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History's greatest decisions : and the people who made them / Bill Price. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Chartwell Books, (c)2016.Description: 256 pages : illustrations (some color), photographs, color maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
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  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780785835219
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  • HD30.P945.H578 2016
  • HD30
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Contents:
The first stone tools -- The migration out of Africa -- The first farmers -- The Sumerians begin to write -- The Egyptian and Hittite peace treaty -- The Athenians choose democracy -- Siddhartha Gotama goes in search of enlightenment -- Ashoka the Great renounces war -- Julius Caesar crosses the rubicon -- Paul on the road to Damascus -- Constantine converts to Christianity -- The Magna Carta -- The Medici open a bank -- Gutenberg prints a Bible -- Ferdinand and Isabella commission Christopher Columbus -- The siege of Vienna -- Copernicus publishes on the revolutions of celestial spheres -- Michel de Montaigne retires from public life -- Descartes finds his reason -- Newton goes back to school -- Peter the Great reforms Russia -- The Declaration of Independence -- The storming of the Bastille -- The Louisiana purchase -- The Congress of Vienna -- Karl Drais and the Laufmaschine -- The Monroe doctrine -- Darwin joins the voyage of HMS Beagle -- Lincoln and emancipation -- The Wright brothers build an airplane -- D. W. Griffith makes a movie in Hollywood -- Gandhi and civil disobedience -- Robert Johnson at the crossroads -- Roosevelt's new deal -- The British cabinet resolves to fight on -- The Atlantic charter -- Eisenhower and D-Day -- Norman Borlaug changes careers -- The Marshall plan -- Rosa Parks refuses to stand up -- Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis -- George Martin signs the Beatles -- Anwar Sadat flies to Jerusalem -- Deng Xiaoping and economic reform in China -- Nelson Mandela refuses to give in -- Gorbachev institutes Perestrolka -- Aung San Suu Kyi returns to Burma -- Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web -- Apple reemploys Steve Jobs -- The Good Friday agreement.
Subject: History's Greatest Decisions identifies and profiles the many important and difficult decisions leaders have made through history which shaped the world as we know it today. From our unknown ancestors who made the first stone tools, to those people in Northern Ireland who managed to put aside their differences in order to create a better future for their children; from the most powerful man in the world deciding not to start a nuclear war, to a woman on a bus standing up for her rights refusing to move seats. History's Greatest Decisions looks at well-known and not-so-well-known examples of people who made the crucial decisions and got them right. https://www.amazon.com/Historys-Greatest-Decisions-People-Made/dp/0785835210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=9780785835219&qid=1580244568&sr=8-1
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The first stone tools -- The migration out of Africa -- The first farmers -- The Sumerians begin to write -- The Egyptian and Hittite peace treaty -- The Athenians choose democracy -- Siddhartha Gotama goes in search of enlightenment -- Ashoka the Great renounces war -- Julius Caesar crosses the rubicon -- Paul on the road to Damascus -- Constantine converts to Christianity -- The Magna Carta -- The Medici open a bank -- Gutenberg prints a Bible -- Ferdinand and Isabella commission Christopher Columbus -- The siege of Vienna -- Copernicus publishes on the revolutions of celestial spheres -- Michel de Montaigne retires from public life -- Descartes finds his reason -- Newton goes back to school -- Peter the Great reforms Russia -- The Declaration of Independence -- The storming of the Bastille -- The Louisiana purchase -- The Congress of Vienna -- Karl Drais and the Laufmaschine -- The Monroe doctrine -- Darwin joins the voyage of HMS Beagle -- Lincoln and emancipation -- The Wright brothers build an airplane -- D. W. Griffith makes a movie in Hollywood -- Gandhi and civil disobedience -- Robert Johnson at the crossroads -- Roosevelt's new deal -- The British cabinet resolves to fight on -- The Atlantic charter -- Eisenhower and D-Day -- Norman Borlaug changes careers -- The Marshall plan -- Rosa Parks refuses to stand up -- Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis -- George Martin signs the Beatles -- Anwar Sadat flies to Jerusalem -- Deng Xiaoping and economic reform in China -- Nelson Mandela refuses to give in -- Gorbachev institutes Perestrolka -- Aung San Suu Kyi returns to Burma -- Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web -- Apple reemploys Steve Jobs -- The Good Friday agreement.

History's Greatest Decisions identifies and profiles the many important and difficult decisions leaders have made through history which shaped the world as we know it today. From our unknown ancestors who made the first stone tools, to those people in Northern Ireland who managed to put aside their differences in order to create a better future for their children; from the most powerful man in the world deciding not to start a nuclear war, to a woman on a bus standing up for her rights refusing to move seats. History's Greatest Decisions looks at well-known and not-so-well-known examples of people who made the crucial decisions and got them right.

https://www.amazon.com/Historys-Greatest-Decisions-People-Made/dp/0785835210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=9780785835219&qid=1580244568&sr=8-1

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