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If You Liked Hidden Figures science for all!
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The astronaut wives club : a true story
by Lily Koppel
Describes what lives were like for a group of military wives, including Annie Glenn, Rene Carpenter, Betty Grissom and Louise Shepherd, who were thrust into the spotlight when their husbands became Mercury Seven astronauts and made them stars.
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Black hole blues : and other songs from outer space
by Janna Levin
In 1916, Einstein became the first to predict the existence of gravitational waves: sounds without a material medium generated by the unfathomably energy-producing collision of black holes. Now, Janna Levin, herself an astrophysicist, recounts the story of the search, over the last fifty years, for these elusive waves--a quest that has culminated in the creation of the most expensive project ever funded by the National Science Foundation.
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Headstrong : 52 women who changed science-- and the world
by Rachel Swaby
These profiles of Nobel Prize winners and major innovators, as well as lesser-known but hugely significant scientists who influence our every day, span centuries of courageous thinkers and illustrate how each one's ideas developed and the discoveries for which they're best known.
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Lab girl
by Hope Jahren
A debut memoir by an award-winning paleobiologist traces her childhood in her father's laboratory, her longtime relationship with a brilliant but wounded colleague and the remarkable discoveries they have made both in the lab and during extensive field research assignments.
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We could not fail : the first African Americans in the space program
by Richard Paul
Profiles ten pioneer African American space workers whose stories illustrated the role NASA and the space program played in promoting civil rights. They recount how these technicians, mathematicians, engineers, and an astronaut candidate surmounted barriers to move, in some cases literally, from the cotton fields to the launching pad. Adding new names to the roster of civil rights heroes and a new chapter to the story of space exploration, We Could Not Fail demonstrates how African Americans broke the color barrier by competing successfully at the highest level of American intellectual and technological achievement.
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Wonder women : 25 innovators, inventors, and trailblazers who changed history
by Sam Maggs
The best-selling author of The FangirlĀ”s Guide to the Galaxy presents a fun and feminist look at the brilliant, brainy and totally rad women in history who broke barriers as scientists, engineers, mathematicians, adventurers and inventors, along with interviews with real-life women in STEM careers.
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