The Resource Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race, Margot Lee Shetterly
Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race, Margot Lee Shetterly
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xviii, 346 pages
- Contents
-
- A door opens
- Mobilization
- Past is prologue
- The double V
- Manifest destiny
- War birds
- The duration
- Those who moved forward
- Breaking the barriers
- Home by the sea
- The area rule
- Serendipity
- Turbulence
- Angle of attack
- Young, gifted, and black
- What a difference a day makes
- Outer space
- With all deliberate speed
- Model behavior
- Degrees of freedom
- Out of the past, the future
- America is for everybody
- To boldly go
- Isbn
- 9780062363596
- Label
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Title
- Hidden figures
- Title remainder
- the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Statement of responsibility
- Margot Lee Shetterly
- Language
- eng
- Biography type
- collective biography
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- Dewey number
- 510.92/520973
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- QA27.5
- LC item number
- .L44 2016b
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Label
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race, Margot Lee Shetterly
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-328) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- A door opens -- Mobilization -- Past is prologue -- The double V -- Manifest destiny -- War birds -- The duration -- Those who moved forward -- Breaking the barriers -- Home by the sea -- The area rule -- Serendipity -- Turbulence -- Angle of attack -- Young, gifted, and black -- What a difference a day makes -- Outer space -- With all deliberate speed -- Model behavior -- Degrees of freedom -- Out of the past, the future -- America is for everybody -- To boldly go
- Control code
- 1671582
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- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xviii, 346 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062363596
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2016021050
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) 1671582
- (Sirsi) 1671582
- (OCoLC)950004289
Subject
- African American mathematicians -- Biography
- African American women -- Biography
- Biographies
- Space race
- United States -- Officials and employees -- Biography
- Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography
Genre
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- The New York Times Best Sellers - E-Book Nonfiction
- The New York Times Best Sellers - Race and Civil Rights
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