Provides "an accessible and detailed look into one of the most intriguing programs ever: the American lunar program. From the pioneer efforts of test pilots in the early space program, to the worldwide exhilaration behind man's first walk on the moon, to the devastation behind the disastrous Challenger accident and the new visions the government now has for the program, author Bob Berman recounts for the lay reader all the advances and setbacks that have taken place during the immense growth of the space program.
Bob Davey, an aerospace-engineering professor and former Air Force pilot, captures readers with this fast-paced and imaginative story ignited when the Russians announce a manned mission to the moon. Air Force Colonel Brandt Strickland, a member of a Pentagon group studying the Russian plan, is certain that the Americans must be on the moon first and that we have less than two years to get there. At stake is control of the world's energy supply. But he has no spacecraft, no crew, and a President vehemently opposed to his mission. The Moon War follows Strickland through the triumphs and tragedies of his incredible odyssey. The story volleys between America and Russia as the countries scramble to launch. Greed, corruption and deception, even at the very highest levels, cause the plot to twist and turn as the tension mounts. With extraordinary technical accuracy, Davey's story assembles a cast of astronauts, cosmonauts, politicians and engineers drawn from real life who react to the unending trials with uncanny realism. Reflecting Davey's experiences as an Air Force officer, an engineer, and an educator, The Moon War tells a tale that may well fill the pages of tomorrow's newspapers.
All human beings have a story to tell. Most never tell it. They never take the time. Faith is a journey. Life has a purpose. God wants a relationship. We are, all of humanity, connected by faith, life, and relationship. This book is the story of how God searched for me and found me in the darkness of my own despair. He saved me from a lifetime struggle with addiction and abuse. I am a witness to God’s promise. I prayed while I wrote these words—those prayers are here for you to read and share. The prayers led me to thought-provoking words and ideas for you to explore further in scripture and then in writing your own life story. I encourage you to explore God’s word every day of the year, then take the time to journal how it relates to, encourages, and inspires your life story, your faith journey, and your relationship with God. Give God’s promises for you a voice under a glass moon.
Bob Basso is the poignant and rivetingly funny voice of the sixty-plus generation yearning to recapture the simplicity and wholesome values of a fading past. His tenth book, a compilation of short stories, Searching For Hula Love Under A Blue Papaya Moon, is pure soul food."--William LeClaire, Editor, New Books Weekly (Editor's Choice Award) If you're over fifty, or hope one day to reach it, then you'll recognize the common struggle to rise above modern absurdity and find refuge in your own history. Some tales are autobiographical, verbatim true, others more or less true. Deciphering which is which is part of the fun. An aging historian loses self-importance encountering France's greatest living myth ("The Legend of Mr. Beaumarchaise"); the frustration of sex after sixty combines with disgust of all things politically correct ("White Man's Rage"); an ironic farewell to heroes ("Forty-Two Minutes With The Boys of Pearl"); an eccentric Nobel Prize poetess burns her books and looks to her garden for salvation ("Yard Work"); and magic, myth and an epic journey backward to recapture meaning at the end of life ("Searching For Hula Love Under A Blue Papaya Moon").
Here are teacher demonstrations, student hands-on activities, and student journals, plus a two-sided poster in each book that presents information on one side, and a learning game on the other. It is science education at its best, balancing process and content.
It is 1870, and Paris is in turmoil. As the social and political turbulence of the Franco-Prussian War roils the city, workers starve to death while aristocrats seek refuge in orgies and séances. The Parisians are trapped like rats in their beautiful city but a series of gruesome murders captures their fascination and distracts them from the realities of war.The killer leaves lines from the recently deceased Charles Baudelaire’s controversial anthology Les Fleurs du Mal on each corpse, written in the poet’s exact handwriting. Commissioner Lefèvre, a lover of poetry and a veteran of the Algerian war, is on the case, and his investigation is a thrilling, intoxicating journey into the sinister side of human nature, bringing to mind the brooding and tense atmosphere of Patrick Susskind’s Perfume.Did Baudelaire rise from the grave? Did he truly die in the first place? The plot dramatically appears to extend as far as the court of the Emperor Napoleon III. A vivid, intelligent, and intense historical crime novel that offers up some shocking revelations about sexual mores in 19th century France, this superb mystery illuminates the shadow life of one of the greatest names in poetry.
Two Sailboats, One Moon is full of drama and tenderness, frustration and courage, travel adventures and sailing stories, as well as the minutiae of daily life. Qualities of good character abound. In 2002, Bob Bennett and Sue Montana had been together for 17 years. They had made a point of revisiting - and renewing - their commitment to each other every few years, and talking about their goals as they looked towards the future. It was the year after 9/11, a horrible moment in history. At the same time, Bob was at a turning point at his job. As they reviewed their commitment and goals that year, Bob and Sue agreed that it was "time for Bob to do something different" with his life. They did not know then that "something different" would entail Bob resigning from his job and signing on as crew for a small sailboat that would spend a year circumnavigating the globe. In the meantime, Sue was launching a new business. It also fell to her, during the year of Bob's absence, to maintain the house they had purchased together. In addition, Sue had never captained their own sailboat, Habanero, by herself before this. So, while Bob was off sailing the seven seas, Sue mastered sailing Habanero by herself, as well as the fine art of small boat repairs. During this year Bob and Sue each kept journals of their daily activities, tracking the memorable events in their respective lives - crossing the equator for the first time, seeing fields of glaciers and pods of whales; taking Habanero out solo for the first time, dealing with the unexpected death of a beloved cat. And they recorded the more mundane details of day-to-day life as well - the types of things that you tend to forget when you aren't able to converse with your significant other many times a day. Every time they saw the moon in the sky at night, as they had promised, they not only thought of each other but they wrote about what they were doing and thinking at that moment in their journals. Like all sailing adventures, this one resonates with romance - the romantic notion of embarking on a round-the-world sailing adventure, and the eagerness with which these two sailors met up in foreign ports three times during this unforgettable year. But the very human realities are here, too - Sue's unexpected feelings of bereftness after Bob's departure, and Bob's unexpected doubts about his ability to stick it out for the entire circumnavigation. Two Sailboats, One Moon is unlike any sailing adventure you've read before!
The Second Moon, a science fiction adventure, chronicles a young couple abandoning their simple lives and fragile romance in order to overcome treachery, kidnapping, and murder to save their fragile human colony on the inner moon of Conboet. If the atmosphere of the planet's outer moon hadn't been poisonous, the human crew of the doomed generation ship, Tanis, might never have taken a second look at the frozen snowball that was Syton, might never have discovered that life could be sustained deep within its vast gorge, midway between the frigid surface, and the geothermal hell thirteen kilometers below. It was there, over thirty years ago, that Second Officer, Avram Elstrada struggled to break through the language barrier to negotiate a settlement agreement with the resident natives-safe harbor as long as humans agreed to follow certain Prohibitions. Foremost among them was the prohibition against the use of superior technology. They would have to give up thousands of years of science and engineering and live in the same agrarian manner as the natives, if they were to live in the Syton gorge. It was their last, best chance of surviving their dying, seven hundred year old starship. And they took it. Over the ensuing decades, life hasn't been easy for the four hundred humans trapped within the gorge. Avram has been both honored for his diplomatic compromise and vilified, particularly by the ship's chief engineer. Two Enforcers, veteran Beloit McMaster, and recently his apprentice, Avram's son Jasin, have managed to ensure adherence to the Prohibitions. It has been peaceful...until now. A human woman has been brutally murdered in Bistoun, the one racially mixed village in the great crevasse. Suspicion, falls upon Sy Loeton, one of the formidable native males, and member of the Sytonian Council who has shown an unacceptable interest in human women. But even if Avram and the Enforcers are able to prove his involvement, there are no laws protecting humans from this or any other Sytonian abuse. Humans had never been in a position to demand equal rights; something Avram, now in the waning years of his life, intends to change. Meanwhile, Jasin has fallen for Elizabeth, his mother's tall, beautiful new housekeeper. She had been a caregiver for Avram's principle detractor, the ship's senior engineer, who until his death, lived on the shore of Lake Chook with his son and deaf grandson. Elizabeth has recently suffered the loss of her mother and brother, and struggles with her depression and fear of commitment and the dark. Jasin patiently romances Elizabeth, gently encouraging her to emerge from her emotional cocoon. Struggling with their own fears and shortcomings, the young couple not only discover the true hidden purpose behind The Prohibitions, but that heroic and noble traits dwell within all races and possibly, even themselves.
Honeymoons Can Kill is a 68,000 word mystery thriller that is set on a cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico. The eighth book in the Jim West series, this is the first book to bring back prior characters from previous books. Deputy Rose Luna (Greed Can Kill) joins Jim on a five-day cruise out of Galveston, TX, and on the second day of the cruise, the couple encounters Sarah Stone (Dead Men Can Kill). Sarah Stone is now Sarah Lassiter having gotten married on the ship right before it left port. When Sarah's new husband is murdered on the second night of the cruise, the cruise changes from a relaxing vacation to a race to catch the killer before everyone disembarks in three more days. The book should be considered as rated PG-13.
Fast paced, wonderfully illustrated biography of Galileo, highlighting his conflict with the Catholic Church over whether the Earth revolves around the Sun or the Sun revolves around the Earth, and recounting his fascinating and bawdy personal life, loves, and losses. Covers his life from adolescent novice in a monastery to professor and Royal Mathematician and Philosopher to the Medici Court, his becoming the most celebrated scientist of his time, and his famous trial at the hands of the Roman Inquisition where he was judged to be 'vehemently suspect of heresy.' Beautifully illustrated, it is less a graphic novel (there are no comic book panels) than a work of art and a novel that is graphic.
The Man Who Annexed the Moon: When Professor Banning should wants to expand his knowledge of outer space and the solar system, he becomes interested in the moon and enlists two assistants. Together they built a rocket ship designed to take them into space.
Grab your flashlight and climb under the covers! Full Moon Monster Madness will make you howl with laughter as you search through nine spreads filled with hair-raising horrors. Think you're finished? Turn to the back of the book for even more foolishly ghoulish Look and Find challenges! Book features 8 extra-busy scenes and makes perfect entertainment on car and plane rides; Also fun for kids to share together. 24 pages total
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