Global Profiles provides current, thorough coverage of some of the most significant figures in history. Each volume offers eight to thirteen essays on individuals who are associated with a particular movement, event, or vocation.Each volume begins with a thematic introduction. The profile of each individual includes essential biographical information, a description of the subject's critical achievements and contributions, and an assessment of the individual's significance in the broad context of world history.
Here are ten individuals who have struggled to improve the human condition.
Profiles:
-- Mother Teresa
-- Peter Benenson
-- Jimmy Carter
-- Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu
-- Hebe de Bonafini and Maria Adela de Antokoletz
-- Fang Lizhi
-- Joan Baez
-- Aung San Suu Kyi
-- Rigoberta Menchu.
- ISBN10 081603298X
- ISBN13 9780816032983
- Publish Date 1 March 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Facts On File Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 176
- Language English