{"product_id":"forgotten-women-the-scientists","title":"Forgotten Women: The Scientists","description":"'To say this series is \"empowering\" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for  your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces - just make sure you  buy a copy for your sons, brothers, dads, uncles and nephews, too.' - indy100\n\n'Here's to no more forgotten women.' Evening Standard\n\n\n\nThe women who shaped and were erased from our history.The Forgotten Women series will uncover the lost histories of the influential women who have refused over hundreds of years to accept the hand they've been dealt and, as a result, have formed, shaped and changed the course of our futures. \n\nThe Scientists celebrates 48* unsung scientific heroines whose  hugely important, yet broadly unacknowledged or incorrectly attributed,  discoveries have transformed our understanding of the scientific world.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Anning, the amateur paleontologist whose fossil findings  changed scientific thinking about prehistoric life \n\nEmmy Noether, dubbed \"The Mighty Mathematician You've Never  Heard Of\"\n\nYnes Mexia, the Mexican-American botanist who discovered over 500 new plant species\n\n Wangari Maathai, who started an environmental and ecological revolution in Kenya\n\nMargaret Sanger, the maverick nurse who paved the way for the legalization of contraception\n\n\nChapters including Earth  \u0026amp; Universe; Biology \u0026amp; Natural Sciences; Medicine \u0026amp;  Psychology; Physics \u0026amp; Chemistry; Mathematics and Technology \u0026amp;  Inventions profile the female scientists who have defied the odds, and  the opposition, to change the world around us.\n\n*The number of Nobel-prize-winning women.","brand":"Octopus Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"New - Hardback","offer_id":32949100740693,"sku":"9781844039838N","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/9781844039838.jpg?v=1609888210","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/forgotten-women-the-scientists","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}