Lindop, Laurie

Highlights the lives of ten women prominent in U.S. politics, including Barbara Jordan, Elizabeth Dole, Janet Reno, Geraldine Ferraro, and Jeane Kirkpatrick.

Highlights the lives and athletic accomplishments of ten women: Lynette Woodard, Diana Nyad, Kristi Yamaguchi, Florence Griffith Joyner, Julie Krone, Monica Seles, Nancy Lopez, Bonnie Blair, Kim Zmeskal, and Joan Benoit Samuelson.

Biographies of the following women who have made contributions toward furthering equality: Margarethe Cammermeyer, Marian Wright Edelman, Myrlie Evers-Williams, Elizabeth Glaser, Delores Huerta, Patricia Ireland, Maggie Kuhn, Wilma Mankiller, Vilma Martinez, and Eleanor Holmes Norton.

Profiles daredevil scientists who put themselves in great danger in order to study tornadoes.

Presents an introduction to underwater scientists, including information on what they do, how they get underwater, and an overview of discoveries they have made.

Discusses the science of speleology and what scientists have learned about caves, how they are formed, and what lives in them.

Profiles daredevil scientists from a variety of disciplines who regularly face danger and their own fears to study volcanoes.

Profiles ten women who have overcome many forms of adversity, to triumph in the scientific and medical fields.