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- The elements of Marie Curie : how the glow of radium lit a path for women in science / by Sobel, Dava,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."'Even now, nearly a century after her death, Marie Curie remains the only female scientist most people can name,' writes Dava Sobel at the opening of her shining portrait of the sole Nobel laureate decorated in two separate fields of science -- Physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre and Chemistry by herself in 1911. And yet, Sobel makes clear, as brilliant and creative as she was in the laboratory, Marie Curie was equally passionate outside it. Grieving Pierre's untimely death in 1906, she took his place as professor of physics at the Sorbonne; devotedly raised two brilliant daughters; drove a van she outfitted with x-ray equipment to the front lines of World War I; befriended Albert Einstein and other luminaries of twentieth-century physics; won support from two U.S. presidents; and inspired generations of young women the world over to pursue science as a way of life ... [Dava Sobel] approaches Marie Curie from a unique angle, narrating her remarkable life of discovery and fame alongside the women who became her legacy -- from France's Marguerite Perey, who discovered the element francium, and Norway's Ellen Gleditsch, to Mme. Curie's elder daughter, Irène, winner of the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. For decades the only woman in the room at international scientific gatherings that probed new theories about the interior of the atom, Marie Curie traveled far and wide, despite constant illness, to share the secrets of radioactivity, a term she coined. Her two triumphant tours of the United States won her admirers for her modesty even as she was mobbed at every stop; her daughters, in Ève's later recollection, 'discovered all at once what the retiring woman with whom they had always lived meant to the world.'"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Curie, Marie, 1867-1934.; Curie, Marie, 1867-1934; Chemical elements; Chemists; Mentoring in science; Physicists; Women chemists; Women physicists;
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- Barbieland : The Unauthorized History. by Hitt, Tarpley.;
'Barbieland' is a fresh and colourful cultural history of Mattels Barbie and how she helped shape our understanding of modern feminism and capitalismLibrary Bound Incorporated- Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate & Business History; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Women in Business; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture;
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- In ascension / by MacInnes, Martin,author.;
"An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the ocean floor, leading her on a journey that will encompass the full trajectory of the cosmos and the passage of a single human life. Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, traveling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic Ocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of Earth's first life forms--what she instead finds calls into question everything we know about our own beginnings. Her discovery leads Leigh to the Mojave Desert and an ambitious new space agency. Drawn deeper into the agency's work, she learns that the Atlantic trench is only one of several related phenomena from across the world, each piece linking up to suggest a pattern beyond human understanding. Leigh knows that to continue working with the agency will mean leaving behind her declining mother and her younger sister, and faces an impossible choice: to remain with her family, or to embark on a journey across the breadth of the cosmos. Exploring and celebrating the natural world with wonder and reverence, In Ascension is a compassionate, deeply inquisitive epic that reaches outward to confront the greatest questions of existence, looks inward to illuminate the smallest details of the human heart, and shows how--no matter how far away we might be and how much we have lost hope--we will always attempt to return to the people and places we call home"--- Subjects: Science fiction.; Novels.; Discoveries in science; Evolution (Biology); Life on other planets; Marine biologists; Women scientists;
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- Remarkable creatures / by Chevalier, Tracy,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.- Subjects: Anning, Mary, 1799-1847; Philpot, Elizabeth, 1780-1857; Women paleontologists; Female friendship; Fossils; Discoveries in science;
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- The kids book of great Canadian women / by MacLeod, Elizabeth; Mantha, John;
Brief biographies of more than 130 outstanding women of Canada and their achievements in exploration, science, the arts, politics and many other fields.- Subjects: Women;
- © 2006., Kids Can Press,
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- The princess in black and the science fair scare / by Hale, Shannon.; Hale, Dean,1972-; Pham, LeUyen.;
LSC- Subjects: Princess Magnolia; Princesses; Women superheroes; Science fairs; Friendship;
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- Yoto player [equipment] : Ages 4 to 6. by Please return all components in the container.;
Includes 9 Yoto Cards: Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel - Funny Stories for 4 Year Olds - Hello Emma Memma and Other Stories - Hotel Flamingo - Mindfulness for Children - Peter and the Wolf - Runny Babbit - Starboy - Women in Science.Ages 4 to 6.- Subjects: Equipment.; Yoto player.;
- © , Yoto.
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- Doing harm : the truth about how bad medicine and lazy science leave women dismissed, misdiagnosed, and sick / by Dusenbery, Maya.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.LSC- Subjects: Women; Women; Sexism in medicine.; Health education.;
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- Invisible women : Data bias in a world designed for men / by Criado-Perez, Caroline,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Sex discrimination against women.; Male domination (Social structure); Social sciences; Sex role;
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- The hormone myth : how junk science, gender politics & lies about PMS keep women down / by DeLuca, Robyn Stein,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Although the idea that women become raving lunatics when their hormones fluctuate is firmly entrenched in American culture, a thorough examination of the evidence overwhelmingly tells us otherwise. This provocative book exposes the pervasive myths about women's hormones--which lead to false beliefs about women's competence--by illustrating how flawed, obsolete research and sexism have combined to keep women "in their place," and skillfully shows how women can reject the "hormone myth" and own their emotions in a healthy and realistic way"--- Subjects: Women; Women; Hormones.;
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