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Librería: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, Estados Unidos de AmericaWorld of Books (was SecondSale)
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SPACE AGE, written during Covid, became a collaboration in silliness - each of Silly Grandad's gang chose a planet or similar to 'explore', to discover and to imagine who might live there and what might they do every day; what would they eat and what would they play.We hope you enjoy it and it makes you smile.Perhaps you too would like to imagine what is up in the heavens and make your own pictures and rhymes - the sillier the better.Silly Grandad (SG aka Derek Farr).
N° de ref. del artículo 00105041867
- Título
- Space Age
- Autor
- William J Walter
- Editorial
- Random House (NY)
- Año de publicación
- 1992
- Estado
- Good
- Encuadernación
- Hardback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 0679402950
- ISBN 13
- 9780679402954
Space Age is the companion book to the extraordinary six-part PBS television series produced by WQED/Pittsburgh in association with the National Academy of Sciences. Written by journalist and filmmaker William J. Walter, it takes readers on an exciting and unexpected journey into the past and maps out strange and amazing possibilities for the future.
It begins by telling the stories of the extraordinary rocket pioneers who made the primal dream of exploring the stars possible: Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a deaf, small-town Russian schoolteacher, who in 1898 first calculated how to launch a rocket beyond Earth; Robert Goddard, the secretive and determined New England physics professor, who had the personality of a parson but the mind of a mad adventurer; and Hermann Oberth, a high school math teacher from Transylvania, whose failed effort to build a rocket for a publicity stunt in the 1920s became the first in a long line of rockets that led to the Saturn V booster - the mammoth ship that sent American astronauts to the moon forty years later.
Space Age reveals how the pragmatic world of politics unexpectedly became linked with the dream-driven hopes of the old rocket pioneers; how Hitler's madness financed the development of the first true rocket designed by Werner von Braun; how Russia and America's mutual paranoia fueled not only the cold war, but the spectacular way in which both nations chose to wage it - through a space race that held the world breathless. The progeny of that competition was Sputnik, Mercury, and Apollo, which led us to the moon, and whose legacy enabled us to study other worlds and continues to lay the foundations for human outposts that will be built beyond Earth in the future.
At the same time it created the spy satellite, the communications satellite, and other space-borne instruments that now predict the weather and explore the intricate living systems that make up our planet. These orbiting sentinels have embedded in us a kind of robotic telepathy, an invisible grid of information that has already made the "global village" a reality, and brought war and the fall of entire societies into our living rooms, live.
Finally, Space Age looks into the future - to the tremendous challenge of mounting a human mission to Mars, and the surprising evolutionary possibilities that will follow in the wake of interplanetary and intergalactic exploration. Is it possible that we will learn something of our own origins as we search for evidence of life on Mars?
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Space Age is the companion book to the extraordinary six-part PBS television series produced by WQED/Pittsburgh in association with the National Academy of Sciences. Written by journalist and filmmaker William J. Walter, it takes readers on an exciting and unexpected journey into the past and maps out strange and amazing possibilities for the future.
It begins by telling the stories of the extraordinary rocket pioneers who made the primal dream of exploring the stars possible: Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a deaf, small-town Russian schoolteacher, who in 1898 first calculated how to launch a rocket beyond Earth; Robert Goddard, the secretive and determined New England physics professor, who had the personality of a parson but the mind of a mad adventurer; and Hermann Oberth, a high school math teacher from Transylvania, whose failed effort to build a rocket for a publicity stunt in the 1920s became the first in a long line of rockets that led to the Saturn V booster - the mammoth ship that sent American astronauts to the moon forty years later.
Space Age reveals how the pragmatic world of politics unexpectedly became linked with the dream-driven hopes of the old rocket pioneers; how Hitler's madness financed the development of the first true rocket designed by Werner von Braun; how Russia and America's mutual paranoia fueled not only the cold war, but the spectacular way in which both nations chose to wage it - through a space race that held the world breathless. The progeny of that competition was Sputnik, Mercury, and Apollo, which led us to the moon, and whose legacy enabled us to study other worlds and continues to lay the foundations for human outposts that will be built beyond Earth in the future.
At the same time it created the spy satellite, the communications satellite, and other space-borne instruments that now predict the weather and explore the intricate living systems that make up our planet. These orbiting sentinels have embedded in us a kind of robotic telepathy, an invisible grid of information that has already made the "global village" a reality, and brought war and the fall of entire societies into our living rooms, live.
Finally, Space Age looks into the future - to the tremendous challenge of mounting a human mission to Mars, and the surprising evolutionary possibilities that will follow in the wake of interplanetary and intergalactic exploration. Is it possible that we will learn something of our own origins as we search for evidence of life on Mars?
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World of Books (was SecondSale)
Montgomery, IL, Estados Unidos de America
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Founded in 2002, World of Books is a leading online destination for buying and selling both preloved and new books, committed to making sustainable reading accessible to all. With a mission to help people read more and waste less, World of Books offers a huge range of affordable, high-quality books — giving both new and preloved titles a second life. The company also operates World of Books – Sell Your Books, an easy-to-use platform that allows customers to trade in unwanted books for cash, helping to keep books in circulation while promoting sustainability. As a Certified B Corp, World of Books is driven by a vision to become the world’s largest and most sustainable dedicated online bookstore. The company measures its success through the positive environmental impact it creates, the value it provides to customers, and its ability to operate profitably while supporting its sustainable mission …
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