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...

"Discover some of the inspirational men and women who have received Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry and Medicine from 1901 to the present day, among them Marie Curie, Hermann Joseph Muller, and Donna Strickland. A glimpse into the often surprising lives and sometimes accidental discoveries of a group of extraordinary scientists, this fascinating collection shows that the science you learn at school really can change the world."--Amazon.com.

"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...

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).

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.

Malala Yousafzai was denied education when the Taliban took control of her town in Pakistan. She decided to speak up, despite the danger it put her in. Her story is the story of many girls. When Malala was fifteen years old, she was attacked by the Taliban for defending girls' rights to education. She survived and recovered to become a world leader in education rights. In 2014, at the age of seventeen, she was the youngest person to be awarded the...

Introduces young readers to the life and accomplishments of the influential physicist and chemist who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.