Author: Yves Beon
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Shocking linkages between Nazi concentration camp Dora, Nazi rocket scientists, and the American space program? Did the grandest technological achievement of the 20th century have origins in the Holocaust? Half a century ago, did a group of brilliant scientists make a Faustian bargain that still stains the foundation of our reach for the stars? Once you read PLANET DORA, you will never watch the launching of the Space Shuttle in quite the same way again. Index. Maps. Photos.
Planet Dora
Author: Yves Beon
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Shocking linkages between Nazi concentration camp Dora, Nazi rocket scientists, and the American space program? Did the grandest technological achievement of the 20th century have origins in the Holocaust? Half a century ago, did a group of brilliant scientists make a Faustian bargain that still stains the foundation of our reach for the stars? Once you read PLANET DORA, you will never watch the launching of the Space Shuttle in quite the same way again. Index. Maps. Photos.
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Shocking linkages between Nazi concentration camp Dora, Nazi rocket scientists, and the American space program? Did the grandest technological achievement of the 20th century have origins in the Holocaust? Half a century ago, did a group of brilliant scientists make a Faustian bargain that still stains the foundation of our reach for the stars? Once you read PLANET DORA, you will never watch the launching of the Space Shuttle in quite the same way again. Index. Maps. Photos.
Space Forces
Author: Fred Scharmen
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1786637340
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The radical history of space exploration from the Russian Cosmists to Elon Musk Many societies have imagined going to live in space. What they want to do once they get up there - whether conquering the unknown, establishing space "colonies," privatising the moon's resources - reveals more than expected. In this fascinating radical history of space exploration, Fred Scharmen shows that often science and fiction have combined in the imagined dreams of life in outer space, but these visions have real implications for life back on earth. For the Russian Cosmists of the 1890s space was a place to pursue human perfection away from the Earth. For others, such as Wernher Von Braun, it was an engineering task that combined, in the Space Race, the Cold War, and during World War II, with destructive geopolitics. Arthur C. Clark in his speculative books offered an alternative vision of wonder that is indifferent to human interaction. Meanwhile NASA planned and managed the space station like an earthbound corporation. Today, the market has arrived into outer space and exploration is the plaything of superrich technology billionaires, who plan to privatise the mineral wealth for themselves. Are other worlds really possible? Bringing these figures and ideas together reveals a completely different story of our relationship with outer space, as well as the dangers of our current direction of extractive capitalism and colonisation.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1786637340
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The radical history of space exploration from the Russian Cosmists to Elon Musk Many societies have imagined going to live in space. What they want to do once they get up there - whether conquering the unknown, establishing space "colonies," privatising the moon's resources - reveals more than expected. In this fascinating radical history of space exploration, Fred Scharmen shows that often science and fiction have combined in the imagined dreams of life in outer space, but these visions have real implications for life back on earth. For the Russian Cosmists of the 1890s space was a place to pursue human perfection away from the Earth. For others, such as Wernher Von Braun, it was an engineering task that combined, in the Space Race, the Cold War, and during World War II, with destructive geopolitics. Arthur C. Clark in his speculative books offered an alternative vision of wonder that is indifferent to human interaction. Meanwhile NASA planned and managed the space station like an earthbound corporation. Today, the market has arrived into outer space and exploration is the plaything of superrich technology billionaires, who plan to privatise the mineral wealth for themselves. Are other worlds really possible? Bringing these figures and ideas together reveals a completely different story of our relationship with outer space, as well as the dangers of our current direction of extractive capitalism and colonisation.
Dora Celebrates Earth Day!
Author: Emily Sollinger
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606056571
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
To celebrate Earth Day, Dora makes a scrapbook of tips about how to save energy, and then she attends an Earth Day party with her friends.
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606056571
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
To celebrate Earth Day, Dora makes a scrapbook of tips about how to save energy, and then she attends an Earth Day party with her friends.
Animals and War
Author: Ryan Hediger
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004241744
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Animals and War is the first collection of essays to explore its important, yet neglected, topic. Scholars from sociology, history, anthropology, and literary and cultural studies investigate the presence of animals in human wars. The essays analyze a wide range of phenomena, including the new militarization of bees, zoo animals during war, war dogs, Finish horses in World War II, Canadian war literature, and the effort to memorialize nonhuman war animals. Although animals are often forced to participate in human wars, their presence also signals human vulnerability and dependence. Several chapters demonstrate that in the frequently horrible circumstances of war, powerful sympathies nonetheless flourish between humans and animals. Animals and War thus exposes the often paradoxical contours of human-animal relationships.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004241744
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Animals and War is the first collection of essays to explore its important, yet neglected, topic. Scholars from sociology, history, anthropology, and literary and cultural studies investigate the presence of animals in human wars. The essays analyze a wide range of phenomena, including the new militarization of bees, zoo animals during war, war dogs, Finish horses in World War II, Canadian war literature, and the effort to memorialize nonhuman war animals. Although animals are often forced to participate in human wars, their presence also signals human vulnerability and dependence. Several chapters demonstrate that in the frequently horrible circumstances of war, powerful sympathies nonetheless flourish between humans and animals. Animals and War thus exposes the often paradoxical contours of human-animal relationships.
Dora the Explorer
Author: Brian J. Bromberg
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN: 9780756620271
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Dora loves to explore. Meet her friends, solve puzzles and visit magical places.
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN: 9780756620271
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Dora loves to explore. Meet her friends, solve puzzles and visit magical places.
Dora's Outer Space Adventure
Author: Alison Inches
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780689875052
Category : Dora the explorer (Television program)
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Dora and Boots are heading to outer space for an adventure! They are going to help their alien friends get back home to the Purple Planet. Young readers can help Dora by using the stickers to find the way through the starry sky!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780689875052
Category : Dora the explorer (Television program)
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Dora and Boots are heading to outer space for an adventure! They are going to help their alien friends get back home to the Purple Planet. Young readers can help Dora by using the stickers to find the way through the starry sky!
The Third Reich
Author: Michael Burleigh
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780809093267
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Michael Burleigh's The Third Reich presents a major study of one of the twentieth century's darkest periods. Until now there has been no up-to-date, one-volume, international history of Nazi Germany, despite its being among the most studied phenomena of our time. The Third Reich restores a broad perspective and intellectual unity to issues that have become academic subspecialties and offers a brilliant new interpretation of Hitler's evil rule. Filled with human and moral considerations that are missing from theoretical accounts, Michael Burleigh's book gives full weight to the experience of ordinary people who were swept up in, or repelled by, Hitler's movement and emphasizes how international themes for Nazi Germany appealed to many European nations. It also focuses on the Nazi's wartime conduct to dominate the Continental economy and involve gigantic population transfers and exterminations, recruitment of foreign labor, and multinational armies.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780809093267
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Michael Burleigh's The Third Reich presents a major study of one of the twentieth century's darkest periods. Until now there has been no up-to-date, one-volume, international history of Nazi Germany, despite its being among the most studied phenomena of our time. The Third Reich restores a broad perspective and intellectual unity to issues that have become academic subspecialties and offers a brilliant new interpretation of Hitler's evil rule. Filled with human and moral considerations that are missing from theoretical accounts, Michael Burleigh's book gives full weight to the experience of ordinary people who were swept up in, or repelled by, Hitler's movement and emphasizes how international themes for Nazi Germany appealed to many European nations. It also focuses on the Nazi's wartime conduct to dominate the Continental economy and involve gigantic population transfers and exterminations, recruitment of foreign labor, and multinational armies.
Dora Takes the Stage!
Author: Irene Kilpatrick
Publisher: Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
ISBN: 9781416960744
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Dora's putting on a play, and she wants your help. Choose the scenery and characters, and use the pop-out stage and audience for your very own performance.
Publisher: Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
ISBN: 9781416960744
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Dora's putting on a play, and she wants your help. Choose the scenery and characters, and use the pop-out stage and audience for your very own performance.
Our Germans
Author: Brian E. Crim
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421424401
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
A gripping history of one of the United States' most controversial Cold War intelligence operations. Project Paperclip brought hundreds of German scientists and engineers, including aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun, to the United States in the first decade after World War II. More than the freighters full of equipment or the documents recovered from caves and hastily abandoned warehouses, the German brains who designed and built the V-2 rocket and other "wonder weapons" for the Third Reich proved invaluable to America's emerging military-industrial complex. Whether they remained under military employment, transitioned to civilian agencies like NASA, or sought more lucrative careers with corporations flush with government contracts, German specialists recruited into the Paperclip program assumed enormously influential positions within the labyrinthine national security state. Drawing on recently declassified documents from intelligence agencies, the Department of Defense, the FBI, and the State Department, Brian E. Crim's Our Germans examines the process of integrating German scientists into a national security state dominated by the armed services and defense industries. Crim explains how the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency enticed targeted scientists, whitewashed the records of Nazis and war criminals, and deceived government agencies about the content of security investigations. Exploring the vicious bureaucratic rivalries that erupted over the wisdom, efficacy, and morality of pursuing Paperclip, Our Germans reveals how some Paperclip proponents and scientists influenced the perception of the rival Soviet threat by volunteering inflated estimates of Russian intentions and technical capabilities. As it describes the project's embattled legacy, Our Germans reflects on the myriad ways that Paperclip has been remembered in culture and national memory. As this engaging book demonstrates, whether characterized as an expedient Cold War program born from military necessity or a dishonorable episode, the project ultimately reflects American ambivalence about the military-industrial complex and the viability of an "ends justifies the means" solution to external threats.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421424401
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
A gripping history of one of the United States' most controversial Cold War intelligence operations. Project Paperclip brought hundreds of German scientists and engineers, including aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun, to the United States in the first decade after World War II. More than the freighters full of equipment or the documents recovered from caves and hastily abandoned warehouses, the German brains who designed and built the V-2 rocket and other "wonder weapons" for the Third Reich proved invaluable to America's emerging military-industrial complex. Whether they remained under military employment, transitioned to civilian agencies like NASA, or sought more lucrative careers with corporations flush with government contracts, German specialists recruited into the Paperclip program assumed enormously influential positions within the labyrinthine national security state. Drawing on recently declassified documents from intelligence agencies, the Department of Defense, the FBI, and the State Department, Brian E. Crim's Our Germans examines the process of integrating German scientists into a national security state dominated by the armed services and defense industries. Crim explains how the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency enticed targeted scientists, whitewashed the records of Nazis and war criminals, and deceived government agencies about the content of security investigations. Exploring the vicious bureaucratic rivalries that erupted over the wisdom, efficacy, and morality of pursuing Paperclip, Our Germans reveals how some Paperclip proponents and scientists influenced the perception of the rival Soviet threat by volunteering inflated estimates of Russian intentions and technical capabilities. As it describes the project's embattled legacy, Our Germans reflects on the myriad ways that Paperclip has been remembered in culture and national memory. As this engaging book demonstrates, whether characterized as an expedient Cold War program born from military necessity or a dishonorable episode, the project ultimately reflects American ambivalence about the military-industrial complex and the viability of an "ends justifies the means" solution to external threats.
Sugar
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beet sugar
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Includes a section in Spanish.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beet sugar
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Includes a section in Spanish.