Women have made invaluable contributions to all practical and intellectual fields. This series features the stories of real women who have made their mark on engineering, the US military, outer space, computer science, medicine, and mathematics. Each book begins with an early female pioneer in the field and ends with a woman who is doing groundbreaking work in the field today. Additional features include a table of contents, fast facts, sidebars, infographics, prompts for critical thinking, a phonetic glossary, an index, information about the author, and sources for further research.