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Apolloby Charles MurrayISBN 0976000806 (0-9760008-0-6)
Softcover, Cox & Murray Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apollo'Book summary:Out of print for fifteen years, this is the classic account of how the United States got to the moon. It is a book for those who were part of Apollo and want to recapture the experience and for those of a new generation who want to know how it was done. It is an opinon shared by many Apollo veterans. Republished in 2004 with a new Foreword by the authors. [via]
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Apollo: The Race to the Moonby Charles Murray, Catherine Bly CoxISBN 067170625X (0-671-70625-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apollo: The Race to the Moon'Book summary:The story of America's Apollo space projects of the 1960s, told from the perspective of the scientists, engineers and people at Mission Control who made the moon landing possible. This history of science is related in human terms, and aims to capture the drama of a critical era in world history. It begins with the group of engineers commissioned to build a space programme from scratch, and the experiments at Cape Canaveral which turned theory into practice. There are portraits of Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and many of the astronauts, and accounts of the success of Apollo 11 and disastrous failure of Apollo 13. Charles Murray is the author of the bestselling "Losing Ground" and "In Pursuit of Happiness and Good Government". [via]
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The Art of Chesley Bonestellby Ron Miller, Frederick C. Durant, Melvin H. Schuetz, Chesley BonestellISBN 185585905X (1-85585-905-X)
Softcover, Paper Tiger
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Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devicesby William GurstelleISBN 1556523750 (1-55652-375-0)
Softcover, Chicago Review Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices'Book summary:Ordinary folks can construct 13 awesome ballistic devices in their garage or basement workshops using inexpensive household or hardware store materials and this step-by-step guide. Clear instructions, diagrams, and photographs show how to build projects ranging from the simplea match-powered rocketto the more complexa scale-model, table-top catapultto the offbeata tennis ball cannon. With a strong emphasis on safety, the book also gives tips on troubleshooting, explains the physics behind the projects, and profiles scientists and extraordinary experimenters such as Alfred Nobel, Robert Goddard, and Isaac Newton. This book will be indispensable for the legions of backyard toy-rocket launchers and fireworks fanatics who wish every day was the fourth of July.[via]More editions of Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices:
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Challengerby Malcolm McConnellISBN 0385238770 (0-385-23877-0)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Coalwood Wayby Hickam, Homer H., Jr.ISBN 0385335164 (0-385-33516-4)
Hardcover, Dell Publishing
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The Coalwood Wayby Homer H. HickamISBN 0440237165 (0-440-23716-5)
Softcover, Dell Island Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Coalwood Way'Book summary:In this follow-up to his bestselling autobiography Rocket Boys, Homer Hickam chronicles the eventful autumn of 1959 in his hometown, the West Virginia mining town of Coalwood. Sixteen-year-old Homer and his pals in the Big Creek Missile Agency are high school seniors, still building homemade rockets and hoping that science will provide them with a ticket into the wider world of college and white-collar jobs. Such dreams make them suspect in a conservative small town where "getting above yourself" is the ultimate sin and where Homer's father, superintendent of the Coalwood mines, is stingy with praise and dubious about his son's ambitions. Homer's mother remains supportive, but bluntly reminds him, "You can't expect everything to go your way. Sometimes life just has another plan." Indeed, Hickam's unvarnished portrait of Coalwood covers class warfare (union miners battling with his authoritarian father), provincial narrow-mindedness (the local ladies scorn a young woman living outside wedlock with a man who abuses her), and endless gossiping along the picket "fence line." These sharp details make the unabashed sentiment of the book's closing chapters feel earned rather than easy. Hickam can spin a gripping yarn and keep multiple underlying themes and metaphors going at the same time. His tender but gritty memoir will touch readers' hearts and minds. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Countdown: A History of Space Flightby T. A. HeppenheimerISBN 0471291056 (0-471-29105-6)
Softcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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Curious George and the Rocketby H.A. Rey, Margret ReyISBN 0618120696 (0-618-12069-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Day We Walked on the Moonby George SullivanISBN 0590436325 (0-590-43632-5)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Day We Walked on the Moon'Book summary:A fascinating look at outer space exploration filled with dramatic color photographs and bold newspaper headlines. From the first flights into space to the momentous day Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, from Skylab to the Shuttle, plus an exciting look at what lies ahead, this book will intrigue readers of all ages. [via]
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Destination Moonby HergeISBN 0416800300 (0-416-80030-0)
Hardcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Destination Moon'Book summary:Tintin, Snowy, and Captain Haddock join Professor Calculus' moon expedition
The Adventures of Tintin (Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of comic strips created by Belgian artist Herge the pen name of Georges Remi (1907 1983). The series first appeared in French in Le Petit Vingtieme, a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtieme Siecle on 10 January 1929. Set in a painstakingly researched world closely mirroring our own, Herge's Tintin series continues to be a favorite of readers and critics alike 80 years later.
The hero of the series is Tintin, a young Belgian reporter. He is aided in his adventures from the beginning by his faithful fox terrier dog Snowy (Milou in French). Later, popular additions to the cast included the brash, cynical and grumpy Captain Haddock, the bright but hearing-impaired Professor Calculus (Professeur Tournesol) and other colorful supporting characters such as the incompetent detectives Thomson and Thompson (Dupond et Dupont). Herge himself features in several of the comics as a background character; as do his assistants in some instances.
The success of the series saw the serialized strips collected into a series of albums (24 in all), spun into a successful magazine and adapted for film and theatre. The series is one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century, with translations published in over 50 languages and more than 200 million copies of the books sold to date.
The comic strip series has long been admired for its clean, expressive drawings in Herge's signature ligne claire style. Engaging, well-researched plots straddle a variety of genres: swashbuckling adventures with elements of fantasy, mysteries, political thrillers, and science fiction. The stories within the Tintin series always feature slapstick humor, accompanied in later albums by sophisticated satire, and political and cultural commentary. [via]
Destination Moonby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0839824750 (0-8398-2475-0)
Hardcover, Gregg Press
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The Dream Machines: An Illustrated History of the Spaceship in Art, Science and Literatureby Ron MillerISBN 0894640399 (0-89464-039-9)
Hardcover, Krieger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dream Machines: An Illustrated History of the Spaceship in Art, Science and Literature'Book summary:Unique in the literature of spaceflight, this book is an encyclopedic history of the spaceship from the earliest yearnings for space travel to plans for the distant future. Covering in unprecedented detail over 2,000 years of spaceship design, the text chronologically documents thousands of events, with illustrations and photos graphically demonstrating the centuries-long evolution of an idea that has changed our world forever. Included are rare photos and illustrations from science fiction films, books, and magazines; unique drawings of Soviet spacecraft; NASA photos never before reproduced; and artwork specially commissioned for this book. The illustrations are reproduced in two colors throughout, with a sixteen-page full-color section, appendixes, bibliography, and index. Winner of the Booklist Editor's Choice 1994 Technology Award. [via]
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Easy-to-Make Spaceships That Really Flyby Dewey Blocksma, Mary Blocksma, Marisabina RussoISBN 067166302X (0-671-66302-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Even That Moose Won't Listen to Meby Martha AlexanderISBN 0803709846 (0-8037-0984-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Hardcover, Dial Books for Young Readers - Even That Moose Won't Listen to Me: ISBN 0803701888 (0-8037-0188-8)
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Explorers of the Moonby HergeISBN 041692560X (0-416-92560-X)
Hardcover, French & European Pubns
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Finding Out About Rockets and Spaceflightby Edited by Usborne ExplainersISBN 0860205843 (0-86020-584-3)
Softcover, Edc Pub
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Gravity's Rainbowby Thomas PynchonISBN 0140188592 (0-14-018859-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gravity's Rainbow'Book summary:Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. The novel's title, Gravity's Rainbow, refers to the rocket's vapor arc, a cruel dark parody of what God sent Noah to symbolize his promise never to destroy humanity again. History has been a big trick: the plan is to switch from floods to obliterating fire from the sky.
Slothrop's father was an unwitting part of the cosmic doublecross. To provide for the boy's future Harvard education, he took cash from the mad German scientist Laszlo Jamf, who performed Pavlovian experiments on the infant Tyrone. Laszlo invented Imipolex G, a new plastic useful in rocket insulation, and conditioned Tyrone's privates to respond to its presence. Now the grown-up Tyrone helplessly senses the Imipolex G in incoming V-2s, and his military superiors are investigating him. Soon he is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany.
That's just the Imipolex G tip of the shrieking vehicle that is Pynchon's book. It's pretty much impossible to follow a standard plot; one must have faith that each manic episode is connected with the great plot to blow up the world with the ultimate rocket. There is not one story, but a proliferation of characters (Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more) and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. You will enjoy Pynchon's cartoon inferno far more if you consult Steven Weisenburger's brief companion to the novel, which sorts out Pynchon's blizzard of references to science, history, high culture, and the lowest of jokes. Rest easy: there really is a simple reason why Kekulé von Stradonitz's dream about a serpent biting its tail (which solved the structure of the benzene molecule) belongs in the same novel as the comic-book-hero Plastic Man.
Pynchon doesn't want you to rest easy with solved mysteries, though. Gravity's Rainbow uses beautiful prose to induce an altered state of consciousness, a buzz. It's a trip, and it will last. --Tim Appelo [via]
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- Gravity's Rainbow: ISBN 0140283382 (0-14-028338-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Gravity's Rainbow: ISBN 0143039946 (0-14-303994-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Gravity's Rainbow: ISBN 0140106618 (0-14-010661-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Gravity's Rainbow: ISBN 0553246844 (0-553-24684-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - Gravity's Rainbow: ISBN 0224009605 (0-224-00960-5)
Hardcover, Cape - Gravity's Rainbow: ISBN 0670348325 (0-670-34832-5)
Hardcover, Viking Press - Gravity's Rainbow: ISBN 0140188592 (0-14-018859-2)
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Growing Up With Science: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Inventionby Michael DempseyISBN 0874758416 (0-87475-841-6)
Hardcover, Marshall Cavendish Corp
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Handbook of Model Rocketryby G. Harry Stine, Bill StineISBN 0471472425 (0-471-47242-5)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Handbook of Model Rocketry'Book summary:The Classic Guide by the "Father of Model Rocketry" Now Completely Revised and up to Date& This new edition of the model rocketeers "bible" shows you how to safely build, launch, track, and recover model rocketsand have fun doing it. Whether youre a beginner or a veteran model rocketeer, the Handbook of Model Rocketry, the official manual of the National Association of Rocketry (NAR), will become your well-used reference book. G. Harry Stine has been a model rocketeer since 1957 when he founded the NAR and started the first model rocket company. Stines Handbook, after satisfying rocket enthusiasts for nearly three decades, remains the definitive resource. Recent technological progress has had a major effect on the model rocket hobby and sport. This revised and updated edition covers such new technology as:
- revised computer programs that use improved versions of Basic composite propellant model rocket motors
- recently approved reloadable model rocket motors building and flying large model rockets
- radio-controlled boost gliders and rocket gliders
- solid-state, microchip, computer-readable modules used to measure temperature, pressure, acceleration, and airspeed
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- Handbook of Model Rocketry: ISBN 0471593613 (0-471-59361-3)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc - Handbook of Model Rocketry: ISBN 0668053607 (0-668-05360-7)
Softcover, Arco Pub - Handbook of Model Rocketry: ISBN 0695806157 (0-695-80615-7)
Hardcover, Follett Pub Co - Handbook of Model Rocketry: ISBN 0471472425 (0-471-47242-5)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Ageby Walter A. McDougallISBN 159740165X (1-59740-165-X)
Hardcover, Acls History E-Book Project
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heavens And the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age'Book summary:This highly acclaimed study approaches the space race as a problem in comparative public policy. Drawing on published literature, archival sources in both the United States and Europe, interviews with many of the key participants, and important declassified material, such as the National Security Council's first policy paper on space, McDougall examines U.S., European, and Soviet space programs and their politics. Opening with a short account of Nikolai Kibalchich, a late nineteenth-century Russian rocketry theoretician, McDougall argues that the Soviet Union made its way into space first because it was the world's first "technocracy"which he defines as "the institutionalization of technological change for state purpose." He also explores the growth of a political economy of technology in both the Soviet Union and the United States.
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Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr - The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age: ISBN 0465028888 (0-465-02888-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group - The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age: ISBN 046502887X (0-465-02887-X)
Hardcover, Basic Books - The Heavens And the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age: ISBN 159740165X (1-59740-165-X)
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Hedgie Blasts Offby Jan BrettISBN 0399246215 (0-399-24621-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hedgie Blasts Off'Book summary:More than anything Hedgie wants to be an astronaut and travel into space. He gets his chance the day the geyser, Big Sparkler, starts to sputter and fade, disappointing all the alien tourists, who fly to the tiny planet of Mikkop to throw coins into Big Sparkler and look at the strange flowers that survive on its sparkles.[via]Because only Hedgie can fit into a small space ship, he flies to Mikkop, where he not only finds out what is clogging up Big Sparkler, but fixes the problem in a most unusual way. He returns home a hero amid cheers from the aliens and the scientists back at the Star Lab.
With an amazing gatefold illustration of Hedgie bursting out of Big Sparkler this is not only one of Jan Brett's most inventive books, but it's one of the funniest. Fans will love the unusual setting as they laugh along with a wild cast of characters, including comic aliens, canine scientists and bird reporters.
So jump on a spaceship and take a ride to Big Sparkler. You'll be glad you made the trip!
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Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moonby James HarfordISBN 0471327212 (0-471-32721-2)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon'Book summary:The history of the intensely secretive Soviet space program makes a riveting backdrop to this lucid biography of the dominant figure in that program, Sergei Korolev (1907-66). A brilliant engineer and superb organizer, Korolev also possessed the cynicism and political cunning necessary to get his work done and protect his staff from a government so paranoid he was forced to work in anonymity, known only as the Chief Designer. The author, himself an aerospace professional, interviewed many of Korolev's colleagues in Russia and brings to life both his enormous achievements and his earthy personality. [via]
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Man's Conquest of Spaceby National Geographic Society (U.S.), William Roy SheltonISBN 0870440691 (0-87044-069-1)
Hardcover, National Geographic Society
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The Moon Bookby Gail GibbonsISBN 0823413640 (0-8234-1364-0)
Softcover, Holiday House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moon Book'Book summary:Identifies the moon as our only natural satellite, describes its movement and phases, and discusses how we have observed and explored it over the years. [via]
Mooncakeby Frank AschISBN 0689835175 (0-689-83517-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mooncake'Book summary:Bear builds a rocket to take him to the moon so he can taste it. [via]
Music for Mechanicsby Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime HernandezISBN 093019313X (0-930193-13-X)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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The Next Fifty Years in Spaceby Patrick MooreISBN 0860020339 (0-86002-033-9)
Hardcover, Luscombe
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No Downlink: A Dramatic Narrative About the Challenger Accident and Our Timeby Claus Jensen, Barbara HavelandISBN 0374120366 (0-374-12036-6)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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October Sky: A Memoirby Homer HickamISBN 0440235502 (0-440-23550-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'October Sky: A Memoir'Book summary:Inspired by Werner von Braun and his Cape Canaveral team, 14-year-old Homer Hickam decided in 1957 to build his own rockets. They were his ticket out of Coalwood, West Virginia, a mining town that everyone knew was dying--everyone except Sonny's father, the mine superintendent and a company man so dedicated that his family rarely saw him. Hickam's smart, iconoclastic mother wanted her son to become something more than a miner and, along with a female science teacher, encouraged the efforts of his grandiosely named Big Creek Missile Agency. He grew up to be a NASA engineer and his memoir of the bumpy ride toward a gold medal at the National Science Fair in 1960--an unprecedented honor for a miner's kid--is rich in humor as well as warm sentiment. Hickam vividly evokes a world of close communal ties in which a storekeeper who sold him saltpeter warned, "Listen, rocket boy. This stuff can blow you to kingdom come." Hickam is candid about the deep disagreements and tensions in his parents' marriage, even as he movingly depicts their quiet loyalty to each other. The portrait of his ultimately successful campaign to win his aloof father's respect is equally affecting. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Storiesby Gilbert HernandezISBN 1560975393 (1-56097-539-3)
Hardcover, Fantagraphics Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories'Book summary:From the pages of Love & Rockets, an intimate epic from south of the border.
For the first time ever, Fantagraphics is proud to present a single-volume collection of Gilbert Hernandez's "Heartbreak Soup" stories from Love & Rockets, which along with RAW magazine defined the modern literary comics movement of the post-underground generation. This massive volume collects every "Heartbreak Soup" story from 1993 to 2002 in one 500-page deluxe hardcover edition, presenting the epic for the first time as the single novel it was always intended to be. Palomar is the mythical Central American town where the "Heartbreak Soup" stories take place. The stories weave in and out of the town's entire population, crafting an intricate tapestry of Latin American experience. Hernandez's densely plotted and deeply imagined tales are often compared with magic realist authors like Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende (House of the Spirits). His depictions of women and Mexican-American experience have been universally lauded as the best examples the artform has to offer. Luba, the guiding spirit of Palomar since the outset, has been hailed by The Nation, Rolling Stone, and Time magazine as one of the great characters of contemporary American fiction. Hernandez's work, in addition to the obvious magic realist comparisons, shares an affinity with other Latin American and Spanish writer/artists, like Frida Kahlo, Federico Garcia Lorca and Pablo Picasso, all of whom applied a surrealist eye to what they saw and experienced. Palomar follows the lives of its residents from Luba's arrival in the town to her exit, twenty years later. Included are such classic tales as "Sopa de Gran Pena," "Ecce Homo," "An American in Palomar," "Human Diastrophism," and "Farewell, Mi Palomar." Palomar presents one of the richest accomplishments in the history of the artform in its ideal format for the first time, making it a must-have for longtime Love & Rockets fans and new readers alike. 500 pages b/w illustrations [via]More editions of Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories:
Prescription for Disaster: From the Glory of Apollo to the Betrayal of the Shuttleby Trento, Joseph, J.ISBN 0517564157 (0-517-56415-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Problem of Space Travel: The Rocket Motorby J. D. Hunley, Hermann Noordung, Ernest StuhlingerISBN 157979064X (1-57979-064-X)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceshipby George B. DysonISBN 0805059857 (0-8050-5985-7)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship'Book summary:Like cheap, shiny space suits and bug-eyed rubber monsters, nuclear-powered spaceships today seem like little more than laughably naïve 1950s science fiction tropes. It might have been otherwise--and still could be. George Dyson, son of supergenius physicist Freeman Dyson, wrote Project Orion to share some of his father's amazing research with the world. Much had been kept secret for years, but Dyson's unique insider status permits great depth and breadth on this important tale. Conceived in the wake of Sputnik, Project Orion was a true vision of '50s engineering: a huge 40-person ship powered by hundreds of tiny atomic bombs, capable of much greater lift and efficiency than chemically driven rockets. Struggles between NASA, the military, Congress, and other parties doomed Orion, but Dyson has gathered hundreds of documents and interviewed most of the researchers and engineers who worked together, trying to reach "Saturn by 1970." His knack for storytelling makes the book a quick, delightful read; even the staunchest anti-nuke activist has to admit that lighting a cigarette off a parabolic mirror facing a bomb test is pretty cool. By the end of the 20th century, technology had caught up with the vision of Orion--it's considered one of our best bets for long-distance space transit. Whether or not that could ever happen politically, Project Orion is a compelling exploration of scientific imagination. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Right Stuffby Tom WolfeISBN 1579124585 (1-57912-458-5)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Right Stuff'Book summary:Tom Wolfe began The Right Stuff at a time when it was unfashionable to contemplate American heroism. Nixon had left the White House in disgrace, the nation was reeling from the catastrophe of Vietnam, and in 1979--the year the book appeared--Americans were being held hostage by Iranian militants. Yet it was exactly the anachronistic courage of his subjects that captivated Wolfe. In his foreword, he notes that as late as 1970, almost one in four career Navy pilots died in accidents. "The Right Stuff," he explains, "became a story of why men were willing--willing?--delighted!--to take on such odds in this, an era literary people had long since characterized as the age of the anti-hero."
Wolfe's roots in New Journalism were intertwined with the nonfiction novel that Truman Capote had pioneered with In Cold Blood. As Capote did, Wolfe tells his story from a limited omniscient perspective, dropping into the lives of his "characters" as each in turn becomes a major player in the space program. After an opening chapter on the terror of being a test pilot's wife, the story cuts back to the late 1940s, when Americans were first attempting to break the sound barrier. Test pilots, we discover, are people who live fast lives with dangerous machines, not all of them airborne.
Wolfe traces Alan Shepard's suborbital flight and Gus Grissom's embarrassing panic on the high seas (making the controversial claim that Grissom flooded his Liberty capsule by blowing the escape hatch too soon). The author also produces an admiring portrait of John Glenn's apple-pie heroism and selfless dedication. By the time Wolfe concludes with a return to Yeager and his late-career exploits, the narrative's epic proportions and literary merits are secure. Certainly The Right Stuff is the best, the funniest, and the most vivid book ever written about America's manned space program. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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- The Right Stuff: ISBN 0553381350 (0-553-38135-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books - The Right Stuff: ISBN 0374250324 (0-374-25032-4)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux - The Right Stuff: ISBN 0553275569 (0-553-27556-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books - The Right Stuff: ISBN 0374250332 (0-374-25033-2)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux - The Right Stuff: ISBN 1579124585 (1-57912-458-5)
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Roaring Rocketsby Ant Parker, Tony MittonISBN 0753453053 (0-7534-5305-3)
Softcover, Kingfisher Books
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The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemunde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Eraby Michael J. NeufeldISBN 067477650X (0-674-77650-X)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemunde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era'Book summary:The story behind one of the greatest engineering feats of World War II. The Rocket and the Reich is the paradoxical tale of the creation of a technology that would prove so valuable to Allied powers after the war but ultimately proved a failure to the Germans during it. Two 8-page photo inserts; 6 maps and diagrams. [via]
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Rocket Boys: A Memoirby Homer HickamISBN 0385333218 (0-385-33321-8)
Softcover, Delta
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rocket Boys: A Memoir'Book summary:Inspired by Werner von Braun and his Cape Canaveral team, 14-year-old Homer Hickam decided in 1957 to build his own rockets. They were his ticket out of Coalwood, West Virginia, a mining town that everyone knew was dying--everyone except Sonny's father, the mine superintendent and a company man so dedicated that his family rarely saw him. Hickam's smart, iconoclastic mother wanted her son to become something more than a miner and, along with a female science teacher, encouraged the efforts of his grandiosely named Big Creek Missile Agency. He grew up to be a NASA engineer and his memoir of the bumpy ride toward a gold medal at the National Science Fair in 1960--an unprecedented honor for a miner's kid--is rich in humor as well as warm sentiment. Hickam vividly evokes a world of close communal ties in which a storekeeper who sold him saltpeter warned, "Listen, rocket boy. This stuff can blow you to kingdom come." Hickam is candid about the deep disagreements and tensions in his parents' marriage, even as he movingly depicts their quiet loyalty to each other. The portrait of his ultimately successful campaign to win his aloof father's respect is equally affecting. --Wendy Smith [via]
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The Rocket Companyby Patrick J. G. Stiennon, David M. Hoerr, Doug BirkholzISBN 1563476967 (1-56347-696-7)
Softcover, Amer Inst of Aeronautics &
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- Big Telescopes, Hot Rodders, and Librarians
- Gateses, Jobses, and the Laureates' Lemma
- Build Big, Build Many, or Use it Again
- Small Market, Small Payload, but not a toy
- Myths, Mistrust, and Trust
- The Pitch
- The Business Plan
- Mazes, Stop Cords, and Skunk Workers
- Fuel Tanks, Heat Shields, and Fire Walls
- Balloon Tanks, Fracture Mechanics, and Friction Stir Welding
- Enthusiasm Bubbles, Ejections, and Expander Cycles
- Gasoline, Alcohol, Kerosene, or Liquid Methane
- Design Reviews, Prototypes, and Parawings
- Guidance, Navigation, and Control
- Webb Suit, Hard Suit, Space Suit
- Markets, Philosophy, Techniques, and Approaches Rockets, Jets, and Soft Landings Pilots, Payloads, and Passengers Mooncars, Monks, and Monasteries Aliens, Cheetahs, and Archea Halfway to Everywhere, First Stage, First Flight Stop the Production Line! Earth Below Us Money, Manufacturing, and Marketing Always Room for Improvement Epilogue I: Space is Finally a PlaceEpilogue II: Mars for the Many. [via]
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Rocket Dreams: How the Space Age Shaped Our Vision of a World Beyondby Marina BenjaminISBN 0743255348 (0-7432-5534-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rocket Dreams: How the Space Age Shaped Our Vision of a World Beyond'Book summary:Remember when the race to the moon held the rapt attention of millions? Remember the Apollo missions that were supposed to herald the beginning of the Space Age? Thirty years after the last moonwalk, those missions now appear to have ushered in an era's conclusion. What happened?
Marina Benjamin has been asking that question ever since her childhood fascination with space exploration ended in disappointment. Rocket Dreams is her thought-provoking look at the Space Age and the shadow it casts on the fabric of our modern lives. When the futuristic expectations we pinned on Apollo came crashing back to earth, Benjamin argues, new phenomena took up the cause. Pulling movies, literature, junk culture, and the Internet into an irreverent alternative account of the post-Apollo years, she links the demise of the Space Age to groups like the "church" of Noetics -- founded by astronaut Edgar Mitchell -- to the spread of UFO believers, even to the birth of fantasy literature. Propelling us through the golden age of Space Age-dreaming during the seventies and eighties, Benjamin finally touches down on...the Web. Has cyberspace become the new frontier we once thought outer space would be?
From Florida's overgrown rocket graveyards to Roswell, New Mexico, and beyond, this skillful blend of history and social observation examines the rise and fall of America's space obsession as never before. [via]
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Rocket Propulsion Elementsby George P. Sutton, Oscar BiblarzISBN 0471326429 (0-471-32642-9)
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Rocket Ship Galileoby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 044101237X (0-441-01237-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Rockets And Missiles: The Life Story Of A Technologyby A. Bowdoin Van RiperISBN 0313327955 (0-313-32795-5)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Rockets: Sulfur, Sputnik and Scramjetsby Peter MacinnisISBN 1865087947 (1-86508-794-7)
Softcover, Allen & Unwin
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Rockets, Missiles & Space Travelby Willy LeyISBN 1568493029 (1-56849-302-9)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institutionby Gregory P. KennedyISBN 0874745713 (0-87474-571-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Sky of Stoneby Hickam, Homer H., Jr.ISBN 0385335229 (0-385-33522-9)
Hardcover, Dell Publishing
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Sky of Stoneby Homer H. HickamISBN 0440240921 (0-440-24092-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Spaceby Moira Butterfield, Nick Lipscombe, Gary BigginISBN 1564586820 (1-56458-682-0)
Softcover, Dk Pub
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Spaceby Sue BecklakeISBN 071669901X (0-7166-9901-X)
Softcover, World Book Inc
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This New Oceanby William E. BurrowsISBN 0375754857 (0-375-75485-7)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This New Ocean'Book summary:More comprehensive than The Right Stuff, more critical than Apollo 13, This New Ocean is a near-perfect history of the men (and occasional women) who have "slipped the surly bonds of Earth." Eminent science journalist and space expert William E. Burrows covers just about everyone in history--from Daedalus to John Glenn--who ever designed or flew a rocket, trying to "ride the arrow" to the moon and beyond. It's a trail of testosterone from start to finish, but it makes for an engrossing read. One of Burrows's most interesting points is that without the cold war we never would have made it into space. He writes, "...the rocket would forever serve two masters at the same time, or rather a single master with two dispositions: one for war and one for peace." Werner von Braun, Robert Goddard, and other rocketry pioneers may indeed have wanted to explore space, but they knew the only way to get there was on the military's back.
Burrows extensively researched his subject, and he seems to want to include a little bit of everything; too much detail bogs down the narrative in places. Then again, he is no apologist for the space programs of the United States and the former U.S.S.R., and to tell their complete stories requires laying a great deal of political and scientific groundwork. When it comes to the great, memorable moments in space history, Burrows really shines. In telling the stories of Sputnik's first orbit, Neil Armstrong's moonwalk, Challenger's fiery death, and Sojourner's Martian road trip, he captures both the gee-whiz technological accomplishment and the very human emotions of the men and women involved. --Therese Littleton [via]
Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology Through Historyby Alfred W. CrosbyISBN 0521791588 (0-521-79158-8)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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To Reach the High Frontier: A History of U.S. Launch Vehiclesby Roger D. Launius, Dennis R. JenkinsISBN 0813122457 (0-8131-2245-7)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Kentucky
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Trappings of Power: Ballistic Missiles in the Third Worldby Janne E. NolanISBN 0815760957 (0-8157-6095-7)
Softcover, Brookings Inst Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trappings of Power: Ballistic Missiles in the Third World'Book summary:Since the beginning of the crisis precipitated by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, the threat posed by Iraq's arsenal of ballistic missiles has been the focus of international attention. In the opening days of the U.S.-led military counteroffensive beginning on January 16, 1992, Iraq launched ballistic missiles against population centers in Israel and military bases in Saudi Arabia. The attacks intensified the terror of the war and prompted renewed efforts by the multinational force to destroy Saddam Hussein's military machine. The countries aligned against Iraq were prepared for attacks by chemically armed missiles, but Iraq's missile force proved to be of little military consequence. The missiles that survived the opening hours of Operation Desert Storm were conventionally armed, inaccurate and unreliable. Most of those that were actually launched either were intercepted by American antimissile defenses or failed to hit vital targets. But the political impact of the missiles was inestimable. The strikes symbolized Iraq's determination to prosecute the war no matter what the cost. By threatening to involve Israel, they created severe tensions and posed the risk that multinational military coalition would be dissolved, and they underscored the potential vulnerability of all the states in the region to Iraqi aggression. In this book, Janne E. Nolan argues that the use of missiles is a harbinger of the altered international security environment confronting the Untied States and its allies in the late twentieth century. Long believed to be a distant prospect, the adoption of technological resources to missile development is already occurring in over a dozen developing countries, many of them long-standing regional antagonists. These capabilities present complicated challenges to American interests and foreign policy, challenges that have only begun to be explored as a result of the Iraqi crisis. The author examines the evolution of the international technology market, surveys third world missile programs, and analyzes the military significance of ballistic missiles in potential third world combat. She also discusses the way in which domestic and international policy decisions are made to promote or restrain the export of military technology, and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of current policy. Finally, she emphasizes the need for institutional reforms to balance the requirements of protecting the technological edge on which the United States relies for its own security against the growing pressures of international miniaturization. [via]
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Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planetby Eleanor CameronISBN 0844671398 (0-8446-7139-8)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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Zoom! Zoom! Zoom! I'm Off to the Moonby Dan YaccarinoISBN 0439365414 (0-439-36541-4)
Softcover, Scholastic
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Les Aventures De Tintin - Objectif Luneby HergeISBN 2203001151 (2-203-00115-1)
Hardcover, Distribooks Inc
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On a Marche sur la Luneby HergeISBN 0828850534 (0-8288-5053-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On a Marche Sur La Lune'Book summary:Le 10 janvier 1929, un jeune reporter fait son apparition dans Le Petit Vingtième, le supplément pour enfants du quotidien belge Le XXe siècle. Son nom ? Tintin. Accompagné de Milou, un jeune chien blanc, il part pour la "Russie soviétique". Son créateur, un certain Georges Remi, signe Hergé, pseudonyme inspiré par ses initiales. Après ce premier voyage en Russie, qui donne naissance à l'album Tintin chez les Soviets, le jeune reporter s'envole pour l'Afrique (Tintin au Congo), puis pour l'Amérique. Mais c'est Le Lotus bleu, publié dans Le Petit Vingtième dès août 1934, qui marque un tournant important dans l'Suvre d'Hergé. Celui-ci, après avoir rencontré Tchang Tchong-Jen, jeune étudiant chinois qui lui a ouvert les yeux sur l'Asie, va désormais se soucier de rigueur documentaire. Il va aussi s'efforcer de faire passer dans ses histoires un message d'humanisme et de tolérance. Le succès de son reporter à la houppe ne va cesser de grandir. Hergé lui fait parcourir le monde. Il teinte ses aventures d'onirisme (L'Étoile mystérieuse), flirte avec le surnaturel (Les Sept Boules de cristal), l'expédie même sur la lune.
Il donne à Tintin des compagnons d'aventure qui vont prendre une place essentielle : les Dupont/d (Les Cigares du pharaon), le capitaine Haddock (Le Crabe aux pinces d'or), le professeur Tournesol (Le Secret de la Licorne) ou Bianca Castafiore (Le Sceptre d'Ottokar). Hergé n'hésite pas à jouer avec ses personnages : Les Bijoux de la Castafiore montrent un Tintin dépassé par les événements, loin de son image traditionnelle. Jusqu'à l'Suvre ultime, laissée inachevée par la mort d'Hergé en mars 1983 : Tintin et l'alph-art, dont la dernière case montre le héros en bien fâcheuse posture...
Tintin a su séduire les jeunes comme les adultes. Grâce à la lisibilité de la narration et du dessin, la justesse des dialogues, le sens du rebondissement et de l'intrigue... Mais aussi le souffle de l'aventure, de l'amitié et de la générosité. Et, en plus, ce quelque chose d'indéfinissable qu'Hergé lui-même ne savait expliquer... Une bande dessinée universelle. --Gilbert Jacques [via]
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Objetivo, La Luna/ Objective, the Moonby HergeISBN 2203751495 (2-203-75149-5)
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