Madame Curie: A Biography

Reducere. Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) was the first woman scientist to win worldwide acclaim and was, indeed, one of the great scientists of the twent...

Reducere. Discover the life of Marie Curie―a story for kids 6 to 9 about discovering big things through hard workMarie Curie became one of the most celebrate...

A new work from the celebrated author on how the Israel-Palestinian conflict can be resolved. Includes 2 essays that bring the reader face to face ...

Reducere. One hundred years ago, Marie Curie discovered radioactivity, for which she won the Nobel Prize in physics. In 1911 she won an unprecedented second ...

No American envoy has ever burst on the diplomatic scene and grabbed center stage in the theater of foreign relations like Madeleine Albright. Navi...

A heartwarming memoir of a family that refused to give upWhen twenty-two-year-old Susan Stachler was diagnosed with cancer, her mother, Laura, was ...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tracy BeachAn extensively researched book about a well-known Colorado madam, but most of what's known about her is wrong, i...

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When Jeanne-Antoinette was nine, she was told by a fortune teller that she would one day become the mistress of the handsome young Louix XV - from ...

A collection of micro-essays and flash fiction from the author of }Grandmother Divided By Monkey Equals Outer Space{. Explores the great questions ...

Reducere. When vice had a legal home and jazz was being born--the captivating story of an infamous true-life madam New Orleans, 1900. Mary Deubler makes a me...

This story is not like any others. It depcits the story of two intrepid men that set out to become the most powerful men of all times. The adventur...

Reducere. In 1916, at age fifteen, Norma Wallace arrived in New Orleans. Sexy and shrewd, she quickly went from streetwalker to madam and by 1920 had opened ...

Reducere. This is the story of Sarah Breedlove better known as Madam C.J. Walker who struggled to success through poverty and other misfortunes and yet becam...

DescriptionMax Boyle was hoping for a quiet life after the rough-and-tumble of World War II, but "my life with Professor Stubbs had been nothing mo...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! The definitive biography of Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful woman in American political history, written by N...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Seamus HeaneyThe Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Written in the fifth century BC, this p...

O celebra gheisa care ulterior a devenit concubina premierului tarii si dupa aceea, prima femeie care a aparut pe scena ca actrita. Povestea ei spu...

Extraordinara poveste a micutei. Faimoasa Madame Tussaud - Edward Carey

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Reducere. This is the most complete and authoritative account of the childhood and tumultuous life of Jiang Qing, from her early years as an aspiring actress...

Reducere. In Madam Bessie Jones, Her Life and Times, Jones emerges from the shadows of Carlisle (PA) history, first turning tricks in her mother Cora Andrews...

Reducere. On April 10, 1834 Firefighters smashed through a padlocked attic door in the burning home of Creole society couple Delphine and Louis Lalaurie. The...

Reducere. DescriptionElisabeth-Louise Vigee-Lebrun (1755-1842) was a French painter. Her style is generally considered Rococo and shows interest in the subje...

One of Britain's foremost nature writers describes how he conquered clinical depression through his re-awakened love of nature.

Sarah Breedlove (December 23, 1867 - May 25, 1919), known as Madam C. J. Walker, was an African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and a politi...

Reducere. How hard would you fight if you only had a sliver of hope?Elijah Stacy suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a fatal muscle wasting disease. At...

In 1761, o fata cu aspect ciudat, pe nume Marie, se naste intr‑un sat din Elvetia.Dupa moartea parintilor ei, devine ucenica unui sculptor in ceara...

Reducere. Mildred Clark Cusey was a whore, a madam, an entrepreneur, and above all, a survivor. The story of Silver City Millie, as she referred to herself, ...

Reducere. Now a Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer, Self Made (formerly titled On Her Own Ground) is the first full-scale biography of "one of the great...

Reducere. All over the world, there are reports of children turning into MINE monsters when they see someone else touch something they like, so Noah has been...

Reducere. From the author "How to Cure a Mine Monster" comes the second book in her Monster Manners Lab series. Evie needs your help to find a cure for the w...

DescriptionA poetry compilation recounting a woman's journey from self-loathing to self-acceptance, confusion to clarity, and bitterness to forgive...

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Madame Claude. O lume secreta a placerii, privilegiilor si puterii - William Stadiem

Reducere. From Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Truck Full of Money, and adapted by Michael French comes this captivating and critically accl...

Reducere. "A renowned geneticist races against time to diagnose a malady that landed at his door... A complex, well-related story of medical detective work."...

Reducere. John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's comedy Love's Cure, or The Martial Maid (1615) is an innovative and provocative play that explores the struggl...

Reducere. Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonn...

DescriptionMeet scientist Marie Curie and learn about her life and pioneering research in this engagingly illustrated biography. At a time when wom...

Lustrous, tender, and expansive, Gold Cure moves from boomtown gold mines and the mythical city of El Dorado to the fracking wells of the American ...

Reducere. Originally published in 1863, The Fortune Teller and Dreamer's Dictionary by Madame LeMarchand, a "celebrated Parisian fortune teller, " is a littl...