Author : Tristan Davies
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 21,97 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780340712894
When Wallace's attempt to celebrate Gromit's birthday causes his garden shed to take off for outer space, propelled by homemade cheese, he builds a rocketship, enlists a crew, and blasts off to set things right.
Author : Tristan Davies
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 20,64 MB
Release : 1999-11-04
Category :
ISBN : 9780340755969
Author : Charles M. Schulz
Publisher : Simon Spotlight
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 16,23 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1534450637
All systems are go as Snoopy prepares for an out-of-this-world adventure in this special storybook based on the Peanuts partnership with NASA! Snoopy, the world-famous astronaut, is preparing to go to the moon. He quickly realizes, though, that training for space is hard work…especially when Peppermint Patty and Marcie decide to become his personal coaches! Good grief! © 2019 Peanuts Worldwide LLC
Author : Tristan Davies
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 32,20 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Children's stories
ISBN :
Author : Stephen Baxter
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 33,18 MB
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345475585
“As always, [Stephen] Baxter plays with space and time with consummate skill. . . . He continues to be one of the leading writers of hard science fiction, and one of the most thought-provoking as well.”—Science Fiction Chronicle The year is 2020. Fueled by an insatiable curiosity, Reid Malenfant ventures to the far edge of the solar system, where he discovers a strange artifact left behind by an alien civilization: A gateway that functions as a kind of quantum transporter, allowing virtually instantaneous travel over the vast distances of interstellar space. What lies on the other side of the gateway? Malenfant decides to find out. Yet he will soon be faced with an impossible choice that will push him beyond terror, beyond sanity, beyond humanity itself. Meanwhile on Earth the Japanese scientist Nemoto fears her worst nightmares are coming true. Startling discoveries reveal that the Moon, Venus, even Mars once thrived with life—life that was snuffed out not just once but many times, in cycles of birth and destruction. And the next chilling cycle is set to begin again . . . “When the travel bug bites and usual planets don’t excite, perhaps it’s time to burst the bounds of this old solar system and really see the sights. . . . Baxter’s expansive new novel is just the ticket.”—The Washington Times “Breathtaking in its originality and scope.”—The Washington Post
Author : Tristan Davies
Publisher : Trafalgar Square Publishing
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 37,99 MB
Release : 1999-06-03
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780340728345
Wallace and Gromit enter an inventor's competition sponsored by the Acme Corporation, whose owners plan to use hypnosis and a trained spider act to capture the entrants and force them to work for the company.
Author : H. A. Rey
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 22,46 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0544500288
Curious George learns about space.
Author : Anna Marie Roos
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 10,11 MB
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1789141702
Living work of art, consumer commodity, scientific hero, and environmental menace: the humble goldfish is the ultimate human cultural artifact. A creature of supposedly little memory and a short lifespan, it has held universal appeal as a reservoir for human ideas and ideals. In ancient China, goldfish were saved from predators in acts of religious reverence and selectively bred for their glittering grace. In the East, they became the subject of exquisite art, regarded as living flowers that moved, while in the West, they became ubiquitous residents of the Victorian parlor. Cheap and eminently available, today they are bred by the millions for the growing domestic pet market, while also proving to be important to laboratory studies of perception, vision, and intelligence. In this illuminating homage to the goldfish, Anna Marie Roos blends art and science to trace the surprising and intriguing history of this much-loved animal, challenging our cultural preconceptions of a creature often thought to be common and disposable.
Author : Joan Lisa Bromberg
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,96 MB
Release : 2000-11-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801865329
Few federal agencies have more extensive ties to the private sector than NASA. NASA's relationships with its many aerospace industry suppliers of rocket engines, computers, electronics, gauges, valves, O-rings, and other materials have often been described as "partnerships." These have produced a few memorable catastrophes, but mostly technical achievements of the highest order. Until now, no one has written extensively about them. In NASA and the Space Industry, Joan Lisa Bromberg explores how NASA's relationship with the private sector developed and how it works. She outlines the various kinds of expertise public and private sectors brought to the tasks NASA took on, describing how this division of labor changed over time. She explains why NASA sometimes encouraged and sometimes thwarted the privatization of space projects and describes the agency's role in the rise of such new space industries as launch vehicles and communications satellites.
Author : Dale Henry
Publisher : Review and Herald Pub Assoc
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 31,74 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781878951403
"How would you, in the space of five minutes, so impress a shopkeeper as to make him give you a $125 tie, and then an expensive camel hair sport coat, at no charge, without your asking? The author did just that. He tells how being mistaken for a bellboy netted him several speaking engagements at a major corporation. Through dozens of stories both inspiring and hilarious, the author shows the wisdom of a philosophy of service and self-giving"--Amazon.com.
