Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Praise goes to Rachel Ignotofsky for assembling these tributes to important women in science. There is much that is good about the book and its biographies, but many aspects of the design detract from its message. The fanciful caricatures become monotonous after awhile. The interesting facts sprinkled around the ‘portraits’ and in the margins are a distraction from the main articles that are difficult to read anyway owing to the small print. The science is occasionally oversimplified into serious inaccuracy. Many of the definitions in the glossary are misleading and incomplete, wrong, or introduce terms incorrectly, sometimes not otherwise defined; some seem to be partially extracted from wikipedia without a full understanding of the science. So let the reader beware.