Author: Lily Koppel
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1455503231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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Discover the true story of the women who stood beside some of the greatest heroes of American space travel in this New York Times bestseller that delivers "a truly great snapshot of the times" (Publishers Weekly) that inspired a limited TV series on ABC! As America's Mercury Seven astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, television cameras focused on the brave smiles of their young wives. Overnight, these women were transformed from military spouses into American royalty. They had tea with Jackie Kennedy, appeared on the cover of Life magazine, and quickly grew into fashion icons. Annie Glenn, with her picture-perfect marriage, was the envy of the other wives; JFK made it clear that platinum-blonde Rene Carpenter was his favorite; and licensed pilot Trudy Cooper arrived with a secret that needed to stay hidden from NASA. Together with the other wives they formed the Astronaut Wives Club, providing one another with support and friendship, coffee and cocktails. As their celebrity rose--and as divorce and tragedy began to touch their lives--the wives continued to rally together, forming bonds that would withstand the test of time, and they have stayed friends for over half a century.
Author: Macmillan Adult's Books
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1529035414
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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What do you do if you see a spaceman? Park in it, man. How do you get a baby astronaut to sleep? You rock it. How do astronauts serve dinner? On flying saucers. Shaped like a space rocket this hilarious book is packed with over one hundred laugh-out-loud jokes about astronauts, planets, aliens, space ships, the solar system and much, much more. This brilliant collection is filled with funny one liners and quirky black-and-white drawings, and is sure to have adults and children alike in stitches. Published to mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landings.
Author: Karin Hilck
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110629828
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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The book Lady Astronauts, Lady Engineers, and Naked Ladies is a gender history of the American space community and by extension a social history of American society in the twentieth century during the Cold War. In order to expand and differentiate the prevalent postwar narrative about gender relations and cultural structures in the United States, the book analyzes several different groups of women interacting in different social spaces within the space community. It therewith grants insight into the several layers of female participation and agency in the community and the gender and race based obstacles and hurdles the female (prospective) astronauts, scientists, engineers, artists, administrators, writers, hostesses, secretaries, and wives were faced with at NASA and in the space industry. In each chapter a different social space within the space community is analyzed. The spaces where the women lived and worked are researched from a media, individual, and institutional angle, ultimately revealing the differing gender philosophies communicated in the public sphere and the space community workplaces by government and space community officials. While women were publicly encouraged to participate in the American space effort to beat the Soviet Union in the race to the moon, women had to deal with gender based barriers which were integral to the structures of the space community; just as they were an intrinsic component of all societal structures in the United States in the 1960s. The female space workers, who were often perceived as disrupters of the prevalent social order in the space community and discriminated by some of their male colleagues and bosses on a personal basis, still managed to assert themselves. They molded pockets of agency in the space community workspaces without the facilitation of regulations on the part of NASA that might have provided them with easier access or more agency. Thus, the space community, a place of technological innovation, was not necessarily also a place of social innovation, but a community with a government agency at its center that mainly mirrored the current (changing) social order, conventions, and policies in the 1960s as well as in the 1970s and 1980s. Nevertheless, the women presented in this book were instrumental in advancing and consolidating the social transformation that happened within the space community and the United States and therefore make intriguing subjects of research. Thus, this systematic analysis of the connection between gender, space, and the Cold War adds a new dimension to space history as well as expands the discourse in American history about gender relations and the opportunities of women in the twentieth century.
Author: Ryan Browne
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN: 153431427X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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GOD HATES ASTRONAUTS follows the story of a group of incompetent, small-minded, super powered narcissists called ""The Power Persons Five"" who are hired by NASA to stop all farmers from launching themselves into space in homemade rocket ships. Unfortunately for NASA, this goal is scarcely even addressed and the book focuses more on extramarital affairs, bank-robbing owls, big gross swollen heads, ghost cow heads, olde tyme boxers, tigers eating cheeseburgers in the Crab Nebula, buffalo judges and tons of aggressive swearing. Not so much a superhero book as it is a parody of basically everything and a celebration of weird that is jam-packed with references to RoboCop and Die Hard. ""I don't want to oversell what Ryan has accomplished here, but I gave God Hates Astronauts to a blind man and he regained his sight." Jonathan Hickman (EAST OF WEST, The Manhattan Projects, The Avengers)"
Author: Mike Edison
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1593764677
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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A wild and uncompromising history of four infamous magazines and the outlaws behind them, Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! is the first book to rip the sheet off of the sleazy myth-making machine of Hugh Hefner and Playboy, and reveal the doomed history of Hefner’s arch rival, Penthouse founder Bob Guccione, whose messiah complex and heedless spending — on a legendary flop of a movie paid for with bags of cash, a porn magazine for women, and a pie-in-the sky scheme for a portable nuclear reactor —fueled the greatest riches to rags story ever told. The adventure begins in the early 1950s and rips through the tumultuous ’60s and ’70s —when Hustler’s Larry Flynt and Screw’s Al Goldstein were arrested dozens of times, recklessly pushing the boundaries of free speech, attacking politicians, and putting unapologetic filth front and center — through the 1990s when a sexed-up culture high on the Internet finally killed the era when men looked for satisfaction in the centerfold. As America goes, so goes it’s porn. Along the way we meet many unexpected heroes—John Lennon, Lenny Bruce, Helen Gurley Brown, and the staff of Mad magazine among them—and villains—from Richard Nixon and the Moral Majority to Hugh Hefner himself, whose legacy, we learn, is built on a self-perpetuated lie.
Author: Chengmin Zhang
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811992215
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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This is a popular science book surrounding astronauts’ life on the space station. The book not only highlights the weightlessness experience of astronauts and the extraordinary phenomena they witness, but also illustrates the physics behind these events, which opens a new window for readers to explore the outer space. This book is especially fun for those who are curious about the life details of astronauts on the space station. The book is based on real events, and features images and cartoons that vividly depict unusual scenes between the outer space and the earth. Physical principles become easier to understand with these visual aids. During the reading, readers can immerse themselves in the enjoyable adventure of space travel and the strange feeling of weightlessness while having their doubts of every oddity solved. The book elaborates on the interesting contrast between the space and the earth, and provides readers with a stunning new perspective with easily comprehensible language and examples.
Author: Shikha Kaul
Publisher: Ajitabha Publishers
ISBN: 8194991404
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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Do you believe in destiny or does the life proffer you the choice to define it your way? Are marriages actually made in heaven or some of them could have contributions from the hell too? When love is real but the fate is hidden, the universe plays its own game. It’s strange that mysteries are created from the facts. Love knows no boundaries yet it defines its own circuit. Half of the world’s mysteries have their roots laid in a feeling called love. LOVE! That can be as fatal as it can be sanative, as soothing as it can be toxic. An important ingredient of life till you don’t taste it. Zain Aziz and Ayat Nazar. Relationship status - complicated! Is there a secret that is controlling all actions and emotions? Is there a pretence or reality? Is love unaware of its own existence or is playing its game well? Is winning the game worse than losing? A romantic thriller that takes you through a roller-coaster ride of emotions, love, sacrifice, suspense, thrill and the ultimate reality called life.
Author: Mary Robinette Kowal
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 0765398931
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 317
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Mary Robinette Kowal continues the grand sweep of alternate history begun in The Calculating Stars, The Fated Sky looks forward to 1961, when mankind is well-established on the moon and looking forward to its next step: journeying to, and eventually colonizing, Mars. The Verge—Best SFF Books for August 2018 io9 —Best SFF Books for August 2018 Unbound Worlds —Best SFF Books for August 2018 Tor.com —Best SFF Books for August 2018 Kirkus Online —Best SFF Books for August 2018 Nerdmuch —Best SFF Books for August 2018 Of course the noted Lady Astronaut Elma York would like to go, but there’s a lot riding on whoever the International Aerospace Coalition decides to send on this historic—but potentially very dangerous—mission? Could Elma really leave behind her husband and the chance to start a family to spend several years traveling to Mars? And with the Civil Rights movement taking hold all over Earth, will the astronaut pool ever be allowed to catch up, and will these brave men and women of all races be treated equitably when they get there? This gripping look at the real conflicts behind a fantastical space race will put a new spin on our visions of what might have been. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Mélanie Hamilton
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
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This pretty illustrated book tells the story of Emma who has a dream: to become an astronaut and go to Mars.But it makes a lot of his classmates laugh. Will she get there? Is she right to believe in her dreams?This short story has a cute moral and is perfect for ages 4-10, especially little girls.Space and the Universe, dreams, the future, perseverance, work, morals are the themes addressed.This book can be a birthday present, Thanksgiving, Christmas present, to occupy your children during the school holidays or even without any special occasion. Short story with cute moral Colored Illustrations Child: 4-10 years Perfect for a birthday or Christmas present, during school holidays or without an occasion for evening stories to put our children to sleep Soft and resistant cover Large square format: 8,5x8,5 po
Author: Ron Macdonald
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1638142513
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Heartwarming and compelling stories of loyalty, brotherhood, sacrifice, and heroism. Across from the Potomac River from Washington DC lies this nation’s most sacred of grounds, Arlington National Cemetery. Here resides some of our nation’s finest from as far back as the Revolutionary War are buried here. Some 400,000 men and women call Arlington their final resting place—from presidents, honored statesmen, explorers, and literary figures to the common soldier and sailor, along with 3,800 former slaves. Their stories beg to be heard—stories of courage against insurmountable odds, of love of brother and country, and of sacrifice. Stories of hope and dreams and choices made during adversity. In this often heart-wrenching, inspirational anthology, we see how these noble souls, be it generals or ex-slaves, influenced the world in which they lived. Their stories are still with us, making us who we are as a country and bidding us to think of life, not of death. Life to which, in their youth, they lent their passion and joy of spring.
