Uhl, Xina M.

Guides readers through finding work, understanding pay scales and benefits, and learning about hours and schedule.

"This . . . volume guides readers through finding work, understanding pay scales and benefits, and learning about hours and schedules. [Also includes] advice on how to budget and save and what to expect when it comes to taxes"--Amazon.com.

"Women in television create programs that play in millions of households around the country and throughout the world. [This book] introduces readers to some of the most influential women in the television industry, including Mindy Kaling, Zendaya, and Shonda Rhimes"--Provided by publisher.

"Readers of this book will investigate the facts and compare the data provided in the fascinating text and compelling infographics, and then decide for themselves if the Loch Ness monster is real"--Provided by publisher.

A biography of Grace Hopper, who played a prominent role in the early days of computers, discussing her upbringing and formal education, her joining the United States Navy at a time when women weren't welcomed in the armed forces and more.

"In her lifetime, Mae Jemison has accomplished incredible feats. In addition to becoming the first black woman astronaut for NASA, she worked as a doctor, a scientist, and a teacher."--.

"From the founding of its republic in 509 B.C.E. to the demise of its empire in 476 C.E., Rome dominated the countries of the Mediterranean Sea, the Middle East, and Europe as far north as Britain. Roman scientists, engineers, mathematicians, architects, and others left a rich legacy of roads, aqueducts, bridges, mills, treatises, and more over its thousand-year history and for the centuries to come. This . . . volume explains the dramatic story of Rome's conquests and triumphs, and how they went hand in hand with advancements in science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM"--Provided by publisher.

"Pyramids, . . . mummies, intricate hieroglyphics, and . . . tomb paintings carry the echoes of ancient Egypt through thousands of years into the present. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematical or STEM achievements lay at the heart of the Egyptians' grandeur. Their . . . use of basic tools and machines in massive construction projects, the preservation of human remains, and agricultural inventions that remain useful in modern times are just some of the subjects investigated in this volume"--Provided by publisher.

Explores the construction of the transcontinental railroad that opened coast-to-coast travel in the United States.

Discusses the voyage of the Mayflower and the difficulties that drove the Pilgrims to make the voyage to a new land.