Code Girls

• Author : Liza Mundy
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 02 October 2018

In the tradition of Hidden Figures and The Girls of Atomic City, Code Girls is the amazing true story of the young American women who cracked German and Japanese military codes during World War II. More than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II, recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to the nation's capital to learn the top secret art of code breaking. Through

• Author : Daisy Styles
• Publisher : Penguin UK
• Release : 25 August 2016

**A heart-warming and inspiring story of incredible women on the home-front during World War II from the author of The Bomb Girls** Can four girls protect a whole country? It's 1941 and the country has been turned upside down. For the aristocratic Walsingham family this means being pushed unceremoniously upstairs while their grand home is taken over by the Army. But for newcomers Ava and Maudie this is a chance to get something more from life. They are at Walsingham Hall

• Author : Jan Slimming
• Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
• Release : 30 March 2022

The Secret Life of an American Codebreaker is the true account of Janice Martin, a college student recruited to the military in 1943, after she was secretly approached by a college professor at Goucher College, a liberal arts establishment for women in Baltimore, USA. Destined for a teaching career, Janice became a prestigious professor of classics at Georgia State University, but how did she spend three years of her secret life during the war working in Washington D.C.’s Top

• Author : Jan Slimming
• Publisher : Casemate Publishers
• Release : 03 March 2021

“What would it be like to keep a secret for fifty years? Never telling your parents, your children, or even your husband?” Codebreaker Girls: A Secret Life at Bletchley Park tells the true story of Daisy Lawrence. Following extensive research, the author uses snippets of information, unpublished photographs and her own recollections to describe scenes from her mother’s poor, but happy, upbringing in London, and the disruptions caused by the outbreak of the Second World War to a young

• Author : Mari K. Eder
• Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
• Release : 03 August 2021

For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of 15 unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen during WWII—in and out of uniform, for theirs is a legacy destined to embolden generations of women to come. The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line are the heroes of the Greatest Generation that you hardly ever

• Author : Tonia Inturrisi
• Publisher : Booktango
• Release : 20 February 2014

This is the exiting sequal to the school code part 1! All your favourite characters are back and are older and wiser for the most part! As Stacey and her friends jump into their final year of high school there are many trials and triumphs, friends to be made and lost, hot new romances! With a surprise new couple. You'll never guess who! Who will Stacey end up with? What about Shannon and Robert? This exiting sequel is certainly set to

• Author : Meda Chesney-Lind
• Publisher : SUNY Press
• Release : 03 September 2010

Cutting edge research into trends and social contexts of girls' violence.

• Author : UNESCO
• Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
• Release : 04 September 2017

• Author : Virginia Loh-Hagan
• Publisher : Cherry Lake
• Release : 01 August 2019

Who were history's smartest scientists? Who was voted "Most Likely to Have the Best Garden?" In the History's Yearbook series, readers will learn about the amazing and diverse women in history. In Girl Scientists, readers will discover and rediscover their favorite heroines and learn about top women scientists who have made an impact. Each book in this series is written at a higher maturity level using considerate text at a lower reading level in order to engage struggling readers. Backmatter

• Author : Charlie Clark
• Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
• Release : 13 September 2021

Arlington began three centuries ago as the farm section of Alexandria County and emerged in the 1900s as a vibrant suburb of the nation's capital. Global notice came after the creation and expansion of Arlington National Cemetery, the Pentagon and Fort Myer, site of history's first airplane casualty--September 17, 1908. Add in some modern marquee employers--PBS, WETA, Nestlé, the Foreign Service Institute and Amazon--and it's a recipe for accelerating change. Unsurprisingly, residents are increasingly at odds over rising housing costs and demolitions

• Author : Maria Shriver,The Center for American Progress
• Publisher : Rosetta Books
• Release : 11 January 2014

Facts, figures, and essays on women and poverty by Barbara Ehrenreich, Kirsten Gillibrand, LeBron James, and other high-profile contributors. Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it, the most important social issue of our day is once again the dire economic straits of millions of Americans. One in three live in poverty or teeter on the brink—and seventy million are women and the children who depend on

• Author : STEMconnector®
• Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
• Release : 08 November 2016

Women’s Quick Facts is the indispensable resource on the status and contribution of women. The only resource of its kind, it is a book that will be highly sought after for multiple uses, both in the US and globally. It is unique with more than 310 sources and resources cited. It is about the game changers- organizations, media entities, businesses, resource institutions, and women’s associations, all driving towards progress.

• Author : Lowey Bundy Sichol
• Publisher : Chicago Review Press
• Release : 15 February 2022

Entrepreneurship can change your life—and even the world Idea Makers shares the incredible stories of 15 women who changed the world through their entrepreneurship. Author Lowey Bundy Sichol presents five industries that women are leading in recent years: food, fashion and clothing, health and beauty, science and technology, and education. Jenn Hyman brought couture fashion to everyday women with her idea to Rent the Runway. Morgan DeBaun supports Black journalists through Blavity. And Sandra Oh Lin is inspiring kids everywhere

• Author : Nikki Jones
• Publisher : Rutgers University Press
• Release : 20 October 2009

With an outward gaze focused on a better future, Between Good and Ghetto reflects the social world of inner city African American girls and how they manage threats of personal violence. Drawing on personal encounters, traditions of urban ethnography, Black feminist thought, gender studies, and feminist criminology, Nikki Jones gives readers a richly descriptive and compassionate account of how African American girls negotiate schools and neighborhoods governed by the so-called "code of the street"ùthe form of street justice that

• Author : David M. Newman,Jodi O'Brien
• Publisher : Pine Forge Press
• Release : 18 May 2022

This carefully edited companion anthology provides provocative, eye-opening examples of the practice of sociology in a well-edited, well-designed, and affordable format. It includes short articles, chapters, and excerpts that examine common everyday experiences, important social issues, or distinct historical events that illustrate the relationship between the individual and society. The new edition will provide more detail regarding the theory and/or history related to each issue presented. The revision will also include more coverage of global issues and world religions.