PDF Women in Science 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World Audible Audio Edition Rachel Ignotofsky Sarah MolloChristensen a division of Recorded Books HighBridge Books

Product details Audible Audiobook Listening Length 3 hours and 32 minutes Program Type Audiobook Version Unabridged Publisher HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Audible.com Release Date February 12, 2019 Language English, English ASIN B07NC3L4GY

Women in Science 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World Audible Audio Edition Rachel Ignotofsky Sarah MolloChristensen a division of Recorded Books HighBridge Books Reviews

• Praise goes to Rachel Ignotofsky for assembling these tributes to important women in science. There is much that is good about the book and its biographies, but many aspects of the design detract from its message. The fanciful caricatures become monotonous after awhile. The interesting facts sprinkled around the ‘portraits’ and in the margins are a distraction from the main articles that are difficult to read anyway owing to the small print. The science is occasionally oversimplified into serious inaccuracy.
  
  Many of the definitions in the glossary are misleading and incomplete, wrong, or introduce terms incorrectly, sometimes not otherwise defined; some seem to be partially extracted from wikipedia without a full understanding of the science. So let the reader beware.
• This is an absolutely fantastic book! I got it as a present for a toy drive for a pre-teen girl and I am thinking of getting one for all the women and girls I know of all ages. The artwork is wonderful and the information is presented concisely but entertainingly. It's not an encyclopedia with an extremely detailed outline of each experiment conducted by each woman, but the information is fascinating and can inspire a young mind to investigate further.
• I bought this for my second-grade daughter who loves science. At first glance she was turned off by the small type but a few minutes later came back and wanted me to read with her. For an elementary schooler it will likely be a read together book for a while. Which is fine since we've just read a few pages and it opened up opportunities to discuss all sorts of things, about science and society, and piqued our interest to look up additional pictures and facts on the Internet. I am learning too! And it is a beautiful book to hold and look at.
• We have been building a collection of female empowering books for our 7 year old. Amoung our favorites is this one. I even bought a copy for her 2nd grade teacher to have in the classroom.
  Some others in our collection include
  -“Women in Sports 50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win”
  -“Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls”
  -“Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2”
  -“Ruth Bader Ginsburg The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequality”
  -“Why We March Signs of Protest and Hope--Voices from the Women's March” (we marched in DC so she loved having this book)
  -“The Pink Hat”
• I read this book in combination with Catherine Thimmesh's Girls Think of Everything, regretting that civilization has not as yet reached a point when achievements no longer need be identified as gender-specific. Be that as it may, both books provide valuable information and insights about creative thinking.
  
  Rachel Ignotofsky focuses on 50 "fearless pioneers" during a time frame that extends from Hypatia (350-370 CE-415 CE [?]) until Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017). Women in the United States were not permitted to vote until 1920 and access to higher education was denied -- or at least severely limited -- to women who wanted to pursue a degree in medicine or in the STEM fields science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Moreover, resistance to women's personal growth and professional development has been even wider and deeper in most other countries.
  
  These are among the mini-profiles of "fearless pioneers" that are of greatest interest and value to me
  
  o Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) Mathematician,; collaborator with Charles Babbage on first computer program
  o Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) Physician; founder of several medical societies in U.S. and England
  o Alice Ball (1892-1916) Chemist; developed a new treatment of leprosy victims throughout the world
  o Marie Curie (1867-1934) Physicist and chemist; Nobel laureate (twice)
  o Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) Cytogeneticist; revised views of evolution and botany; Nobel laureate
  o Grace Hopper (1906-1992) Navy admiral and computer scientist; invented first compiler
  o Rachel Carson (1907-1964) Marine biologist and conservationist; author of the Silent Spring
  o Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) Inventor and film actress; developed frequency-hopping spread system (FHSS) used in smartphones, GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth devices
  o Katherine Johnson (1918- ) Physicist and mathematician calculated trajectories for NASA; featured in the book and film, Hidden Figures
  o Jane Goodall (1934- ) Primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist; renowned for research on chimpanzees
  o Valentina Tereshkova (1937- ) Engineer and Cosmonaut; first woman to travel in outer space; orbited Earth 48 times in Vostok VI
  o Elizabeth Blackburn (1948- ) Molecular biologist; invented telomarase (enzyme that builds telomeres); Nobel Laureate
  o Maye Jemison (1956- ) Astronaut, educator, and physician; first African-American woman in outer space; founder and CEO of several corporations
  
  Rachel Ignotofsky concludes, "The women in this book prove to the world that no matter your gender, your race, or your background, anyone can achieve great things. Their legacy lives on. Today, women all over the world are still risking everything to discover and explore.
  
  "Let us celebrate these trailblazers so we can inspire the next generation. Together, we can pick up where they left off, and continue the search for knowledge.
  
  "So go out and tackle new problems, find your answers, and learn everything you can to make your own discoveries!"
  
  That is her challenge to the young women who read this book but it is also a challenge to others -- parents, other family members, teachers, coaches, and clergy -- who can support their efforts. I also urge those young women to keep in mind this valuable insight from Eleanor Roosevelt "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
• I loved this. Bought a second one.
  Read it in one sitting so it's ready to give to a young girl to hopefully inspire her! It's just single page summaries of amazing women, highlighting their achievements and their struggles, which were absurd and horrible in some cases. Women these days fighting for equal opportunity etc yes, great, please keep going, keep fighting and I'm with you (as a minority in my field), but some of you really need to stop whining and assuming every misfortune in your lives or set back is because of your gender. And please stop looking for ways to be offended! Don't assume the implications in people's words (lumped into "microaggressions") - ask them what they meant.
  And for goodness sakes, think about productive discussions instead, actionable discussions! Things don't change in history solelg because of whining. what we have these days is far better than what so many women faced throughout history, even recently.
  
  Sorry, got distracted. Lovely book. Cute pictures (for kids). Even in my thirties this was inspirational!
  
  I just hope the parents who help read this to youngens do a good job.
  
  Why do I feel uncomfortable gifting this to young boys though? Must break this bias (