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- Summary
- Brief profiles of more than 100 contemporary men and women from all walks of life whose activities reflect heroic traits
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (volumes <1-4>
- Note
-
- Bk. 2 edited by Deborah Gillan Straub
- Bk. 3: Terrie M. Rooney, editor ; Karen E. Lemerand, assistant editor
- Bk. 4: Dana R. Barnes, editor; Leigh Ann DeRemer, associate editor
- Contents
-
- V. 1. Hank Aaron
- Ralph Abernathy
- Joy Adamson
- Maya Angelou
- Corazon Aquino
- Oscar Arias Sanchez
- Neil Armstrong
- Daniel and Philip Berrigan
- Diettrich Bonhoeffer
- Margaret Bourke-White
- Bill Bradley
- Ralph Bunche
- Helen Caldicott
- Ernesto Cardenal
- Rachel Carson
- Challenger crew
- Wilt Chamberlain
- Cesar Chavez
- Shirley Chisholm
- Roberto Clemente
- Marva Collins
- Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams
- Bill Cosby
- Norman Cousins
- Francis Crick
- Walter Cronkite
- Vine Deloria, Jr.
- Walt Disney
- Amelia Earhart
- Jaime Escalante
- Medgar Wiley Evers
- Betty Ford
- Dian Fossey
- Terry Fox
- Anne Frank
- Betty Friedan
- Indira Gandhi
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
- Bob Geldof
- John Glenn
- Jane Goodall
- Billy Graham
- Dick Gregory
- Florence Griffith Joyner
- Dag Hammarskjold
- Katharine Hepburn
- Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
- Bob Hope
- Lee Iacocca
- Jesse Jackson
- Ann Jillian
- Steven Jobs
- Pope John Paul II
- Barbara Jordan
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- Helen Keller
- John F. Kennedy
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Henry Kissinger
- C. Everett Koop
- Candy Lightner
- Charles A. Lindbergh
- Greg Louganis
- Sean MacBride
- Nelson and Winnie Mandela
- Mickey Mantle
- Margaret Mead
- Golda Meir
- James Howard Meredith
- Mother Teresa
- Ralph Nader
- Patricia Neal
- Sandra Day O'Connor
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Rosa Parks
- Linus Pauling
- Itzhak Perlman
- Sally Ride
- Jackie Robinson
- Oscar Romero
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Bill Russell
- Anwar Sadat
- Carl Sagan
- Andrei Sakharov
- Jonas Salk
- Jan C. Scruggs
- Alan Shepard
- Karen Silkwood
- Mitch Snyder
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Steven Spielberg
- Benjamin Spock
- Gloria Steinem
- Margaret Thatcher
- Desmond Tuto
- Lech Walesa
- Alice Walker
- Elie Wiesel
- Roy Wilkins
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Chuck Yeager
- Jeanna Yeager and Dick Rutan
- V. 2. Jim Abbott
- Ansel Adams
- Jane Addams
- Roald Amundsen
- Marian Anderson
- Louis Armstrong
- Arthur Ashe
- Joan Baez
- Robert D. Ballard
- Christiaan Barnard
- Clara Barton
- Leonard Bernstein
- Mary McLeod Bethune
- Stephen Biko
- Jim and Sarah Brady
- Christy Brown
- Pearl Buck
- Chris Burke
- Ben Carson
- Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter
- George Washington Carver
- Mary Cassatt
- Chai Ling
- Winston Churchill
- Jacques Cousteau
- Marie Curie
- Dalai Lama
- Clarence Darrow
- Tom Dooley
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- Albert Einstein
- Duke Ellington
- Anthony S. Fauci
- Jose Feliciano
- Alexander Fleming
- Lou Gehrig
- Elizabeth Glaser
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Alex Haley
- Barbara Harris
- Vaclav Havel
- Stephen W. Hawking
- Jim Henson
- Natthew Henson
- Thor Heyerdahl
- Langston Hughes
- Daniel Inouye
- Pope John XXIII
- Mother Jones
- Michael Jordan
- Robert F. Kennedy
- Ron Kovic
- Maggie Kuhn
- Louis, Mary, and Richard Leakey
- Greg LeMond
- Maya Lin
- Anne Sullivan Macy
- Malcolm X
- Wilma Mankiller
- Thurgood Marshall
- Marlee Matlin
- Chico Mendes
- Karl Menninger
- Toni Morrison
- Grandma Moses
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Jesse Owens
- Gordon Parks
- Robert E. Peary
- Colin Powell
- Paul Robeson
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Wilma Rudolph
- Margaret Sanger
- H. Norman Schwarzkopf
- Albert Schweitzer
- Pete Seeger
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- Corrie ten Boom
- Jim Thorpe
- Harry S. Truman
- Terry Waite
- Raoul Wallenberg
- Booker T. Washington
- Ryan White
- Simon Wiesenthal
- William Griffith Wilson
- Oprah Winfrey
- Stevie Wonder
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias
- V. 3. James G. Abourezk
- Gerry Adams
- Madeleine Albright
- Susan B. Anthony
- Ben & Jerry
- Irving Berlin
- Joseph Bernardin
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Les Brown
- Susan Butcher
- Frances Xavier Cabrini
- Dale Carnegie
- Dennis Chavez
- Bessie Coleman
- Eileen Collins
- Francis S. Collins
- Kenneth H. Cooper
- Aaron Copland
- Jacques d'Amboise
- Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.
- Morris Dees
- F.W. de Kl
- Label
- Contemporary heroes and heroines
- Title
- Contemporary heroes and heroines
- Statement of responsibility
- Ray B. Browne, editor ; in association with Glenn J. Browne and Kevin O. Browne
- Subject
-
- Héroïnes -- Biographies | Dictionnaires anglais
- Heroes -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- Héros -- Biographies | Dictionnaires anglais
- Biography
- Heroes & heroines -- Contemporary
- Biography
- Women heroes
- Biographies -- 20e siècle -- Dictionnaires anglais
- Women heroes -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- Heroes
- Biografía -- Siglo XX
- Célébrités -- Biographies | Dictionnaires anglais
- Biography -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Brief profiles of more than 100 contemporary men and women from all walks of life whose activities reflect heroic traits
- Additional physical form
- Also issued online.
- Biography type
- collective biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
-
- 920/.009/04
- B
- Illustrations
- portraits
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- CT120
- LC item number
- .C662 1990
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1922-2009
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
-
- Browne, Ray B.
- Browne, Glenn J
- Browne, Kevin O
- Straub, Deborah Gillan
- Rooney, Terrie M
- Barnes, Dana R
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Heroes
- Women heroes
- Biography
- Biography
- Biografía
- Héros
- Héroïnes
- Biographies
- Célébrités
- Heroes
- Women heroes
- Heroes & heroines
- Target audience
- juvenile
- Label
- Contemporary heroes and heroines, Ray B. Browne, editor ; in association with Glenn J. Browne and Kevin O. Browne
- Note
-
- Bk. 2 edited by Deborah Gillan Straub
- Bk. 3: Terrie M. Rooney, editor ; Karen E. Lemerand, assistant editor
- Bk. 4: Dana R. Barnes, editor; Leigh Ann DeRemer, associate editor
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- V. 1. Hank Aaron -- Ralph Abernathy -- Joy Adamson -- Maya Angelou -- Corazon Aquino -- Oscar Arias Sanchez -- Neil Armstrong -- Daniel and Philip Berrigan -- Diettrich Bonhoeffer -- Margaret Bourke-White -- Bill Bradley -- Ralph Bunche -- Helen Caldicott -- Ernesto Cardenal -- Rachel Carson -- Challenger crew -- Wilt Chamberlain -- Cesar Chavez -- Shirley Chisholm -- Roberto Clemente -- Marva Collins -- Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams -- Bill Cosby -- Norman Cousins -- Francis Crick -- Walter Cronkite -- Vine Deloria, Jr. -- Walt Disney -- Amelia Earhart -- Jaime Escalante -- Medgar Wiley Evers -- Betty Ford -- Dian Fossey -- Terry Fox -- Anne Frank -- Betty Friedan -- Indira Gandhi -- Mohandas K. Gandhi -- Bob Geldof -- John Glenn -- Jane Goodall -- Billy Graham -- Dick Gregory -- Florence Griffith Joyner -- Dag Hammarskjold -- Katharine Hepburn -- Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay -- Bob Hope -- Lee Iacocca -- Jesse Jackson -- Ann Jillian -- Steven Jobs -- Pope John Paul II -- Barbara Jordan -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee -- Helen Keller -- John F. Kennedy -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Henry Kissinger -- C. Everett Koop -- Candy Lightner -- Charles A. Lindbergh -- Greg Louganis -- Sean MacBride -- Nelson and Winnie Mandela -- Mickey Mantle -- Margaret Mead -- Golda Meir -- James Howard Meredith -- Mother Teresa -- Ralph Nader -- Patricia Neal -- Sandra Day O'Connor -- Georgia O'Keeffe -- Rosa Parks -- Linus Pauling -- Itzhak Perlman -- Sally Ride -- Jackie Robinson -- Oscar Romero -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Bill Russell -- Anwar Sadat -- Carl Sagan -- Andrei Sakharov -- Jonas Salk -- Jan C. Scruggs -- Alan Shepard -- Karen Silkwood -- Mitch Snyder -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- Steven Spielberg -- Benjamin Spock -- Gloria Steinem -- Margaret Thatcher -- Desmond Tuto -- Lech Walesa -- Alice Walker -- Elie Wiesel -- Roy Wilkins -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- Chuck Yeager -- Jeanna Yeager and Dick Rutan -- V. 2. Jim Abbott -- Ansel Adams -- Jane Addams -- Roald Amundsen -- Marian Anderson -- Louis Armstrong -- Arthur Ashe -- Joan Baez -- Robert D. Ballard -- Christiaan Barnard -- Clara Barton -- Leonard Bernstein -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Stephen Biko -- Jim and Sarah Brady -- Christy Brown -- Pearl Buck -- Chris Burke -- Ben Carson -- Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter -- George Washington Carver -- Mary Cassatt -- Chai Ling -- Winston Churchill -- Jacques Cousteau -- Marie Curie -- Dalai Lama -- Clarence Darrow -- Tom Dooley -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- Albert Einstein -- Duke Ellington -- Anthony S. Fauci -- Jose Feliciano -- Alexander Fleming -- Lou Gehrig -- Elizabeth Glaser -- Mikhail Gorbachev -- Alex Haley -- Barbara Harris -- Vaclav Havel -- Stephen W. Hawking -- Jim Henson -- Natthew Henson -- Thor Heyerdahl -- Langston Hughes -- Daniel Inouye -- Pope John XXIII -- Mother Jones -- Michael Jordan -- Robert F. Kennedy -- Ron Kovic -- Maggie Kuhn -- Louis, Mary, and Richard Leakey -- Greg LeMond -- Maya Lin -- Anne Sullivan Macy -- Malcolm X -- Wilma Mankiller -- Thurgood Marshall -- Marlee Matlin -- Chico Mendes -- Karl Menninger -- Toni Morrison -- Grandma Moses -- J. Robert Oppenheimer -- Jesse Owens -- Gordon Parks -- Robert E. Peary -- Colin Powell -- Paul Robeson -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Wilma Rudolph -- Margaret Sanger -- H. Norman Schwarzkopf -- Albert Schweitzer -- Pete Seeger -- Aung San Suu Kyi -- Corrie ten Boom -- Jim Thorpe -- Harry S. Truman -- Terry Waite -- Raoul Wallenberg -- Booker T. Washington -- Ryan White -- Simon Wiesenthal -- William Griffith Wilson -- Oprah Winfrey -- Stevie Wonder -- Babe Didrikson Zaharias -- V. 3. James G. Abourezk -- Gerry Adams -- Madeleine Albright -- Susan B. Anthony -- Ben & Jerry -- Irving Berlin -- Joseph Bernardin -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Les Brown -- Susan Butcher -- Frances Xavier Cabrini -- Dale Carnegie -- Dennis Chavez -- Bessie Coleman -- Eileen Collins -- Francis S. Collins -- Kenneth H. Cooper -- Aaron Copland -- Jacques d'Amboise -- Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. -- Morris Dees -- F.W. de Kl
- Extent
- 1 online resource (volumes <1-4>
- Form of item
- online
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- portraits)
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1035679986
- Label
- Contemporary heroes and heroines, Ray B. Browne, editor ; in association with Glenn J. Browne and Kevin O. Browne
- Note
-
- Bk. 2 edited by Deborah Gillan Straub
- Bk. 3: Terrie M. Rooney, editor ; Karen E. Lemerand, assistant editor
- Bk. 4: Dana R. Barnes, editor; Leigh Ann DeRemer, associate editor
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- V. 1. Hank Aaron -- Ralph Abernathy -- Joy Adamson -- Maya Angelou -- Corazon Aquino -- Oscar Arias Sanchez -- Neil Armstrong -- Daniel and Philip Berrigan -- Diettrich Bonhoeffer -- Margaret Bourke-White -- Bill Bradley -- Ralph Bunche -- Helen Caldicott -- Ernesto Cardenal -- Rachel Carson -- Challenger crew -- Wilt Chamberlain -- Cesar Chavez -- Shirley Chisholm -- Roberto Clemente -- Marva Collins -- Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams -- Bill Cosby -- Norman Cousins -- Francis Crick -- Walter Cronkite -- Vine Deloria, Jr. -- Walt Disney -- Amelia Earhart -- Jaime Escalante -- Medgar Wiley Evers -- Betty Ford -- Dian Fossey -- Terry Fox -- Anne Frank -- Betty Friedan -- Indira Gandhi -- Mohandas K. Gandhi -- Bob Geldof -- John Glenn -- Jane Goodall -- Billy Graham -- Dick Gregory -- Florence Griffith Joyner -- Dag Hammarskjold -- Katharine Hepburn -- Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay -- Bob Hope -- Lee Iacocca -- Jesse Jackson -- Ann Jillian -- Steven Jobs -- Pope John Paul II -- Barbara Jordan -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee -- Helen Keller -- John F. Kennedy -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Henry Kissinger -- C. Everett Koop -- Candy Lightner -- Charles A. Lindbergh -- Greg Louganis -- Sean MacBride -- Nelson and Winnie Mandela -- Mickey Mantle -- Margaret Mead -- Golda Meir -- James Howard Meredith -- Mother Teresa -- Ralph Nader -- Patricia Neal -- Sandra Day O'Connor -- Georgia O'Keeffe -- Rosa Parks -- Linus Pauling -- Itzhak Perlman -- Sally Ride -- Jackie Robinson -- Oscar Romero -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Bill Russell -- Anwar Sadat -- Carl Sagan -- Andrei Sakharov -- Jonas Salk -- Jan C. Scruggs -- Alan Shepard -- Karen Silkwood -- Mitch Snyder -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- Steven Spielberg -- Benjamin Spock -- Gloria Steinem -- Margaret Thatcher -- Desmond Tuto -- Lech Walesa -- Alice Walker -- Elie Wiesel -- Roy Wilkins -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- Chuck Yeager -- Jeanna Yeager and Dick Rutan -- V. 2. Jim Abbott -- Ansel Adams -- Jane Addams -- Roald Amundsen -- Marian Anderson -- Louis Armstrong -- Arthur Ashe -- Joan Baez -- Robert D. Ballard -- Christiaan Barnard -- Clara Barton -- Leonard Bernstein -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Stephen Biko -- Jim and Sarah Brady -- Christy Brown -- Pearl Buck -- Chris Burke -- Ben Carson -- Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter -- George Washington Carver -- Mary Cassatt -- Chai Ling -- Winston Churchill -- Jacques Cousteau -- Marie Curie -- Dalai Lama -- Clarence Darrow -- Tom Dooley -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- Albert Einstein -- Duke Ellington -- Anthony S. Fauci -- Jose Feliciano -- Alexander Fleming -- Lou Gehrig -- Elizabeth Glaser -- Mikhail Gorbachev -- Alex Haley -- Barbara Harris -- Vaclav Havel -- Stephen W. Hawking -- Jim Henson -- Natthew Henson -- Thor Heyerdahl -- Langston Hughes -- Daniel Inouye -- Pope John XXIII -- Mother Jones -- Michael Jordan -- Robert F. Kennedy -- Ron Kovic -- Maggie Kuhn -- Louis, Mary, and Richard Leakey -- Greg LeMond -- Maya Lin -- Anne Sullivan Macy -- Malcolm X -- Wilma Mankiller -- Thurgood Marshall -- Marlee Matlin -- Chico Mendes -- Karl Menninger -- Toni Morrison -- Grandma Moses -- J. Robert Oppenheimer -- Jesse Owens -- Gordon Parks -- Robert E. Peary -- Colin Powell -- Paul Robeson -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Wilma Rudolph -- Margaret Sanger -- H. Norman Schwarzkopf -- Albert Schweitzer -- Pete Seeger -- Aung San Suu Kyi -- Corrie ten Boom -- Jim Thorpe -- Harry S. Truman -- Terry Waite -- Raoul Wallenberg -- Booker T. Washington -- Ryan White -- Simon Wiesenthal -- William Griffith Wilson -- Oprah Winfrey -- Stevie Wonder -- Babe Didrikson Zaharias -- V. 3. James G. Abourezk -- Gerry Adams -- Madeleine Albright -- Susan B. Anthony -- Ben & Jerry -- Irving Berlin -- Joseph Bernardin -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Les Brown -- Susan Butcher -- Frances Xavier Cabrini -- Dale Carnegie -- Dennis Chavez -- Bessie Coleman -- Eileen Collins -- Francis S. Collins -- Kenneth H. Cooper -- Aaron Copland -- Jacques d'Amboise -- Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. -- Morris Dees -- F.W. de Kl
- Extent
- 1 online resource (volumes <1-4>
- Form of item
- online
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- portraits)
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1035679986
Subject
- Biografía -- Siglo XX
- Biographies -- 20e siècle -- Dictionnaires anglais
- Biography
- Biography
- Biography -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- Célébrités -- Biographies | Dictionnaires anglais
- Heroes
- Heroes & heroines -- Contemporary
- Heroes -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- Héros -- Biographies | Dictionnaires anglais
- Héroïnes -- Biographies | Dictionnaires anglais
- Women heroes
- Women heroes -- Biography | Juvenile literature
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