{"product_id":"9780008201326","title":"Hidden Figures : The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Shetterly, Margot Lee \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 09\/02\/2017,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 384 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780008201326,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697460346924,"sku":"9780008201326","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780008201326.jpg?v=1722595792","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.live\/products\/9780008201326","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}