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Hidden Figures : The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race / Margot Lee Shetterly. - Wydanie 3. - London : William Collins, 2017. - XVIII, 346 stron ; 20 cm.

Autor

Lee Shetterly, Margot (1969- ).

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Książki Proza Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

Przynależność kulturowa

Literatura amerykańska

Temat

NASA Kobieta Rasizm Matematyka Astronautyka Przestrzeń kosmiczna Wynalazki Stany Zjednoczone (USA)

Gatunek

Biografia

Dziedzina i ujęcie

Historia Fizyka i astronomia

Index na stronach 329-346.

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.

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Warsaw 1944 : The Fateful Uprising / Alexandra Richie. - London : William Collins, 2013. - XIII, 738 s. : il., mapy ; 25 cm.

Autor

Richie, Alexandra.

Temat

Język angielski Wojna 1939-1945 r. Powstanie warszawskie (1944)

Gatunek

Wydawnictwa naukowe

Index s. 717-738.

In autumn 1944, German troops and police entered Warsaw to deport its inhabitants. Though the war was now all but lost, the demolition of Warsaw remained part of the Nazi racial plan of 'cleansing' central Europe for future German settlement. In the first five days alone, 40,000 human beings were shot, thrown out of windows, burned alive or trampled in a frenzied killing spree. But, to Himmler's surprise, the Poles did not give in. The Warsawians were well organized and fought valiantly. With the entire population behind it, the Uprising, which was originally expected to last less than a week, held out for sixty-three days. Finally, faced by a vastly superior force, the resistance was gradually crushed. More than 250,000 people had been killed and 85 per cent of Warsaw had been destroyed. Today Warsaw is again a bustling metropolis. Poland is a member of NATO, a member-elect of the European Union, and its partnership with Germany is remarkably close. But scars remain: on virtually every street corner, small memorials commemorate the dead. In her compellling account of the Uprising, Alexandra Richie puts the battle of Warsaw in its rightful place within the context of the Second World War. Using previously unpublished documents and photographs, she weaves the events of the battle and the experience of the soldiers and civilians as they fought street by street into a wider political, social and military context, incorporating views of Poles trapped within the city as well as Germans and Russians who witnessed the events. By examining the Warsaw Uprising in light of the Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin negotiations over the fate of post-war Europe, Richie examines why it has rightly been called the first battle of the Cold War.

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Hillbilly Elegy : A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis / J. D. Vance. - Wydanie 3. - London : William Collins, 2017. - 364 strony ; 20 cm.

Autor

Vance, J. D.

Forma i typ

Książki Proza

Przynależność kulturowa

Literatura amerykańska

Temat

Język angielski Stany Zjednoczone (USA)

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Pamiętniki i wspomnienia

Dziedzina i ujęcie

Socjologia i społeczeństwo Polityka, politologia, administracja publiczna

Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis-that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.The Vance family story begins hopefully in post-war America. J. D.'s grandparents were "dirt poor and in love," and moved north from Kentucky's Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility.But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that this is only the short, superficial version. Vance's grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother, struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, and were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. Vance piercingly shows how he himself still carries around the demons of their chaotic family history.A deeply moving memoir with its share of humour and vividly colourful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.

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