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Understanding numbers : simplify life's mathematics, decode the world around you / by Freiberger, Marianne,author.; Thomas, Rachel(Mathematician),author.;

Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Mathematics;

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Benjamin Banneker and us [sound recording] by Webster, Rachel Jamison,1974-author,narrator. (CARDINAL)860783; Larris, Edith Lee,author. ; Lee, Edwin,author. (CARDINAL)865176; Lett, Robert,author. (CARDINAL)869323; Marable, Gwen,author. (CARDINAL)869324;

Read by the author. In 1791, Thomas Jefferson hired a Black man to help survey Washington, DC. That man was Benjamin Banneker, an African American mathematician, a writer of almanacs, and one of the greatest astronomers of his generation. Banneker then wrote what would become a famous letter to Jefferson, imploring the new president to examine his hypocrisy, as someone who claimed to love liberty yet was an enslaver. More than two centuries later, Rachel Jamison Webster, an ostensibly white woman, learns that this groundbreaking Black forefather is also her distant relative. Acting as a storyteller, Webster draws on oral history and conversations with her DNA cousins to imagine the lives of their shared ancestors across eleven generations, among them Banneker's grandparents, an interracial couple who broke the law to marry when America was still a conglomerate of colonies under British rule. These stories shed light on the legal construction of race and display the brilliance and resistance of early African Americans in the face of increasingly unjust laws, some of which are still in effect in the present day. Compact disc.

Subjects: Audiobooks.; Biographies.; Bana'ka, approximately 1670-; Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806; Webster, Rachel J.; Banneker family. ; Lett family. ; African Americans; Multiracial families;

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Benjamin Banneker and us : eleven generations of an American family / by Webster, Rachel Jamison,1974-author.(CARDINAL)860783; Harris, Edith Lee,author.(CARDINAL)869322; Lett, Robert,author.(CARDINAL)869323; Marable, Gwen,author.(CARDINAL)869324; Lee, Edwin(Edwin Archibald),1950-author.(CARDINAL)887343;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-351)."A family reunion gives way to an unforgettable genealogical quest as relatives reconnect across lines of color, culture, and time, putting the past into urgent conversation with the present. In 1791, Thomas Jefferson hired a Black man to help survey Washington, DC. That man was Benjamin Banneker, an African American mathematician, a writer of almanacs, and one of the greatest astronomers of his generation. Banneker then wrote what would become a famous letter to Jefferson, imploring the new president toexamine his hypocrisy, as someone who claimed to love liberty yet was an enslaver. More than two centuries later, Rachel Jamison Webster, an ostensibly white woman, learns that this groundbreaking Black forefather is also her distant relative. Acting as astoryteller, Webster draws on oral history and conversations with her DNA cousins to imagine the lives of their shared ancestors across eleven generations, among them Banneker's grandparents, an interracial couple who broke the law to marry when Americawas still a conglomerate of colonies under British rule. These stories shed light on the legal construction of race and display the brilliance and resistance of early African Americans in the face of increasingly unjust laws, some of which are still in effect in the present day"--Author's note -- Letter to the future -- Denial in the bloodline -- The milkmaid -- Reverse migration -- At sea -- The park and the museum -- The company of Maryland -- The untangling -- Stolen -- The white horse -- The elders -- Juneteenth -- Mary -- Coincidences -- Robert -- Gwen -- Childhood -- I can't breathe -- Keeping time -- Letter carriers -- Revolution -- Toward the setting sun -- The dream -- Griots -- The Capitol -- Insurrection -- The correspondence -- The rift -- Publication -- Reckoning -- The final years -- Legacies -- Burning -- Fragments -- The archive -- On Banneker land -- The end -- Afterword.

Subjects: Biographies.; Family histories.; Banneker family.; Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806; Bana'ka, approximately 1670-; Webster, Rachel Jamison, 1974-; Lett family.; African Americans; Multiracial families;

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Good night stories for rebel girls. by Cavallo, Francesca,author.(CARDINAL)620733; Favilli, Elena,author.(CARDINAL)631715;

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2 is a children's book packed with 100 bedtime stories about the life of 100 extraordinary women from the past and the present, illustrated by 60 female artists from all over the world. This book inspires girls with the stories of great women.Agatha Christie, writer -- Aisholpan Nurgaiv, eagle huntress -- Alice Ball, chemist -- Andrée Peel, French Resistance fighter -- Angela Merke, Chancellor -- Anita Garibaldi, revolutionary -- Anne Bonny, pirate -- Audrey Hepburn, actress -- Beatrice Vio, fencer -- Beatrix Potter, writer and illustrator -- Beyoncé, singer, songwriter, and businesswoman -- Billie Jean King, tennis player -- The Black Mambas, rangers -- Boudicca, Queen -- Brenda Milner, neuropsychologist -- Buffalo Calf Road Woman, warrior -- Madam C.J. Walker, businesswoman; -- Carmen Amaya, Dancer -- Celia Cruz, singer -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, writer -- Christina of Sweden, Queen -- Clara Rockmore, musician -- Clara Schumann, pianist and composer -- Clemantine Wamariya, storyteller and activist -- Corrie Ten Boom, watchmaker -- Eleanor Roosevelt, politician -- Ellen Degeneres, comedian and TV host -- Florence Chadwick, swimmer -- Gae Aulenti, architect and designer -- Georgia O'Keeffe, painter -- Gerty Cori, biochemist -- Giusi Nicolini, mayor -- Gloria Steinem, activist -- Hedy Lamarr, actress and inventor -- Hortensia, orator -- Isadora Duncan, dancer -- J.K. Rowling, writer -- Jeanne Baret, housekeeper and explorer -- Joan Beauchamp Procter, zoologist -- Johanna Nordblad, ice diver -- Katherine Johnson, Doroty Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, computer scientists -- Katia Krafft, volcanologist -- Khoudia Diop, model -- Lauren Potter, Actress -- Leymah Gbowee, peace activist -- Lilian Bland, aviator -- Lorena Ochoa, golfer -- Lowri Morgan, ultramarathon runner -- Luo Dengping, extreme rock climber -- Madam Saqui, acrobat.Madonna, singer, songwriter, and businesswoman -- Marie Tharp, geologist -- Marina Abramović, performance artist -- Marta Vieira da Silva, soccer player -- Mary Fields, mail carrier -- Mary Kingsley, explorer -- Mary Seacole, nurse -- Mary Shelley, writer -- Maryam Mirzakhani, mathematician -- Mata Hari, spy -- Matilda of Canossa, feudal ruler -- Merrritt Moore, quantum physicist and ballerina -- Molly Kelly, Daisy Kadibill, and Gracie Fields, freedom Fighters -- Nadia Comaneci, gymnast -- Nadia Murad, human rights activist -- Madine Gordimer, writer and activist -- Nefertiti, Queen -- Oprah Winfrey, TV host, actress, and businesswoman -- Pauline Léon, revolutionary -- Peggy Guggenheim, art collector -- Poorna Malavath, mountaineer; -- Qui Jin, revolutionary -- Rachel Carson, environmentalist -- Rigoberta Menchú Tum, political activist -- Rosalind Franklin, chemist and x-ray crystallographer -- Ruby Nell Bridges, activist -- Samantha Cristoforetti, astronaut -- Sappho, poet -- Sara Seager, astrophysicist -- Sarinya Srisakul, firefighter -- Selda Bağcan, singer and songwriter -- Serafina Battaglia, anti-mafia witness -- Shamsia Hassani, graffiti artist -- Simone Veil, politician -- Sky Brown, skateboarder -- Sofia Ionescu, neurosurgeon -- Sojourner Truth, activist -- Sonia Sotomayor, Justice of the Supreme Court -- Sophia Loren, actress -- Sophie Scholl, activist -- Steffi Graf, tennis player -- Temple Grandin, professor of animal sciences -- Troop 6000, Girl Scouts -- Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut -- Valerie Thomas, astronomer -- Violeta Parra, composer and musician -- Virginia Hall, spy -- Vivian Maier, photographer -- Wisława Szymborska, poet -- Yeonmi Park, activist -- Write your own story -- Draw your portrait -- Glossary -- Rebels' Hall of Fame -- Illustrators -- Acknowledgements -- About the authors.960L

Subjects: Biographies.; Women; Women; Women.; Womyn.;

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