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Title The Nobel book of answers : the Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shimon Peres, and other Nobel Prize winners answer some of life's most intriguing questions for young people / edited by Bettina Stiekel ; translated by Paul de Angelis and Elisabeth Kaestner.

Publication Info. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2003.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Children's Department  J 001.4 NOBEL    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  011.4 N    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Children's Department  J 001.4 STI    DUE 04-13-24
 Simsbury Public Library - Children's Department  J 001.4 NOB    Check Shelf
Edition First U.S. edition.
Description xvi, 254 pages ; 24 cm
Audience Ages 10 up.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.0 8.0 73216.
Awards A Junior Library Guild selection.
Summary A collection of essays written by various Nobel Prize winners about their fields of endeavor.
Contents How do I win the Nobel Prize? / Mikhail Gorbachev -- Why can't I live on french fries? / Richard J. Roberts -- Why do we have to go to school? / Kenzaburo Oe -- Why are some people rich and others poor? / Daniel L. McFadden -- Why do we have scientists / John C. Polanyi -- What is love? / H.H. Dalai Lama -- Why do we feel pain? / Günter Blobel -- Why is pudding soft and stone hard? / Klaus von Klitzing -- What is politics? / Shimon Peres -- Why is the sky blue? / Mario J. Molina -- How does the telephone work? / Gerd Binning -- Will I soon have a clone? / Eric Wieschaus -- Why is there war? / Desmond Tutu -- Why do Mom and Dad have to work? / Reinhard Selten -- What is air? / Paul Crutzen -- Why do I get sick? / George Vithoulkas -- Why are leaves green? / Robert Huber -- Why do I forget some things and not others? / Erwin Neher -- Why are there boys and girls? / Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard -- Why does 1 + 1 = 2? / Enrico Bombieri -- How much longer will the Earth keep turning? / Sheldon Glashow.
Subject Nobel Prizes -- Juvenile literature.
Children's questions and answers.
Nobel Prizes.
Nobel Prize winners -- Biography.
Added Author Stiekel, Bettina.
ISBN 0689863101 hardcover $14.95
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