![]() ” Then, in 1906, Pierre was killed in a freak accident. Newspapers mythologized the couple’s romance, beginning articles on the Curies with “Once upon a time. They recognized radioactivity as an atomic property, heralding the dawn of a new scientific era. They expanded the periodic table, discovering two new elements with startling properties, radium and polonium. Synopsis (Goodreads): In 1891, 24-year-old Marie, née Marya Sklodowska, moved from Warsaw to Paris, where she found work in the laboratory of Pierre Curie, a scientist engaged in research on heat and magnetism. Published: December 21st 2010 by It Books Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Cure, a Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss ![]() Not only is this a fascinating glimpse at Marie and Pierre Curie’s life, the juxtaposition of text and illustration make this book a truly unique reading experience. ![]() Art and science have never blended together so well. ![]()
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![]() ![]() As she examines the paperwork, she discovers that the widows who are living in purdah (strict seclusion) have signed over their inheritance to a charity, raising suspicions that they’re being taken advantage of by their guardian. Educated at Oxford, Perveen has a tragic personal history that causes her to be extra vigilant on her new case so that the widows of Malabar Hill are treated fairly after the death of their husband. ![]() In this culturally rich, mystery set in 1920s Bombay, India, Preveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected family, joins her father’s law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. ![]() Genre/categories: Historical Fiction, Mystery, Detective, Bombay, Women’s Rights The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey ***This post contains Amazon affiliate links. ![]() ![]() ![]() Can Karl balance his boxing dreams with his obligation to keep his family out of harm's way? Includes an author's note and sources page detailing the factual inspirations behind the novel. ![]() And as Max's fame forces him to associate with Nazi elites, Karl begins to wonder where his hero's sympathies truly lie. But when Nazi violence against Jews escalates, Karl must take on a new role: family protector. A skilled cartoonist, Karl has never had an interest in boxing, but now it seems like the perfect chance to reinvent himself. ![]() Then Max Schmeling, champion boxer and German hero, makes a deal with Karl's father to give Karl boxing lessons. ![]() Demoralized by their attacks against a heritage he doesn't accept as his own, Karl longs to prove his worth. Karl Stern has never thought of himself as a Jew after all, he's never even been in a synagogue. But the bullies at his school in Nazi-era Berlin don't care that Karl's family doesn't practice religion. Publishers Weekly called it "a masterful historical novel" in a starred review. Sydney Taylor Award-winning novel Berlin Boxing Club is loosely inspired by the true story of boxer Max Schmeling's experiences following Kristallnacht. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Like her narrator, Alcott had grown up wild and boyish, directing plays and walking through the countryside with Henry David Thoreau. Alcott did not believe she could do it, but quickly wrote the first portion of Little Women, setting the novel at Orchard House, her family’s home in Concord.īy that time in her life, however, she was no longer rough-and-tumble Jo. Though she had been trying to publish a collection of short stories, her editor urged her to write something with a broader popular appeal, which could quickly make her money. Alcott, writing of the novel, said, “We really lived most of it, and if it succeeds that will be the reason of it.”Īlcott was prompted to write Little Women largely because of her family’s extreme poverty, much of which is captured in the book. The novel is largely autobiographical, based on the lives of Alcott, her three sisters, and her parents, Bronson Alcott, the controversial education reformer, and Abigail, a suffragist and abolitionist. ![]() Originally published in two volumes in 18, Little Women follows the four sisters of the March family as they navigate the territory between childhood and adulthood. “It’s so dreadful to be poor!” sighs Meg, the eldest of the March sisters, at the opening of Louisa May Alcott’s novel Little Women. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'To have become the publisher of Oliver Sacks in the UK & Commonwealth territories was one of the extraordinary highlights of becoming the publisher at Picador. Paul Baggaley, Publisher, Picador commented: He was the author of thirteen books, including Musicophilia, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and Awakenings (which inspired the Oscar-nominated film). Dr Sacks was a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker, as well as various medical journals. From 1965 he lived in New York City, where he is a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine and consultant neurologist to the Little Sisters of the Poor. He received his medical education at Oxford and trained at Mt Zion Hospital in San Francisco and at UCLA. Oliver Sacks was born in London in 1933, into a family of physicians and scientists. ![]() ![]() ![]() Slocum attracted considerable international interest by his journey, particularly once he had entered the Pacific. He also visited Australia and South Africa before crossing the Atlantic (for the third time) to return to Massachusetts after a journey of 46,000 miles. He rebuilt and refitted the derelict sloop Spray in a seaside pasture at Fairhaven, Massachusetts, over 13 months between early 18.īetween 24 April 1895 and 27 June 1898, Slocum, aboard the Spray, crossed the Atlantic twice (to Gibraltar and back to South America), negotiated the Strait of Magellan, and crossed the Pacific. The book was an immediate success and highly influential in inspiring later travelers.Ĭaptain Slocum was a highly experienced navigator and ship owner. Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone. ![]() Sailing Alone Around the World is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum in 1900 about his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop Spray. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mary’s nor the chemistry background to take the next giant steps of isolating the active ingredient of the penicillium mold juice, purifying it, figuring out which germs it was effective against, and how to use it. ![]() But I guess that was exactly what I did.”įourteen years later, in March 1942, Anne Miller became the first civilian patient to be successfully treated with penicillin, lying near death at New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, after miscarrying and developing an infection that led to blood poisoning.īut there is much more to this historic sequence of events.Īctually, Fleming had neither the laboratory resources at St. Fleming famously wrote about that red-letter date: “When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. His conclusions turned out to be phenomenal: there was some factor in the Penicillium mold that not only inhibited the growth of the bacteria but, more important, might be harnessed to combat infectious diseases.Īs Dr. It took Fleming a few more weeks to grow enough of the persnickety mold so that he was able to confirm his findings. ![]() Sir Alexander Fleming (1881 – 1955), studying a test tube culture with a hand lens. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() In health and safety, the term is used to describe the deterioration of rubber, for example the cracking of rubber hoses. In other fields, the term has been applied to the decay of crop plants by fungi. The final stage is a fruiting body which pumps new spores out into the surrounding air. As the hyphae grow they will eventually form a large mass known as mycelium. ![]() If the spores are subjected to sufficient moisture, they will germinate and begin to grow fine white strands known as hyphae. Dry rot begins as a microscopic spore which, in high enough concentrations, can resemble a fine orange dust. The life-cycle of dry rot can be broken down into four main stages. It was previously used to describe any decay of cured wood in ships and buildings by a fungus which resulted in a darkly colored deteriorated and cracked condition. Dry rot is wood decay caused by one of several species of fungi that digest parts of the wood which give the wood strength and stiffness. ![]() ![]() ![]() Miss Davidson stresses her belief that the girls’ bid for liberation was unprecedented and commendable, but the road to freedom was a rocky one, spelling trouble for all three they suffered anxiety over their careers, unhappy love affairs and marriages, and the general erosion of their youthful élan. As undergraduates, however, each resolved to renounce the easy suburban future to which she had been born and bred, vowing, instead, to experience life to the fullest and not be “hampered by convention.” Under the influence of Jeff Berman, a rising “star” in radical student politics, Susie developed a commitment to the “revolution” Natasha forewent the life of a doctor’s wife to pursue a career in New York and Sara set out to make it as a journalist of the counterculture. Raised in sun-washed Los Angeles, they had in common affluence, good looks, popularity, a loving and indulgent upbringing. ![]() Susie, Natasha, and Sara had all come to Berkeley from pretty much the same background. ![]() |