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Headstrong : 52 women who changed science--and the world / by Swaby, Rachel.;
Medicine. Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842-1906) -- Anna Wessels Williams (1863-1954) -- Alice Ball (1892-1916) -- Gerty Radnitz Cori (1896-1957) -- Helen Taussig (1898-1986) -- Elsie Widdowson (1906-2000) -- Virginia Apgar (1909-1974) -- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) -- Gertrude Belle Elion (1918-1999) -- Jane Wright (1919-2013) -- Biology and the environment. Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) -- Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794-1871) -- Mary Anning (1799-1847) -- Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911) -- Alice Hamilton (1869-1970) -- Alice Evans (1881-1975) -- Tilly Edinger (1897-1967) -- Rachel Carson (1907-1964) -- Ruth Patrick (1907-2013) -- Genetics and development. Nettie Stevens (1861-1912) -- Hilde Mangold (1898-1924) -- Charlotte Auerbach (1899-1994) -- Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) -- Salome Gluecksohn Waelsch (1907-2007) -- Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012) -- Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) -- Anne McLaren (1927-2007) -- Lynn Margulis (1938-2011) -- Physics. Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749) -- Lise Meitner (1878-1968) -- Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956) -- Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906-1972) -- Marguerite Perey (1909-1975) -- Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) -- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011) -- Earth and stars. Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) -- Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941) -- Inge Lehmann (1888-1993) -- Marie Tharp (1920-2006) -- Yvonne Brill (1924-2013) -- Sally Ride (1951-2012) -- Math and technology. Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799) -- Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) -- Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) -- Sophie Kowalevski (1850-1891) -- Emmy Noether (1882-1935) -- Mary Cartwright (1900-1998) -- Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992) -- Invention. Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923) -- Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) -- Ruth Benerito (1916-2013) -- Stephanie Kwolek (1923-2014)."Covering Nobel Prize winners and major innovators, as well as lesser-known but hugely significant scientists who influence our every day, Rachel Swaby's ... profiles span centuries of courageous thinkers and illustrate how each one's ideas developed, from their first moment of scientific engagement through the research and discovery for which they're best known"--Page 4 of cover.Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-263) and index.Medicine -- Biology and the environment -- Genetics and development -- Physics -- Earth and stars -- Math and technology -- Invention.
Subjects: Women scientists; Women astronomers; Women physicians; Women biologists; Women physicists; Women mathematicians;
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Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet / by Evans, Claire Lisa.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-268) and index.Introduction : The Dell -- Part one. The kilogirls. A computer wanted ; Amazing Grace ; The salad days ; Tower of Babel ; The computer girls -- Part two. Connection trip. The longest cave ; Resource one ; Networks ; Communities ; Hypertext -- Part three. The early true believers. Miss Outer Boro ; Women.com ; The girl gamers -- Epilogue : The cyberfeminists."The history of technology you probably know is one of men and machines, garages and riches, alpha nerds and brogrammers. But the little-known fact is that female visionaries have always been at the vanguard of technology and innovation--they've just been erased from the story. Until now. Women are not ancillary to the history of technology; they turn up at the very beginning of every important wave. But they've often been hidden in plain sight, their inventions and contributions touching our lives in ways we don't even realize. VICE reporter and YACHT lead singer Claire L. Evans finally gives these unsung female heroes their due with her insightful social history of the Broad Band, the women who made the internet what it is today. Learn from Ada Lovelace, the tortured, imaginative daughter of Lord Byron, who wove numbers into the first program for a mechanical computer in 1842. Seek inspiration from Grace Hopper, the tenacious mathematician who democratized computing by leading the charge for machine-independent programming languages after World War II. Meet Elizabeth "Jake" Feinler, the one-woman Google who kept the earliest version of the Internet online, and Stacy Horn, who ran one of the first-ever social networks on a shoestring out of her New York City apartment in the 1980s. Evans shows us how these women built and colored the technologies we can't imagine life without. Join the ranks of the pioneers who defied social convention and the longest odds to become database poets, information-wranglers, hypertext dreamers, and glass ceiling-shattering dot com-era entrepreneurs. This inspiring call to action is a revelation: women have embraced technology from the start. It shines a light on the bright minds whom history forgot, and shows us how they will continue to shape our world in ways we can no longer ignore. Welcome to the Broad Band. You're next"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Women computer scientists; Internet;
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Darkness : a thriller / by Robards, Karen.; Pressley, Brittany,performer.;
Read by Brittany Pressley.BOOM. That's the sound that changes everything for Dr. Gina Sullivan, a renowned ornithologist on a group research grant trip on the remote island of Attu, Alaska. When an everyday outing turns sinister at the onset of one of Attu's infamous storms, Gina expects thunder and lightning-but what she doesn't see coming is the small jet plane that drops out of the sky and into the water mere feet from her boat.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Romance fiction.; Audiobooks.; Romantic suspense fiction.; Women scientists; Strangers; Aircraft accidents; Islands;
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Third twin : [electronic resource] : A Novel of Suspense. by Follett, Ken.;
Using a restricted FBI database, genetic researcher Jeanie Ferrami has located identical twins born to different mothers. Frightened by her bizarre discovery, she is determined to discover the truth at any cost--until she finds herself at the center of a scandal that could ruin her career. To fight the charges, Jeannie plunges into a maze of hidden evidence. With growing horror, she uncovers a cynical, far-reaching conspiracy involving disturbing genetic experiments and some of the most powerful men in America--men who will kill to keep their secrets concealed.Electronic reproduction.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Genetics ; Women scientists; Conspiracies ; Fiction.; Suspense.; Thriller.;
© 2010.,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=481501 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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The last time I saw her : a novel / by Robards, Karen.; Lee, Ann Marie.;
Read by Ann Marie Lee.In the breathtaking new thriller of paranormal romance from New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards, serial killer expert Dr. Charlotte Stone comes way too close to losing the one thing she never thought she'd miss: the dangerously sexy ghost who follows wherever she goes.Executive producer, Dan Musselman.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Romantic suspense fiction.; Paranormal fiction.; Women forensic scientists; Serial murder investigation;
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The Madame Curie complex : the hidden history of women in science / by Des Jardins, Julie.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Assistants, housekeepers, and interchangeable parts : women scientists and professionalization, 1880-1940. Madame Curie's American tours : women and science in the 1920s ; Making science domestic and domesticity scientific : the ambiguous life and ambidextrous work of Lillian Gilbreth ; To embrace or decline marriage and family : Annie Jump Cannon and the women of the Harvard Observatory, 1880-1940 -- The cult of masculinity in the age of heroic science, 1941-1962. Those science made invisible : finding the women of the Manhattan Project ; Maria Goeppert Mayer and Rosalind Franklin : the politics of partners and prizes in the heroic age of science -- American women and science in transition, 1962- . Generational divides : Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Evelyn Fox Keller, Barbara McClintock, and feminism after 1963 ; The lady trimates and feminist science? : Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas -- Apes, corn, and silent springs : a women's tradition of science?The Madame Curie Complex gives fresh insight into the barriers and successes for women in science, and sheds light on the way our cultural ideas of gender have shaped the profession.
Subjects: Women scientists; Women engineers; Women in science.; Women in engineering.; Sex role; Spouses.;
© 2010., Feminist Press at the City University of New York,
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Her last whisper [sound recording] / by Robards, Karen.; Lee, Ann Marie.;
Read by Ann Marie Lee.Special Agent Lena Kaminsky suspects her missing sister has fallen prey to the vicious Cinderella Killer. Dr. Charlotte Stone heads to Las Vegas to track down the predator before it's too late. The team doesn't realize that this killer targets single, beautiful women and courts them before brutally ending their lives. Now he's got his sights set on Dr. Stone, and is closer than anyone suspects.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Mystery fiction.; Suspense fiction.; Women forensic scientists; Women psychiatrists; Missing persons; Serial murderers; Serial murder investigation;
© 2014., Random House, Inc.,
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The last victim / [electronic resource] : A novel by Robards, Karen.;
A sought-after expert in criminal pathology, Dr. Charlotte Stone regularly sits face-to-face with madmen. At the age of sixteen, she herself survived a serial killer's bloodbath. Because of the information she gave police, the Boardwalk Killer went underground, but Charlie kept her postmortem visions of the victims to herself. Years later, to protect her credibility as a psychological expert, she tells no one about these apparitions. Now a teenage girl is missing, her family slaughtered. The Boardwalk Killer -- or a sick copycat with his M.O. -- is back. This is the one case Charlie knows she shouldn't go near. But she also knows that she may be the one person in the world who can stop this vicious killer, especially when she receives help from an unexpected source: The fiery spirit of a seductive bad boy who refuses to be ignored.Electronic reproduction.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Women forensic scientists; Women psychiatrists; Serial murderers; Serial murder investigation; Fiction.; Fantasy.; Romance.; Suspense.;
© 2012.,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=769333 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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Lessons in chemistry / by Garmus, Bonnie,author.aut;
"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the 1960s and despite the fact that she is a scientist, her peers are very unscientific when it comes to equality. The only good thing to happen to her on the road to professional fulfillment is a run-in with her super-star colleague Calvin Evans (well, she stole his beakers). The only man who ever treated her - and her ideas - as equal, Calvin is already a legend and Nobel nominee. He's also awkward, kind and tenacious. Theirs is true chemistry. But as events are never as predictable as chemical reactions, three years later Elizabeth Zott is an unwed, single mother (did we mention it's the early 60s??) and the star of America's most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth's singular approach to cooking ('take one pint of H2O and add a pinch of sodium chloride') and independent example are proving revolutionary. Because Elizabeth isn't just teaching women how to cook, she's teaching them how to change the status quo. Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, 'Lessons in Chemistry' is as original and vibrant as its protagonist."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Women scientists; Single mothers; Television cooking shows; Sex role; Sexism; Humorous fiction.;
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I know a secret : a novel / by Gerritsen, Tess.; Eby, Tanya,performer.;
Performed by Tanya Eby.The crime-solving duo of Detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles investigate the gruesome murder of a horror-film producer and soon realize the killer has a wide circle of targets.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Suspense fiction.; Rizzoli, Jane, Detective (Fictitious character); Isles, Maura (Fictitious character); Policewomen; Women forensic scientists; Murder;
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