Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
By: Stephen Walker
4.57
Format: 512 pages, ebook
09.07 am. April 12, 1961. A top secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny …
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1. A Man on the Moon
By: Michael Kramer , Bronson Pinchot , Tom Hanks , Andrew Chaikin
4.49
Format: 688 pages, Paperback
A celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first moon landing offers an accessible histor… read more
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"It's almost as if Kennedy grabbed a decade out of the 21st century," Cernan said, "and spliced it into the 1960s." That helps to explain why, as I wrote in 1993 in the preface of this book, we weren'…"-Michael Kramer, A Man on the Moon
2. Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon
By: Jay Barbree , Alan Shepard , Deke Slayton , None
4.01
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The never-before-told story of the courage, dedication, and teamwork that made the journey to the m… read more
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3. Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
By: Scott Kelly
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A stunning memoir from the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Spac… read more
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4. Apollo 8
By: Jeffrey Kluger
0.00
Format: None pages,
In August 1968, one short year after three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, NASA… read more
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5. First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
By: James R. Hansen
4.15
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
On July 20, 1969, the world stood still to watch thirty-eight-year-old American astronaut Neil A. A… read more
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6. Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances
By: None
3.78
Format: None pages, ebook
In this revelatory and moving memoir, a former NASA astronaut and NFL wide receiver shares his pers… read more
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7. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
By: Vladislav M. Zubok
4.26
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to … read more
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8. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
9. Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
By: Stephen Walker
4.57
Format: 512 pages, ebook
09.07 am. April 12, 1961. A top secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny … read more
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10. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
By: Katja Hoyer
4.23
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more
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"Some of the “songs"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
11. Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.22
Format: 444 pages, Hardcover
Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament… read more
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12. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
13. Co pożera wszechświat? I inne zagadki kosmosu
By: Paul C.W. Davies
4.02
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Czy przestrzeń ma prędkość, a czas - kształt? Czy możliwa jest podróż w czasie i powstawanie czegoś… read more
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14. Concorde: The thrilling account of history’s most extraordinary airliner
By: Mike Bannister
4.54
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
October 24th 2023 will mark 20 years since Concorde disappeared from our skies. Yet still Mike Bann… read more
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15. Burning the Sky: Operation Argus and the Untold Story of the Cold War Nuclear Tests in Outer Space
By: Mark Wolverton
3.65
Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition
The unbelievable true story of an American Cold War scheme to detonate nuclear bombs in space is re… read more
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16. Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War
By: Jeff Shesol
4.28
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A riveting history of the epic orbital flight that put America back into the space race. If the… read more
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17. One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon
By: Charles Fishman
4.14
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The remarkable story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic … read more
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18. Shuttle, Houston: My Life in the Center Seat of Mission Control
By: Paul Dye
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Chris Kraft's Flight and Gene Kranz's Failure Is Not an Option, from the longes… read more
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19. The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned
By: John Strausbaugh
4.17
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A witty, deeply researched history of the surprisingly ramshackle Soviet space program, and how its… read more
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20. Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
By: Peter Westwick
4.15
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
The story behind the technology that revolutionized both aeronautics, and the course of history … read more
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21. Mchy i paprocie będą naszym grobem
By: Hania Czaban
3.53
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Będzie duszno... Niepokojący thriller, który sprawi, że zwątpisz w to, co widzisz. Pięć lat t… read more
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