"Can you guess what links the pairs of people in this book? What do you think Steve Jobs and his iPhone have in common with the Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci? What common point links the world leader Gandhi of India and the American civil rights activist Rosa Parks? What about Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and German inventor Johannes Gutenberg? Or South African leader Nelson Mandela and French Resistance fighter Jean Moulin? Or the other pairs of people shown below? Read how these individuals changed the course of history through their ideas, discoveries, actions, and inventions. A timline and map show you when and where they made a difference. Greatness comes from every corner of the glode. Maybe YOU will be next!" -- Page [4] of cover.