The writing of history begins with recounting the exemplary lives of great men Nepko presents this series of biographies of people who influenced and changed the world throughout history from Mao, Deng Xiaoping, Napoleon Bonaparte, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin to Vladimir Putin. We have recently published new biographies of Stephen Hawking and his theory of cosmology; the life of Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation; and Empress Dowagar Cixi and her legacy in China.