【商品详情】
书名：Hidden Figures隐藏人物/ NASA无名英雌
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1120L
读者对象：8-12岁
作者：Margot Lee Shetterly
出版社名称：HarperCollins
出版时间：2016
语种：英文
ISBN：9780062662378
商品尺寸：13 x 1.3 x 19.4 cm
包装：平装
页数：240
人可以有颜色的区分，但是天赋和才能没有！
早在阿姆斯特朗漫步在月球之前，NASA里就有着一群被称之为“人体电脑”的女性数学家们，用着铅笔与计算机，默默算出了那些后来化为太空船、飞行轨道的重要公式。没有她们的帮助，太空竞赛的结局，甚至是人类太空发展史，可能都不是今天的模样。
Hidden Figures《隐藏人物》就是关于这群NASA无名英雌的故事，尤其聚焦于几位非裔杰出女性的卓越表现。对应大时代的氛围，从二战到冷战与太空竞赛，为读者揭开她们的工作与挑战，这太空发展史鲜为人知的折页。
故事改编的电影于2017年初上映，好评如潮，励志感人。
The uplifting, amazing true story—a New York Times bestseller
This edition of Margot Lee Shetterly’s acclaimed book is perfect for young readers. It is the powerful story of four African-American female mathematicians at NASA who helped achieve some of the greatest moments in our space program. 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.
This book brings to life the stories of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, who lived through the Civil Rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the movement for gender equality, and whose work forever changed the face of NASA and the country.
Review:
“The perfect impetus for discussion on a host of important historical themes germane to the 1950s, such as gender roles, racial prejudice and segregation, and scientific exploration… Middle-schoolers will find their story, here in a young readers’ edition of Shetterly’s 2016 adult book, engaging and inspirational.” —Booklist
Margot Lee Shetterly grew up in Hampton, Virginia, where she knew many of the women in her book Hidden Figures. She is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow and the recipient of a Virginia Foundation for the Humanities grant for her research on women in computing. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
