Best Nobel Peace Prize Winners - April 2024

The Alchemist

• ASIN: 0062315005
• ASIN: 0062315005
• ISBN: 0062315005
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: HarperOne

The Stranger

• ASIN: 0679720200
• ASIN: 0679720200
• ISBN: 9780679720201
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

My Name Is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize

As Eve Ensler says in her inspired foreword to this book, “Jody Williams is many things―a simple girl from Vermont, a sister of a disabled brother, a loving wife, an intense character full of fury and mischief, a great strategist, an excellent organizer, a brave and relentless advocate, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. But to me Jody Williams is, first and foremost, an activist.”From her modest beginnings to becoming the tenth woman―and third American woman―to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Jody Williams takes the reader through the ups and downs of her tumultuous and remarkable life.... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0520270258
• ASIN: 0520270258
• ISBN: 9780520270251
• Manufacturer: University of California Press

Voices From Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor accident in 1986, and the fear, anger, and uncertainty that they still live with. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 was awarded to Svetlana Alexievich "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time."

• ASIN: 1564784010
• ASIN: 1564784010
• ISBN: 1564784010
• Manufacturer: Dalkey Archive Press

The Remains of the Day

• ASIN: 0679731725
• ASIN: 0679731725
• ISBN: 0679731725
• Brand: Vintage International
• Manufacturer: Vintage International

Siddhartha: A Novel

The classic novel of a quest for knowledge that has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers—a perennial favorite for graduation gifts.Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadThough set in a place and time far removed from the Germany of 1922, the year of the book’s debut, the novel is infused with the sensibilities of Hermann Hesse’s time, synthesizing disparate philosophies–Eastern religions, Jungian archetypes, Western individualism–into a unique vision of life as expressed through one man’s se... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0553208845
• ASIN: 0553208845
• ISBN: 0553208845
• Brand: Bantam Classics
• Manufacturer: Bantam

Song of Solomon

Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world.

• ASIN: 140003342X
• ASIN: 140003342X
• ISBN: 140003342X
• Brand: Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Thinking, Fast and Slow

• ASIN: 0374275637
• ASIN: 0374275637
• ISBN: 9780374275631
• Brand: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries: Second Edition

Since 1901 there have been over three hundred recipients of the Nobel Prize in the sciences. Only ten of them -- about 3 percent -- have been women. Why? In this updated version of Nobel Prize Women in Science, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores the reasons for this astonishing disparity by examining the lives and achievements of fifteen women scientists who either won a Nobel Prize or played a crucial role in a Nobel Prize - winning project. The book reveals the relentless discrimination these women faced both as students and as researchers. Their success was due to the fact that they were pass... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0309072700
• ASIN: 0309072700
• ISBN: 9780309072700
• Brand: McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch
• Manufacturer: Joseph Henry Press

The Buried Giant: A novel (Vintage International)

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.   In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven't seen in years. And, because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him. As they are joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00N6PCXME
• ASIN: B00N6PCXME
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Sula

Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal—or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with life.

• ASIN: 1400033438
• ASIN: 1400033438
• ISBN: 9781400033430
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZEIn this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story.   Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters lived a quiet life. Nadia had dreams of becoming a history teacher or opening her own beauty salon.   On August 15th, 2014, when Nadia was just twenty-one years old, this life ended. Islamic State militants massacred the people of her village, executing men who refused ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1524760447
• ASIN: 1524760447
• ISBN: 1524760447
• Manufacturer: Tim Duggan Books

Malala's Magic Pencil

"Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has carefully crafted the story of her childhood for an elementary school audience. Malala's Magic Pencil is inspirational and a wonderful conversation starter for families. " - Seira Wilson, Amazon Editor Nobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Malala Yousafzai's first picture book, inspired by her own childhood. * "This is a wonderful read for younger students that will also provide insight and encourage discussion about the wider world. ... The simplicity of Yousafzai's writing and the powerful message she sends, make this b... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316319570
• ASIN: 0316319570
• ISBN: 9780316319577
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Food52 Genius Desserts: 100 Recipes That Will Change the Way You Bake (Food52 Works)

In this follow-up to the IACP award-winning, New York Times best-selling cookbook Genius Recipes, Food52 is back with the most beloved and talked-about desserts of our time (and the under-the-radar gems that will soon join their ranks)—in a collection that will make you a local legend, and a smarter baker to boot.IACP AWARD WINNER • Featured as one of the best and most anticipated fall cookbooks by the New York Times, Eater, Epicurious, The Kitchn, Kitchen Arts & Letters, Delish, Mercury News, Sweet Paul, and PopSugar.   Drawing from her James Beard Award-nominated Genius Recipes... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1524758981
• ASIN: 1524758981
• ISBN: 9781524758981
• Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press

The Plague

• ASIN: 0679720219
• ASIN: 0679720219
• ISBN: 0679720219
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Women Nobel Peace Prize Winners, 2d ed. - eBook

From the first woman Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Bertha von Suttner (1905), to the latest and youngest female Nobel laureate, Malala Yousafzai (2014), this book in its second edition provides a detailed look at the

• UPC: 117610721
• Rating: 5.0

Alfred Nobel : The Man Behind the Peace Prize

The Nobel Prize is awarded each year for accomplishments in science, medicine, literature, and peace. This new biography explores the enduring legacy of the man who established the award and for whom it is named,

• UPC: 10781340
• Rating: 4.0

True Genius : The Life and Science of John Bardeen: The Only Winner of Two Nobel Prizes in Physics

John Bardeen fits a new profile of genius. Through an exploration of his science as well as his life, a fresh and thoroughly engaging portrait of genius and the nature of creativity emerges. This perspective

• UPC: 25953368
• Rating: 4.0

The Words of Peace, Fourth Edition : Selections from the Speeches of the Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize

Selected by the world's foremost historian of the Nobel Peace Prize, this collection features excerpts from acceptance speeches since the award's inception in 1901, including 2007 winner Al Gore. With photographs throughout, The Words of

• UPC: 5932296

Ardor : Or How Would-Be Nobel Prize Winner C. Milosz Enjoyed the High Life with Low Life in Italy, Hobnobbed with a Viktor Yanukovych Look-Alike, and Met His Muse on the Rooftop of the Duomo

Ardor: Or How Would-Be Nobel Prize Winner C. Milosz Enjoyed the High Life with Low Life in Italy, Hobnobbed with a Viktor

• UPC: 53294829
• Rating: 2.333

Unpopular Essays : Fourteen Adventures in Argument by 1950's Nobel Prize Winner

Unpopular Essays: Fourteen Adventures in Argument by 1950's Nobel Prize

• UPC: 53532323
• Rating: 4.0

Nobel Peace Prize Winners - eBook

The Noble Peace Prize has been awarded 92 times to about 124 Noble Laureates between 1901 and 2011 99 times to individuals and around 23 times to organizations. It is awarded to those who have

• UPC: 797988709

Women Nobel Peace Prize Winners, 2D Ed.

"From Bertha von Suttner (1905) to Wangari Maathai (2004), this work provides a detailed look at the lives and accomplishments of 12 female recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. Each biography, while presenting an overall

• UPC: 44980620
• Rating: 5.0

South African Nobel Prize Winners - eBook

South Africa boasts with 11 Nobel Prize Winners. This collection of reporting by Times Media journalists provides the reader with the

• UPC: 760782583

Nobel Prize Winners of the World - eBook

The Nobel Prize is awarded for achievements in physics, Chemistry, Medicine, and Literature and for Peace. The Nobel Prize is an international award given by the Nobel foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1968, the prize

• UPC: 364868875