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Wide Eyed Editions 50 Trailblazers of the 50 States
Meet 50 trailblazers who made the United States what it is today in this gorgeously illustrated biography book.With one trailblazer from every state, you'll discover how Rosa Parks from Alabama fought for civil rights, how Barack Obama from Hawaii proved an African-American could be President, how Joe Biden from Delaware protected women from domestic violence and how Betty Ford from Michigan improved treatment for drug addiction.Each spread features a timeline of the trailblazer's life, key facts about their achievements and how their trailblazing continues today. By honouring people who strove in the areas of equal rights, feminism and environmentalism/conservation, this fact-packed book celebrates what makes America great, then and now.Alabama: Rosa Parks; Alaska: Margaret Murie; Arizona: Cesar Chavez; Arkansas: All-American Redheads (women
£16.99
Triumph Books Rare Gems
An expansive and compelling chronicle tracing the rise of modern women's basketball Elvera Peps Neuman got lost in the sounds and rhythms of basketball, dribbling and shooting on a hoop affixed to her family's barn in Eden Valley, Minnesota. In the years preceding Title IX, Neuman's dreams of playing the game professionally meant a life away from home on barnstorming tours and even forming a team of her own, the Arkansas Gems. Sixty years later, she got to witnesswhat a sold-out Target Center in downtown Minneapolis looked like on the Friday night of the 2022 Women's Final Four. Neuman's cheers joined with a crowd of 18,268 to send a wall of sound toward Paige Bueckers and her Connecticut teammates.The 5'11 Bueckers may have worn her ponytail a little differently than Neuman, but Neuman certainly saw something of herself in the young superstar. This is the storyof the pioneers who shaped so much of the modern infrastructure for women's basketball, whose histories intersect and wi
£22.46
Quarto Publishing PLC 50 Trailblazers of the 50 States
Meet 50 trailblazers who made the United States what it is today in this bright, fact-packed biography book.With one trailblazer from every state, you''ll discover how Rosa Parks from Alabama fought for civil rights, how Barack Obama from Hawaii became the USA''s first Black president, how Margaret Murie from Alaska pioneered the American environmentalist movement and how Betty Ford from Michigan improved treatment for drug addiction.Each spread features a timeline of the trailblazer''s life, key facts about their achievements and how their trailblazing continues today. By honouring people who strove in the areas of equal rights, feminism and environmentalism/conservation, this fact-packed book celebrates what makes America great, then and now.Alabama: Rosa Parks; Alaska: Margaret Murie; Arizona: Cesar Chavez; Arkansas: All-American Redheads; California: Colin Kaepern
£12.99
