Laurie Calkhoven

"In 1946, six brilliant young women programmed the first all-electric computer, the ENIAC, as part of a secret World War II project. They learned how to program without any programming languages or tools. (None existed!) This is a story about the founding of technologies we cannot live without today -- and the story of six amazing young women everyone should know. You should meet the women who launched the computer age!" --Back cover.

The old adage says that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, meaning that children usually resemble their parents. But what happens when the apples fall somewhere else -- sometimes a couple of orchards away, sometimes on the other side of the world? In this young adult edition, Andrew Solomon profiles how families accommodate children who have a variety of differences: families of people who are deaf, who are dwarfs, who have Down syndrome, who...