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- My remarkable journey : a memoir / by Johnson, Katherine,author.; Hylick, Joylette,author.; Moore, Katherine(Writer at National Geographic Kids),author.; Page, Lisa Frazier,author.;
"Katherine Johnson was 97 years old in 2015, when the world caught up to her. That year, President Barack Obama awarded her the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom-the nation's highest civilian honor-for her pioneering work decades earlier as a mathematician on NASA's first flights into space. The next year, a blockbuster movie, Hidden Figures, told the world the story of the West Area Computing unit, where Katherine worked as a human computer among an unheralded cadre of African American female mathematicians. In the days before IBM introduced its first electronic computers and at a time when African Americans were subjected to inferior treatment and status, these brilliant women were among those doing the computations that helped send the United States' first manned spaceflights to the moon. Even among such a talented group, Katherine stood out. Astronaut John Glenn was reluctant to trust her computations of NASA's first electronic computers for the trajectory of his 1962 flight to the moon, until Katherine did the math by hand. "Get the girl," Glenn said then, referring to Katherine. "If she says they're good, then I'm ready to go." Now, in her definitive new memoir, Katherine shares her personal journey from a child prodigy growing up in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia to the peaceful centenarian she was in her final days. In A Remarkable Journey: The Wisdom, Grit, and Grace of a Pioneering NASA Mathematician, Katherine wraps her story around some of the basic tenets of her life-the value of knowing that no one is better than you, education is paramount, timing is everything, and asking questions can break barriers. Readers will see this heroine in full dimension-curious "daddy's girl," standout college student, pioneering professional, doting mother, grieving widow, and sage elder. They will hear the wisdom of a woman who handled great fame with genuine humility and great tragedy with enduring hope. They will see the brilliance of a young college student who latched onto a dream, inspired by a college professor who told her she would make a good "research mathematician." She would carry the mantle of that professor, who in 1933 became one of the first African Americans in the country to receive a doctorate in math, only to find his own dreams of becoming a research mathematician crushed by racism. The book moves with Katherine through 100 years of racial history, pausing to show, for example, the influential role that educators at segregated schools and Historically Black Colleges and Universities played in nurturing the dreams of trailblazers. In this uplifting narrative, readers see a woman who navigated tough racial terrain with the soft-spoken grace expected of a woman of her era, and the unrelenting grit required to make history and inspire future generations"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Johnson, Katherine G.; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; African American women mathematicians; Women mathematicians; African American teachers;
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- Final account [videorecording] / by Holland, Luke,film director.; Universal Pictures (Firm),publisher.;
An urgent portrait of the last living generation of everyday people to participate in Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. Over a decade in the making, the film raises vital, timely questions about authority, conformity, complicity and perpetration, national identity, and responsibility, as men and women ranging from former SS members to civilians in never-before-seen interviews reckon with their memories, perceptions and personal appraisals of their own roles in the greatest human crimes in history.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13; for thematic material and some disturbing images.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Motion pictures, German.; Foreign films.; Documentary films.; Historical films.; Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.; Nazis; National socialism;
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- La voleuse de livres : roman / by Zusak, Markus.; Girod, Marie-France;
LSC- Subjects: Roman historique.; Historical fiction.; Livres et lecture; Art de conter; Mort; Juifs; Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945; Books and reading; Storytelling; Death; Jews; World War, 1939-1945;
- © [2008], c2007., Pocket,
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- P'i͡atʹ koloskiv : holodomor, istoriï, i͡ak znykaly ukraïnt͡si / by Smalʹ, I͡Ulii͡a.; Hanyk, I͡Ulii͡a.; Vаchkо, Маrіi͡a.;
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- Subjects: Historical comics.; Nonfiction comics.; Picture books.; Victims of famine; Genocide; Ukrainian language materials.;
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- Assassination [videorecording] / by Choi, Dong-hoon,film director,screenwriter,producer.; Lee, Jung-jae,actor.; Lee, Ki-cheol,screenwriter.; Soo-hyun, Ahn,producer.; Well Go USA, Inc.,film distributor.;
Cinematography, Yoo Sang-Sub ; editor, Sin Min-Kyung.Gianna Jun, Jung-woo Ha, Jung-Jae Lee, Dal-su Oh, Jin-woong Jo.While Korea is occupied by the Japanese Army in 1933, the resistance plans to kill the Japanese Commander. But their plan is threatened by a traitor within their group and also the enemies' forces are hunting them down.14A.DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround and stereo.- Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Assassins; Escapes; Feature films.; Feature films.; Foreign films; Korean resistance movements, 1905-1945; Motion pictures, Korean.; Traitors;
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- Spaghetti westerns [videorecording (DVD)] / by Danton, Ray,1931-1992.; Harrison, Richard,1935-; Van Cleef, Lee,1925-1989.; Oates, Warren,1928-1982.; Lee, Chen; Hunter, Jeffrey,1925-1969.; Hilton, George,1934-; Palance, Jack,1919-2006.; Damon, Mark,1933-; Gemma, Giuliano,1938-; Mitchell, Cameron,1918-1994.; Madison, Guy; Widmark, Robert; Kinski, Klaus; Shatner, William; Stegani, Giorgio; Piehl, Vern; Baldanello, Gianfranco; Blasco, Ricardo; Petroni, Giulio; Tessari, Duccio,1926-; Santi, Giancarlo; Cicero, Nando; Lupo, Michele; Corbucci, Sergio,1926-1990.; Briz, Jose; Hellman, Monte,1932-; Brandt, Tony; Lucidi, Maurizio; Parolini, Gianfranco,1930-; Caiano, Mario,1933-; Girolami, Marino; Carnimeo, Giuliano; Freda, Riccardo; Mill Creek Entertainment.;
Disc 1. Beyond the law / Giorgio Stegani (director) 1968 (109 min.) -- Apache blood / Vern Piehl (director) 1975 (89 min.) -- This man can't die / Gianfranco Baldanello (director) 1967 (90 min.) -- Gunfight at Red Sands / Ricardo Blasco (director) 1964 (95 min.).Disc 2. Death rides a horse / Giulio Petroni (director) 1968 (114 min.) -- Sundance and the Kid / Duccio Tessari (director) 1969 (83 min.) -- Grand duel / Giancarlo Santi (director) 1974 (90 min.) -- Twice a Judas / Nando Cicero (director) 1969 (92 min.).Disc 3. The man from nowhere / Michele Lupo (director) 1966 (114 min.) -- Minnesota clay / Sergio Corbucci (director) 1965 (85 min.) -- White Comanche / José Briz Méndez 1968 (94 min.) -- China 9, Liberty, 37 / Monte Hellman, Tony Brandt (directors) 1978 (92 min.).Disc 4. It can be done, amigo / Maurizio Lucidi (director) 1973 (98 min.) -- God's gun / Gianfranco Parolini (director) 1975 (97 min.) -- The fighting fists of Shanghai Joe / Mario Caiano (director) 1972 (94 min.) -- Between God, the devil and a Winchester / Marino Girolami (director) 1968 (98 min.).Disc 5. Trinity and Sartana / Mario Siciliano (director) 1972 (102 min.) -- Find a place to die / Giuliano Carnimeo (director) 1968 (89 min.) -- Johnny Yuma / Riccardo Freda (director) 1966 (100 min.) -- Fistful of lead / Giuliano Carnimeo (director) 1970 (93 min.).Ray Danton, Richard Harrison, Lee Van Cleef, Warren Oates, Chen Lee, Jeffrey Hunter, George Hilton, Jack Palance, Mark Damon, Giuliano Gemma, Cameron Mitchell, Guy Madison, Robert Widmark, Klaus Kinski, William Shatner, and other actors.Canadian home video rating : R- Subjects: Spaghetti Westerns.; Revenge; Western films.;
- © c2009., Mill Creek Entertainment,
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