{"schema_version":"bf_book_companion_v1","release_id":"20261010T034321Z-reviewed-full-unique-works","book":{"amazon_purchase_url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/0152085661?tag=bookfrontie00-20","asin":"0152085661","authors":["Louis Haber"],"book_id":"9780152085667","canonical_url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/black-pioneers-of-science-and-invention-9780152085667","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780152085667.jpg?v=fa00dd0d9d58748f","description":"A readable, perceptive account of the lives of fourteen gifted innovators who have played important roles in scientific and industrial progress. The achievements of Benjamin Banneker, Granville T. Woods, George Washington Carver, and others have made jobs easier, saved countless lives, and in many cases, altered the course of history. Includes a bibliography and an index.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9780152085667","publication_date":"19920102","publisher":"HarperCollins","slug":"black-pioneers-of-science-and-invention","subtitle":"","title":"Black Pioneers of Science and Invention"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"JNF007090","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Science & Tech Biographies for Kids","score":0.7701,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"JNF018010","confidence_band":"medium","label":"African American Life (U.S.)","score":0.7555,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"YAN006110","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Science & Tech Biographies","score":0.7493,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"JNF007090","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Science & Tech Biographies for Kids","score":0.7701,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"JNF018010","confidence_band":"medium","label":"African American Life (U.S.)","score":0.7555,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"YAN006110","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Science & Tech Biographies","score":0.7493,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"JNF001000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Activity Books","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"JNF003000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Animal Facts","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"JNF007090","confidence_band":"high","label":"Science & Tech Biographies for Kids","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"JNF018010","confidence_band":"high","label":"African American Life (U.S.)","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"JNF025090","confidence_band":"high","label":"Holocaust for Kids","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"JNF025180","confidence_band":"high","label":"State & Local History","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"JNF025190","confidence_band":"high","label":"Colonial & Revolutionary U.S.","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"JNF025200","confidence_band":"high","label":"19th Century U.S.","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Science & Tech Biographies for Kids","score":0.7701,"slug":"science-tech-biographies-for-kids"},{"label":"African American Life (U.S.)","score":0.7555,"slug":"african-american-life-u-s"},{"label":"Science & Tech Biographies","score":0.7493,"slug":"science-tech-biographies"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers interested in biographies of scientific and industrial innovators","Readers exploring Black contributions to science and invention"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Dana Marie Miroballi"],"book_id":"9781419769962","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781419769962.jpg?v=5e16866dbe92893d","score":0.7388,"title":"Inventions to Count On: a Celebration of Black Inventors","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781419769962"},{"authors":["Cheryl Willis Hudson"],"book_id":"9780525645849","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780525645849.jpg?v=940a72c3790282c0","score":0.6973,"title":"Brave. Black. First.","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780525645849"},{"authors":["William Loren Katz"],"book_id":"9781442446366","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781442446366.jpg?v=9e1e0888f1a9a3fe","score":0.6958,"title":"Black Indians","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781442446366"},{"authors":["Wade Hudson"],"book_id":"9781635925098","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781635925098.jpg?v=2ab762b669cce510","score":0.6936,"title":"Invincible","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781635925098"},{"authors":["Joel Christian Gill"],"book_id":"9781938486296","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781938486296.jpg?v=309379c45e253301","score":0.678,"title":"Strange Fruit, Volume I","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781938486296"},{"authors":["James G. Basker","Nicole Seary","Annette Gordon-Reed"],"book_id":"9781598537345","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781598537345.jpg?v=6ac86091b9be8357","score":0.6765,"title":"Black Writers of the Founding Era (LOA #366)","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781598537345"}],"topics":[{"evidence_refs":["keyword:black history books for kids"],"label":"Kids","score":1,"slug":"kids"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:history"],"label":"History","score":0.4536,"slug":"history"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:black"],"label":"Black","score":0.1007,"slug":"black"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:human"],"label":"Human","score":0.0259,"slug":"human"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:body"],"label":"Body","score":0.0243,"slug":"body"}],"what_you_get":["Themes: Scientific and industrial innovation, Black pioneers in science and invention, Historical impact of innovation.","Themes: Kids, History, Black.","Reading lane: Science & Tech Biographies for Kids and African American Life (u.s.)."]},"llm_signals":{"confidence":0.86,"pacing":"unknown","reader_fit":["Readers interested in biographies of scientific and industrial innovators","Readers exploring Black contributions to science and invention"],"themes":["Scientific and industrial innovation","Black pioneers in science and invention","Historical impact of innovation"],"tropes":[]},"source_presence":{"amazon":true,"book_detail":true,"goodreads":true,"llm_signals":true,"similarity_seed":true},"stats":{"amazon_ratings_count":1180,"goodreads_ratings_count":120,"goodreads_reviews_count":14,"quality_score":0.8911}}