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UNINA9910155519503321 |
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Wharton Edith |
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The age of innocence / / Edith Wharton |
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New York, New York : , : Sheba Blake Publishing, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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1 online resource (864 p.) |
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Triangles (Interpersonal relations) |
Upper class |
Married people |
New York (N.Y.) Fiction |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Edith Wharton's Pullitzer prize-winning novel The Age of Innocence (1920) is a portrayal of New York's upper class society during the 1870s. Newland Archer is a wealthy socialite who's poised to marry May Welland, a perfectly pure and faultlessly suitable mate. When Archer meets May's scandalous cousin, Countess Olenska, whose unconventional views and shady past make her unique, his good intentions waver. The Countess by comparison casts May as a dull and manufactured product of New York's stifled upper-class. What results is a subtle and well-wrought drama that has been read and loved for ne |
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UNINA9910300404303321 |
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Ward Jonathan H |
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Countdown to a Moon Launch : Preparing Apollo for Its Historic Journey / / by Jonathan H. Ward |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
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[1st ed. 2015.] |
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1 online resource (452 p.) |
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Aerospace engineering |
Astronautics |
History |
Software engineering |
Computer-aided engineering |
Aerospace Technology and Astronautics |
History of Science |
Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems |
Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design |
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Thousands of workers labored at Kennedy Space Center around the clock, seven days a week, for half a year to prepare a mission for the liftoff of Apollo 11. This is the story of what went on during those hectic six months. Countdown to a Moon Launch provides an in-depth look at the carefully choreographed workflow for an Apollo mission at KSC. Using the Apollo 11 mission as an example, readers will learn what went on day by day to transform partially completed stages and crates of parts into a ready-to-fly Saturn V. Firsthand accounts of launch pad accidents, near misses, suspected sabotage, and last-minute changes to hardware are told by more than 70 NASA employees and its contractors. A companion to Rocket Ranch, it includes many diagrams and photographs, some never before published, to illustrate |
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all aspects of the process. NASA’s groundbreaking use of computers for testing and advanced management techniques are also covered in detail. This book will demystify the question of how NASA could build and launch Apollo missions using 1960s technology. You’ll discover that there was no magic involved – just an abundance of discipline, willpower, and creativity. |
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