Most Popular Books by Beverley Birch

Recounts the life of the Nobel Prize-winning civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King.

Tells how an accident led to Braille''s blindness and explains how he developed his system of raised dots

Presents a biography of the priest who gave his life to the care of lepers in a colony at Molokai, Hawaii.

Marie Curie was a scientist who truly sacrificed herself for her work. Though she could have become wealthy by selling her research and discoveries, she preferred to live and work in poverty so that her discoveries could benefit humankind. Curie is best known for her groundbreaking work in the field of radioactivity and X-ray technology. She was the first person to isolate both polonium and radium, and one of only a few scientists to win 2 Nobel prizes.

Explains how a microscope works, its parts, preparation of slides, and how the microscope is used to view various specimans; also gives suggestions of things to examine.

A biography of the nineteenth-century French scientist who discovered the process for destroying harmful bacteria with heat and opened the door to the new science of microbiology.