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• The Code Breaker

  Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

  Isaacson, Walter,

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  "Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, Doudna and her collaborators turned ​a curiosity ​of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes

  a True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies

  Fagone, Jason,

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  "One of the greatest cryptologists of all time, she started her career in 1917, working for a mercurial millionaire who sought to prove that a hidden code exists in Shakespeare's works that reveals Francis Bacon as their true author. After meeting…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Her Hidden Genius

  a Novel

  Benedict, Marie,

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  "Benedict adeptly brings forward another accomplished, intriguing, and unjustly overlooked or oversimplified real-life woman in a welcoming and involving historical novel...Readers are privy to Rosalind's inner world as she refuses to be deterred by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Perfect Predator

  a Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband From a Deadly Superbug

  Strathdee, Steffanie A.,

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  "A real-life medical thriller that proves when science, medicine, and perseverance align, "the impossible becomes possible." In 2015, infectious disease epidemiologist Strathdee (Global Health Sciences/Univ. of California, San Diego School of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Girl Decoded

  El Kaliouby, Rana,

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  "Egyptian American el Kaliouby, named among Forbes's Top 50 Women in Tech and Fortune's 40 Under 40, understands that much communication is effected through tone of voice, facial expression, and body language—qualities largely lost in computer…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Only Woman in the Room

  Benedict, Marie,

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  "In Hollywood, she is billed as the most beautiful woman in the world, but her flawless face masks an inquisitive scientific brain. Unable to forget the military secrets she learned while married to Mandl and eager to assist the Allied cause, Hedy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Experience. The Codebreaker

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  "Presents the story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, a suburban American wife whose work as a cryptanalyst sent gangsters to prison and brought down a Nazi spy ring in Argentina in World War II." Publisher (5 stars)

• 10 Women Who Changed Science and the World

  Whitlock, Catherine,

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  "A lively, readable account of the lives and work of 10 groundbreaking female scientists... focus on women who were born in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and who therefore worked in a scientific environment where women were even more rare…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Lab of One's Own

  One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science

  Colwell, Rita R., 1934-

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  "A memoir-manifesto from the first female director of the National Science Foundation about the entrenched sexism in science."

• The Atomic Women

  the Untold Stories of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear Bomb

  Montillo, Roseanne,

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  "While the past few years have brought increased awareness of women who contributed to America's space program, many women also played important roles in building the first nuclear bomb...European scientists such as Marie Curie, Irène Joliot-Curie,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Women of Color in Tech

  a Blueprint for Inspiring and Mentoring the Next Generation of Technology Innovators

  Tedrick, Susanne,

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  "Tedrick describes the variety of work and workplaces that fall under the heading of "technology," making it clear that careers in technology extend well beyond writing code at Google and Facebook. She details the variety of jobs available—including…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Women in White Coats

  How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine

  Campbell, Olivia M.,

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  "Journalist Campbell debuts with an inspirational group portrait of the first three women who became licensed doctors in the U.S. and the U.K. Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), the first woman to be accepted to an American medical school, got in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Galaxy Girls

  50 Amazing Stories of Women in Space

  Jackson, Libby,

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  "... the amazing true stories of fifty inspirational women who helped fuel some of the greatest achievements in space exploration from the nineteenth century to today--including Hidden Figure's Mary Jackson and Katherine Johnson as well as former…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Power in Numbers

  the Rebel Women of Mathematics

  Williams, Talithia,

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  "...takes aim at the forgotten influence of women on the development of mathematics over the last two millennia. You'll see each eminent mathematician come to life on each page, women like the astronomer-philosopher Hypatia, theoretical physicist…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Count Girls in

  Empowering Girls to Combine Any Interests With STEM to Open Up a World of Opportunity

  Panetta, Karen,

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  "This isn't a book about raising competitive, test-acing girls in lab coats; this is about raising happy, confident girls who realize the world of opportunities before them" --Chicago Review Press

• Visionary Women

  How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World

  Barnet, Andrea,

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  "Barnet maps the "shared ethos" that propelled four visionaries whose efforts alerted people to the dangers of unbridled technology, consumerism, and industrial assaults against nature and the "human ecosystem," and who offered "a new, more holistic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Broad Band

  the Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet

  Evans, Claire Lisa,

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  "... well-crafted portraits of the women who contributed to and influenced the development and invention of the Internet. Profiles include Grace Hopper, a gifted mathematician and academic who championed a future where computer programming...…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

  Thunberg, Greta, 2003-

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  "A collection of articulate, forceful speeches made from September 2018 to September 2019 by the Swedish climate activist who was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Speaking in such venues as the European and British Parliaments, the French National…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Reaching for the Moon

  the Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson

  Johnson, Katherine G.,

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  "African-American research mathematician and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Johnson, of Hidden Figures fame, imbues this narrative of the first half of her life with her daily realities in the segregated South...In 1953, the National…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace

  the Pen Pals Who Imagined the First Computer

  Lucas, Eileen,

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  "These titles provide background information on the spotlighted figures, how they came to work in their fields, and descriptions of their successes and disappointments. Images of the collaborators accompany the detailed narratives, which explain…Read moreRead more of this annotation