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4) Peace and me
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
An illustrated collection of ideas about peace based on the lives of Nobel Peace Prize laureates of the 20th and 21st centuries. Includes Jean Henry Dunant, Fridtjof Nansen, Jane Addams, John Boyd Orr, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, Desmond Tutu, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Nelson Mandela, Shirin Ebadi, Wangari Maathai, Malala Yousafzai.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Nobel Prize genius past his prime, Michael Beard struggles to hold his marriage together. He has just come to realize that his fifth wife is the love of his life as she is gearing up to leave him. And although he has coasted his entire life on his youthful brilliance, he is also beginning to worry he is becoming irrelevant in the ever advancing world of Physics.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Malala's first picture book will inspire young readers everywhere to find the magic all around them. As a child in Pakistan, Malala made a wish for a magic pencil. She would use it to make everyone happy, to erase the smell of garbage from her city, to sleep an extra hour in the morning. But as she grew older, Malala saw that there were more important things to wish for. She saw a world that needed fixing. And even if she never found a magic pencil,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Description
"A biography of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmentalist Wangari Maathai, a female scientist who made a stand in the face of opposition to women's rights and her own Greenbelt Movement, an effort to restore Kenya's ecosystem by planting millions of trees"--Provided by publisher.
10) The last trial
Author
Series
Kindle County novels volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At 85 years old, Alejandro 'Sandy' Stern, a brilliant defense lawyer with his health failing but spirit intact, is on the brink of retirement. But when his old friend Dr. Kiril Pafko, a former Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, is faced with charges of insider trading, fraud, and murder, his entire life's work is put in jeopardy, and Stern decides to take on one last trial"--
Author
Series
Li shi yu xian chang volume 211
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
"I am innocent: biography of Liu Xiaobo" by Yu Jie, Liu's confidant and assistant in the past two decades. Liu, the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has been a reluctant Chinese human rights activist and leader. Liu has been sentenced for 11 years and is currently imprisoned in China. Yu was given access and interviewed more than 50 people all around the world who have first hand knowledge of Liu's life and activism. Yu has also compiled a rich body...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"This picture book tells the inspiring story of Wangari Maathai, women's rights activist and one of the first environmental warriors. Wangari began the Green Belt Movement in Kenya in the 1960s, which focused on planting trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights. She inspired thousands across Africa to plant 30 million trees in 30 years and was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Explores environmental and political...
14) Marie Curie
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The story of Marie Curie, also about Pierre Curie, and the discovery of radium.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
The true story of how Mexican-American scientist Mario Molina helped solve the ozone crisis of the 1980s and went on to become a Nobel laureate and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His inspiring story gives hope in the fight against global warming. Full color.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"Marie and Pierre Curie were essential figures in furthering the study of radioactivity. The pair discovered two new elements, which they named polonium and radium, leading to huge breakthroughs in the process of using X-rays. This book provides biographical information about the Curies' life before and during their studies. Full-color and historical photographs help readers learn the STEM concepts associated with radioactivity, and the ways in which...
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