Marie Curie
9 best books like Marie Curie (Kathleen Krull): Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time, The Blood of Emmett Till, Hutterite Diaries: Wisdom from My Prairie Community, The Word Snoop, Howard Stern Comes Again, Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World, Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
| Author | Mary Roach |
| ISBN | 0393329127 |
"What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that—the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my lap-top?" In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity...
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
| Author | David McCullough |
| ISBN | 1501168681 |
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.
As...
History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
| Author | Brad Meltzer |
| ISBN | 0761177450 |
It's an irresistible combination: Brad Meltzer, a born storyteller, counting down the world's most intriguing unsolved mysteries. And to make this richly illustrated book even richer, each chapter invites the reader along for an interactive experience through the addition of removable facsimile...
| Author | Timothy B. Tyson |
| ISBN | 1476714843 |
In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen-year-old from Chicago named Emmett Till. His murder was part of a wave of white terrorism in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared public school segregation unconstitutional. Only weeks later, Rosa Parks thought about...
| Author | Linda Maendel |
| ISBN | 0836199464 |
What would it be like to share all your possessions and live in Christian community? In Hutterite Diaries, Linda Maendel offers a rare glimpse into the daily routines and communal faith of her people, the Hutterian Brethren. From stories of working together to bring in the fall potato harvest to laugh-out-loud...
| Author | Ursula Dubosarsky |
| ISBN | 0803734069 |
Meet the Word Snoop. She?s dashing and daring and witty as can be?and no one knows more about the evolution of the English language than she does. Luckily, she?s spilling her secrets in this gem of a book. From the first alphabet in 4000 BC, to anagrams, palindromes, and modern-day text messages, readers...
Rock stars and rap gods. Comedy legends and A-list actors. Supermodels and centerfolds. Moguls and mobsters. A president.
Over his unrivaled four-decade career in radio, Howard Stern has interviewed thousands of personalities—discussing sex, relationships, money, fame, spirituality,...
Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
| Author | Jill Jonnes |
| ISBN | 0375758844 |
In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse—battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light, historian Jill Jonnes portrays...
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
| Author | Tim Brown |
| ISBN | 0061766089 |
The myth of innovation is that brilliant ideas leap fully formed from the minds of geniuses. The reality is that most innovations come from a process of rigorous examination through which great ideas are identified and developed before being realized as new offerings and capabilities.
This...
