The Landscape Of Stalinism: The Art and Ideology of ...
 This wide-ranging cultural history explores the expression of Bolshevik Party ideology through the lens of landscape, or, more broadly, space. Portrayed in visual images and words, the landscape played a vital role in expressing and promoting ideology in ... [... more]
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The Making of a Soviet Scientist
The critically acclaimed memoir that rips the curtain of secrecy off the world of Soviet science Revelations and insights about the Soviet space program . . . It is good that such a wise man will live among us for a while. - The New York Times A rare, ... [... more]
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The MIR Space Station: A Precursor to Space Colonization
I loved it! In the 1970s and 1980s, those of us who were interested in long duration spaceflight could read about Skylab or hunt for information about the Russian experience in space. Occasionally, interesting snippets filtered through the iron curtain, ... [... more]
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Screwed Pooch
Who knew 'the right stuff' would first show up in a stray female mutt with attitude? On November 3, 1957, Laika rode Sputnik 2 into outer space, the first living creature to reach earth orbit - but unlike all the animals and humans who followed, hers was ... [... more]
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Kosmos: A Portrait of the Russian Space Age
The Space Race was an exhilirating moment in history, alternately frighten-ing, thrilling, awe-inspiring, and ultimately, sublime. Its most enigmatic element was the competition. The Soviets seemed less technologically sophisticated (at least from the ... [... more]
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Omon Ra
Named by his father after the Soviet OMON, the Interior Ministry riot police, Omon, a Soviet astronaut, renames himself Ra after the Egyptian sun god. As he approaches his final crisis, Omon reflects on the lies he's told and on the one that has just ... [... more]
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The Traveler's Guide to the Solar System: Put Your Space ...
So you want to go into space? Then The Traveler's Guide to the Solar System is for you, the independent space tourist. It will take you into the most exotic reaches of the solar system, and also help you to discover everything you ever wanted to know ... [... more]
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The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the ...
Insightful, Revealing and Ahead of its Time I purchased this book when it first came out 20 years ago. At the time, it was very controversial. Author McDougall suggested that President Eisenhower actually wanted the Soviet Union to be the first to launch ... [... more]
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From Botswana to the Bering Sea: My Thirty Years With ...
National Geographic has been called a window on the world and a passport to adventure. Each month an estimated forty million people in 190 countries open its pages and are transported to exotic realms that delight the eye and mind. Such widespread renown ... [... more]
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Laika: Collector's Edition
Laika was the abandoned puppy destined to become Earth's first space traveler. This is her journey. Nick Abadzis masterfully blends fiction and fact in the intertwined stories of three compelling lives. Along with Laika, there is Korolev, once a ... [... more]
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... The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of ...
Insightful, Revealing and Ahead of its Time I purchased this book when it first came out 20 years ago. At the time, it was very controversial. Author McDougall suggested that President Eisenhower actually wanted the Soviet Union to be the first to launch ... [... more]
$25.95
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Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race
"An extraordinary book." ---Arthur C. Clarke Space was one of the most fiercely fought battlegrounds of the Cold War, the Moon its ultimate beachhead. In this dual autobiography, Apollo 15 commander David Scott and cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the ... [... more]
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