Sally Ride: Breaking Barriers and Defying Gravity (Women Making History) - Hardcover

Pérez, Jackie

 
9781440874895: Sally Ride: Breaking Barriers and Defying Gravity (Women Making History)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1440874891 ISBN 13: 9781440874895
Verlag: ABC-CLIO, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Showcases the life of the first American woman in space, from her childhood, to her accomplishments as a tennis star, and her pioneering achievements as an astronaut and science educator.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Jackie Pérez is a nuclear engineer turned writer and filmmaker in Washington D.C. After graduating MIT she joined the Navy, serving her country and collecting experiences across the globe which inform her point of view. She also holds an MFA in Television and Screenwriting from Stephens College.

Peg. A. Lamphier, PhD, teaches interdisciplinary humanities at California State Polytechnic University and Women's History at Mount San Antonio College. Lamphier wrote Kate Chase and William Sprague: Politics and Gender in a Civil War Marriage (2003) and Spur Up Your Pegasus: Family Letters of Salmon, Kate, and Nettie Chase, 1844-1873 (2009), and coedited Women in American History: A Social, Political, and Cultural Encyclopedia and Document Collection (ABC-CLIO 2017) and Technological Innovation in American History: An Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO 2019). She also co-authored The Civil War on Film and American Women's History on Film (Bloomsbury 2020, 2022).

Rosanne Welch is Executive Director of the Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting, USA. She has TV writing credits on Beverly Hills 90210, Picket Fences, Nightline and Touched by an Angel. Her award-winning publications include When Women Wrote Hollywood (2018) and Women in American History (2017). She has additionally written American Women's History on Film (2023) and The Civil War on Film (2021).

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Verlag
ABC-CLIO
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1440874891
ISBN 13 
9781440874895
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
240
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