(4) 4-6 Great Minds of Science series. These revised editions recount important scientific developments and discoveries as well as providing information about the scientists' lives. Although Goldenstern's text portrays Einstein colorfully, the presentation of his difficult theories is less engaging. Black-and-white illustrations are well chosen; however, the quality of experiments listed at the back of each book varies. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Great Minds of Science titles: Albert Einstein and Louis Pasteur.

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(4) YA Collective Biographies series. Ten or eleven Americans who have played significant military or social activist roles are introduced in each volume of this competently written series. Profiles focus on external events, rather than character or personality descriptions; each features a grainy black-and-white portrait and one or two often marginally related photographs. The Civil War volumes contain glossaries; the others include bibliographies. Ind.

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