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2) Solar
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement, this “totally gripping and entirely hilarious” novel (The Wall Street Journal) traces the arc of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist’s ambitions and self-deception.
Dr. Michael Beard’s best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned...
Dr. Michael Beard’s best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned...
3) Peace and me
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An illustrated collection of inspirational 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 of Brechin, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, Desmond Tutu, Rigoberta Mench T͠um, Nelson Mandela, Shirin Ebadi, Wangari Maathai, Malala Yousafzai.
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"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. In a case that will provide the defining coda to both men's accomplished lives,...
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In Marie Curie, learn how the Polish chemist and physicist chose to pursue a career in science and discovered radium, earning the Nobel Prize twice. Features include a timeline, a glossary, essential facts, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.--
11) Alfred Nobel
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Discusses the life story of Alfred Nobel, his invention of dynamite and subsequent wealth to his sadness at the explosive's destructive power and decision to create yearly prizes for those who have rendered the greatest services to mankind.
12) Marie Curie
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Describes the life and accomplishments of the Polish scientist, including her discovery of polonium and radium and her work teaching at the Sorbonne.
14) Mother Teresa
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A biography of the nun who founded the Missionary Sisters and Brothers of Charity and gained wide recognition for her work with the destitute and dying in Calcutta and other places. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
17) Mother Teresa
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A biography of the founder of the Missionary Sisters and Brothers of Charity, known for her work with the destitute and dying in Calcutta and other places and who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
18) Marie Curie
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The story of Marie Curie, also about Pierre Curie, and the discovery of radium.
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In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the international stage. When she founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a renowned poor people's environmental effort that soon inspired the world. Having endured jailings, beatings, and personal losses, Maathai continued to plant trees and change lives, and worked successfully to save Kenya's forests and to restore democracy...
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