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The inspiring biography of Ghanaian artist El Anatsui whose handmade sculptures, created from discarded bottle tops, have received international acclaim and been showcased around the world.

There is a competition to make the spacesuit for the first moon landing! Ellie, an ordinary woman, is asked to lead a team of talented seamstresses.

Before Malala Yousafzai became the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, she was a girl fighting for her education in Pakistan.

When Sharon Langley was born in the early 1960s, many amusement parks were segregated, and African-American families were not allowed entry.

Before their experiments, inventions, and discoveries that changed the world, the world's most celebrated scientists had regular-kid problems just like you.

The story of Agrippina, at the center of imperial power for three generations, is the story of the Julio-Claudia dynasty-and of Rome itself, at its bloody, extravagant, chaotic, ruthless, and polit

Centuries ago in middle Europe, a coded language appeared, scrawled in graffiti and spoken only by people who were wiz (in the know).

This is Nadina LaSpina's story-from her early years in her native Sicily, where she contracts polio as a baby, a fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target of messages of ho

John Logie Baird loves inventing things! When he hears about another inventor who has built a machine to show real live pictures, John sets about trying to do the same.

Mary Seacole spent much of her life on the front lines of the Crimean War, ministering to the wounded, caring for soldiers, and making her mark on the world of medicine.

When Julia Zarankin saw her first red-winged blackbird at the age of thirty-five, she didn't expect that it would change her life.

The legend of Bruce Springsteen may well outlast rock 'n' roll itself.

This intimate memoir reveals the woman inside one of autism's most prominent figures, Jennifer O'Toole.

Everyone makes mistakes, and brilliant scientist Harry Coover is no different.

Why Does Daddy Always Look So Sad?