Download or read book The Adventures of Benjamin Rocket written by John Travis Green and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-05-12 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1930s era tale of two tails will leave you yearning for more adventures with Benjamin, a wise older Golden Retriever, and Rocket, a young easily excitable Jack Russel Terrier. Together, alongside their owner The Explorer, they travel the world on expeditions in search of ancient artifacts and buried treasures. Join these two rascally mutts as they stumble on a possible sunken treasure in the Boston Harbor close to their home.
Download or read book Rocket Dreams written by Marina Benjamin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-05-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1958, mankind's centuries-long flirtation with space flight became a torrid love affair. For a decade, tens of millions of people were enraptured -- first, by the U.S.-Soviet race to the moon, and finally, as America outstripped its rival, by Project Apollo alone. It is now more than three decades since the last man walked on the moon...more time than between the first moonwalk and the beginning of World War II. Apollo did not, as had been promised by a generation of visionaries, herald the beginning of the Space Age, but its end. Or did it? Project Apollo, like a cannonball, reached its apogee and returned to earth, but the trajectory of that return was complex. America's atmosphere -- its economic, scientific, and cultural atmosphere -- made for a very complicated reentry that produced many solutions to the trajectory problem. Rocket Dreams is about those solutions...about the places where the space program landed. In Rocket Dreams, an extraordinarily talented young writer named Marina Benjamin will take you on a journey to those landing sites. A visit with retired astronauts at a celebrity autograph show is a starting point down the divergent paths taken by the pioneers, including Edgar Mitchell, founder of the "church" of Noëtic Sciences. Roswell, New Mexico is a landing site of a different order, the "magnetic north" of UFO belief in the United States -- a belief that began its most dramatic growth precisely at the time that the path of the space program began its descent. In the vernacular, the third law of motion states that what goes up, must come down. Thus the tremendous motive force that energized the space program didn't just vanish; it was conserved and transformed, making bestsellers out of fantasy literature, spawning Gaia, and giving symbolism to the environmental movement. Everything from the pop cultural boom in ufology to the worldwide Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) feeds on the energy given off by America's leap toward space. Rocket Dreams is an eloquent tour of this Apollo-scarred landscape. It is also an introduction to some of the most fascinating characters imaginable: Some long dead, like the crackpot visionary Alfred Lawson, who saw in space flight a new stage of human evolution ("Alti-Man"), or Robert Goddard, the father of rocketry, whose workshop in Roswell stands only half a mile from shops selling posters of alien visitors. Others are very much alive -- like Stewart Brand, creator of the Whole Earth Catalog and partner with Gerard O'Neill in the drive to build free-floating space colonies, and SETI astronomer Seth Shostak, who has spent decades listening to the skies, hoping for the first contact with another intelligent species. Perceptive, original, and wonderfully written, informed by history, science, and an acute knowledge of popular culture, Rocket Dreams is a brilliant book by a remarkable talent.
Download or read book Ancient Rockets written by Kage Baker and published by Tachyon Publications. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Metropolis to the pre-technicolor Oz, this fantastical retrospective takes readers through the wildest frontiers of silent films. Glorious landscapes are explored from Tarzan’s jungle and Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory to the Adventures of Prince Achmed and 20,000 Leagues under the Sea. Highlighting the earliest and cheesiest special effects, Kage Baker reviews 49 cinematic odysseys with acerbic wit and historical acumen. Contrasting the tour de forces with the utter train wrecks of the silver screen, these sci-fi movies are affectionately viewed, giving special recognition to the flimsy plots, terrifying fiends, and the best and worst directors that inspired generations of fans and filmmakers alike.
Download or read book Albie and the Space Rocket written by Andy Cutbill and published by HarperCollins Children's Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Albie -- a small boy in a weird, wild world. Albie is a six year old boy whose imagination turns his surroundings into wild fantasy and he sees peculiar creatures everywhere. Why does no one else notice them? It's a mystery to Albie. It's just an ordinary night when...Albie wakes up to find his bed has been stolen by penguins. He dashes downstairs in hot pursuit but the penguins are nowhere to be seen. Instead, Albie finds two gnus in the loo dancing a tango, a herd of zebras asleep in the kitchen cupboards and some elephants in the living room, building a baked-bean-fuelled rocket from household furniture - including his bed But Albie's biggest worry is that his sister Mary has woken up and she will be furious to find that her goldfish bowl has also been stolen by the penguins and is about to be used as a space helmet. And Mary gets the biggest shock of all when she leans on the rocket lever by mistake and shoots off into the night sky.
Download or read book The Adventures of Rocket Kid written by Simon Morse and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Adventures of Benjamin and Christabel written by Cyril F. Austin and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Benjamin the Bear Cub Loves the Moon written by Joanna Siddall and published by Childrens Book. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Bear Loves the Moon is a cute and fun rhyming story to delight any child. Share Benjamin's love of the moon and aliens in outer space. Join him as he listens to a bedtime story of a rocket ship adventure. Little Bear ventures into outer space. He longs to visit this alien place. When he finally arrives who will he meet? Find out in the story, you're in for a treat!
Download or read book RocketShip Big Adventure written by Rocket Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-28 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rocket Rangers crew love to explore the Universe, the friends are always ready for fun and excitement on their next big adventure.
Download or read book Rockets and Revolution written by Michael G. Smith and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rockets and Revolution offers a multifaceted study of the race toward space in the first half of the twentieth century, examining how the Russian, European, and American pioneers competed against one another in the early years to acquire the fundamentals of rocket science, engineer simple rockets, and ultimately prepare the path for human spaceflight. Between 1903 and 1953, Russia matured in radical and dramatic ways as the tensions and expectations of the Russian revolution drew it both westward and spaceward. European and American industrial capacities became the models to imitate and to surpass. The burden was always on Soviet Russia to catch up—enough to achieve a number of remarkable “firsts” in these years, from the first national rocket society to the first comprehensive surveys of spaceflight. Russia rose to the challenges of its Western rivals time and again, transcending the arenas of science and technology and adapting rocket science to popular culture, science fiction, political ideology, and military programs. While that race seemed well on its way to achieving the goal of space travel and exploring life on other planets, during the second half of the twentieth century these scientific advances turned back on humankind with the development of the intercontinental ballistic missile and the coming of the Cold War.
Download or read book Field and Stream written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 1832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Story Parade written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Green Glory written by Adolph Benjamin Briscoe and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join the quest of a wise heroin (Solainia) and her Energy Blade-wielding sister (Nomni), as they teach a young Superhero (Rahnee) to use his special powers. It’s going to take courage, cleverness and a little luck to defeat the evil Queen (Stractnyna) and achieve Green Glory.
Download or read book The Amazing Mr Franklin written by Ruth Ashby and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows Benjamin Franklin was an important statesman, inventor, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. But did you know he started the first public library in America? Ben Franklin was always a "bookish" boy. The first book he read was the Bible at age five, and then he read every printed word in his father's small home library. Ben wanted to read more, but books were expensive. He wanted to go to school and learn, but his family needed him to work. Despite this, Ben Franklin had lots of ideas about how to turn his love of reading and learning into something more. First, he worked as a printer's apprentice, then he set up his own printing business. Later, he became the first bookseller in Philadelphia, started a newspaper, published Poor Richard's Almanac, and in 1731, with the help of his friends, organized the first subscription lending library, the Library Company. Ruth Ashby's fast-paced biography takes young readers through Franklin's life from his spirited, rebellious youth through his successful career as an inventor and politician and finally to the last years of his life, surrounded by his personal collection of books.
Download or read book Rockets Through Space written by Philip Ellaby Cleator and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tiny Little Rocket written by Richard Collingridge and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic space journey perfect for any bedtime--earth or space--that puts the reader right in the cockpit and combines Goodnight Goodnight Construction Site with Interstellar Cinderella! There's a tiny little rocket that will take you to the stars.It only flies there once a year but zips you out past Mars.Its fins are solid silver with a door made out of gold.There's a cozy pilot seat inside for a person young or old.Climb aboard for a bedtime picture book sure to appeal to every kid's sense of wonder. Young readers will love stepping into the cockpit of a wonderful rocket ship that takes them zipping through the planets, stars, and space, all the way back home to Earth and their cozy beds!
Download or read book The Last Pilot written by Benjamin Johncock and published by Picador. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Author's Club Best First Novel Award A Finalist for the East Anglian Book Award for Fiction “The Last Pilot made me cry and brought back all my old Right Stuff feels. A brilliant debut. I loved it.”—Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk Jim Harrison is a test pilot in the United States Air Force, one of the exalted few. He spends his days cheating death in the skies above the Mojave Desert and his nights at his friend Pancho’s bar, often with his wife, Grace. She and Harrison are secretly desperate for a child, and when, unexpectedly, Grace learns that she is pregnant, the two are overjoyed. America becomes swept up in the fervor of the Space Race, while Harrison turns his attention home to welcome his daughter, Florence, into the world. But as he and Grace confront thrills and challenges of parenthood, they are met with sudden tragedy. The aftermath will haunt the Harrisons and strain their marriage, as Jim struggles to make life-and-death decisions under circumstances that are altogether new. Set against the backdrop of one of the most emotionally charged periods in American history, The Last Pilot by Benjamin Johncock is the mesmerizing story of a couple’s crisis of faith—in themselves, and in each another—and the limits they test to rediscover it.
Download or read book Speedy Steve the Rocket Rabbit written by Barbara Hagler and published by Tate Publishing & Enterprises. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome back to Hope Farm. Meet Steve, the speediest rabbit on the farm who loves to race in and out of Farmer Dan's garden, taking whatever goodies he can find while gloating to himself about his speed, until one day when Steve pushes too far. Oh no! The Hope Township race is only a couple of weeks away! Who will represent Hope Farm in the race? Will Speedy Steve ever be speedy again? Find out in this new Hope Farm Adventures book that introduces new Hope Farm characters while keeping a few of our old favorites, like Henrietta, the hen, and Julia, the barn cat. Along with Speedy Steve, you'll meet Benjamin the Plain Brown Bunny and Rita Rabbit, who teach us what true friendship is all about. In these new faith-based chapter book adventures, we meet characters who act so much like real friends, we forget they are animals!
