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Wonder women : 25 innovators, inventors, and trailblazers who changed history  Cover Image Book Book

Wonder women : 25 innovators, inventors, and trailblazers who changed history

Maggs, Sam (author.). Foster-Dimino, Sophia, (illustrator.).

Summary: Women have always been able to change the world, even when they didn't get the credit. Sam Maggs introduces readers to pioneering female scientists, engineers, mathematicians, adventurers, and inventors - each profile a study in passion, smarts, and stick-to-itiveness, complete with portraits by Google doodler Sophia Foster-Dimino, an extensive bibliography, and a guide to present-day women-centric STEM organizations.

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  • ISBN: 9781594749254
  • Physical Description: print
    regular print
    238 pages : coloured illustrations ; 20 cm.
  • Publisher: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Quirk Books, [2016]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject: Women -- Biography
Women scientists -- Biography
Women in medicine -- Biography
Women spies -- Biography
Women inventors -- Biography
Women adventurers -- Biography

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Headingley Municipal Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Headingley Municipal Library 305.43 MAG (Text) 36440000269204 Adult Nonfiction Volume hold Available -

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590 . ‡aEver heard of Allied spy Noor Inayat Khan, a Muslim woman whom the Nazis considered highly dangerous? Or German painter and entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian, who planned and embarked on the world s first scientific expedition? How about Huang Daopo, the inventor who fled an abusive child marriage only to revolutionize textile production in China? Women have always been able to change the world, even when they didn t get the credit. In "Wonder Women, "author Sam Maggs introduces you to pioneering female scientists, engineers, mathematicians, adventurers, and inventors each profile a study in passion, smarts, and stick-to-itiveness, complete with portraits by Google doodler Sophia Foster-Dimino, an extensive bibliography, and a guide to present-day women-centric STEM organizations."
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