Hidden figures:
Author
Format:
Kit
Physical Description
15 paperback books, 1 discussion guide ; in 1 canvas bag with identification tag
Production / Publication Information
[2016]
Summary
"Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and the space race, [this book] follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA's greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances, and used their intellect to change their own lives, and their country's future"--Back cover.
Call Number
BCK / HIDDEN FIGURES
Publication Date
2016
Language
English
ISBN
9780062363602
Hidden figures :
Author
Format:
Large print
Physical Description
279 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 22 cm
Edition
Young readers' edition.
Production / Publication Information
Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thorndike Press, 2018.
Summary
The true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space.
Call Number
LP 510.92 SHETTERLY
Publication Date
2018
Language
English
ISBN
9781432850258
Hidden figures :
Author
Format:
Audio disc
Physical Description
9 audio discs (approximately 645 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition
Unabridged. Retail edition.
Production / Publication Information
[New York] : Harper Audio, [2016]
Summary
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America₂s greatest achievements in space.
Call Number
CD 510.92 LEE
Publication Date
2016
Language
English
ISBN
9780062667168 9781441709653
Hidden figures :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Edition
First edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
Summary
Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918-), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942-).
Call Number
J 510.92 SHE
Publication Date
2018
Language
English
ISBN
9780062742469 9781338562286
Hidden figures :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xviii, 346, 14 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition
First William Morrow paperback edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2017.
Summary
"Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South's segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America's aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam's call, moving to Hampton, Virginia, and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Even as Virginia's Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women of Langley's all-black "West Computing" group helped America achieve one of the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and complete domination of the heavens."--Publisher's description.
Call Number
510.92/SHET 2016
Publication Date
2017
Language
English
ISBN
9780062677280
Hidden figures :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xviii, 349 pages ; 21 cm
Edition
First William Morrow movie tie-in trade paperback edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2016.
Summary
"Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and the space race, [this book] follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA's greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances, and used their intellect to change their own lives, and their country's future"--Back cover.
Call Number
510.92 SHE
Publication Date
2016
Language
English
ISBN
9780062363602
Hidden figures :
Author
Format:
Large print
Physical Description
xxiv, 543 pages ; 23 cm
Edition
First Harper Luxe edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York, NY : Harper Luxe [2016]
Call Number
LP/510.92/SHET
Publication Date
2016
Language
English
ISBN
9780062466440
Hidden figures :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xviii, 346 pages ; 24 cm
Edition
First edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York, NY : William Morrow, [2016]
Summary
Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South's segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America's aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam's call, moving to Hampton Virginia and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Even as Virginia's Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women of Langley's all-black "West Computing" group helped America achieve one of the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and complete domination of the heavens."--
Call Number
510.92 SHE
Publication Date
2016
Language
English
ISBN
9780062363596
Hidden figures :
Author
Format:
Audio disc
Physical Description
9 audio discs (10 3/4 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition
Unabridged.
Production / Publication Information
[Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone ; Harper Audio, [2016]
Summary
An account of the previously unheralded but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program describes how they were segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws in spite of their groundbreaking successes.
Call Number
CDBOOK 510.92 SHETTERLY
Publication Date
2016
Language
English
ISBN
9781441709585
Hidden figures :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
231 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Edition
Young readers' edition. First edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York, NY : Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]
Summary
Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them from their white counterparts despite their groundbreaking successes.
Call Number
510.92 SHE / TEEN
Publication Date
2016
Language
English
ISBN
9780062662385 9780062662378 9780606396233
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Hidden figures :
Author
Format:
Audio disc
Physical Description
4 audio discs (4 1/4 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition
Young reader's edition unabridged. Retail edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York, NY : Harper Audio, [2016]
Summary
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA, whose calculations helped fuel some of the United States' greatest achievements in space.
Call Number
JBCD 510.92 SHE
Publication Date
2016
Language
English
ISBN
9780062668615
Hidden figures
Author
Format:
Large print
Physical Description
281 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Edition
Large print edition. Young readers' edition.
Production / Publication Information
Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017.
Summary
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 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.
Call Number
LARGE PRINT 510.92 SHE
Publication Date
2017
Language
English
ISBN
9781432843274
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