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A biography of a feminist who was the first woman science professor at Vassar College and the first American woman astronomer.

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These biographies explore the contributions of women to the sciences, detailing the paths that led these women to break gender barriers. A pioneer in ... More

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Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals was written in 1818 by the American astronomer Maria Mitchell. Her Quaker parents valued education and ... More

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Maria Mitchell gained international acclaim through her discovery of a comet, and was the first woman to be elected to the American Academy of Arts & ... More

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Recounts the life and accomplishments of the first woman astronomer in America.

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This storybook is loosely based on the life of 19th century astronomer Maria Mitchell. Yearning for adventure, young Maria find it on the roof of her ... More

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Brief biographies of ten American astronomers, including Maria Mitchell, Percival Lowell, and Carl Sagan.

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An introduction to the physical sciences precedes biographies of the following women in those fields: France Cordova, Sandra Faber, Shirley Ann ... More

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Examines the lives of Barbara McClintock, Maria Mayer, Rosalyn Yalow, and Rita Levi-Montalcini, women scientists who won the Nobel Prize against ... More

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The true story of Maria de Sautuola, an eight-year-old Spanish girl who discovered the first known prehistoric cave paintings in 1879 while working ... More

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A biography of the Osage Indian who became one of America's foremost ballerinas.

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A biography of the Osage Indian girl who became a world-renowned ballerina.

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Biography of the first woman professor in the United States, Maria Louisa Sanford, who devoted her life to education.

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SUMMARY: La historia real de una nina espanola de ocho anos quien descubrio las primeras pinturas prehistoricas en una cueva en 1879.

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In 1931, the New York Yankees stopped in Chattanooga, Tennessee, for an exhibition game against the city's minor league team which had a 17-year-old ... More

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A biography of the black ballet dancer who gave up his career as a star with the New York City Ballet to found the Dance Theatre of Harlem.

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A biography of "the apostle of air power" who forecast the attack on Pearl Harbor 17 years in advance and whose constant prodding of the military to ... More

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A biography of the general, Billy Mitchell, whose insistence that the United States change its defense policy and stress air power resulted in his ... More

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The story of a dedicated Scottish woman who survived a difficult childhood of poverty to become a missionary, first in the slums of Dundee and then ... More

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