeKarl Marx who wrote The Communist Manifesto and Das KapitalMahatma Gandhi who helped free India from British ruleBRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 16,058Headword count: 1,701PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/reade ...
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.Contents:Alessandro Volta, inventor of the batteryMichael Faraday, inventor of the electric motorMarie Curie, famous for her work on radioactivityAlbert Einstein, creator of the Theory of RelativityAlexander Fleming, discoverer of the first antibioticLinus Pauling, chemist and peace activistBRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 15,287Headword count: 1,631PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos ...