Women's History - STEM Edition

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Ada Magnífica, científica es el primer libro de una colección de álbumes ilustrados que se centran en la tendencia S.T.E.M (Ciencias, Tecnología, Ingeniería y Matemáticas) para niños. Con su espíritu curioso y perseverante, Ada inspirará sin duda a los jóvenes lectores para que sigan sus propias pasiones. Libro galardonado con el Little Rebels Children's Book 2017. ¿Por qué hace tac y por qué hace tic? ¿Por qué tienes...

2) Ada Twist, scientist

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Beaty, Andrea

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Questioneers volume 3

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Ada Twist is a very curious girl who shows perseverance by asking questions and performing experiments to find things out and understand the world.

3) Ada Twist, scientist

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Ada has a boundless imagination and has always been hopelessly curious. Inspired by real-life makers such as Ada Lovelace and Marie Curie, this champions girl power and women scientists.

4) Africa in my blood: an autobiography in letters : the early years

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Goodall, Jane

5) Agora

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A young slave in ancient Egypt must choose between joining the Christianity movement, which will give him freedom, and the woman he loves, who is his master and an atheist.

6) American women of science

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Camp, Carole Ann

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Collective biographies (Enslow Publishers)

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Follows the struggles and triumphs of ten women breaking through the science barriers.

7) Among The Wild Chimpanzees Join Jane Goodall In He

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8) Animals make us human: creating the best life for animals

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Grandin, Temple

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Drawing on the latest research and her own work, Grandin identifies the core emotional needs of animals and explains how to fulfill them for dogs and cats, horses, farm animals, and zoo animals.

9) The autistic brain: thinking across the spectrum

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Grandin, Temple

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"A cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism, from the best-selling author and advocate Temple Grandin is a star, a Time Magazine top 100 Hero and an inspiration to millions worldwide. Since she started writing and speaking about autism, the number of people diagnosed with it has skyrocketed--but so has the research that is transforming our understanding of the autistic brain. Now she brings her singular perspective to a thrilling journey...

10) Beautiful: the life of Hedy Lamarr

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Shearer, Stephen Michael

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Providing probing and detailed coverage of Hedy Lamarr's five marriages, children, various lawsuits, radio roles and shoplifting headlines, Shearer has combined extensive archival research with insightful interview quotes. The result is a fascinating biography that recreates Hollywood's Golden Age of Glamour.

11) The best American science writing 2005

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Best American science writing

12) Beyond Uhura: Star trek and other memories

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Nichols, Nichelle

13) The big bang theory: The complete first season

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Physicists Leonard and Sheldon understand everything from the inescapable gravitational pull of a black hole to the intricate structure of the atom. But take those atoms and assemble them into a woman, and their comprehension comes to a grinding halt. And when Penny, a woman with all those atoms in all the right places, moves in across the hall, Leonard and Sheldon's universe begins to expand in ways they never could have imagined.

14) The biographical dictionary of women in science: pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century

15) Birth matters: a midwife's manifesta

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Gaskin, Ina May

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Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth—which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections—and renew confidence in a woman's natural ability to birth.
Upbeat and informative, Gaskin asserts that...

16) Black Panther: Shuri : the deadliest of the species

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Hudlin, Reginald

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"Who is the Black Panther? Under the protection of the Black Panther, the African nation of Wakanda has thrived. But after attending a secretive, mysterious meeting, T'Challa - the current Black Panther and ruler of Wakanda - returns home with severe injuries and locked in a comatose state. Though Wakanda is a powerful nation capable of defending itself, its power comes directly from its leader, the Black Panther - and in the event that T'Challa doesn't...

17) The Bletchley circle: cracking a killer's code

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Four women who worked as codebreakers at Bletchley Park have taken up civilian lives. Susan has collated data about a series of murders. She tries to convince the police she knows where another body is, but they are unable to locate it and dismiss her. She turns to her three friends and they work out where the next victim will be taken, find the body, and then decide they are the only ones who can track down the killer.

18) Bombshell

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What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and '40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and Bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII.

19) Brazen: rebel ladies who rocked the world

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Bagieu, Pénélope

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With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.

20) Brilliant African-American scientists: nine exceptional lives

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Young, Jeff C

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Great scientists and famous inventors

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"Read about Benjamin Banneker, George R. Carruthers, Charles R. Drew, Shirley Ann Jackson, Ernest Everett Just, Walter E. Massey, John P. Moon, Daniel Hale Williams, and Jane Cooke Wright"--Provided by publisher.