Holt Environmental Science

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Michael Lennick

Space junkies and armchair astronauts are provided with comprehensive, handy references for a variety of space-related missions, vehicles, and concepts in this pocket-sized series. Compiled with the cooperation of NASA, each topic-specific reference features relevant statistics, photographs, and the stories behind each project. Books on manned missions include crew photographs, information on patches and equipment, and flight statistics such as time in space, distance traveled, and mission objectives. Photographs and statistics for launch vehicles, orbiters, probes, and experimental equipment are featured in each equipment-specific reference. Covering such design elements as propellants, tanks, engines, and payloads, this detailed look at the mechanism that gets it all started describes 259 types of launch vehicles developed by China, the European Space Agency, Japan, Russia, and the United States. A total of 259 types of launch vehicles have been launched into space by the United States (165), Russia (54), China (14), Japan (14) and the European Space Agency (ESA) (12). Propellants, Tanks, Engines, and Payloads are just a few of the elements that are listed for each of these Launch Vehicle. Learn how these most complex and awe inspiring machines actually work and why they call anything that is difficult to achieve "Rocket Science".

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Marcela Iacub

"En 1857, un groupe de jeunes gens s'abandonnant aux joies d'une partouze dans un hôtel particulier sont condamnés pour outrage public à la pudeur, parce qu'un curieux les épiait par le trou de la serrure. En 1893, les étudiants des Quatr'z Arts déclarent aux juges la guerre du nu. Dans les années 1960, les nudistes et les femmes en monokini provoquent des controverses passionnées. Chaque fois les mêmes questions se posent : où finit le public et où commence le privé? Que peut-on montrer, que doit-on cacher? A travers une enquête qui mêle le droit, l'architecture, la littérature et la psychiatrie, Marcela Iacub raconte l'histoire de la pudeur publique. On y découvre comment le droit a longtemps partagé le monde visible entre licite et illicite, substituant à l'espace réel un espace institutionnel et politique. Aujourd'hui, ce vieux mot de pudeur a disparu de nos codes pour être remplacé par celui de Sexe. Mais, loin de faire le récit épique d'une liberté durement conquise, Marcela Iacub analyse les transformations des techniques par lesquelles l'Etat s'est donné notre sexualité en spectacle au cours des deux derniers siècles, et a conditionné nos espaces, nos vêtements, nos pratiques et même certaines de nos maladies mentales. Elle invite ainsi à une histoire politique du regard"--Page 4 of cover.

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Marilyn S. Severson

In a career writing fiction that spans more than forty years, James A. Michener has refined the art of telling an engrossing story while presenting massive amounts of factual information. His narratives are characterized by an acute sense of place and important themes such as human tolerance, the relationship between human beings and their environment, and the value of human courage and hard work. This study is the first to assess and analyze his fictional work in more than ten years and discusses his recent fiction, as well as his important historical fiction. The work features a biographical chapter, an overview of his fictional works, and close, critical readings of nine of his most noted historical novels. . An opening chapter discusses his life, including his childhood, education, travels, and the path that led him to become a premier storyteller. The overview chapter examines the characteristics of his fiction and general thematic concerns and offers brief consideration of the novels not analyzed in individual chapters. The remaining nine chapters focus on individual novels: The Fires of Spring, Hawaii, Centennial, Chesapeake, The Covenant, Space, Texas, Alaska, and Miracle in Seville. Each novel is analyzed for plot structure, characterization, and thematic elements. In addition, Severson defines and applies an alternative critical perspective from which to read each novel. A complete, up-to-date bibliography of Michener's fiction and a bibliography of reviews and criticism complete the work.

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Marvin McAllister

An exploration of the career of William Brown, a 19th-century free man of colour, who pioneered theatrical spaces for black New Yorkers, hitherto denied access to whites-only venues. The text explores these intercultural, multiracial environments and investigates negative white reactions.