Author: Naomi Pasachoff
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: oxford, portraits, new, champion, perkins, frances
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2000-01-13
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0195122224
ISBN-13: 9780195122220

Frances Perkins (1880-1965) was the first woman appointed to a U.S. cabinet post and the longest-serving Secretary of Labor. Perkins had a long and illustrious record as a social activist: she reorganized New York state’s factory inspections system, advocated the Workmen’s Compensation Act, and promoted the legislative protection of women and child laborers. As U.S. Secretary of Labor under Roosevelt she helped develop major New Deal legislation, including the Social Security Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act. Always regarded with some hostility by both organized labor and the b

Author: Naomi Pasachoff
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: portraits, science, oxford, connections, graham, making, alexander
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1996-08-29
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0195099087
ISBN-13: 9780195099089

Examines the personality as well as the thought processes which led this inventor to his discoveries which have helped our understanding of the natural world.

Author: Naomi Pasachoff
Publisher: Behrman House
Keywords: israel, people, judaism, basic
Number of Pages: 3
Published: 1986-09-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0874414237
ISBN-13: 9780874414233

Author: Naomi Pasachoff
Publisher: Enslow Publishers
Keywords: minds, science, humanitarian, physicist, bohr, niels
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2003-01
List price: $26.60
ISBN-10: 0766019977
ISBN-13: 9780766019973

A biography of the Danish physicist who won a Nobel Prize for his discoveries about the nature of the atom, saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis, and, after helping to develop the atomic bomb, campaigned for peaceful uses of atomic energy.

Author: Naomi Pasachoff
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: science, portraits, oxford, radioactivity, marie, curie
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1997-11-27
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 0195120116
ISBN-13: 9780195120110

Marie Curie discovered radium and went on to lead the scientific community in studying the theory behind and the uses of radioactivity. She left a vast legacy to future scientists through her research, her teaching, and her contributions to the welfare of humankind. She was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, yet upon her death in 1934, Albert Einstein was moved to say, "Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted." She was a physicist, a wife and mother, and a groundbreaking professional woman. This biography is an inspirational and exciting story

Authors:Naomi Pasachoff, Marlies Najaka,
Publisher: Behrman House Publishing
Keywords: torah, people, judaism, basic
Number of Pages: 3
Published: 1986-04
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0874414245
ISBN-13: 9780874414240

Author: Jay M. Pasachoff
Publisher: Alpha
Keywords: sun, guide, idiot’s, complete
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2003-08-05
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1592570747
ISBN-13: 9781592570744

Everything revolves around it...and now skywatchers and armchair scientists can learn all about the origin and history of the sun. With information on the sun’s physical properties; how solar flares, sunspots, and winds on its surface affect Earth’s atmosphere and environment; solar and lunar eclipses, transits, and occultations, and early astronomers’ discoveries about the sun, including Galileo, Copernicus, Francis Bailey, and the Mayans.