Download Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt

The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space.In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn't turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an elite group of young women who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transfo...

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Title	:	Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
Author	:	Nathalia Holt
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ISBN	:	0316338923
Format Type	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	352 pages

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The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer by Skip Hollandsworth

A sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer--America's first--who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorized by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far more diabolica...

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Title	:	The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer
Author	:	Skip Hollandsworth
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ISBN	:	0805097678
Format Type	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	321 pages

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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer

To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven.In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular...

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Title	:	The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
Author	:	Joshua Hammer
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ISBN	:	1476777403
Format Type	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	280 pages

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The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss by Anderson Cooper

A touching and intimate correspondence between Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, offering timeless wisdom and a revealing glimpse into their livesThough Anderson Cooper has always considered himself close to his mother, his intensely busy career as a journalist for CNN and CBS affords him little time to spend with her. After she suffers a brief but serious...

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Title	:	The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss
Author	:	Anderson Cooper
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ISBN	:	006245496X
Edition Language	:	English
Format Type	:	ebook
Number of Pages	:	304 pages

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Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

"A smart, enthralling, and winning debut.” —Cheryl Strayed Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she’s studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book is a revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also so much more. Lab Girl is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is...

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Title	:	Lab Girl
Author	:	Hope Jahren
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ISBN	:	1101874937
Edition Language	:	English
Format Type	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	290 pages

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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser

On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet. Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts...

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Title	:	On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Author	:	William Zinsser
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ISBN	:	0060891548
Edition Language	:	English
Format Type	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	336 pages

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