Baikonur Man: Space, Science, American Ambition, and Russian Chaos at the Cold War's End

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Against the backdrop of the late Cold War, a tiny American start-up company forged a secret deal to place American scientific payloads aboard the Soviet space station MIR. Born out of sheer desperation after the Challenger explosion and grounding of the US space shuttle program, the agreement was negotiated and approved behind the backs of NASA and Congress, with the help of US government officials inside the Commerce and Defense departments.On a cold gray morning in February 1988, the company founder met with three graduate students and their professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to put his plans into action. Baikonur Man, written by one of those students, recounts the subsequent five-year saga of how science, comradery, hardship, drama, and occasional lunacy led to the first American experiments and payloads to fly on

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Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) recommends 'Hope in the Dark' 'A great book about political hope is Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit. It's not long. Read it -- and you'll see how the times of greatest hope are the times of greatest turbulence.' -- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, US Representative

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Democracy in America

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Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. What struck him most was the country's equality of conditions, its democracy. The book he wrote on his return to France, Democracy in America, is both the best ever written on democracy and the best ever written on America. It remains the most often quoted book about the United States, not only because it has something to interest and please everyone, but also because it has something to teach everyone.When it waspublished in 2000, Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrop's new translation of Democracy in America8212only the third since the original two-volume work was published in 1835 and 18408212was lauded in all quarters as the finest and most definitive edition of Tocqueville's classic thus far. Mansfield and Winthrophave restored the nuances of Tocqueville's language, with the expressed goal to convey Tocquevi

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The Life of Muhammad

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Alfred Guillaume's authoritative translation of the Sira of Ibn Ishaq presents in English the complete history of the life of Prophet Muhammad. No book can compare in comprehensiveness, arrangement, or systematic treatment with Ibn Ishaq's work.

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Alfred the Great

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Alfred is the only English king ever to be called 'Great'. It was not a title given by political supporters, not the sycophantic gift of an official biographer, nor a self-styled title. It was the gift of history. Justin Pollard's enthralling, authoritative account befits Alfred - a soldier, a scholar and statesman like no other in English history. His rule spanned troubled times. His shores were under constant threat from Viking marauders and he faced turmoil at home. Soon after he began his rule a conspiracy erupted and he was hounded out of his kingdom into solitary exile in forests and fens. But his ambition was not felled by adversity. Alone in this damp, dangerous, half-world of bogs and quicksand Alfred looked within and found the motivation to create a new type of nation. Drawing on the latest historical, textual and archaeological research Justin Pollard radically reassesses the key moments in Alfre

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The Malay Archipelago - The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird or Paradise. A Narrative of Travel with Sketches of Man and Nature. Illustrated.

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Alfred Russel Wallace 8211 intrepid explorer and brilliant but largely-unknown naturalist 8211 co-published the theory of evolution by natural selection with Charles Darwin. Alfred Russel Wallace was a man of many talents 8211 explorer, collector, naturalist, geographer, anthropologist and political commentator. Most famously, he had the revolutionary idea of evolution by natural selection entirely independently of Charles Darwin.This ground-breaking theory changed the way we understand the natural world. But Wallace's remarkable accomplishments are not as appreciated today as they were in his own lifetime.One-hundred years after his death, we are proud to reproduce one of the finest narratives of the Victorian era 8211 The Malay Archipelago8221, first published 1869.Published in tw

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Classical Antiquities of Algeria: A Selective Guide

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Algeria is a large country, rich in visual remains of its long and complex history. The monuments of the Roman period are particularly impressive. This is partly because they are well-preserved, but also because the French, who colonized the region in the nineteenth century and ruled it until 1962, carried out extensive excavations and restorations.Algeria is not yet in the grip of the mass tourism which is engulfing better known destinations now is therefore the time to explore its beautiful landscapes and rich cultural heritage. The Roman sites rank among the most impressive anywhere in the Mediterranean and represent an important aspect of the nation8217s past. This guidebook will take you to all the sites, with an historical introduction, a detailed gazetteer of the principal museums and Roman sites and lavish provision of maps, plans and photographs.

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My Life - The Sardauna of Sokoto

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Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Premier of the Northern Region of Nigeria, was thought by many to be the most powerful figure in Nigeria. The descendant of the great reformer, Shehu Usuman dan Fodio, the Sardauna grew up in the atmosphere of the Muslim and aristocratic tradition of the Fulani conquerors of Northern Nigeria. He reached maturity in a Nigeria that was rapidly advancing towards independent nationhood, with political institutions deriving largely from the traditions of the Christian West. As leader of the Northern Peoples Congress, the majority political party in Northern Nigeria, the Sardauna became the first Premier of that region in 1954.

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Alice on the Line

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Aliens on Our Shores: An Anthropological History of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea 1616 to 1914

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Aliens on Our Shores is a deep dive into the mutual perceptions of a group of Melanesian peoples -- egalitarian societies unknown to Europeans for thousands of years -- and successive waves of European explorers, traders, plantation owners, missionaries, and eventual conquerors. This anthropological history makes use of existing information on political, social, and cultural organization of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, villages, supplemented by the authors8217 comparative social research skills and original ethnographic fieldwork. Professor Rubel and Professor Rosman have gone through the archeological record, to understand who the New Irelanders were before contact with Europeans. They have searched travelers8217 reports for information on how the first 250 years of contact were interpreted, understood, or misunderstood, and str

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