A stunning investigation of the roots of the first moon landing forty years ago, this illuminating story of the dawn of the space age reaches back to the reactionary modernism of the Third Reich, using the life of "rocket scientist" Wernher von Braun as its narrative path throug…
A stunning investigation of the roots of the first moon landing forty years ago, this illuminating story of the dawn of the space age reaches back to the reactionary modernism of the Third Reich, using the life of "rocket scientist" Wernher von Braun as its narrative path throug…
A stunning investigation of the roots of the first moon landing forty years ago, this illuminating story of the dawn of the space age reaches back to the reactionary modernism of the Third Reich, using the life of "rocket scientist" Wernher von Braun as its narrative path throug…
This book is a vivid, panoramic history of the rise of the American aerospace industry. The story opens in the early years of this century when anyone who chose to make flying machines dwelt on the fringes of polite society. In several interwoven strands, the author traces the c…
From the ravages of the Ebola virus in Zaire to outbreaks of pneumonic plague in India and the swine flu in Mexico, contagious diseases are fighting back against once-unconquerable modern medicine. Public concern about infectious disease is on the rise as newspapers trumpet the …
From the ravages of the Ebola virus in Zaire to outbreaks of pneumonic plague in India and the swine flu in Mexico, contagious diseases are fighting back against once-unconquerable modern medicine. Public concern about infectious disease is on the rise as newspapers trumpet the …