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- Women in white coats : how the first women doctors changed the world of medicine / by Campbell, Olivia,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Documents the true stories of three pioneering women who defied Victorian-era boundaries to become the first women doctors, discussing how they banded together to support each other and advocate for women's health in a male-dominated field.- Subjects: Biographies.; Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910.; Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett, 1836-1917.; Jex-Blake, Sophia, 1840-1912.; Women physicians; Medicine;
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- Sisters in science : how four women physicists escaped Nazi Germany and made scientific history / by Campbell, Olivia M.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In the 1930s, Germany was a hotbed of scientific thought. But after the Nazis took power, Jewish and female citizens were forced out of their academic positions. Hedwig Kohn, Lise Meitner, Hertha Sponer, and Hildegard Stücklen were eminent in their fields, but they had no choice but to flee due to their Jewish ancestry or anti-Nazi sentiments. Their harrowing journey out of Germany became a life-and-death situation that required herculean efforts of friends and other prominent scientists. Lise fled to Sweden, where she made a groundbreaking discovery in nuclear physics, and the others fled to the United States, where they brought advanced physics to American universities. No matter their destination, each woman revolutionized the field of physics when all odds were stacked against them, galvanizing young women to do the same"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Kohn, Hedwig.; Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968.; Sponer, Hertha, 1895-1968.; Stücklen, Hildegard.; Jewish refugees; Women in physics.; Women physicists; World War, 1939-1945;
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- Midnight / by McCulloch, Amy,1986-author.;
"While on a dream cruise aboard a luxury liner to Antarctica, actuary Olivia Campbell is plunged into a desperate battle for survival against a killer determined to stop the ship from reaching its final destination, soon discovering she may have booked a one-way ticket to her own death"--- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Art dealers; Betrayal; Man-woman relationships; Murder; Murderers; Ocean travel; Secrecy; Survival;
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