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9781410491374 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, August 10, 2016), cover price $31.99
9780316338929 | Little Brown & Co, April 5, 2016, cover price $27.00

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9780316338905 | Back Bay Books, January 17, 2017, cover price $16.99

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Product Description: This biography highlights the achievements of America's firstprofessional degreed female scientist, Ellen Swallow Richards(1842--1911). The book takes the reader from Richards's childhoodon a Massachusetts farm where she was schooled at home, to herinternationally renowned successes in multiple branches ofscience...read more

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9781118923832 | Tms, July 8, 2014, cover price $61.95 | About this edition: This biography highlights the achievements of America's firstprofessional degreed female scientist, Ellen Swallow Richards(1842--1911).

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9780345366931, titled "James Beard's Theory and Practice of Good Cooking" | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, December 1, 1990), cover price $5.95 | also contains James Beard''s Theory and Practice of Good Cooking

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Product Description: About half of the undergraduate and roughly 40 percent of graduate degree recipients in science and engineering are women. As increasing numbers of these women pursue research careers in science, many who choose to have children discover the unique difficulties of balancing a professional life in these highly competitive (and often male-dominated) fields with the demands of motherhood...read more
By Emily Monosson (editor)

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9780801446641 | Ilr Pr, May 1, 2008, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: About half of the undergraduate and roughly 40 percent of graduate degree recipients in science and engineering are women.
9780195019292, titled "The Art and Politics of Thomas Nast." | Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 1975, cover price $12.95 | also contains The Art and Politics of Thomas Nast. | About this edition: Reproduces and comments on the works of the nineteenth-century political cartoonist who best expressed political issues and the need for reform

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9781929490264 | Frederic C Beil, October 10, 2005, cover price $29.95

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9781439203408 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 11, 2008, cover price $23.99

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Product Description: In Paths to Discovery a group of extraordinary Chicanas trace how their interest in math and science at a young age developed into a passion fed by talent and determination. Today they are teaching at major universities, setting public and institutional policy, and pursuing groundbreaking research...read more
By Norma E. Cantu (editor)

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9780895511195, titled "Paths to Discovery: Autobiographies from Chicanas with Careers in Science, Mathematics and Engineering     " | Chicano Studies Research Center, April 30, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In Paths to Discovery a group of extraordinary Chicanas trace how their interest in math and science at a young age developed into a passion fed by talent and determination.

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Provides profiles of women who made significant achievements in a variety of scientific fields, including nuclear physics, chemistry, medicine, psychiatry, and cytogenetics.

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9780786406494 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, May 1, 1999, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Provides profiles of women who made significant achievements in a variety of scientific fields, including nuclear physics, chemistry, medicine, psychiatry, and cytogenetics.

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9780786421619, titled "American Women Scientists: 23 Inspiring Biographies 1900-2000" | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, October 30, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Provides profiles of women who made significant achievements in a variety of scientific fields, including nuclear physics, chemistry, medicine, psychiatry, and cytogenetics.

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9780309065689 | Joseph Henry Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $24.95

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9780309086196 | Reprint edition (Joseph Henry Pr, October 1, 2002), cover price $19.95

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Profiles the remarkable naval career of four American women scientists in World War II--Mary Sears, Florence van Straten, Grace Hopper, and Mina Rees--and discusses their contribution to naval science in the area of computers, the use of weather in combat, oceanography, and applied mathematics. (view table of contents)

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9781557509611 | Naval Inst Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Profiles the remarkable naval career of four American women scientists in World War II--Mary Sears, Florence van Straten, Grace Hopper, and Mina Rees--and discusses their contribution to naval science in the area of computers, the use of weather in combat, oceanography, and applied mathematics.

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Details the basic techniques of cooking with recipes that apply the principles of roasting, broiling, braising, sauteing, and baking

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9780762406135, titled "James Beard's Theory & Practice of Good Cooking" | Running Pr Book Pub, September 1, 1999, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Details the basic techniques of cooking with recipes that apply the principles of roasting, broiling, braising, sauteing, and baking
9780517118603, titled "James Beard's Theory & Practice of Good Cooking" | Random House Value Pub, November 1, 1994, cover price $9.99 | also contains Leadership | About this edition: A complete cooking course for the beginner demonstrates the fundamental principles of good culinary practice while offering three hundred simple recipes and variations.
9780517695258, titled "James Beard's Theory and Practice of Good Cooking" | Weathervane, May 1, 1990, cover price $9.99
9780394484938, titled "James Beard's Theory and Practice of Good Cooking" | Random House Inc, March 1, 1977, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Detailed commentaries on all the basic techniques of cooking are followed by recipes that lavishly apply the principles of boiling, roasting, broiling, braising, sauteing, frying, and baking

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9780345366931, titled "James Beard's Theory and Practice of Good Cooking" | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, December 1, 1990), cover price $5.95 | also contains The Remarkable Life and Career of Ellen Swallow Richards: Pioneer in Science and Technology
9780394724751, titled "James Beard's Theory and Practice of Good Cooking" | Random House Inc, April 1, 1984, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: " For the first time James Beard gives us the fundamentals that he teaches in his famous classes- the hows, the whys, the techniques, the BASICS as well as the subtle nuances of good cooking.

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Recounts the lives and accomplishments of Helen Brooke Taussig, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Grace Murray Hopper, Chien-shiung Wu, Gertrude Belle Elion, Eugenie Clark, Jewel Plummer Cobb, Vera Cooper Rubin, Candace Beebe Pert, and Flossie Wong-Staal (view table of contents)

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9780816028955 | Facts on File, March 1, 1994, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Recounts the lives and accomplishments of Helen Brooke Taussig, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Grace Murray Hopper, Chien-shiung Wu, Gertrude Belle Elion, Eugenie Clark, Jewel Plummer Cobb, Vera Cooper Rubin, Candace Beebe Pert, and Flossie Wong-Staal

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Product Description: Book by Gallop, Nancy

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9780938625414 | Natl Womens History Project, September 1, 1993, cover price $8.50 | About this edition: Book by Gallop, Nancy

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Portrays the lives and achievements of four American women scientists and describes their struggles to receive scientific educations

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9780805238655 | Schocken Books, January 1, 1984, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Portrays the lives and achievements of four American women scientists and describes their struggles to receive scientific educations

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Explores the lives and accomplishments of a number of women excelling in such previously male-dominated sciences as anthropology, cancer research, meteorology, nuclear physics, genetics, and microbiology

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9780671329204 | Julian Messner, March 1, 1979, cover price $7.79 | About this edition: Explores the lives and accomplishments of a number of women excelling in such previously male-dominated sciences as anthropology, cancer research, meteorology, nuclear physics, genetics, and microbiology

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