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  • Madame Curie

    by Eve Curie ...
    Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867–1934) was the first woman scientist to win worldwide acclaim and was, indeed, one of the great scientists of the twentieth century. Written by Curie’s daughter, the renowned international activist Eve Curie, this biography chronicles Curie’s legendary achievements in science, including her pioneering efforts in the study of radioactivity and her two Nobel Prizes in ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    Madame Curie

    A Biography

    by Eve Curie ...
    Narrated by Nina Yndis ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 15 min

    Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867–1934) was the first woman scientist to win worldwide acclaim and was, indeed, one of the great scientists of the twentieth century. Written by Curie’s daughter, the renowned international activist Eve Curie, this biography chronicles Curie’s legendary achievements in science, including her pioneering efforts in the study of radioactivity and her two Nobel Prizes in ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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  • Who Was Marie Curie?

    by Megan Stine, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by Ted Hammond ...
    Series series Who Was?
    Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curie, and the two soon married, forming one of the most famous scientific partnerships in history. Together they discovered two elements and won a Nobel Prize in 1903. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • Marie Curie: A Life

    by Susan Quinn ...
    Marie Curie: A Life by Susan Quinn (190,000 words and 41 photographs)Marie Curie was long idealized as a selfless and dedicated scientist, not entirely of this world. But Quinn's Marie Curie is, on the contrary, a woman of passion — born in Warsaw under the repressive regime of the Russian czars, outspokenly committed to the cause of a free Poland, deeply in love with her husband Pierre but also, ... Read more

    $18.31 CAD

  • The Man who Walked Through Walls

    by Marcel Ayme ...
    Translated by Sophie Lewis ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    The excellent Monsieur Dutilleul has always been able to pass through walls, but has never seen the point of using his gift, given the general availability of doors. One day, however, his tyrannical boss drives him to desperate, creative measures — he develops a taste for intramural travel and becomes something of a super-villain. How will the unassuming clerk adjust to a glamorous life of crime ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie (Great Discoveries)

    The Inner World of Marie Curie

    by Barbara Goldsmith ...
    Series series Great Discoveries
    Through family interviews, diaries, letters, and workbooks that had been sealed for over sixty years, Barbara Goldsmith reveals the Marie Curie behind the myth—an all-too-human woman struggling to balance a spectacular scientific career, a demanding family, the prejudice of society, and her own passionate nature. Obsessive Genius is a dazzling portrait of Curie, her amazing scientific success, and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Madame Curie - A Biography by Eve Curie

    by Vincent Sheean ...
    Marie Curie is a women who changed the face of science for all time, not just because of her discovery of the radioactive element Radium and her work with it, but because of her incredible strides forward in a such a male dominated world as laboratory science at the turn of the 19th century. This is the Madame Curie many people know but here is a biography written by her daughter Eve that shows ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Search of Lost Time, Vol 6

    Time Regained and A Guide to Proust

    by Marcel Proust, D. J. Enright ...
    Translated by Terence Kilmartin, Andreas Mayor, D. J. Enright ...
    THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATIONTime Regained begins in the bleak and uncertain years of World War I. Years later, after the war's end, Proust's narrator returns to Paris and reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw material of literature - his past life.This edition includes the indispensable A Guide to Proust, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Marie Curie

    by Kathleen Krull ...
    Series series Giants of Science
    Marie Curie, the woman who coined the term radioactivity, won not just one Nobel Prize but two?in physics and chemistry, both supposedly girl-phobic sciences. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • The Kill

    Translated by Brian Nelson ...
    by Émile Zola ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'It was the time when the rush for spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were satisfied at last, shamelessly, amid the sound of crumbling neighbourhoods and fortunes made in six months. The city had become an orgy of gold and women.' The Kill (La Curée) is the second volume in Zola's great cycle of ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Soul of Genius

    Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and the Meeting that Changed the Course of Science

    by Jeffrey Orens ...
    A prismatic look at the meeting of Marie Curie and Albert Einstein and the impact these two pillars of science had on the world of physics, which was in turmoil.In 1911, some of the greatest minds in science convened at the First Solvay Conference in Physics, a meeting like no other. Almost half of the attendees had won or would go on to win the Nobel Prize. Over the course of those few days, ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Marie Curie: The Mother of Modern Physics

    by History Titans ...
    Marie Curie is renowned for her remarkable achievements and discoveries as a scientist. The fact that she's a female scientist may not be that controversial in our time, but that wasn't the case back in the 1800s when women were expected to marry, cook, and raise children. Maire set out on a road that was completely uncharted for women. Not only did she prove that women can do everything that men ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus