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UNINA9910300412103321 |
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Ward Jonathan H |
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Rocket Ranch : The Nuts and Bolts of the Apollo Moon Program at Kennedy Space Center / / 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 (347 p.) |
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Aerospace engineering |
Astronautics |
Astronomy |
Space sciences |
History |
Aerospace Technology and Astronautics |
Popular Science in Astronomy |
Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics) |
History of Science |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction -- Setting the Stage for Apollo/Saturn 1960-1966 -- The Apollo 1 Fire -- The Spacecraft Assembly and Checkout Facilities -- The VAB and the Mobile Launcher -- The Launch Control Center and Firing Rooms -- Launch Pads 39A and 39B -- Life at the Launch Pad -- Epilogue: The End of an Era. . |
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Jonathan Ward takes the reader deep into the facilities at Kennedy Space Center to describe NASA’s first computer systems used for spacecraft and rocket checkout and explain how tests and launches proceeded. Descriptions of early operations include a harrowing account of the heroic efforts of pad workers during the Apollo 1 fire. A companion to the author’s book Countdown to a Moon Launch: Preparing Apollo for Its Historic Journey, this explores every facet of the facilities that served as the base for the Apollo/Saturn missions. |
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Hundreds of illustrations complement the firsthand accounts of more than 70 Apollo program managers and engineers. The era of the Apollo/Saturn missions was perhaps the most exciting period in American space exploration history. Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center were buzzing with activity. Thousands of workers came to town to build the facilities and launch the missions needed to put an American on the Moon before the end of the decade. Work at KSC involved much more than just launching rockets. It was a place like none other on Earth. Technicians performed intricate operations, and hazards abounded everywhere, including lightning, fire, highly-toxic fuels, snakes, heat, explosives, LOX spills, and even plutonium. The reward for months of 7-day workweeks under intense pressure was witnessing a Saturn V at liftoff. For anyone who ever wished they had worked at Kennedy Space Center during the Apollo era, this book is the next best thing. The only thing missing is the smell of rocket fuel in the morning. |
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UNINA9910968566403321 |
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Autore |
Leach Kathy |
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The overweight patient : a psychological approach to understanding and working with obesity / / Kathy Leach |
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London, : Jessica Kingsley, 2006 |
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9786610738038 |
9781280738036 |
1280738030 |
9781846425202 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (273 p.) |
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Obesity - Psychological aspects |
Obesity - Treatment |
Overweight persons - Psychology |
Transactional analysis |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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COVER; The Overweight Patient; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 Obesity and Therapy; 2Cultural and ParentInfluences on DecisionsRegarding Weight; 3Clinical Considerations in Workingwith the Overweight Patient; 4Losing Weight, Maintaining Lossand Regaining Weight; 5Inquiry and Diagnosis; 6Ego States; 7The Parent Ego State; 8The Child Ego State; 9The Adult Ego State; 10Psychological Hungers; 11Games; 12The Creation of the Bodyand Eating Functionsas Defence Structures; GLOSSARY OF CLINICAL AND TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS TERMS; REFERENCES; RECOMMENDED READING; SUBJECT INDEX; AUTHOR INDEX |
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The book explores the underlying beliefs and behaviours that may contribute to obesity, including psychological needs, addiction, fear of deprivation, parental influences and sexual fears. The author draws a useful distinction between the need to eat and the need to maintain a large body size, and addresses both LT obesity and ST weight gain. |
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UNINA9910965941403321 |
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Autore |
Stephens Julie <1956-> |
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Confronting postmaternal thinking : feminism, memory, and care / / Julie Stephens |
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New York, : Columbia University Press, c2011 |
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9786613629432 |
9781280599590 |
1280599596 |
9780231520560 |
0231520565 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (209 p.) |
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Feminist theory |
Motherhood - Social aspects |
Motherhood - Political aspects |
Collective memory |
Teoria feminista |
Maternitat |
Memòria col·lectiva |
Llibres electrònics |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction -- Unmothering -- Feminist reminiscence -- Memory and modernity -- Maternalism reconfigured? -- Conclusion: toward a new feminist maternalism. |
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There is a deep cultural anxiety around public expressions of maternalism and the application of maternal values to society as a whole. Julie Stephens examines why postmaternal thinking has become so influential in recent decades and why there has been a growing unease with maternal forms of subjectivity and maternalist perspectives. In moving beyond policy definitions, which emphasize the priority given to women's claims as employees over their political claims as mothers, Stephens details an elaborate process of cultural forgetting that has accompanied this repudiation of the maternal.Reclaiming an alternative feminist position through an investigation of oral history, life narratives, Web blogs, and other rich and varied sources, Stephens confronts the core claims of postmaternal thought and challenges dominant representations of feminism as having forgotten motherhood. Deploying the interpretive framework of memory studies, she examines the political structures of forgetting surrounding the maternal and the weakening of nurture and care in the public domain. She views the promotion of an illusory, self-sufficient individualism as a form of social unmothering that is profoundly connected to this ethos. In rejecting both traditional maternalism and the new postmaternalism, Stephens challenges prevailing paradigms and makes way for an alternative feminist maternalism centering on a politics of care. |
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