The Life Millennium: The 100 Most Important Events and People of the Past 1000 Years

By: Life Magazine Editors

Life magazine's editors have put together an account of human progress from the year 1001 to 1999. They offer two separate lists: the 100 most important events and the 100 most important people. The... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082122557X
• ISBN13: 9780821225578
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Bulfinch Pr
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 0.8" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 13 years and up

Customer Reviews

Extremely fair treatment

This is the fairest treatment of the events of the past millennium that I have seen. Who would have thought of the germ theory of disease being important? They did and its in the book. Buy it.

great images, surprisingly good ideas

I bought this book in a hurry, just for the imagery. However, later, when I had a chance to actually read it, I was pleasantly surprised. It is a quite intelligent and creative summation of the past 1000 years. Although it hits all the usual highlights, this book rises above the Time-Life standard, sinking neither into sentimentality nor into thoughtless platitudes. I would recommend this book to people who are building image collections. Additionally (and I mean this in the best possible sense), this is the kind of book that should be in doctors' waiting rooms: it can be read in fits and spurts, and is a smart picture book. It might also reengage a middle-schooler who has gone off socail studies.