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Profiles twelve business leaders, including Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Carly Fiorina, and Bill Gates, describing their personal lives, career paths, leadership strategies, political influence, critics' charges, and possible future impacts. Includes chronologies and lists of further resources.

Chronologically arranged entries recount the stories of eleven of the most influential inventions of the modern world, describing how they were created, who invented them, and what impact they have had on world history and civilization.

Profiles hip-hop artists and groups who made significant contributions to the music and culture of the genre, including Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, Run-D.M.C., the Beastie Boys, Queen Latifah, and Public Enemy; and contains discographies and resources for each selection as well as a time line.

Explores the role of female beauty in the history of world art through a chronological examination of twenty-two iconic works, looking at each in the context of its culture, time, aesthetic appeal, and artistic influence, and including discussion of related themes.

Contains profiles of twelve women who played significant roles in the evolution of popular music, describing their backgrounds, struggles, ambitions, and triumphs in a male-dominated field; arranged alphabetically from Tori Amos to Janis Joplin, with photographs and a time line.