Марго Ли Шеттерли — новинки

Porywająca opowieść o wyjątkowych kobietach, które zrobiły tak wiele, a o których wiemy mało lub nic.

Bez pracy tych wybitnie utalentowanych matematyczek amerykański sen o podboju kosmosu pozostałby w sferze marzeń. Świadome swej wartości, walczą o należne im miejsce w świecie zdominowanym przez mężczyzn, w świecie, w którym nadal obowiązują haniebne prawa segregacji rasowej.

To świetnie opowiedziana historia, która powstała dzięki setkom rozmów, wywiadów i mrówczej pracy badawczej.

Z morza informacji wyłonił się wielobarwny, intrygujący obraz pewnej epoki, z jej wszystkimi blaskami i cieniami.

Pravdivý příběh tří Afroameričanek, jež se zapsaly do dějin NASA jako tzv. lidské počítače. Matematičky černé pleti Dorothy Vaughanová, Mary Jacksonová a Katherine Johnsonová přispěly k největším úspěchům NASA a významně napomohly k uskutečnění amerického snu vyslat člověka do vesmíru a přistát na Měsíci. Jejich výpočty přispěly k tomu, že americký astronaut John Glenn mohl v roce 1962 úspěšně letět do kosmu. Příběh napsaný na základě osobních vzpomínek bývalých zaměstnanců a jejich rodinných příslušníků, studia archivních dokumentů, korespondence a článků v novinách o trojici černošek stojících na americkém společenském žebříčku na nejnižší příčce, jejichž práce však navždy změnila tvář NASA a v době studené války pomohla Spojeným státům americkým podmanit si vesmír.

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.

The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space. Now a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner.

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 shots 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.

Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and the space race, Hidden Figures 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 as they faced challenges, forged alliances, and used their intellects to change their own lives - and their country's future.

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.