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Salem Press' Great Lives series is a far-reaching view of history, organized around important lives. It offers worldwide coverage of important men and women in all areas of achievement. It is ideal for public libraries and undergraduate colleges. What's more, biography is a central element in today's high school curriculum and so this series is widely used there.
Librarians and reviewers alike praise this series for its breadth of content and extended essays. Articles are typically 1,500 to 3,000 words, bridging the gap between full-length, scholarly studies and the shortened forms found in encyclopedias.
Within each set biographies are arranged alphabetically, with lives in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, co-mingled.
Appendices include a time line, rulers and heads of state, a chronological list of entries, and four indexes: geographical, categorized, personage and subject. In addition, each essay is cross-referenced with other essays within the set as well as to relevant essays in the companion series, Great Events from History.