Socrates' Children: Ancient: The 100 Greatest Philosophers

How is this history of philosophy different from all others? 1.  Its neither very long like Coplestons twelve-volume tome, which is a clear  and helpful reference work but pretty dull reading nor very short like many  skimpy one-volume summaries but just long enough.  2. Its available in separate volumes but eventually in one complete work after the  four volumes Ancient, Medieval, Modern, Contemporary are produced in  paperbound editions, a one-volume clothbound will be published. 3.  It focuses on the big ideas that have influenced present people and present  times. 4. It includes relevant biographical data, proportionate to its importance for each  thinker. 5.  It is not just history but philosophy. Its aim is not merely to record facts of life  or opinion but to stimulate philosophizing, controversy, argument.