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  • Appalachia Revisited

    New Perspectives on Place, Tradition, and Progress

    Edited by William Schumann, Rebecca Adkins Fletcher ...
    Series series Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies
    Known for its dramatic beauty and valuable natural resources, Appalachia has undergone significant technological, economic, political, and environmental changes in recent decades. Home to distinctive traditions and a rich cultural heritage, the area is also plagued by poverty, insufficient healthcare and education, drug addiction, and ecological devastation. This complex and controversial region ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • America’s Space Futures

    Defining Goals for Space Exploration

    by Eric R. Sterner, Scott Pace, William Adkins, Charles Miller, James Vedda ...
    America’s Space Futures is an important contribution to the ongoing debate about space policy, the American space program, and the human destiny in space. It lays out alternative paradigms and frameworks for assessing America’s future in space and how different visions would require changes to America’s current approach to space development and exploration. Since the end of the Apollo program in ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ordinary Differential Equations

    by Mark G. Davidson, William A. Adkins ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Unlike most texts in differential equations, this textbook gives an early presentation of the Laplace transform, which is then used to motivate and develop many of the remaining differential equation concepts for which it is particularly well suited. For example, the standard solution methods for constant coefficient linear differential equations are immediate and simplified, and solution methods ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

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    Dis//Integration

    2 Novelas & 3 Stories & a Little Play

    by William Melvin Kelley ...
    Narrated by Bailey Carr, Gabrielle Adkins, Keith Szarabajka, Luke Slattery, Jay Smooth, Angel Pean ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 5 min

    **An odyssey through time in which past and future combine and re-combine to give the arc of a full life, by the "brilliant" (The New Yorker) author of A Different Drummer."[A] lost giant of American literature." —The New Yorker**The linked "2 novelas, 3 stories, and a little play" that make up DIS//INTEGRATION follow the life journeys of Charles "Chig" Dunford from his Nanny Eva sermonizing from ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

    by Christian Brose ...
    From a former senior advisor to Senator John McCain comes an urgent wake-up call about how new technologies are threatening America's military might.For generations of Americans, our country has been the world's dominant military power. How the US military fights, and the systems and weapons that it fights with, have been uncontested. That old reality, however, is rapidly deteriorating. America's ... Read more

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  • Mission to Mars

    My Vision for Space Exploration

    by Buzz Aldrin, Leonard David ...
    Can astronauts reach Mars by 2035? Absolutely, says Buzz Aldrin, one of the first men to walk on the moon. Celebrated astronaut, brilliant engineer, bestselling author, Aldrin believes it is not only possibly but vital to America's future to keep pushing the space frontier outward for the sake of exploration, science, development, commerce, and security. What we need, he argues, is a commitment by ... Read more

    $15.18 CAD

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  • Boeing Versus Airbus

    by John Newhouse ...
    The commercial airline industry is one of the most volatile, dog-eat-dog enterprises in the world, and in the late 1990s, Europe’s Airbus overtook America’s Boeing as the preeminent aircraft manufacturer. However, Airbus quickly succumbed to the same complacency it once challenged, and Boeing regained its precarious place on top. Now, after years of heated battle and mismanagement, both companies ... Read more

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  • Trekonomics

    The Economics of Star Trek

    by Manu Saadia ...
    "Manu Saadia has managed to show us one more reason, perhaps the most compelling one of all, why we all need the world of Star Trek to one day become the world we live in." — Chris Black, Writer and Co-Executive Producer, Star Trek: EnterpriseWhat would the world look like if everybody had everything they wanted or needed? Trekonomics, the premier book in financial journalist Felix Salmon's ... Read more

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  • Mars Direct

    Space Exploration, the Red Planet, and the Human Future: A Special from Tarcher/Penguin

    by Robert Zubrin ...
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    $3.99 CAD

  • Escaping Gravity

    My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age

    by Lori Garver ...
    A former NASA deputy administrator recounts how she battled greed and corruption to revolutionize the agency and usher in a new space age.Escaping Gravity is former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver's firsthand account of how a handful of revolutionaries overcame the political patronage and bureaucracy that threatened the space agency. The success of Elon Musk's SpaceX, Jeff Bezos's Blue ... Read more

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  • Rocket Billionaires

    Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race

    by Tim Fernholz ...
    This "smart analysis of the New Space sector" goes inside the rapid rise and dramatic rivalry of private space companies SpaceX and Blue Origin ( The New York Times Book Review).For the outsize personalities staking their fortunes on spaceships, the new race to explore space could be a dead end, a lucrative opportunity—or the key to humanity's survival. Rocket Billionaires shines a light on Elon ... Read more

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  • The Secret of Apollo

    Systems Management in American and European Space Programs

    by Stephen B. Johnson ...
    Series series New Series in NASA History
    "Skillfully interweaving technical details and fascinating personalities, Johnson tells the history of systems management in the U.S. and Europe." —Howard McCurdy, author of Space and the American ImaginationWinner of the Emme Award for Astronautical Literature from the American Astronautical SocietyHow does one go about organizing something as complicated as a strategic-missile or space ... Read more

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