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Wonder women : 25 innovators, inventors, and trailblazers who changed history / written by Sam Maggs ; illustrated by Sophia Foster-Dimino.

Summary:

Smart women have always been able to achieve amazing things, even when the odds were stacked against them. In Wonder Women, author Sam Maggs tells the stories of the brainy women in history who broke barriers as scientists, engineers, mathematicians, adventurers, and inventors.

Record details

ISBN: 9781594749254
ISBN: 1594749256
Physical Description: 238 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Publisher: Philadelphia : Quirk Books, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-233) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Women of science. Wang Zhenyi ; Ada Lovelace ; Lise Meitner ; Emmy Noether ; Alice Ball ; Chemists, scholars, and stragazing philosophers: other amazing women of science -- Women of medicine. Jacqueline Felice de Almania ; Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell ; Ogino Ginko ; Anandibai Joshi ; Marie Equi ; healers, midwives, and doctors: other amazing women of medicine -- Women of espionage. Brita Tott ; Mary Bowser ; Sarah Emma Edmonds ; Elvira Chaudoir ; Noor Inayat Khan ; Smugglers, secret agents, and ninjas: other amazing women of espionage -- Women of innovation. Huang Daopo ; Margaret Knight ; Miriam Benjamin ; Bessie Blount Griffin ; Mary Sherman Morgan ; Perfumers,programmers, and board gamers: other amazing women of innovation -- Women of adventure. Maria Sibylla Merian ; Annie Smith Peck ; Ynes Mexia ; Annie Londonderry ; Bessie Coleman ; Trailblazers, translators, and globetrotting journalists: other amazing women of adventure.