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  • Apollo in the Age of Aquarius

    de Neil M. Maher ...
    In summer 1969, astronauts landed on the moon and hippie hordes descended on Woodstock—two era-defining events that are not entirely coincidental. Neil M. Maher shows how NASA’s celestial aspirations were tethered to terrestrial concerns of the time: the civil rights struggle, the antiwar movement, environmentalism, feminism, and the culture wars. ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Nature's New Deal

    The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement

    de Neil M. Maher ...
    The Great Depression coincided with a wave of natural disasters, including the Dust Bowl and devastating floods of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Recovering from these calamities--and preventing their reoccurrence--was a major goal of the New Deal. In Nature's New Deal, Neil M. Maher examines the history of one of Franklin D. Roosevelt's boldest and most successful experiments, the Civilian ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • New Jersey's Natures

    Environmental Histories of the Garden State

    de Raechel Lutz, Chad Anderson, Erin Becker-Boris, Michael Chiarappa, James J. Gigantino II, Robert Hoberman, Jordan P. Howell, Charlotte Leib, Aris Damadian Lindemans, Tina Peabody1, Zachary Rouhas2, Christopher J. Slaby3, Andrew Urban4, Christine Woodside5, Sevin Yildiz6, Melissa Ziobro7, Dan Druckenbrod II8 ...
    Series series CERES: Rutgers Studies in History
    New Jersey’s Natures takes up the challenge of expanding academic and popular conceptions of New Jersey and its landscapes through the lens of environmental history. Scholars’ essays showcase the ways in which nature is integral to understandings of the state and its past as well as its future. These essays show that New Jersey should no longer solely be known as a place where pollution and ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • Apollo in the Age of Aquarius

    de Neil M. Maher ...
    Winner of the Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature AwardA Bloomberg View Must-Read Book of the YearA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year“A substance-rich, original on every page exploration of how the space program interacted with the environmental movement, and also with the peace and ‘Whole Earth’ movements of the 1960s.”—Tyler Cowen, Marginal RevolutionThe summer of 1969 saw ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • A Field on Fire

    The Future of Environmental History

    de Mark D. Hersey, Ted Steinberg, Marco Armiero, Kevin C. Armitage, Brian C. Black, Lisa M. Brady, Karl Boyd Brooks, Robert Wellman Campbell, Brian Allen Drake0, Sterling Evans1, Sara M. Gregg2, Shen Hou3, Neil M. Maher4, Christof Mauch5, Daniel T. Rodgers6, Adam Rome7, Edmund Russell8, Mikko Saikku9, Frank Zelko0 ...
    A frank and engaging exploration of the burgeoning academic field of environmental historyInspired by the pioneering work of preeminent environmental historian Donald Worster, the contributors to A Field on Fire: The Future of Environmental History reflect on the past and future of this discipline. Featuring wide-ranging essays by leading environmental historians from the United States, Europe, ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

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    Apollo in the Age of Aquarius

    de Neil M. Maher ...
    Narrado por L.J. Ganser ...

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    10 hora 32 minutos

    The summer of 1969 saw astronauts land on the moon for the first time and hippie hordes descend on Woodstock for a legendary music festival. For Neil M. Maher, the conjunction of these two era-defining events is not entirely coincidental.With its lavishly funded mandate to send a man to the moon, Apollo became a litmus test in the 1960s culture wars. Many people believed it would reinvigorate a ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBooks

    Disponible también en: eBooks

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  • A City on Mars

    Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?

    de Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith ...
    *** THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the Hugo Award * Scientific American’s #1 Book for 2023 * Winner of Royal Society's Trivedi Prize * A Guardian Best Book of 2024 * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * A Times Best Science and Environment Book of 2023 * A Tor.com Best Book of 2023 *“Exceptional. . . Forceful, engaging and funny . . . This book will make you happy to ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Trekonomics

    The Economics of Star Trek

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Mars Direct

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

    de Robert Zubrin ...
    “Bob Zubrin really, nearly alone, changed our thinking on this issue.”—Carl Sagan, The Denver PostIf you ever daydream about space travel and human space flight—or hope to one day rove the Red Planet alongside Curiosity—then MARS DIRECT will teach you how we can get thereThe human race is at a crossroads. In the coming decades, we will make decisions regarding our human spaceflight program that ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Your Flying Car Awaits

    Robot Butlers, Lunar Vacations, and Other Dead-Wrong Predictions of the Twentieth Century

    de Paul Milo ...
    A delightful mixture of science fiction, utopian vision, and just plain crazy ideas, Your Flying Car Awaits is a hilarious and insightful compendium of the most outrageous and completely ridiculous predictions of the 20th Century. Award-winning journalist Paul Milo’s collection of “Robot Butlers, Lunar Vacations, and Other Dead-Wrong Predictions of the Twentieth Century” is true history on the ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Canadarm and Collaboration

    How Canada’s Astronauts and Space Robots Explore New Worlds

    de Elizabeth Howell ...
    With interviews from Chris Hadfield and Marc Garneau, the tale of Canada’s involvement in international space exploration from the 1960s to the present dayCanada is a small but mighty power in space exploration. After providing the Canadarm robotic arm for the space shuttle in 1981, Canada received an invitation to start an astronaut program — a program that quickly let its people accumulate skill ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Lost in Space

    The Fall of NASA and the Dream of a New Space Age

    de Greg Klerkx ...
    The daring, revolutionary NASA that sent Neil Armstrong to the moon has lost its meteoric vision, says journalist and space enthusiast Greg Klerkx. NASA, he contends, has devolved from a pioneer of space exploration into a factionalized bureaucracy focused primarily on its own survival. And as a result, humans haven’t ventured beyond Earth orbit for three decades. Klerkx argues that after its ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD