Winifred Conkling

The fascinating, little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists? groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb. In 1934, Irène Curie, working with her husband and fellow scientist, Frederic Joliot, made a discovery that would change the world: artificial radioactivity. This breakthrough allowed scientists to modify elements and create new ones by altering the structure of atoms. Curie shared a Nobel Prize with her...

As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and America's race to the moon. On May 25, 1961, JFK made an astonishing announcement: his goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade. In this engrossing, fast-paced epic, Douglas Brinkley returns to the...

Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918- ), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942- ). Katherine, Dorothy, Mary, and Christine were all good...

Explains how to create a nurturing environment to promote learning, encourage movement and motor development, enhance emotional health and a child's sense of personal identity, and select the proper toys and food at each stage of growth.

The page-turning, heart-wrenching true story of one young woman willing to risk her safety and even her life for a chance at freedom in the largest slave escape attempt in American history. In 1848, thirteen-year-old Emily Edmonson, five of her siblings, and seventy other enslaved people boarded the Pearl under cover of night in Washington, D.C., hoping to sail north to freedom. Within a day, the schooner was captured, and the Edmonsons were sent...

A timely and illuminating YA biography of political activist and feminist icon Gloria Steinem. Her strength and wisdom have inspired women for generations, but Gloria Steinem's life is more complex and compelling than most people realize. Her unconventional childhood caused her to rethink society's assumptions about the roles of women and men. This spark lit a fire in her that burned for decades as she became a leading voice in the women's movement....