As Eve Ensler says in her inspired foreword to this book, "Jody Williams is many things—a simple girl from Vermont, a sister of a disabled brother, a loving wife, an intense character full of fury and mischief, a great strategist, an excellent organizer, a brave and relentless advocate, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. But to me Jody Williams is, first and foremost, an activist."
From her modest beginnings to becoming the tenth woman—and...

Presents the lives and accomplishments of more than two hundred Noble Prize winners, from the initial 1901 prizes to the 2009 winners, along with a complete listing of the eight hundred individuals and organizations that have won the prize.

A funny novel about a graduate student who decides to follow her disgraced mentor to a university that gives safe harbor to scholars of ill repute, igniting a crisis of work and a test of her conscience (and marriage).

On April 25, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl. Until now, all of the books published in English focused on the facts, names, and data. Voices from Chernobyl presents first-hand accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus and the fear, anger, and uncertainty that they lived through. In order to give a voice to their experiences, Svetlana Alexievich--a journalist by trade--interviewed hundreds of people...

"Dmitry Bykov is a famous poet, literary critic, biographer, journalist and critic, winner of a number of prestigious awards, author of biographies, artistic prose, as well as more than a dozen collections of poems, plays and journalistic articles. The book "Nobel. Literature" is based on the television series, which was dedicated to the life and creativity of the brightest winners of the Nobel Prize in literature. Dmitry Bykov, in an inimitable author's...

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 Menchú Tum, Nelson Mandela, Shirin Ebadi, Wangari Maathai, Malala Yousafzai.

A Philippine journalist who received the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize traces her career spent challenging corruption in her country and presents strategies for speaking truth to power and standing up against authoritarians to battle information and lies.

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...

Chronicles the life of Kailash Satyarthi, who has devoted his life to battling against child labor and exploitation, ultimately rescuing hundreds of thousands of children worldwide and earning a Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for his work.