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  • Outposts on the Frontier

    A Fifty-Year History of Space Stations

    de Jay Chladek ...
    Series series Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
    The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest man-made structure to orbit Earth and has been conducting research for close to a decade and a half. Yet it is only the latest in a long line of space stations and laboratories that have flown in orbit since the early 1970s. The histories of these earlier programs have been all but forgotten as the public focused on other, higher-profile ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

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  • Secret Lives of the Tsars

    Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia

    de Michael Farquhar ...
    “Michael Farquhar doesn’t write about history the way, say, Doris Kearns Goodwin does. He writes about history the way Doris Kearns Goodwin’s smart-ass, reprobate kid brother might. I, for one, prefer it.”—Gene Weingarten, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington Post columnistScandal! Intrigue! Cossacks! Here the world’s most engaging royal historian chronicles the world’s most fascinating ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Return to Earth

    de Buzz Aldrin, Wayne Warga ...
    Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin's courageous, candid memoir of his return to Earth after the historic moon landing and his personal struggle with fame and depression."We landed with all the grace of a freight elevator," Buzz Aldrin relates in the opening passages of Return to Earth, remembering Command Module Columbia's abrupt descent into the gravity of the blue planet. With that splash, Aldrin ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Aliens

    The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

    Edición de Jim Al-Khalili ...
    In these lively and fascinating essays edited by theoretical physicist Jim Al-Khalili, scientists from around the world weigh in on the latest advances in the search for intelligent life in the universe and discuss just what that might look like.Since 2000, science has seen a surge in data and interest on several fronts related to E.T. (extraterrestrials); A.I. (artificial intelligence); and SETI ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Resurrection of the Romanovs

    Anastasia, Anna Anderson, and the World's Greatest Royal Mystery

    de Greg King, Penny Wilson ...
    The truth of the enduring mystery of Anastasia's fate-and the life of her most convincing impostor The passage of more than ninety years and the publication of hundreds of books in dozens of languages has not extinguished an enduring interest in the mysteries surrounding the 1918 execution of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family. The Resurrection of the Romanovs draws on a wealth of ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Theory and Reality of Multiverses and Time Travel

    de O-O Happiness ...
    Multiverses, or multiple universes. Do they exist?The author suggests they do in this novel approach to the issue, with some interesting consequences for fans of time travel.A short yet thought provoking look at the idea of multiverses in a simple to understand text. ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Moscow 1941

    A City & Its People at War

    de Sir Rodric Braithwaite ...
    The story of the invasion of Moscow, told through its people.Fought over a territory the size of France, the Battle of Moscow in 1941 cost the Russians as many casualties as the British lost in WW1. It marked the first strategic defeat of the Wehrmacht and halted their seemingly unstoppable advance across Europe. This is the story of that battle - and the ordinary men and women who fought it.Based ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Golden Age Shtetl

    A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe

    de Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern ...
    A major history of the shtetl's golden ageThe shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience. This book provides the first grassroots social, economic, and cultural history of the shtetl. Challenging popular misconceptions of the shtetl as an isolated, ... Leer más

    $23.09 USD

  • The Russian Moment in World History

    de Marshall T. Poe ...
    Is Russian history one big inevitable failure? The Soviet Union's demise and Russia's ensuing troubles have led many to wonder. But this is to look through a skewed prism indeed. In this provocative and elegantly written short history of Russia, Marshall Poe takes us well beyond the Soviet haze deep into the nation's fascinating--not at all inevitable, and in key respects remarkably successful- ... Leer más

    $23.09 USD

  • Letters from Russia

    de Astolphe de Custine ...
    The Marquis de Custine’s record of his trip to Russia in 1839 is a brilliantly perceptive, even prophetic, account of one of the world’s most fascinating and troubled countries. It is also a wonderful piece of travel writing. Custine, who met with people in all walks of life, including the Czar himself, offers vivid descriptions of St. Petersburg and Moscow, of life at court and on the street, and ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Soviet Baby Boomers

    An Oral History of Russia's Cold War Generation

    de Donald J. Raleigh ...
    Series series Oxford Oral History Series
    Donald Raleigh's Soviet Baby Boomers traces the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transformation of Russia into a modern, highly literate, urban society through the fascinating life stories of the country's first post-World War II, Cold War generation. For this book, Raleigh has interviewed sixty 1967 graduates of two "magnet" secondary schools that offered intensive instruction in English, one ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Yuri Gagarin in London and Manchester A Smile that Changed the World?

    de Gurbir Singh ...
    he first human spaceflight on 12th April 1961 shocked the West and made cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin the most famous person on the planet. As one of human civilisation's seminal accomplishments it was borne out of technology designed for weapons of mass destruction. Following the launch of Sputnik in 1957, the Soviet Union charged headlong into the exploration of the Moon, Venus and Mars, demonstrating ... Leer más

    $5.00 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus