The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane, Nobel Julia

Автор: Nobel Julia
Название: The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane
ISBN: 197494557X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781974945573
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 36770.00 T
Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: With a dad who disappeared years ago and a mother who's a bit too busy to parent, Emmy is shipped off to Wellsworth, a prestigious boarding school in England, where she's sure she won't fit in. But then she finds a box of mysterious medallions in the attic of her home' medallions that belonged to her father' who may have gone to Wellsworth. When she arrives at school, she finds the strange symbols from the medallions etched into walls and books, which leads her and her new friends, Jack and Lola, to Wellsworth's secret society: The Order of Black Hollow Lane. Emmy can't help but think that the society had something to do with her dad's disappearance and that there may be more than just dark secrets in the halls of Wellsworth.

Автор: Fant Kenne
Название: Alfred Nobel: A Biography
ISBN: 1628723262 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781628723267
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 13750.00 T
Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: The only full-length biography of the founder of the Nobel Prize.
Few documents have had a more enduring influence on our century than Alfred Nobel s last will and testament, for these handwritten sheets established the most coveted and prestigious awards on earth. The Nobel Prizes represent glory and world stature, and are the stuff of immortality. Yet the man whose name they bear has been lost to near obscurity. As Kenne Fant shows in this fascinating biography, Alfred Nobel s life contained fierce and troubling paradoxes. He invented dynamite and revolutionized the technology of destruction, yet his dreams of a disarmed world inspired him to create the Nobel Peace Prize.
One of the most powerful men of his time, Nobel was viewed by some as the model of success and entrepreneurial drive; to his workers, he was an enlightened and scrupulously honest employer in an age of heartless exploitation. Others, however, blamed him for the accidents caused by his inventions and labeled him the merchant of death. Victor Hugo called him Europe s richest vagabond because he moved about too restlessly. Harassed by imitators, sycophants, and frauds, and struggling continuously with bureaucracies and patent offices (only Thomas Edison surpassed him in the number of patents obtained), Nobel was often desperately lonely.
Making extensive use of Nobel s letters and writing, Fan s portrait reveals Nobel in all his aspectsindustrialist, pacifist, arms manufacturer, and poetand does full justice to a compelling and visionary figure whose name will resonate for generations.
Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a "New York Times" bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home."

Автор: Wadman, Meredith
Название: The Vaccine Race
ISBN: 178416013X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784160135
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Рейтинг:
Цена: 9670.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Until the late 1960s, tens of thousands of children suffered crippling birth defects if their mothers had been exposed to rubella, popularly known as German measles, while pregnant; there was no vaccine and little understanding of how the disease devastated foetuses. The is story of a major breakthrough in cell biology.

Автор: Maggie May Ethridge
Название: Marie Curie : radioactivity pioneer and first woman to win a Nobel Prize
ISBN: 1502623099 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781502623096
Издательство: Неизвестно
Рейтинг:
Цена: 65330.00 T
Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: History has seen many incredible men and women make their mark on the field of science. One woman who will forever be remembered for her groundbreaking work is Marie Curie. She was one of the first people to explore radioactivity, and her contributions led her to become the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. This book explores Curie's life, accomplishments, and legacy.

Автор: Nobel Justin
Название: Standing Still in a Concrete Jungle
ISBN: 0615707750 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615707754
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 13790.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Ever spend 14 hours straight on the New York City subway? Justin Nobel has a simple philosophy: the best way to know a city is to stand in one spot and observe it, for a VERY long time. In "Standing Still in a Concrete Jungle", Justin "stands" in some of New York's most famous spots-Central Park, the subway, a Park Slope coffee shop-but also grittier places no tourist would ever go-a street corner in a rough part of the Bronx, a forgotten cemetery, an ER waiting room. Justin peels away the surface of the city to find a chattering nether-metropolis, where nothing is normal. He meets deranged mailman, his child doppelganger, a rare insect vendor and under a full moon on a beach in Brooklyn has a shamanistic experience with an evil genie. If you've ever been fascinated by the public spaces where so much of our daily nothing, that might actually mean everything, goes on this book will surely make you howl. And who knows, perhaps you're in it.