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“jeffrey manber”

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  • From the Earth to Mars

    The Surprising History of the Rocket Pioneers Who Launched Humanity Into Space

    by Jeffrey Manber ...
    From the Earth to Mars brings to life the visionaries who first realized the timeless dream of rocket travel in the early 1900s. Narrated by Jeffrey Manber, himself a commercial space veteran, Episodes 1 and 2 detail the intertwined similarities of the space communities that erupted first in Russia and then Germany before the first rockets were even constructed. And before governments sought to ... Read more

    $10.95 USD

  • Lincoln's Wrath

    Fierce Mobs, Brilliant Scoundrels and a President's Mission to Destroy the Press

    by Neil Dahlstrom, Jeffrey Manber ...
    In the blistering summer of 1861, President Lincoln began pressuring and ordering the physical shutdown of any Northern newspaper that voiced opposition to the war. These attacks were sometimes carried out by soldiers, sometimes by angry mobs under cover of darkness. Either way, the effect was a complete dismantling of the free press.In the midst stood publisher John Hodgson, an angry bigot so ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • The Science of Star Trek

    The Scientific Facts Behind the Voyages in Space and Time

    by Mark Brake ...
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    Boldly go where no man has gone before and discover the real science behind the cyborgs, starships, aliens, and antimatter of the Star Trek galaxy.Star Trek is one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time. It has changed our cultural landscape in so many ways since it first aired in 1966. The franchise has generated billions of dollars in revenue, leading to a wide range of spin-off ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

    Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

    by Eric Foner ...
    “A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston GlobeSelected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history of the period into perfect balance. We see ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Apollo 11

    The Inside Story

    by David Whitehouse ...
    'Terrific and enthralling' New ScientistFifty years ago, in July 1969, Apollo 11 became the first manned mission to land on the Moon, and Neil Armstrong the first man to step on to its surface. He and his crewmates, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, were the latest men to risk their lives in this extraordinary scientific, engineering and human venture that would come to define the era.In Apollo 11: ... Read more

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  • Rocket Men

    The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon

    by Craig Nelson ...
    A New York Times Bestseller"Celebrates a bold era when voyaging beyond the Earth was deemed crucial to national security and pride."-The Wall Street JournalRestoring the drama, majesty, and sheer improbability of an American triumph, this is award-winning historian Craig Nelson's definitive and thrilling story of man's first trip to the moon. At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 rocket ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Franklin Pierce

    The American Presidents Series: The 14th President, 1853-1857

    by Michael F. Holt ...
    Series series The American Presidents
    The genial but troubled New Englander whose single-minded partisan loyalties inflamed the nation's simmering battle over slavery.Charming and handsome, Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire was drafted to break the deadlock of the 1852 Democratic convention. Though he seized the White House in a landslide against the imploding Whig Party, he proved a dismal failure in office.Michael F. Holt, a leading ... Read more

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  • Von Braun

    Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War

    by Michael Neufeld ...
    Curator and space historian at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum delivers a brilliantly nuanced biography of controversial space pioneer Wernher von Braun.Chief rocket engineer of the Third Reich and one of the fathers of the U.S. space program, Wernher von Braun is a source of consistent fascination. Glorified as a visionary and vilified as a war criminal, he was a man of profound ... Read more

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  • Slave Nation

    How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution

    by Alfred Blumrosen, Ruth Blumrosen ...
    A book all Americans should read, Slave Nation reveals the key role racism played in the American Revolutionary War, so we can see our past more clearly and build a better future.In 1772, the High Court in London freed a slave from Virginia named Somerset, setting a precedent that would end slavery in England. In America, racist fury over this momentous decision united the Northern and Southern ... Read more

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  • Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)

    An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880

    by W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, ... Read more

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  • The Summer of 1787

    The Men Who Invented the Constitution

    by David O. Stewart ...
    The Summer of 1787 takes us into the sweltering room in which the founding fathers struggled for four months to produce the Constitution: the flawed but enduring document that would define the nation—then and now.George Washington presided, James Madison kept the notes, Benjamin Franklin offered wisdom and humor at crucial times. The Summer of 1787 traces the struggles within the Philadelphia ... Read more

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  • This New Ocean

    The Story of the First Space Age

    by William E. Burrows ...
    It was all part of man's greatest adventure--landing men on the Moon and sending a rover to Mars, finally seeing the edge of the universe and the birth of stars, and launching planetary explorers across the solar system to Neptune and beyond.The ancient dream of breaking gravity's hold and taking to space became a reality only because of the intense cold-war rivalry between the superpowers, with ... Read more

    $15.99 USD