Features questions and answers about sports and science, including when women started competing in the Olympics, why bees make honey, and why oil floats on water.

"Part playful poetry, part nonfiction information, children are introduced to the unique structures of seven plants and animals and the extraordinary innovations they have inspired."--

"Narrative nonfiction, each title highlights some of the major contributions women have made in the world of science. Photographs throughout"-- "This brand-new series highlights some of the major contributions women have made in the world of science.Women have been pioneers of inventions. Some have come up with practical ways to solve problems in their own lives, such as Marie van Brittan Brown, who invented closed-circuit TV because she did not...

Traces centuries of invention and technological innovation in the Muslim world, revealing how Muslim intellectuals built elephant water clocks, drew detailed world maps, and built colossal architectural structures.