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Star Wars: Galactic Phrase Book & Travel Guide

Author : Ben Burtt

Publisher : Random House Worlds

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 46,85 MB

Release : 2001-08-07

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0345440749

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Whether doing business with the Hutts or trying to get a decent haircut on Coruscant, the Galactic Phrase Book & Travel Guide is an invaluable tool for galactic travelers. Vividly illustrated by Sergio Aragonés, this handy volume covers the basics, including • Greetings—H'chu apenkee, o'grandio lust: “Greetings, glorious host” in Huttese. It doesn't hurt you to be nice, and it might hurt you not to. • Travel arrangements—Zat x'ratch keezo bompaz ha sheep: in Bocce, “That scratch was there when I rented the ship.” • Asking directions—Chi ita lungee: “I am lost,” in Ewokese. Don't be afraid to seek help in the forest. • Dining—Dis foosa isa berry good: “this food is good.” It's always best to compliment your Gungan hosts. • Bargaining for your life—Huwaa muaa mumwa: “Can I buy you a drink.” in Wookiee-speak. Try it. It just might work. A must have when traveling without your protocol droid! Bonus!—An exclusive “Behind the Sounds” look at making of the Star Wars movies from Academy Award-winning Sound Editor Ben Burtt. Discover the secrets behind the roar of Chewbacca, the chatter of the cantina crowd, and R2-D2's unique eloquence.



Travel Among Men

Author : Kathleen Lee

Publisher : University Press of Colorado

Page : 216 pages

File Size : 42,66 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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In this remarkable collection, Kathleen Lee charts the geography of remote areas of Asia and examines the metaphorical meaning of travel itself. Whether following characters in China, Pakistan, or Egypt, Lee suggests that the quest for identity and meaning in life remain the same. Brilliantly written and beautifully observed, Lee brings to mind such writers as Graham Greene and Bruce Chatwin in her refusal to let travel be either transient or superficial. Travel Among Men is an important book and an auspicious debut.



Skunk Works

Author : Leo Janos

Publisher : Little, Brown

Page : 273 pages

File Size : 43,30 MB

Release : 2013-02-26

Category : History

ISBN : 031624693X

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This classic history of America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies is "a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real" (New York Times Book Review). From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the chronicle of Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works is a drama of Cold War confrontations and Gulf War air combat, of extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement against fantastic odds. Here are up-close portraits of the maverick band of scientists and engineers who made the Skunk Works so renowned. Filled with telling personal anecdotes and high adventure, with narratives from the CIA and from Air Force pilots who flew the many classified, risky missions, this book is a riveting portrait of the most spectacular aviation triumphs of the twentieth century. "Thoroughly engrossing." --Los Angeles Times Book Review



To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

Author : Christopher Paolini

Publisher : Tor Books

Page : 848 pages

File Size : 28,62 MB

Release : 2020-09-15

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1250762901

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Now a New York Times and USA Today bestseller! Winner of Best Science Fiction in the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards! To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is a brand new epic novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eragon, Christopher Paolini. Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds. Now she's awakened a nightmare. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn't at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human. While Kira faces her own horrors, Earth and its colonies stand upon the brink of annihilation. Now, Kira might be humanity's greatest and final hope . . . The Fractalverse Series To Sleep in a Sea of Stars Fractal Noise At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.



Ironstorm

Author : Robert Blumetti

Publisher : iUniverse

Page : 296 pages

File Size : 20,38 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 059520175X

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Ten thousand years in the future humankind has successfully colonized the entire Milky Way galaxy. Humanity has set-up the Galactic Republic to defend their liberties, protect their way-of-life and maintain peace and order throughout the galaxy. Unknown to humankind, an alien conspiracy from beyond the galaxy has infiltrated their civilization. It is slowly seizing power by possessing humankind's bodies and destroying their souls.Senator Sept Racher discovers the existence of the alien conspiracy, but he and his wife are killed. His son, Stahl Racher barely escapes and is rescued by a band of cosmic druids. Stahl grows up to become Lord Racher and learns the secret of harnassing the collective power of humanity's life-force. With this power he leads a rebel army, who are dedicated to liberating humanity from the growing tyranny of the alien conspiracy before it is too late.



Interstellar Travel and Multi-generation Space Ships

Author : Yoji Kondo

Publisher : Burlington, Ont. : Apogee Books

Page : 136 pages

File Size : 11,47 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Nature

ISBN :

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A collection of papers presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science symposium held in Boston Feb. 15, 2002, this content considers the formidable technical issues and the social and "human" issues that will impact or be impacted by mankind's excursions to other star systems.



The Lost Continent

Author : Bill Bryson

Publisher : VNR AG

Page : 326 pages

File Size : 50,59 MB

Release : 1989

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780060161583

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"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.



The Stars My Destination

Author : Alfred Bester

Publisher : Orion Publishing Group

Page : 244 pages

File Size : 21,72 MB

Release : 2010

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780575094192

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One of the very best must-read SF novels of all time.



Mae Among the Stars

Author : Roda Ahmed

Publisher : HarperCollins

Page : 45 pages

File Size : 14,93 MB

Release : 2020-05-26

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0063055708

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A beautiful picture book for sharing and marking special occasions such as graduation, inspired by the life of the first African American woman to travel in space, Mae Jemison. An Amazon Best Book of the Month! A great classroom and bedtime read-aloud, Mae Among the Stars is the perfect book for young readers who have big dreams and even bigger hearts. When Little Mae was a child, she dreamed of dancing in space. She imagined herself surrounded by billions of stars, floating, gliding, and discovering. She wanted to be an astronaut. Her mom told her, "If you believe it, and work hard for it, anything is possible.” Little Mae’s curiosity, intelligence, and determination, matched with her parents' encouraging words, paved the way for her incredible success at NASA as the first African American woman to travel in space. This book will inspire other young girls to reach for the stars, to aspire for the impossible, and to persist with childlike imagination.



The Pull of the Stars

Author : Emma Donoghue

Publisher : Little, Brown

Page : 257 pages

File Size : 47,38 MB

Release : 2020-07-21

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0316499048

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In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in "Donoghue's best novel since Room" (Kirkus Reviews). In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders—Doctor Kathleen Lynn, a rumoured Rebel on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other's lives in unexpected ways. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. In The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue once again finds the light in the darkness in this new classic of hope and survival against all odds.