Prepare for ramped-up STEM engagement with the latest installments in the STEM Trailblazer Bios series. In four to five brisk, photo-filled chapters, entries showcase each innovator's early life, education, career, and groundbreaking achievements. In Environmental Activist Wangari Maathai, readers learn of the convention-shattering leader. Born in Kenya in 1940, Maathai valiantly combatted countrywide deforestation through the Green Belt Movement, a grassroots tree-planting initiative. In 2004, Maathai became the first-ever African woman awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. With boldface vocabulary words and boxed quotations throughout well as appended time lines, source notes, and further resources ese nimble bios are just the thing for movers and shakers in the making.

Each volume details the life of a significant person in a STEM-related field. Emphasis is placed on the individual's childhood, education, and development of a specific interest, as well as notable contributions. The prose is stilted but informative, and many photographs are included alongside sidebars of related information and "Tech Talk" quotes by the featured trailblazer. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind.