Piercing The Horizon
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Piercing The Horizon
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Author : Sunny Tsiao
language : en
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Release Date : 2017-09-15
Piercing The Horizon written by Sunny Tsiao and has been published by Purdue University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
We all know the names: Grissom, Armstrong, Cernan-legends of the space age whose names resonate with people around the world and whose deeds need no introduction. We know less about the men who led the organization that planned and began the US exploration of space: the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Thomas O. Paine grew up an ordinary boy in northern California during the Great Depression of the 1930s. He would go on to serve as NASA's third administrator, leading the space agency through the first historic missions that sent astronauts on voyages away from Earth. On his watch, seven Apollo flights orbited our planet and five reached our moon. From those missions came the first of twelve men to walk on the moon. Years later, in 1985, the Reagan administration would call on Paine again to chair the nation's first-ever National Commission on Space. The Paine Commission Report of 1986 challenged twenty-first-century America to "lead the exploration and development of the space frontier, advancing science, technology, and enterprise, and building institutions and systems that make accessible vast new resources and support human settlements beyond Earth orbit, from the highlands of the Moon to the plains of Mars."In Piercing the Horizon, Sunny Tsiao masterfully delivers new insights into the behind-the-scenes drama of the space race. Tsiao examines how Paine's days as a World War II submariner fighting in the Pacific shaped his vision for the future of humankind in space. The book tells how Paine honed his skills as a pioneering materials engineer at the fabled postwar General Electric Company in the 1950s, to his dealings inside the halls of NASA and with Johnson, Nixon, and later, the Reagan and Bush administrations.As robotic missions begin leaving the earth, Tsiao invites the reader to take another look at the plans that Paine articulated regarding how America could have had humans on Mars by the year 2000 as the first step to the exploration of deep space. Piercing the Horizon provides provocative context to current conversations on the case for reaching Mars, settling our solar system, and continuing the exploration of space.
Latinx Revolutionary Horizons
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Author : Renee Hudson
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2024-05-07
Latinx Revolutionary Horizons written by Renee Hudson and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
A necessary reconceptualization of Latinx identity, literature, and politics In Latinx Revolutionary Horizons, Renee Hudson theorizes a liberatory latinidad that is not yet here and conceptualizes a hemispheric project in which contemporary Latinx authors return to earlier moments of revolution. Rather than viewing Latinx as solely a category of identification, she argues for an expansive, historicized sense of the term that illuminates its political potential. Claiming the “x” in Latinx as marking the suspension and tension between how Latin American descended people identify and the future politics the “x” points us toward, Hudson contends that latinidad can signal a politics grounded in shared struggles and histories rather than merely a mode of identification. In this way, Latinx Revolutionary Horizons reads against current calls for cancelling latinidad based on its presumed anti-Black and anti-Indigenous framework. Instead, she examines the not-yet-here of latinidad to investigate the connection between the revolutionary history of the Americas and the creation of new genres in the hemisphere, from conversion narratives and dictator novels to neoslave narratives and testimonios. By comparing colonialisms, she charts a revolutionary genealogy across a range of movements such as the Mexican Revolution, the Filipino People Power Revolution, resistance to Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, and the Cuban Revolution. In pairing nineteenth-century authors alongside contemporary Latinx ones, Hudson examines a longer genealogy of Latinx resistance while expanding its literary canon, from the works of José Rizal and Martin Delany to those of Julia Alvarez, Jessica Hagedorn, and Leslie Marmon Silko. In imagining a truly transnational latinidad, Latinx Revolutionary Horizons thus rewrites our understanding of the nationalist formations that continue to characterize Latinx Studies.
Armor Piercing
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Author : Janeal Rae
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-11-11
Armor Piercing written by Janeal Rae and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-11 with categories.
Five year old Mercury witnessed the brutal murder of her mother and later, an innocent soldier. Mercury lives in a world under military control with the looming of WWIV on the horizon. Mercury's rebelliousness leaves her and Jesse's (the soldier she loves) lives in jeapordy as their unwitting love finally breaks the sheild surrounding her heart. As Jesse creates advanced armored military suits, for an elite force, a storm is about to erupt. For these soldiers are unaware of the dangers that await them.
A Winter S Promise
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Author : Christelle Dabos
language : en
Publisher: Europa Editions
Release Date : 2018-09-25
A Winter S Promise written by Christelle Dabos and has been published by Europa Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-25 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
“A stunningly atmospheric fantasy that doubles as an exceptional character study . . . we can’t wait to see where Dabos takes it next.” —Entertainment Weekly (“The 10 Best YA Books of 2018”) One of Publishers Weekly’s Best YA Books of the Year A National Indie Bestseller Lose yourself in the fantastic world of the arks and in the company of unforgettable characters in this French runaway hit, Christelle Dabos’ The Mirror Visitor quartet. Plain-spoken, headstrong Ophelia cares little about appearances. Her ability to read the past of objects is unmatched in all of Anima and, what’s more, she possesses the ability to travel through mirrors, a skill passed down to her from previous generations. Her idyllic life is disrupted, however, when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, a taciturn and influential member of a distant clan. Ophelia must leave all she knows behind and follow her fiancé to Citaceleste, the capital of a cold, icy ark known as the Pole, where danger lurks around every corner and nobody can be trusted. There, in the presence of her inscrutable future husband, Ophelia slowly realizes that she is a pawn in a political game that will have far-reaching ramifications not only for her but for her entire world. The World of the Arks Long ago, following a cataclysm called the Rupture, the world was shattered into many floating celestial islands, now known as arks. Over each, the spirit of an omnipotent and immortal ancestor abides. The inhabitants of these arks each possess a unique power. Ophelia, with her ability to read the pasts of objects, must navigate this fantastic, disjointed, perilous world using her trademark tenacity and quiet strength.
House Of Fire
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Author : Emma L. Adams
language : en
Publisher: Emma L. Adams
Release Date :
House Of Fire written by Emma L. Adams and has been published by Emma L. Adams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
I'm Bria Kent, paranormal rogue and former inmate of the House of Fire. As the Death King's official Fire Element, my first order is to help my boss negotiate with the Houses of the Elements. Yeah, my former jailors. Nobody ever said this was an easy job. All our negotiations go out the window when someone shows up dead, and my ex-best friend turns out to be the prime suspect. Worse, the deadly mages who raised me are on the loose, and I'm almost certain they're involved with the trouble brewing in the Houses. With war on the horizon, the Family is all too ready to step in and take advantage of the chaos. And there's nothing they want more than for me to fight at their side… Keywords: urban fantasy, magic, gamer, role-playing games, contemporary fantasy, urban fantasy series, British fantasy, female protagonist urban fantasy, dark urban fantasy, ghosts, mages, necromancer, complete fantasy series, adult urban fantasy series, action urban fantasy, paranormal fantasy, supernatural suspense
Star Sky
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Star Sky written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Astronomy categories.
Engineering Graphics
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Author : Frederick Ernest Giesecke
language : en
Publisher: MacMillan
Release Date : 1975
Engineering Graphics written by Frederick Ernest Giesecke and has been published by MacMillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Weird Mysticism
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Author : Brad Baumgartner
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-11-17
Weird Mysticism written by Brad Baumgartner and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
Weird Mysticism identifies and evaluates a new category of theoretical inquiry by showing the influence of speculative writing on three intersecting critical categories: horror fiction, apophatic mysticism, and philosophical pessimism. Exploring the work of Thomas Ligotti, Georges Bataille, and E. M. Cioran, Baumgartner argues that these “weird mystics” employ an innovative mode of negative writing that seeks to merge new conceptions of reality. While exploring perennial questions about “the absolute,” the Outside, and other philosophical concepts, these authors push the limits of representation, experimenting with literary form, genre-bending, and aphoristic discourse. As their works reveal, the category of weird mysticism both conjoins and obscures the link between traditional mysticism and philosophical horror fiction, with weirdness itself being the central magnet that draws the seemingly disparate realms of horror fiction, philosophy, and mysticism together. Highlighting the theoretical stakes of the horror genre, Baumgartner’s study reveals how the mystical potentially recuperates the limits of philosophical thinking, enabling reflection on—and possibly challenging—the limits of human understanding.
Technical Drawing
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Author : Frederick Ernest Giesecke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
Technical Drawing written by Frederick Ernest Giesecke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Mechanical drawing categories.
Mosques In The Metropolis
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Author : Elisabeth Becker
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2021-09-20
Mosques In The Metropolis written by Elisabeth Becker and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-20 with Religion categories.
"Mosques in the Metropolisis a dual-site ethnographic study of two of Europe's largest mosques, one a conservative Islamist community in London and the other a progressive Muslim community in Berlin. The contrasting sites allow sociologist Elisabeth Becker to provide a complex picture of Islam in Europe at a particularly fraught time. She spent over thirty months studying the mosques through immersion and interviews and provides an analysis that goes deep into European Muslim communities. Individual Muslim voices come through loud and clear-for example, the young mother of three in London trying to reconcile her conservative religious views with her desire to leave her husband-as do the historical and structural forces at play. Ultimately Becker insists that caste is a crucial lens through which to view Islam in Europe, and through this lens she critiques what she perceives as failing European pluralism. To amplify her point, Becker brings Jewish history and twentieth-century Jewish thought into the conversation directly, drawing on the ways in which Bauman and Arendt utilized the concept of caste to describe Jewish life and marginality. What is at stake here is nothing less than the fundamental values of freedom, equality, and individual rights--ostensibly the bedrock of European identity"--