Author: Billy Wrecks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781484461204
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and the DC Super Friends journey to outer space to save the Earth from out-of-this-world villain Brainiac and his robots. This action-packed storybook features glow-in-the-dark pages.
Fighting for Space
Author: Amy Shira Teitel
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1538716038
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
Spaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the female pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space. When the space age dawned in the late 1950s, Jackie Cochran held more propeller and jet flying records than any pilot of the twentieth century—man or woman. She had led the Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots during the Second World War, was the first woman to break the sound barrier, ran her own luxury cosmetics company, and counted multiple presidents among her personal friends. She was more qualified than any woman in the world to make the leap from atmosphere to orbit. Yet it was Jerrie Cobb, twenty-five years Jackie's junior and a record-holding pilot in her own right, who finagled her way into taking the same medical tests as the Mercury astronauts. The prospect of flying in space quickly became her obsession. While the American and international media spun the shocking story of a "woman astronaut" program, Jackie and Jerrie struggled to gain control of the narrative, each hoping to turn the rumored program into their own ideal reality—an issue that ultimately went all the way to Congress. This dual biography of audacious trailblazers Jackie Cochran and Jerrie Cobb presents these fascinating and fearless women in all their glory and grit, using their stories as guides through the shifting social, political, and technical landscape of the time.
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1538716038
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
Spaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the female pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space. When the space age dawned in the late 1950s, Jackie Cochran held more propeller and jet flying records than any pilot of the twentieth century—man or woman. She had led the Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots during the Second World War, was the first woman to break the sound barrier, ran her own luxury cosmetics company, and counted multiple presidents among her personal friends. She was more qualified than any woman in the world to make the leap from atmosphere to orbit. Yet it was Jerrie Cobb, twenty-five years Jackie's junior and a record-holding pilot in her own right, who finagled her way into taking the same medical tests as the Mercury astronauts. The prospect of flying in space quickly became her obsession. While the American and international media spun the shocking story of a "woman astronaut" program, Jackie and Jerrie struggled to gain control of the narrative, each hoping to turn the rumored program into their own ideal reality—an issue that ultimately went all the way to Congress. This dual biography of audacious trailblazers Jackie Cochran and Jerrie Cobb presents these fascinating and fearless women in all their glory and grit, using their stories as guides through the shifting social, political, and technical landscape of the time.
Battle in Space! (DC Super Friends)
Author: Billy Wrecks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781484461204
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and the DC Super Friends journey to outer space to save the Earth from out-of-this-world villain Brainiac and his robots. This action-packed storybook features glow-in-the-dark pages.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781484461204
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and the DC Super Friends journey to outer space to save the Earth from out-of-this-world villain Brainiac and his robots. This action-packed storybook features glow-in-the-dark pages.
Battle in Outer Space
Author: George Simmons Roth
Publisher: America Star Books
ISBN: 1681225298
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
This is a true science fiction story, as opposed to most novelettes, which are, in fact, science fantasy. The story occurs two hundred years from now, a time at which space cruisers of the World Federation Space Force pursue an Islamic terrorist battle cruiser to the planet Saturn. Saturn is of vital importance because that is where most of the world’s supply of the element Helium-3 is mined. At this time, Helium-3 is the major fuel for the world’s fusion engines. Fusion supplies the energy that powers the world’s advanced technological civilization. Without this critical energy source, the world’s economy would totally collapse. The plot centers around one of the cruisers, Ranger, and its captain, Roger Nelson. The story includes a long chase through the outer solar system, with a diversion to the planet Mars. Mars is envisioned, not as it is now, but in the process of being terra-formed, and becoming a new habitat for permanent large-scale colonization. The Ranger has many adventures, including a final climatic battle with the enemy battle cruiser among the rings of Saturn. The plot centers around advanced and realistic technology, but also includes a minor romance. The basic theme of the story is simply that mankind’s perpetual struggle between good and evil will continue, even in outer space.
Publisher: America Star Books
ISBN: 1681225298
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
This is a true science fiction story, as opposed to most novelettes, which are, in fact, science fantasy. The story occurs two hundred years from now, a time at which space cruisers of the World Federation Space Force pursue an Islamic terrorist battle cruiser to the planet Saturn. Saturn is of vital importance because that is where most of the world’s supply of the element Helium-3 is mined. At this time, Helium-3 is the major fuel for the world’s fusion engines. Fusion supplies the energy that powers the world’s advanced technological civilization. Without this critical energy source, the world’s economy would totally collapse. The plot centers around one of the cruisers, Ranger, and its captain, Roger Nelson. The story includes a long chase through the outer solar system, with a diversion to the planet Mars. Mars is envisioned, not as it is now, but in the process of being terra-formed, and becoming a new habitat for permanent large-scale colonization. The Ranger has many adventures, including a final climatic battle with the enemy battle cruiser among the rings of Saturn. The plot centers around advanced and realistic technology, but also includes a minor romance. The basic theme of the story is simply that mankind’s perpetual struggle between good and evil will continue, even in outer space.
Battle in Space! (DC Super Friends): Read & Listen Edition
Author: Billy Wrecks
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1101935596
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and the DC Super Friends journey to outer space to save the Earth from out-of-this-world villain Brainiac and his robots. This Read & Listen edition contains audio narration.
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1101935596
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and the DC Super Friends journey to outer space to save the Earth from out-of-this-world villain Brainiac and his robots. This Read & Listen edition contains audio narration.
Battle of the Fang
Author: Chris Wraight
Publisher: Games Workshop
ISBN: 9781849700474
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The fourth book in the best selling Space Marine Battles series featuring the Space Wolves It is M32, a thousand years after the Horus Heresy. The Scouring is over and the Imperium at the height of its post-Crusade power. When Magnus the Red is tracked down to Gangava Prime, the Space Wolves hasten to engage the daemon primarch. Even as Great Wolf Harek Ironhelm closes on his ancient enemy, the Fang on the Space Wolves home world is besieged by a massive force of Thousand Sons. A desperate battle ensues as the skeleton forces of Wolf Lord Asvald Greylock attempt to hold back the attacking hosts before the last of his meagre defences gives in. Though a single Scout ship survives to summon Great Wolf Harek Ironhelm back to Fenris, none of the defenders truly realise the full scale the horror that awaits them nor what the Battle for the Fang will cost them all.
Publisher: Games Workshop
ISBN: 9781849700474
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The fourth book in the best selling Space Marine Battles series featuring the Space Wolves It is M32, a thousand years after the Horus Heresy. The Scouring is over and the Imperium at the height of its post-Crusade power. When Magnus the Red is tracked down to Gangava Prime, the Space Wolves hasten to engage the daemon primarch. Even as Great Wolf Harek Ironhelm closes on his ancient enemy, the Fang on the Space Wolves home world is besieged by a massive force of Thousand Sons. A desperate battle ensues as the skeleton forces of Wolf Lord Asvald Greylock attempt to hold back the attacking hosts before the last of his meagre defences gives in. Though a single Scout ship survives to summon Great Wolf Harek Ironhelm back to Fenris, none of the defenders truly realise the full scale the horror that awaits them nor what the Battle for the Fang will cost them all.
Space Battle Lunchtime Vol. 1
Author: Natalie Riess
Publisher: Oni Press
ISBN: 1620103141
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Collecting the first four issues of Natalie Riess's delectable series, SPACE BATTLE LUNCHTIME! Earth baker Peony gets the deal of a lifetime when she agrees to be a contestant on the Universe's hottest reality TV show, Space Battle Lunchtime! But that was before she knew that it shoots on location... on a spaceship... and her alien competitors don't play nice! Does Peony really have what it takes to be the best cook in the Galaxy? Tune in and find out!
Publisher: Oni Press
ISBN: 1620103141
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Collecting the first four issues of Natalie Riess's delectable series, SPACE BATTLE LUNCHTIME! Earth baker Peony gets the deal of a lifetime when she agrees to be a contestant on the Universe's hottest reality TV show, Space Battle Lunchtime! But that was before she knew that it shoots on location... on a spaceship... and her alien competitors don't play nice! Does Peony really have what it takes to be the best cook in the Galaxy? Tune in and find out!
Battle in Space! (DC Super Friends)
Author: Billy Wrecks
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0553524682
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and the DC Super Friends journey to outer space to save the Earth from out-of-this-world villain Brainiac and his robots.
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0553524682
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and the DC Super Friends journey to outer space to save the Earth from out-of-this-world villain Brainiac and his robots.
Space Battles
Author: Bryan Thomas Schmidt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984592753
Category : Science fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The sixth anthology of the Full-Throttle Space Tales series contains 17 talesof spaceship battles by established and rising-star authors.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984592753
Category : Science fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The sixth anthology of the Full-Throttle Space Tales series contains 17 talesof spaceship battles by established and rising-star authors.
War in Space
Author: Bowen Bleddyn E. Bowen
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474450512
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Applying strategic theory to outer space and drawing out the implications for international relationsOffers a definitive and original vision of space warfare that theorises often-overlooked aspects of contemporary space activities based in the discipline of Strategic Studies. This original research draws out the implications of spacepower for wider debate in grand strategy and IR.Applies the theory in a topical and contentious area within contemporary grand strategy - anti-access and area-denial warfare in the Taiwan Strait between China and America.Key principles are summarised in seven propositions to make the key take-aways of theory applicable and memorable for researchers and practitioners.This book presents a theory of spacepower and considers the implications of space technology on strategy and international relations. The spectre of space warfare stalks the major powers as outer space increasingly defines geopolitical and military competition. As satellites have become essential for modern warfare, strategists are asking whether the next major war will begin or be decided in outer space. Only strategic theory can explore the decisiveness and effects of war in space upon `grand strategy' and international relations. The author applies the wisdom of military strategy to outer space, and presents a compelling new vision of Earth orbit as a coastline, rather than an open ocean or an extension of airspace as many have assumed. Rooted in the classical military works of Clausewitz, Mahan, and Castex to name a few, this book presents comprehensive principles for strategic thought about space that explain the pervasive and inescapable influence of spacepower on strategy and the changing military balance of the 21st century.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474450512
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Applying strategic theory to outer space and drawing out the implications for international relationsOffers a definitive and original vision of space warfare that theorises often-overlooked aspects of contemporary space activities based in the discipline of Strategic Studies. This original research draws out the implications of spacepower for wider debate in grand strategy and IR.Applies the theory in a topical and contentious area within contemporary grand strategy - anti-access and area-denial warfare in the Taiwan Strait between China and America.Key principles are summarised in seven propositions to make the key take-aways of theory applicable and memorable for researchers and practitioners.This book presents a theory of spacepower and considers the implications of space technology on strategy and international relations. The spectre of space warfare stalks the major powers as outer space increasingly defines geopolitical and military competition. As satellites have become essential for modern warfare, strategists are asking whether the next major war will begin or be decided in outer space. Only strategic theory can explore the decisiveness and effects of war in space upon `grand strategy' and international relations. The author applies the wisdom of military strategy to outer space, and presents a compelling new vision of Earth orbit as a coastline, rather than an open ocean or an extension of airspace as many have assumed. Rooted in the classical military works of Clausewitz, Mahan, and Castex to name a few, this book presents comprehensive principles for strategic thought about space that explain the pervasive and inescapable influence of spacepower on strategy and the changing military balance of the 21st century.
Battle Bugs of Outer Space
Author: Jane B. Mason
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1404868488
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
A battle between the GREEN LANTERN BUG CORPS and the SINESTRO CORPS INSECTS at a baseball game.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1404868488
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
A battle between the GREEN LANTERN BUG CORPS and the SINESTRO CORPS INSECTS at a baseball game.