Inspiration

I have found inspiration in so many places - check out my "top shelf" below...

Environmental Engineering and Water Treatment in Developing world

Book: Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation by  Dan Fagin 
(This is an amazing book about environmental contamination in Toms River, NJ.   It includes many every day heroes and also shows that, sometimes, the environmental issue is not what you think...)
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Book: Kochia Chronicles by Khanjan Mehta (2013) 
(This a great book about the mistakes sometimes made by people trying to "save the world".)
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Work/Life Balance

​Book: Unfinished business: Men Women Work Family by Anne-Marie Slaughter
(This book is the best I have read on the work/life balance.  Her thesis is that there is both caring and competition in a family and those roles need to be clarified in any family.)
Society 
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Book: Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild 
This is the best book I have read that helped me understand and appreciate the Tea Party and those that voted for President Trump.  

Book: Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood by Lisa Damour ​
This is a science-based book on teenage girls.

Book:Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 
This is still my favorite book on slavery.  Legend has it that Lincoln said to Harriet - "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war."   

Book: The Jesus I Never Knew  by Phillip Yancey 
This is an amazing book on the life of Jesus - the way he treated people and lived his life against society.

Book: Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence by David Keirsey 
This book is helpful to understand that we are all very different from each other and is based on the Meyers-Briggs type indicator.
Psychology (help for students and others)
 The Imposter Phenomenon in High Achieving Women:              Dynamics and Therapeutic Intervention Pauline Rose      
       Clance & Suzanne Imes
 IMPOSTORS EVERYWHERE by Richard M. Felder
The  "I am not good enough and someday they will all find out I don't really belong here."

Personalities:  Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence by David Keirsey 
This book is helpful to understand that we are all very different from each other and is based on the Meyers-Briggs type indicator.

Stereotype Threat:  "Whistling Vivaldi: How stereotypes affect us and what we can do" by Claude Steel (2011)
​See Claude Steel's lecture at Penn State here

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Women Suffrage movement (in US and UK)
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Book: Iron-Jawed Angels: The Suffrage Militancy of the National Woman's Party, by Linda G. Ford

Movie - Iron Jawed Angels (YouTube link) starring Hillary Swank as Alice Paul. 
Movie - Suffragette (YouTube link) about the suffrage movement in the UK.
National monument in DC: Belmont Paul House

I had not heard of Alice Paul - the leader of the suffrage movement in the US - even though she was born in my hometown of Moorestown, NJ (now Mt. Laurel).  Rarely do I meet a young person who has heard of her either.  Below is more information about her and her work as well as other unsung heroes...

Scientists in History

Book: Nepolian's Buttons: How 17 molecules changed history by Penny Le Couteur (2004) Fascinating book about the discovery of useful molecules including the "pill", DDT and fats.

Book: The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean (2011) (I love this book because it has so many fascinating stories like dissolving gold Noble Prizes in Aqua regia)
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​​book: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot  

book: The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Denise Kiernan 

book;Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

TV series: Genius: The Story of Albert Einstein.
Podcast: Fritz Haber - Brilliant Noble Prize Winner or War Criminal?

Article: Goeppert Mayer who won the Nobel Prize in 1963 even though she was rarely paid for her scientific work.  When she won the  the local San Diego newspaper featured the headline, "S.D. Mother Wins Nobel Prize.

Article: Lise Meitner was a famous scientist who helped discover fission.  Many people think she should have received the Nobel Prize.  Yearly later she did have an element named after her - MT 109.

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