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Visionary women : how Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters changed our world / Andrea Barnet.

Author: Barnet, Andrea, author.

Imprint:2018

Physical Description452 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Note:Discusses four influential women linked by their choice to break with convention, exploring how their work in their respective fields helped to ignite the progressive movement and offered a more positive way to think about the world.

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Barnet, Andrea, author.
Subject:
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Waters, Alice.
Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964.
Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006.
Goodall, Jane, 1934-
Waters, Alice.
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Women -- Biography.
Biography -- 20th century.
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City planners -- United States -- Biography.
Primatologists -- England -- Biography.
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