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The Nazi rocketeers dreams of space and crimes of war / by Piszkiewicz, Dennis

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Commodore squib the life, times and secretive wars of England's first rocket man, Sir William Congreve, 1772-1828 / by Earle, James

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Beside the troubled waters a black doctor remembers life, medicine, and civil rights in an Alabama town / by Hereford, Sonnie W.

Table of Contents: “…Through a glass darkly -- To be a doctor -- Medical practice under segregation -- Bringing freedom to the rocket city -- Integrating the hospital and the schools -- Troubles and trials.…”
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James Van Allen the first eight billion miles / by Foerstner, Abigail, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Frontier roots -- Heartland boyhood -- The making of a scientist -- Physicists to the war effort -- Enter Abigail Fithian Halsey -- The dawn of space exploration -- The mighty little aerobee -- It's a rocket! It's a balloon! It's a rockoon! -- Sputnik and the space race -- Countdown to explorer I -- Celebrity scientist and the birth of NASA -- Discovery of the radiation belts -- Space shield for the Cold War -- Space as a cottage industry -- The mariners -- Pioneers to the outer planets -- Space politics -- Journey to the edge of the solar system.…”
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The godfather of tabloid Generoso Pope Jr. and the National enquirer / by Vitek, Jack

Table of Contents: “…The man in perspective -- Family connections -- Kid Wheeler-Dealer -- Friends in low places -- From gore to groceries -- A second start -- Rocketing up -- Perfecting the formula -- Lantana 33464 -- The million-dollar tree : ho! …”
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Red cosmos K.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry / by Andrews, James T., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Tsiolkovskii, Russian public culture, and the mythology of Soviet cosmonautics, 1857-1964 -- Beginnings, teaching science in a provincial context: Tsiolkovskii's years in the Russian locale, 1857-1917 -- Dreaming of the cosmos: early scientific and technical experimentation in pre-1917 Kaluga, Russia -- Getting serious about rocket flight in revolutionary Russia, 1917-1928 -- Cross-fertilizing futuristic literary genres: utopian science fiction or didactic popular technology in revolutionary Russia, 1890-1928 -- Stalin, Khrushchev, and the spaceman: technology, Soviet national identity, and the memorialization of a local hero in the dawn of Sputnik, 1928-1957 -- Epilogue and conclusion: chudo (wonder) or chudak (crank), the legacy of Tsiolkovskii in the Khrushchev era and beyond 1964.…”
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