The New York Times bestseller Women in Science highlights the contributions of fifty notable women to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) from the ancient to the modern world.
Women scientists
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Author:Ignotofsky, RachelSummary: -
Author:FOLLETT, KenSummary:In the course of her work, young scientist Jeannie Ferrami meets two young men who appear to be identical twins: Steve, a law student, and Dennis, a convicted murderer. Yet they were born on different days, to different mothers, in...
- Author:Mascarenhas, KateSummary:
In 1967, four female scientists worked together to build the world's first time machine. But just as they are about to debut their creation, one of them suffers a breakdown, putting the whole project-and future of time travel-in...
- Author:Trenholm, HaydenSummary:
After decades of stability, climate stresses, never far from the surface, are bringing droughts, crop failures, and massive storms. The world's end--avoided once, centuries before--seems likely to succeed the second time. Scientist...
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Author:Ghosh, AmitavSummary:Off the eastern coast of Inda lies an extraordinary cluster of islands known as the Sundarbans. It is a raw but a beautiful sea--a place of man-eating tigers, river dolphins, huge crocodiles and devistating tides that sweep across the...
- Author:Isaacson, WalterSummary:
When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback, titled The Double Helix, on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on...
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Author:Di Domenico, KellySummary:It used to be thought that women weren't good at science. But that assumption has been proven wrong. In fact, space, physics, the natural environment and even prehistoric life are only a few of the many scientific areas that have...
- Author:Bujold, Lois McMasterSummary:
Bujold debuts her beloved Vorkosigan saga with this tale about the future parents of Miles Vorkosigan. Caught on separate sides of a controversial war, a Betan captain and a Barrayaran leader defy both their worlds by falling in love....
- Author:Conkling, WinifredSummary:
The fascinating, little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists' groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb. In 1934, IrEne Curie, working with her husband and fellow scientist, Frederic Joliot,...
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Author:Harrison, VashtiSummary:Featuring the true stories of forty women creators, from writers and artists to inventors and scientists, this audiobook inspires as it educates. Listeners will meet trailblazers--some known, some likely not--all of whom had a lasting...
- Author:Garmus, BonnieSummary:
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute...
- Author:Suarez, DanielSummary:
The shocking techno-thriller that cements Daniel Suarez's status as the heir to Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy—a terrifying, breathtaking, and all-too-plausible vision of the world's near future . Unmanned weaponized drones already...
- Author:Pankhurst, KateSummary:
'Significantly more engaging and inspiring than the rival Rebel Girls' GUARDIAN 'It's hard to imagine any group of primary-aged children who wouldn't be inspired' BOOKSELLER 'An absolute must-have for...
- Author:Andrea, BeatySummary:
2017 Parent's Choice Award Winner! Like her classmates, builder Iggy and inventor Rosie, scientist Ada, a character of color, has a boundless imagination and has always been hopelessly curious. Why are there pointy things stuck to a...
