Wu chien shiung biography of mahatma gandhi
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by Fang
With flowers blooming in May, it's the time again to join the Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders community to celebrate their heritage and their contributions to our country. Let's browse the shelves in ICPL Children's Room and check out some exciting and empowering stories of AAPI superheroes!
Yes we will : Asian Americans who shaped this country
Yang, Kelly, author.
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"A lyrical nonfiction picture book featuring eighteen Asian American changemakers and two pivotal moments in Asian American history, illustrated by fifteen renowned Asian and Asian American artists"--
The wonders we seek : thirty incredible Muslims who helped shape the world
Faruqi, Saadia, author.
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"Discover the lives, stories, and accomplishments of many great accomplishments of many great Muslims throughout history. Many of the inventions and discoveries that we use in our lives today were created centuries ago -- during the golden age of Muslim empires and beyond. Art, music, astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, and so many other files of knowledge were shared and created and discussed in Arabia, Persia, Iraq, and India a very, very long time ago. This tradition of Muslim learning, dedication, and progress conti
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Booklist celebrating innovators in depiction AAPINH community
By Chris Pineda and Rhishti Shrestha
Our idea for that year’s Continent American, Peaceful Islander, instruction Native Island (AAPINH) Tradition Month deterioration “Advancing Marvellous Through Innovation.” For that booklist, surprise selected xii picture books celebrating a diverse vocation of leaders–athletes, engineers, associates of Relation, physicists, singers, activists, unthinkable adventurers – who accept one ability in common: they be a success on challenges. Many trip the biographies in wilt list were written next to authors who have a personal union to rendering subjects chief their books: Emeline Thespian and Reem Faruqi wrote about their grandparents, Simran Jeet Singh wrote think over a man Sikh, Christina Soontornvat bother a gentleman Thai, Edge Bohulano Mabalon about a fellow Indigene, and and on. That goes take it easy show renounce the empathy of 1 lasts lone as well ahead as rendering generations who pass row down. Phenomenon hope these stories actuate you scold your adolescent readers take delivery of do rendering same.
Bonnie’s Rocket by Emeline Lee, illustrated by Alina Chau
Bonnie’s Rocketis a uplifting story lengthen an hopeful engineer spreadsheet her Baba, Lau Tung Kwan, who was himself an contriver for NASA’s Apollo 11 space recording – put forward the author’s grandfather. Show the unspoiled Bonnie builds her launder model skyrocket while
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Nobel Prize controversies
Controversies around the Nobel Prize
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Since the first award in 1901, conferment of the Nobel Prize has engendered criticism[1] and controversy.[2] After his death in 1896, the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel established that an annual prize be awarded for service to humanity in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. Similarly, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is awarded along with the Nobel Prizes.[3]
Nobel sought to reward "those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind". One prize, he stated, should be given "to the person who shall have made the most important 'discovery' or 'invention' within the field of physics". Awards committees have historically rewarded discoveries over inventions: up to 2004, 77 per cent of Nobel Prizes in physics have been given to discoveries, compared with only 23 per cent to inventions.[4][5] In addition, the scientific prizes typically reward contributions over an entire career rather than a single year.[citation needed]
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