Shelley Emling: 4 books
Marie Curie and Her Daughters
The Private Lives of Science's First Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
A new portrait of the two-time Nobel winner and her two daughters
Focusing on the first family in science, this biography of Marie Curie plumbs the recesses of her relationships with her two daughters, extraordinary in their own right, and presents the legendary scientist to us in a fresh way.
Although...
The Fossil Hunter
Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
At a time when women were excluded from science, a young girl made a discovery that marked the birth of paleontology and continues to feed the debate about evolution to this day.
Mary Anning was only twelve years old when, in 1811, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton--of an ichthyosaur--while...
Setting the World on Fire
The Brief, Astonishing Life of St. Catherine of Siena
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
One of only two patron saints of Italy, the other being St. Francis of Assisi, St. Catherine was ahead of her time. As a political powerhouse in late 14th century Europe, a time of war, social unrest and one of the worst natural disasters of all time--the plague, she worked for peace between Christians...
A Forgotten Hero
Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish Humanitarian Who Rescued 30,000 People from the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
The true story of Folke Bernadotte’s heroic rescue of 30,000 prisoners during WWII
In one of the most amazing rescues of WWII, the Swedish head of the Red Cross rescued more than 30,000 people from concentration camps in the last three months of the war. Folke Bernadotte did so by negotiating...