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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.
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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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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
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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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Gaius Julius Caesar, the powerful Roman leader
Queen Elizabeth I who ruled England for 45 years
George Washington, the first president of the USA
King Louis XVI, the last king of France
Winston Churchill who led Britain in the Second World War
Che Guevara, the Argentinian doctor who fought for revolution
About the Amazing People series:
A unique opportunity for learners of...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents:
Alfred Nobel, creator of the Nobel Prize
Andrew Carnegie, the businessman who built libraries for poor people
John D. Rockefeller who made money from oil and gave it all away
Thomas Barnardo who created homes for poor children
Henry Wellcome who used his money for medical research
Madam C. J. Walker who gave her money to the African-American community
About the Amazing People...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
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• 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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Level 1 is equivalent to CEF level A2.
About the Amazing People series:
A unique opportunity for learners of English to read about the exceptional lives and incredible abilities of some of the most insightful people the world has seen.
Each book contains six short stories, told by the characters themselves, as if in their own words. The stories explain the most significant parts of each character’s life, giving an insight into how they came to...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents:
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.
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Marco Polo who taught the world about China
Ibn Battuta who travelled to 44 countries
Christopher Columbus who discovered new worlds
James Cook, first to sail around the world in both directions
David Livingstone who explored Africa
Yuri Gagarin, the first man to go into space
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Word count: 14,679
Headword count: 1,163
This book is Level 3 in the Collins ELT Readers...
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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:
• 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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