My Cart
Your cart is empty
Looks like you haven't made your choice yet.
- Subtotal
Hidden Figures
Margot Lee Shetterly
- Harper Collins UK
- Collins Modern Classics
More Information
Publisher | Harper Collins UK |
---|---|
ISBN | 9780008555375 |
Publication date | May 2022 |
Edition | Paperback |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
Pages | 368 |
Language(s) | English ed. |
Exhibition | Collins Modern Classics |
Description
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.
Hidden Figures