Although he devoted the last twenty-five years of his life to affairs of state and became America's first foreign diplomat, Benjamin Franklin's first love was always science, as is documented in the latest title by the creator's of The Longitude Prize.

Profiles the life of Helen Keller, emphasizing the details of her later life, including her college years at Radcliffe and her involvement in politics.

Product Description: Examines the lives of Barbara McClintock, Maria Mayer, Rosalyn Yalow, and Rita Levi-Montalcini, women scientists who won the Nobel Prize against extraordinary odds, in different fields and under different circumstances.

Tells the story of John Harrison, an eighteenth-century inventor of watches and clocks, who spent forty years working on a time-machine which could be used to accurately determine longitude at sea.

Describes the conditions that gave rise to efforts to secure better working conditions for the women working in the garment industry in early twentieth-century New York and led to the formation of the Women's Trade Union League and the first women's strike in 1909.Retells the story of women activists, their fight for humane working conditions in 1909, and the hazardous circumstances of the pre-strike New York shirtwaist industry

Focuses on the backgrounds and careers of Margaret Sanger, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Maria Geoppert-Mayer and the impact of their work, ambitions, and abilities on their marriages