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  • Shetterly, Margot Lee, author.
     
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  • United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
     
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  • Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography.
     
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  • African American women -- Biography.
     
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  • African American mathematicians -- Biography.
     
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  • Space race.
     
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    Hidden figures [large type] : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race / Margot Lee Shetterly.
    by Shetterly, Margot Lee, author.
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    New York, NY : Harper Luxe, [2016]
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  • United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
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  • Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography.
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  • African American women -- Biography.
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  • African American mathematicians -- Biography.
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  • Space race.
  • ISBN: 
    9780062466440 (large print ; paperback) :
    0062466445 (large print ; paperback)
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    xxiv, 543 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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    First Harper Luxe edition.
    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.
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    The true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space.
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    Nanakuli Public LibraryLarge TypeLT 510.9252 ShChecked InAdd Copy to MyList


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