"Once books change their brains, girls change history. Discover the foundation of reading that empowered some of the world's most influential women in this collection of 20 biographies"--

From Da Vinci to Warhol, each of these 20 artists is respectfully exposed for their idiosyncracies as well as their contributions to the history of art. What they ate, what they wore, who they loved and who their friends were - it's all here.

ARTISTS INCLUDED:

• Da Vinci
• Michelangelo
• Bruegel
• Anguissola
• Rembrandt
• Hokusai
• Cassatt
• Van Gogh
• Kollwitz
• Matisse
• Picasso
• Chagall Duchamp
• O'Keeffe
• Johnson
• Dali
• Noguchi
• Rivera

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Profiles twenty historically significant women, highlighting their great accomplishments and unique quirks; also includes color caricatures.

From Cervantes to Langston Hughes, each of these 19 writers is respectfully exposed for their idiosyncracies as well as their contributions to the world of literature. What they ate, what they wore, who they loved and who their friends were - it's all here.

WRITERS INCLUDED:

• Shikibu
• Cervantes
• Shakespeare
• Austen
• Anderson
• Poe
• Dickens
• Brontë
• Dickinson
• Alcott
• Twain
• Burnett
• Stevenson
• London
• Sandburg
• White
• Hurston
• Hughes
• Singer

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Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks are mind-boggling evidence of a fifteenth-century scientific genius standing at the edge of the modern world, basing his ideas on observation and experimentation. This book will change children’s ideas of who Leonardo was and what it means to be a scientist.

Here was a man with an imagination so large that, just "by thinking on it," he invented a new branch of math, calculus, and figured out the scientific explanation of gravity. Yet Newton was so small-minded that he tried to destroy other scientists who dared question his findings. He spent much of his time trying to predict the future from passages in the Bible and to unlock the secret of turning base metals into gold in an alchemy lab, showing again...

"You might know that Columbus discovered America, Lewis and Clark headed west with Sacajawea, and Sally Ride blasted into space. But what do you really know about these bold explorers? What were they like as kids? What pets or bad habits did they have? And what drove their passion to explore unknown parts of the world? With juicy tidbits about everything from favorite foods to first loves, Lives of the Explorers reveals these fascinating adventurers...

Looks into the 1947 crash in New Mexico of an object which many people believe was an alien spacecraft, providing reports of what people claim to have seen and the government cover-up that followed.

A millennia-long history of animal keeping shares facts about what zookeeping has taught humanity and how individual lives have been profoundly shaped by the wild creatures found in zoos all over the world.

Marie Curie, the woman who coined the term radioactivity, won not just one Nobel Prize but two?in physics and chemistry, both supposedly girl-phobic sciences.