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Set amid the civil rights movement, this is the true story of NASA's African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America's space program.
Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as 'Human Computers', calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts, these 'coloured computers' used pencil and paper to write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.
Moving from World War II through NASA's golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the women's rights movement, 'Hidden Figures' interweaves a rich history of mankind's greatest adventure with the intimate stories of five courageous women whose work forever changed the world.
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Hidden Figures (Paperback)
Margot Lee Shetterly; Illustrated by Laura Freeman
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R190
Discovery Miles 1 900
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Based on the New York Times bestselling book and the Academy
Award-nominated movie, author Margot Lee Shetterly and Coretta
Scott King Illustrator Honor Award winner Laura Freeman bring the
incredibly inspiring true story of four black women who helped NASA
launch men into space to picture book readers! Dorothy Vaughan,
Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at
math...really good. They participated in some of NASA's greatest
successes, like providing the calculations for America's first
journeys into space. And they did so during a time when being black
and a woman limited what they could do. But they worked hard. They
persisted. And they used their genius minds to change the world. In
this beautifully illustrated picture book edition, we explore the
story of four female African American mathematicians at NASA, known
as "colored computers," and how they overcame gender and racial
barriers to succeed in a highly challenging STEM-based career.
"Finally, the extraordinary lives of four African American women
who helped NASA put the first men in space is available for picture
book readers," proclaims Brightly in their article "18 Must-Read
Picture Books of 2018." "Will inspire girls and boys alike to love
math, believe in themselves, and reach for the stars."
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Oscar Nominated For Best Picture and
Best Adapted Screenplay Set amid the civil rights movement, the
never-before-told true story of NASA's African-American female
mathematicians who played a crucial role in America's space
program. Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of
professionals worked as 'Human Computers', calculating the flight
paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these
were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women.
Segregated from their white counterparts, these 'colored computers'
used pencil and paper to write the equations that would launch
rockets, and astronauts, into space. Moving from World War II
through NASA's golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the
Space Race, the Cold War, and the women's rights movement, Hidden
Figures interweaves a rich history of mankind's greatest adventure
with the intimate stories of five courageous women whose work
forever changed the world.
A vivid portrait collection of past and present Americans speaking
truth to power The first volume of Robert Shetterly's Americans Who
Tell the Truth portrait series, Portraits of Racial Justice takes a
multimedia, interdisciplinary approach, blending art and history
with today's issues concerning social, environmental, and economic
fairness. Shetterly's paintings, as well as profiles of those
portrayed, illuminate a community of people not only willing to
recognize the shortcomings of America's history, but most
importantly, individuals who offer their visions of a better world
moving forward. Starting with Michelle Alexander and ending with
Dave Zirin, the diverse array of fifty full-color portraits spans
multiple generations and struggles. This volume also includes four
original opening essays on racial justice in the United States by
Ai-jen Poo, Dave Zirin, Sherri Mitchell, and Rev. Lennox Yearwood,
Jr., which provide an intersectional response to the long-term goal
of diversity and inclusion. As Shetterly says, "without activism,
hope is merely sentimental." Portraits of Racial Justice,
Shetterly's homage to transformative game-changers and status-quo
fighters, provides the inspiration necessary to spark social
change.
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Golden Globe-winner
Taraji P. Henson and Academy Award-winners Octavia Spencer and
Kevin Costner Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South and
the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of
NASA's African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial
role in America's space program-and whose contributions have been
unheralded, until now. Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil
Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as
"Human Computers," calculating the flight paths that would enable
these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright,
talented African-American women. Segregated from their white
counterparts by Jim Crow laws, these "colored computers," as they
were known, used slide rules, adding machines, and pencil and paper
to support America's fledgling aeronautics industry, and helped
write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into
space. Drawing on the oral histories of scores of these
"computers," personal recollections, interviews with NASA
executives and engineers, archival documents, correspondence, and
reporting from the era, Hidden Figures recalls America's greatest
adventure and NASA's groundbreaking successes through the
experiences of five spunky, courageous, intelligent, determined,
and patriotic women: Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine
Johnson, Christine Darden, and Gloria Champine. Moving from World
War II through NASA's golden age, touching on the civil rights era,
the Space Race, the Cold War, and the women's rights movement,
Hidden Figures interweaves a rich history of scientific achievement
and technological innovation with the intimate stories of five
women whose work forever changed the world-and whose lives show how
out of one of America's most painful histories came one of its
proudest moments.
Based on the New York Times bestselling book and the Academy Award–nominated movie, author Margot Lee Shetterly and illustrator Laura Freeman bring the incredibly inspiring true story of four black women who helped NASA launch men into space to picture book readers!
Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math…really good.
They participated in some of NASA's greatest successes, like providing the calculations for America's first journeys into space. And they did so during a time when being black and a woman limited what they could do. But they worked hard. They persisted. And they used their genius minds to change the world.
In this beautifully illustrated picture book edition, we explore the story of four female African American mathematicians at NASA, known as "colored computers," and how they overcame gender and racial barriers to succeed in a highly challenging STEM-based career.
Five compelling essays and fifty stunning portraits and profiles of
American environmental activists This second volume in the
Americans Who Tell the Truth series features Robert Shetterly's
magnificent color portraits and profiles of fifty environmental and
climate activists—people who diagnose the truth of the greatest
crisis humanity has ever confronted and take action. The book also
features original essays by revered environmentalists Bill
McKibben, Leah Penniman, Diane Wilson, Bill Bigelow, and Robin Wall
Kimmerer, whose words illuminate the plight and its causes, and
point a way forward. Along with the genocide of Indigenous peoples
and the institution of slavery, the third tragic and persistent
mistake of the leaders of this country was to attempt to separate
economic and political culture from the laws of nature—to operate
on the basis that nature could be exploited endlessly for profit.
The damage done to the Earth and to the future of life on the
planet is incalculable. The people portrayed here have bought
warnings, offered solutions, and organized movements to restore
ecological sanity.
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Golden Globe--winner
Taraji P. Henson and Academy Award--winners Octavia Spencer and
Kevin Costner Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South and
the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of
NASA's African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial
role in America's space program--and whose contributions have been
unheralded, until now. Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil
Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as
"Human Computers," calculating the flight paths that would enable
these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright,
talented African-American women. Segregated from their white
counterparts by Jim Crow laws, these "colored computers," as they
were known, used slide rules, adding machines, and pencil and paper
to support America's fledgling aeronautics industry, and helped
write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into
space. Drawing on the oral histories of scores of these
"computers," personal recollections, interviews with NASA
executives and engineers, archival documents, correspondence, and
reporting from the era, Hidden Figures recalls America's greatest
adventure and NASA's groundbreaking successes through the
experiences of five spunky, courageous, intelligent, determined,
and patriotic women: Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine
Johnson, Christine Darden, and Gloria Champine. Moving from World
War II through NASA's golden age, touching on the civil rights era,
the Space Race, the Cold War, and the women's rights movement,
Hidden Figures interweaves a rich history of scientific achievement
and technological innovation with the intimate stories of five
women whose work forever changed the world--and whose lives show
how out of one of America's most painful histories came one of its
proudest moments.
"If you pay attention to the land where you live, you enter into
conversation with it, until it becomes a voice inside you, and some
of the boundaries between you and it dissolve," writes Susan Hand
Shetterly in her introduction to these heartfelt essays about
learning to appreciate the view from wherever you're standing. In
an age of restlessness, Shetterly explores what it means to stay in
one place by writing about the things she finds in the natural
world around her home on the ragged edge of the continent.
Find here the "Outhouse Ponderin's" cartoons and list of sayings
and phrases that I've written over many years (and at least one
with my Mom, Betty Shetterly, used with permission). Some humorous
ones and thoughtful ones-but they all go back to my life and my
Tennessee roots (hence the outhouse "ponderin'" graphic). Enjoy
Updated a decade after its original publication, this memoir by
Jean Hay Bright chronicles the years in the 1970s when the author
and her first husband, a traumatized Vietnam veteran, homesteaded
on 25 rugged Maine acres sold to them by Living the Good Life
authors Helen and Scott Nearing, and the aftermath of that
experience in the decades that followed. Jean also used her
investigative reporting skills to try to resolve some long-standing
and nagging questions about the Nearings, focusing particularly on
their finances over the decades. Her research also turned up some
surprising and enlightening facts about how Helen and Scott Nearing
actually lived and died. The revised edition has a new Prologue by
Susan Hand Shetterly, more family photos, an expanded Afterword, as
well as details and a new chapter pulled from Scott Nearing's FBI
file, including documentation of Scott's listing in J. Edgar
Hoover's Custodial Detention program.
From the edge of the Elflands to the top of World's Peak, drawn
together on a quest whether they like it or not....
"The first-rate world building, the unique cast of characters, and
the author's clever whimsey make it absorbing reading.
Recommended." -"Booklist"
Stories by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly. By Emma Bull: "The
Princess and the Lord of Night" "Man of Action" "The Last of John
Ringo" "De la Tierra" "What Used to Be Good Still Is" "Joshua Tree"
"Silver or Gold" By Will Shetterly "The Princess Who Kicked Butt"
"Oldthings" "Brian and the Aliens" "Taken He Cannot Be" "Little Red
and the Big Bad" "Secret Identity" "The People Who Owned the Bible"
"Kasim's Haj" "The Thief of Dreams" "Black Rock Blues" "Dream
Catcher"
Have you been abused? Do you suffer from depression or suicidal
thoughts? Does life seem like a hopeless struggle of desperation?
Suffering from a somatoform disorder (also known as a conversion
disorder) in 1991, Don Shetterly was paralyzed and not able to walk
or take care of himself. Traumatic moments of child abuse he lived
through from an early age had finally caught up with him. At age
26, Don was set on a path that in order to survive and live, he had
to heal those deep dark corners of his life. While this book is not
a direct account of all that happened, the words here do form a
picture of hope and possibility through trauma. Often when Don's
world was upside down and it seemed as if he could not make it, he
turned to writing to help piece the moments of his life back
together. These writings have come together into a book depicting
the path of healing in his life. While it has not been an easy
journey, Don wants others to know that no matter what you have been
through in life, there is hope and possibility though trauma.
"In late 1950s Florida, the transplanted Nix family opens Dogland,
a tourist attraction, and their beliefs in integration attract the
attention of the Klan. Young Christopher Nix befriends a black man
and a Seminole woman who may know the real secret to the Fountain
of Youth. Shetterly captures the rhythm, feel, and language of
cracker Florida, its legends, and the clash of cultures.
Recommended for fantasy collections." -Library Journal
An ancient, and vital, part of nature's ecosystem, seaweed is now
emerging as an increasingly important source of food in a world
faced with diminishing natural resources. In Seaweed Chronicles,
acclaimed nature writer Susan Hand Shetterly opens a window into
the world of this fascinating organism by providing an elegant,
often poetic look at life on the rugged shore of the Gulf of Maine.
Shetterly offers a close look at the life cycle of seaweed, and
introduces us to the men and women who farm and harvest it - and
their increasingly difficult task of protecting this critical
natural resource against forces both natural and man-made. Ideal
for readers of such books as The Hidden Life of Trees and How to
Read Water, Seaweed Chronicles is a beautiful tribute to a
little-known part of our country and a significant contribution to
our understanding of our natural habitat.
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