Nobel Dynamite And Peace

Author : Kathy-jo Wargin
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN 13 : 1410308448
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alfred Nobel written by Kathy-jo Wargin and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost everyone has heard of the Nobel Prize, a collection of prizes awarded for accomplishments in science, medicine, literature, and peace. But few people know about the man who established the award and for whom it is named, Alfred Nobel. Alfred Nobel was born in Sweden in 1833. A quick and curious mind, combined with a love of science and chemistry, drove him to invent numerous technological devices throughout his long life. But he is perhaps most well known for his invention of dynamite. Intending it to help safely advance road and bridge construction, Nobel saw his most famous invention used in the development of military weaponry. After a newspaper headline mistakenly announces his death, Nobel was inspired to leave a legacy of another sort. The Man Behind the Peace Prize tells the story of the enduring legacy of Alfred Nobel.Kathy-jo Wargin is the bestselling author of more than 30 books for children. Among her many awards for her work are an International Reading Association Children's Choice Award for The Legend of the Loon and an IRA Teachers' Choice Award for Win One for the Gipper. She lives in the Great Lakes area. Zachary Pullen's character-oriented picture book illustrations have won awards and garnered starred reviews. He has been honored several times with acceptance into the prestigious Society of Illustrators juried shows and Communication Arts Illustration Annual of the best in current illustration. Zachary lives in Wyoming.

Author : Hertha Pauli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alfred Nobel written by Hertha Pauli and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenne Fant
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781559703284
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alfred Nobel written by Kenne Fant and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete and only full-length biography of the legendary inventor of dynamite and founder of the prizes that bear his name. As with many extraordinary lives, Nobel's biography reads better than most fiction - born in poverty, his creation of a safe method for detonating nitro-glycerine catapulted him to wealth and fame. Spurned by the woman he loved and dubbed 'the merchant of death' by a press horrified at the capabilities of dynamite, Nobel bequeathed his fortune to the foundation of prizes celebrating peace, literature and scientific achievement.

Author : Ragnar Sohlman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781436683661
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nobel: Dynamite and Peace written by Ragnar Sohlman and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Burton Feldman
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781559705929
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nobel Prize written by Burton Feldman and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the Nobel Institution in detail, telling about the award and its beginnings, what it means to win a Nobel Prize, the fields in which it is presented, who judges and how the prize is awarded, and more.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nobel written by and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jay Nordlinger
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1594035997
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peace, They Say written by Jay Nordlinger and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Jay Nordlinger gives a history of what the subtitle claims is the “world’s most famous and problematic award.” The Nobel Peace Prize, like the other Nobel prizes, began in 1901. So we have a neat, sweeping history of the 20th century, and about a decade beyond. The Nobel prize involves a first world war, a second world war, a cold war, a terror war, and more. It contends with many of the key issues of modern times, and of life itself. It also presents a parade of interesting people—some 120 laureates, not a dullard in the bunch. Some of these laureates have been historic statesmen, such as Roosevelt (Teddy) and Mandela. Some have been heroes or saints, such as Martin Luther King and Mother Teresa. Some belong in other categories—where would you place Arafat? Controversies also swirl around the awards to Kissinger, Gorbachev, Gore, and Obama, to name just a handful. Probably no figure in this book is more interesting than a non-laureate: Alfred Nobel, the Swedish scientist and entrepreneur who started the prizes. The book also takes up many a person who did not win the peace prize, but might have, or should have: Gandhi? Peace, They Say is enlightening and enriching, and, here and there, fun. It has its opinions, but it also provides what is necessary for readers to form their own opinions. What is peace, anyway? All these people who have been crowned “champions of peace,” and the world’s foremost—should they have been? Such is the stuff this book is made on.

Author : Michael Evlanoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nobel-prize Donor written by Michael Evlanoff and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herta E. Pauli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258834074
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alfred Nobel written by Herta E. Pauli and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1942 edition.

Author : Ragnar Sohlman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258897468
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nobel written by Ragnar Sohlman and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.