PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
Book ID/图书代码： 07980008B28866
English Summary/英文概要： The purpose of this book is to provide a thought- provoking look at the various people whose lives have illuminated the world in one way or another. It highlights extraordinary individuals and the impact they made on society and the world in which we live.
Some people in history seem to have been born to transform the world. Each person in this book made a totally original and individual contribution which had a significant long term impact on the world. His or her actions had a lasting effect on a great many lives at a profound level, which makes it a most compelling read.
CONTENTS:
PART ONE: THE ANCIENT WORLD including Moses, Pythagoras, Buddha, Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Jesus Christ, Attila the Hun.
PART TWO: MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE including Mohammed, William the Conqueror, Genghis Khan, Marco Polo, Leonardo da Vinci, William Shakespeare
PART THREE:THE ENLIGHTENED WOLRD including Cardinal Richelieu, Oliver Cromwell, Isaac Newton, James Cook, George Washington, Mozart, Horatio Nelson.
PART FOUR: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY including Napoleon, Duke of Wellington, Beethoven, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, Tolstoy, Thomas Edison, Oscar Wilde
PART FIVE: THE MODERN WORLD including Sigmund Freud, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gandhi, Lenin, Churchill, Einstein, Picasso, Hitler, Walt Disney, John F Kennedy, Nelson Mandela, Marilyn Monroe, Fidel Castro, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Bill Gates, Tim Berners-Lee, Osama Bin Laden.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 作者创作本书的目的在于对那些在某些方面为世界做过贡献的杰出人物给予发人深思的评价。本书高度赞扬了这些人物以及他们对社会和我们所生活的世界所带来的影响。
历史中的某些人物看似生来就肩负着改造世界的重任。本书中所提到的每一个人都做出了完全独到而个人的贡献，并且长期显著地影响着我们的世界。而且他/她的行为举动对许多重要人物的生活也产生了深层次的影响，从而让本书的内容非常引人注目。
内容摘要：
第一章：古代世界。所选人物包括摩西、毕达哥拉斯、释迦摩尼、孔子、柏拉图、亚里士多德、亚历山大大帝、耶稣和匈奴王。
第二章：中世纪和文艺复兴时期。所选人物包括穆罕默德、威廉一世、成吉思汗、马可波罗、达芬奇和莎士比亚。
第三章：启蒙时期。所选人物包括红衣教主黎塞留、克伦威尔、牛顿、詹姆斯.库克、乔治.华盛顿、莫扎特和霍雷肖.纳尔逊。
第四章：十九世纪。所选人物包括拿破仑、惠灵顿公爵、贝多芬、林肯、达尔文、狄更斯、马克思、托尔斯泰、爱迪生和奥斯卡.王尔德。
第五章：现代世界。弗洛伊德、弗兰克.劳埃德.奈特、甘地、列宁、毕加索、希特勒、沃特.迪斯尼、约翰.肯尼迪、曼德拉、玛丽莲.梦露、菲德尔.卡斯特罗、披头士乐队、蒂姆.伯纳斯.李、奥萨马.本.拉登。（XMM）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 罗德尼.卡斯特莱登是一位地理学家兼地貌学家，过去的二十多年一直专注于研究地景行程过程和史前学。作者的昔日著作包括The Minoans (Routledge, 1990), The Knossos Labyrinth (Routledge, 1989)，以及The Wilmington Giant (1983)。Rodney Castleden is a geographer and geomorphologist, and has researched landscape processes and prehistory for the last twenty years. He is author of The Minoans (Routledge, 1990), The Knossos Labyrinth (Routledge, 1989), and The Wilmington Giant (1983).
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