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  • Sacramento's Moon Rockets

    by Alan Lawrie ...
    Series series Images of Modern America
    On July 16, 1969, a Saturn V rocket launched the Apollo spacecraft carrying American astronauts to the surface of the moon, where Neil Armstrong would take his famous first steps and fulfill Pres. John F. Kennedy's goal of a successful lunar landing by the end of the decade. This event marks one of the greatest achievements in human history and is in large part due to the years of rocket testing ... Read more

    $17.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Saturn V Rocket

    by Alan Lawrie ...
    Series series Images of Modern America
    In the first comprehensive photographic account of the Saturn V, relive the drama of the Space Race through the production of the rocket that would carry Neil Armstrong and crew to the moon. In 1961, Pres. John F. Kennedy set the challenge of landing a man on the moon by the end of the decade. In order to achieve this, NASA partnered with US industry to build the largest rocket ever produced, the ... Read more

    $17.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Price of a Bargain

    The Quest for Cheap and the Death of Globalization

    by Gordon Laird ...
    A brilliant investigation into the true cost of our bargain economy — and the end of consumerism as we know itOurs is the age of discount: we want more, cheaper, better. But the result is low wages, urban blight, environmental damage, labour abuses, a cookie-cutter model of progress, and now an international economic crisis. With an eye for documentary storytelling and investigative detail, Gordon ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Cosmos For Kids (I Spy Universe)

    Solar System and Planets in our Universe

    by Speedy Publishing ...
    Series series Awesome Kids Educational Books
    A parent who wishes to teach a child more about the universe needs to definitely help the child understand the many items that occupy our galaxy. This book would be excellent because a young child will not be skilled enough to gather information from a text only book. However, this is an illustrated guide of the cosmos that will show beautiful and artistically created pictures that will stick in ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Make: Drones

    Teach an Arduino to Fly

    by David McGriffy ...
    Make: Drones will help the widest possible audience understand how drones work by providing several DIY drone projects based on the world's most popular robot controller--the Arduino. The information imparted in this book will show Makers how to build better drones and be better drone pilots, and incidentally it will have applications in almost any robotics project. Why Arduino? Makers know ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • When the World Calls

    The Inside Story of the Peace COrps and Its First Fifty Years

    by Stanley Meisler ...
    A complete and revealing history of the Peace Corps—in time for its fiftieth anniversaryWhen the World Calls is the first complete and balanced look at the Peace Corps's first fifty years. Stanley Meisler's engaging narrative exposes Washington infighting, presidential influence, and the Volunteers' unique struggles abroad. He deftly unpacks the complicated history with sharp analysis and ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Quest for Flight

    John J. Montgomery and the Dawn of Aviation in the West

    by Craig S. Harwood, Gary B. Fogel ...
    The Wright brothers have long received the lion’s share of credit for inventing the airplane. But a California scientist succeeded in flying gliders twenty years before the Wright’s powered flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Quest for Flight reveals the amazing accomplishments of John J. Montgomery, a prolific inventor who piloted the glider he designed in 1883 in the first controlled flights of a ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Spaceport Earth

    The Reinvention of Spaceflight

    by Joe Pappalardo ...
    "Tackles the ever-changing, twenty-first-century space industry and what privately funded projects like Elon Musk's SpaceX mean for the future of space travel." — Foreign PolicyCreating a seismic shift in today's space industry, private sector companies including Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin are building a dizzying array of new spacecraft and rockets, not just for government use ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Backbone of the World

    A Portrait of a Vanishing Way of Life Along the Continental Divide

    by Frank Clifford ...
    In recent years, Los Angeles Times writer and editor Frank Clifford has journeyed along the Continental Divide, the hemispheric watershed that spans North America from the alkali badlands of southernmost New Mexico to the roof of the Rockies in Montana and into Canada. The result is The Backbone of the World, an arresting exploration of America’s longest wilderness corridor, a harsh and ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Space Shuttle Endeavour

    by Stephen Hayward Silberkraus ...
    Series series Images of Modern America
    Born out of tragedy and like none of her predecessors, over the course of her 25 missions and her 19-year career, this new orbiter would perform many vital and historic missions for humanity. Inspiring pride and admiration, Endeavour would fix the Hubble Space Telescope, begin construction of the International Space Station (ISS), and perform several Spacelab missions, never failing to expand man ... Read more

    $17.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Haunted San Pedro

    by Brian Clune ...
    Series series Haunted America
    Discover the paranormal secrets behind this bustling Los Angeles port—includes photos!Home to one of the busiest ports in the country, San Pedro plays host to visitors from all walks of life—and death. Locals swap supernatural stories of shipwrecked ghosts, lost lighthouse keepers, suicidal lovers, and more.The spirit of a native Gabrieleno man wanders the grounds of the Wayfarers Chapel. The ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Discovery

    Champion of the Space Shuttle Fleet

    by Valerie Neal ...
    This book places Space Shuttle Discovery within the history of the space shuttle program and provides an introduction to space shuttle technology, with a focus on the orbiter itself. Discovery's unique history is presented mission by mission that includes a brief narrative of each mission, a chart of its key statistics (dates, duration, altitude, payloads, etc.), each mission's patch with an ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus