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In terms of practical accomplishments helping to better the lives of people today Madame Marie Curie far exceeds the achievements of any other modern or scientific person Anybody who is in a hospital that uses an XRay machine is using technology developed by Marie Curie Any cancer patient who is undergoing radiation treatment to prolong life is using a procedure discovered by Marie Curie Anybody who turns on a light bulb in their house is likely using power from a nuclear power plant based on discoveries made by Marie Curie The list of discoveries made by Marie Curie goes on and on not the least of which it was the discoveries of Marie Curie of nuclear fission that made the Atomic Bomb and other nuclear weapons possible Yet except for a few academics and watchers of The Discovery Channel the name of Marie Curie is largely unknown Ask a hundred men on the street if they know who Marie Curie is or was not more than one of them will have ever heard her If you ask the same group if they have ever heard of Albert Einstein all of them will have heard of him Yet Albert Einstein was only concerned with theoretical physics and his own theories None of his discoveries have yet been proven or confirmed None have been made into a machine like the common XRay Machine now seen in all major hospitals Marie Curie suffered from a form of discrimination experienced by almost all women of academic accomplishment Her discoveries were not taken seriously or were often credited to some man in her background Always it was assumed that the real work was done by some man and that the woman was just a wall flower
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Introduces children to the lives and achievements of pioneering men and women from diverse cultures eras and fields through simple text and fullcolor photographs a Words You Know glossary and an easytouse index
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Fastpaced and easytoread these softcover 32page graphic biographies teach students about historical figures those who lead us into new territory pursued scientific discoveries battled injustice and prejudice and broke down creative and artistic barriers These biographies offer a variety of rich primary and secondary source material to support teaching to standards Using the graphics students can activate prior knowledgebridge what they already know with what they have yet to learn Graphically illustrated biographies also teach inference skills character development dialogue transitions and drawing conclusions Graphic biographies in the classroom provide an intervention with proven success for the struggling reader Features Fullcolor drawings engage the reader Each biography is complete in 32pages Speech bubbles and nonfiction text on every page Powerful graphics capture and hold student interest Highlights Fastpaced nonfiction stories Strong characters and powerful role models
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Marie Curie 18671934 was one of the most important woman scientists in history and she was one of the most influential scientistsman or womanof the 20th century Curie postulated that radiation was an atomic property a discovery that has led to significant scientific developments since She was also the first person to use the term radioactivity Her perseverance led to the discovery of two new elements polonium and radium This combination of creativity and perseverance netted her two Nobel Prizes one in physics and the second in chemistry This book however looks at more than her scientific achievements While Curie is often portrayed as a stern onedimensional woman so totally committed to her science that she was incapable of complex emotions the truth is that the opposite is the caseMarie Curie A Biography covers her entire lifetime beginning with her early life and education in a Poland under the oppressive rule of the czar of Russia The book discusses all aspectsboth personal and scientificof her fascinating life Her education at the Sorbonne in Paris where she earned the equivalent of two masters degreesone in physics and a second in mathematics Her marriage to Pierre Curie with whom she collaborated on much of her scientific work The personal scandal that surrounded Marie in the aftermath of Pierres tragic death The Nobel Prize awards and the detractors who believed that her work was actually performed by her husbandCuries work in establishing mobile Xray units during World War I and the establishment of radium institutes to study radiationRunning throughout there is the much of the book is the tension between radium as a positive discovery and on the other hand the health risks that working with it presents The book includes a timeline of important events in Curies life and a bibliography of important primary and secondary sources
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Fullcolor photographs of people places and artifacts definitions of key words and sidebars on related subjects add dimension and relevance to stories of famous lives creating a unique reading experience about people youngsters should know
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This short book is written in a clear readable style detailing the events of Maries life that will be of interest to teen readers It will be an excellent and accessible resource for libraries Readers will find the prose engaging and Maries story interesting and inspiring VOYANational Geographic supports K12 educators with ELA Common Core ResourcesVisitnbspwwwnatgeoedorgcommoncorenbspfor more information
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Marcel Prousts In Search of Lost Time opens with one of the most famous scenes in literature as young Marcel unable to fall asleep waits anxiously for his mother to come to his bedroom and kiss him good night Prousts own mother is central to the meaning of his masterpiece and she has always held a special role in literary history both as a character and as a decisive influence on the great writers career Without knowing much about her we think of her as the quintessential writers motherNow Evelyne BlochDanos touching biography acquaints Proust fans with the real Jeanne Weil Proust Written with the imaginative force of a novel but firmly grounded in Jeanne and Marcel Prousts writings Madame Proust skillfully captures the life and times of Prousts mother from her GermanJewish background and her marriage to a Catholic grocers son to her lifelong worries about her sons sexuality health problems and talent As well as offering intimate glimpses of the Prousts daily life Madame Proust also uses the family as a way to explore the larger culture of findesiècle France including high society spa culture Jewish assimilation and the Dreyfus affair Throughout BlochDano offers sensitive readings of Prousts work drawing out the countless interconnections between his mother his life and his magnum opusThose coming to In Search of Lost Time for the first time will find in Madame Proust a delightful primer on Marcel Prousts life and times For those already steeped in the pleasures of Proust this gem of a biography will give them a fresh understanding of the rich fascinating background of the writer and his art
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Mint condition hardcover book in its also brand new condition decorative dustjacket This is a first condition first printing the true collectible edition Enjoy being the first to read this book
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Giacomo Puccinis operanbspMadame Butterflynbsphas enjoyed tremendous popularity in Europe and America since its debut in 1904 It has also inspired a globallevel debate about whether the tragic heroine of the opera ChoChosan was based on a reallife modelnbspStarcrossednbsplooks at this controversy and presents compelling evidence that in fact there was no real life ChoChosan Nonetheless the author demonstrates that despite the cultural disparities evoked by the opera and the clash of values embodied in it there lie buried in the history of Nagasaki many untold tales of true international romance and cooperationNagasaki the setting for the opera holds many of the answers to the international identity debate however the city has remained virtually silent in the matter in large part argues BurkeGaffney because the story of Madame Butterfly is locally viewed as a Western romance with values alien to many JapanesePenetrating beyond consideration of Madame Butterfly as a work of artnbspStarcrossednbspexplores the literature from which the opera springs including a wide variety of primary sources in both Japanese and Western languages Drawing on these insights BurkeGaffney presents the opera as a window on Japans changing relationship with Europe and America from the seventeenth century through the post World War II occupationFinallynbspStarcrossednbsplooks at the sites in Nagasaki which were related to the development of Madame Butterfly and presents an engaging display of illustrations and photographs from the past hundred years
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An affectionate intimate biography by Madame Helena Rubinsteins personal assistant that captures Madames unbounded energy and spunk such as her buying carloads of African sculpture or kicking an inatteneive employee in the ankle to make him listen keeping her competitors at bay and dispensing homely advice particularly on beauty Rubinsteins propensity for crisis strife and inevitably farce make this irreverent but affectionate biography the purset diversion and just a fun read
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Giacomo Puccinis operanbspMadame Butterflynbsphas enjoyed tremendous popularity in Europe and America since its debut in 1904 It has also inspired a globallevel debate about whether the tragic heroine of the opera ChoChosan was based on a reallife modelnbspStarcrossednbsplooks at this controversy and presents compelling evidence that in fact there was no real life ChoChosan Nonetheless the author demonstrates that despite the cultural disparities evoked by the opera and the clash of values embodied in it there lie buried in the history of Nagasaki many untold tales of true international romance and cooperationNagasaki the setting for the opera holds many of the answers to the international identity debate however the city has remained virtually silent in the matter in large part argues BurkeGaffney because the story of Madame Butterfly is locally viewed as a Western romance with values alien to many JapanesePenetrating beyond consideration of Madame Butterfly as a work of artnbspStarcrossednbspexplores the literature from which the opera springs including a wide variety of primary sources in both Japanese and Western languages Drawing on these insights BurkeGaffney presents the opera as a window on Japans changing relationship with Europe and America from the seventeenth century through the post World War II occupationFinallynbspStarcrossednbsplooks at the sites in Nagasaki which were related to the development of Madame Butterfly and presents an engaging display of illustrations and photographs from the past hundred years
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A biography of the chemist whose work with radium laid the foundation for much of todays scientific knowledge
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A brief biography emphasizing the importance of learning in the life of the scientist who was awarded the Nobel prize for her work in chemistry
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Talk about a glowing reputation Marie Curie the woman who coined the term radioactivity won not just one Nobel prize but twoin physics and in chemistry both supposedly girlphobic sciences As with her previous starstudded biographies of Leonardo da Vinci Isaac Newton and Sigmund Freudall three chosen as ALA Notable BooksKathleen Krull offers readers a fascinating portrait of this mythic giant of science who abhorred publicity And she also places Curies groundbreaking discovery of two elements within the framework of science at that time
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Now a Tonynominated Broadway musical playing at the Nederlander Theatre starring twotime Tony Award winners Patti LuPone Evita Gypsy as Helena Rubinstein and Christine Ebersole 42nd Street Grey Gardens as Elizabeth ArdenA fascinating dual biography of the women who founded todays beauty industryThey were both born in the nineteenth century in humble circumstancesHelena Rubinstein in an orthodox Jewish household in Kraków Poland Elizabeth Arden on a farm outside Toronto But by the 1930s they were bitter rivals in New York the rulers of dueling international beauty empires that would forever change the way women thought about cosmetics salons and wrinkles This riveting biography brings these two celebrated women to life revealing the ruthless drive and innovative business strategies that took each to the top Along the way it offers an intriguing look at their personal idiosyncrasies Rubinstein collected art Arden racehorses their checkered marriages and the rarefied social milieu in which they both traveled
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This biography of Mme de Sevigne brings to life the world of seventeenthcentury France a mother and her daughter a writer and her brilliant letters The passion and the pathos of this correspondence brings us as close as we can come to the mind of a woman in the court of Louis XIV
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