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This rhyming, picture book biography highlights the life, struggles, and accomplishments of animal scientist and professor Dr. Temple Grandin. One of the first people to publicly share insight to her autism spectrum disorder, Grandin used the difference within the way she saw the world to help her accomplish her dreams. Though this condition made her different and posed certain challenges for her throughout life, she overcame those challenges in big...
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True story of six women who programmed the ENIAC computer as part of a secret WWII mission. They learned to program the computer without any software, instructions or tools (none existed.). --
The story of Jean Jennings, Kay McNulty, Frances Bilas, Ruth Lichterman, Betty Snyder, and Marlyn Wescoff, who were chosen to work on the ENIAC computer.
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"A stunning and intimate biography of Margaret Hamilton, the computer engineer who helped Apollo 11 and mankind get from the Earth to the moon. First-hand accounts, exclusive interviews with the legendary Margaret Hamilton, and detailed science populate the pages of this remarkable biography. In 1969, mankind successfully left our atmosphere and landed on the moon. It took countless hours of calculations, training, wonder, and sacrifice from all of...
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In alternating scenes of her childhood and her adult career, the author, former astronaut Kathryn Sullivan, tells how she grew up to become the first American woman to walk in space. Includes lists of the other women in the first space-shuttle class and other first accomplished by women in space.