Describes the psychological pitfalls faced by teenage girls growing up in a dangerous world in which violence, sexual harassment, eating disorders, promiscuity, and drug use have become the norm.
Presents case studies of inventions by engineers, explaining how they resolve technical difficulties, and how they make their inventions socially acceptable and economically feasible.
This book explains that at least 90 percent of everything we know about Troy in the Late Bronze Age comes from the lips of Homer, an eighth-century-B.C. Greek poet, and also tells of Carl Blegen's "Troy and the Trojans," published in 1963.