Leonardo’s Cat
Entertainment and Games
App
A contraption-packed, brain-teasing puzzle game featuring the voice of Patrick Stewart (Star Trek,...
WalkMe | Walking in Madeira
Travel and Navigation
App
This mobile application aims to be a guide (GPS) to all hikers in Madeira Island, providing useful...
A Futurist's Guide to Emergency Management
Book
A Futurist's Guide to Emergency Management provides interdisciplinary analysis on how particular...
Biopesticides Handbook
Leo M. L. Nollet and Hamir Singh Rathore
Book
The need to feed an ever-growing global population combined with increasing demand for sustainable...
The Radium Girls: The Scary But True Story of the Poison That Made People Glow in the Dark was adapted for younger readers by Kate Moore from her bestselling novel The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women.
It tells the story of the wonder drug of the early 1900s, radium. It was thought to cure illnesses, and its luminescent properties made it ideal for glow-in-the-dark watches and for dials and instruments of pilots during WWI. To paint these devices, women would lick the brushes, dip them into the radium, paint, then repeat. The women did not know they were becoming sick with radium poisoning. Some did not show symptoms until years after they stopped working with the radium.
If you read the original version, you know it is detailed and includes timelines of multiple people. The version for a younger audience is written with age-appropriate content, but it is still incredibly detailed and more than 400 pages. The story shows these women as individuals, showing their separate lives, but also the strong, tight-knit group who fought for themselves and to ensure workplace safety for all.
This book is perfect for assigned reading for history or science classes.
This 200-word review was published on Philomathinphila.com on 9/1/20.
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment
Book
In recent years, America’s criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly...
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Royal
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this spellbinding tale from Danielle Steel, a princess is sent...
The Scarlet Pimpernel
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The year is 1793. France cowers under the Reign of Terror, and not even the innocent are safe from...
The Marine Professional
Business and Magazines & Newspapers
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Published 12 times a year, The Marine Professional is the leading technical magazine for the...
Sygic Iran: GPS Navigation
Navigation and Travel
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The World’s Most Advanced Navigation app, trusted by 125 million drivers. Sygic: GPS Navigation,...