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    Life of Marie Curie

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    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice."Life of Marie Curie" is an inspirational biography that chronicles the incredible journey of one of history's most groundbreaking scientists. From her early life in Poland to her pioneering work in radioactivity, this book captures Marie Curie’s relentless curiosity, determination, and the obstacles she faced as a woman in the male-dominated world of ... Read more

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    by Marie Curie ...
    The pioneering scientist's doctoral thesis on radioactivity that won her the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics.In 1896, Antoine Henri Becquerel discovered the first evidence of radioactivity. Inspired by the physicist's work, Marie Curie began investigating this phenomenon further with the help of her husband, Pierre. For four years, the couple researched various minerals and substances for ... Read more

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    The Routledge Handbook of Economic Expectations in Historical Perspective offers a one-stop reference that distills and summarizes the recent scholarship on economic expectations. Investigating the dynamics, effects, and determinants of economic expectations from a global perspective since the seventeenth century, this book enhances the understanding of expectation formation across time and space ... Read more

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    The Elements of Marie Curie

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    by Dava Sobel ...
    Narrated by Patricia Rodriguez ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 59 min

    The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Galileo’s Daughter crafts a luminous chronicle of the most famous woman in the history of science, and the untold story of the remarkable young women trained in her laboratory“Even now, nearly a century after her death, Marie Curie remains the only female scientist most people can name,” writes Dava Sobel at the ... Read more

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  • Modern Iranian Women’s Literature

    Writing across Borders and Genres

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Global Women’s Writing
    Offering analyses of women's literary production in Iran as well as the Iranian diaspora, this book moves beyond the examination of writing as an act of resistance and explores what women writers have contributed to Iranian literature globally.While Iranian women's literature dates to the early modern period, it became more visible in the twentieth century. In the wake of the 1979 revolution, ... Read more

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  • Tarot and Divination Cards

    A Visual Archive

    Laetitia Barbier's Tarot and Divination Cards is a stunning visual history of tarot.With hundreds of images drawn from more than 100 decks, rarely published and often forgotten in library archives, this book offers the first visual history of tarot.This beautiful 400-page book presents—for the first time—a close look at 500 years of figurative card decks created or used for fortune telling, ... Read more

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  • The Story of Sex

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    Translated by Will McMorran ...
    The first graphic history of sex chronicles sexuality and human intimacy through the ages, from our primate pasts to our robotic futures.Humans have had sex on the brain since pre-civilization either for pleasure, power, revenge, a desire for children, or simply because it isn't allowed. Today, sex is all around us but it's rarely explained and almost never taught. In The Story of Sex, sexologist ... Read more

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  • Luminous Bodies: A Novel of Marie Curie

    by Devon Jersild ...
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  • The Madame Curie Complex

    The Hidden History of Women in Science

    The historian and author of Lillian Gilbreth examines the "Great Man" myth of science with profiles of women scientists from Marie Curie to Jane Goodall.Why is science still considered to be predominantly male profession? In The Madame Curie Complex, Julie Des Jardin dismantles the myth of the lone male genius, reframing the history of science with revelations about women's substantial ... Read more

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  • The Joy of Love (Amoris Laetitia)

    On Love in the Family

    by Pope Francis ...
    Maybe you come from a happy family, a healthy family. Or maybe yours is a flawed family, a struggling family, a broken family. Maybe you're scared to get married and have a family. No matter who you are, you are part of a family, and Pope Francis wrote this love letter to you. He addresses all the myriad realities of families today with compassion, hope, and encouragement. Pope Francis sees ... Read more

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  • The Curies

    A Biography of the Most Controversial Family in Science

    by Denis Brian ...
    Focusing on the lives and relationships behind their magnificent careers, The Curies is the first biography to trace the entire Curie dynasty, from Pierre and Marie’s fruitful union and achievements to the lives and accomplishments of their two daughters, Irène and Eve, and son-in-law Frederic Joliot-Curie. Biographer Denis Brian digs deep beneath the headlines and legends to reveal the Curies’ ... Read more

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  • The Secrets of Wishtide

    by Kate Saunders ...
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    For fans of Alexander McCall Smith and James Runcie's Grantchester Mysteries, the first novel in a clever new crime series about Victorian London and an indomitable female detective.Mrs. Laetitia Rodd, aged fifty-two, is the widow of an archdeacon. Living in London with her confidante and landlady, Mrs. Bentley, who once let rooms to John Keats, Laetitia makes her living as a highly discreet ... Read more

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