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UNINA9910460975703321 |
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Gallentine Jay |
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Infinity beckoned : adventuring through the inner solar system, 1969-1989 / / Jay Gallentine ; foreword by Bobak Ferdowsi |
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Lincoln, Nebraska ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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0-8032-8515-9 |
0-8032-8517-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (497 p.) |
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Outward Odyssey, A People's History of Spaceflight |
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Space probes - History - 20th century |
Artificial satellites - History - 20th century |
Inner planets - Exploration - History - 20th century |
Astronautics |
Astronautics - History - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
Moon Exploration History 20th century |
Outer space Exploration History 20th century |
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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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Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents ; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Beach Brainstorm; 2. What If; 3. Dead at Birth; 4. Failure to Communicate; 5. Halt the Work, Destroy All Materials; 6. There and Back Again; 7. Sitting Cosmonauts; 8. Cauldron of Contradictions; 9. Buy- In; 10. "Prepared Area"; 11. Laying Eggs (Somehow); 12. How Low Can You Go?; 13. Three Mistakes; 14. Devil from Redondo; 15. The Boy to Be Beaten; 16. How to Buy a Computer That Does Not Exist; 17. Downsurfing; 18. Gulliver's Travels; 19. Too Much Too Soon; 20. Scientific Charity |
21. Last Man Home22. Bonneville, Notch Rock, Double Squirt, Sudden Death; 23. Postmortem; 24. Sons of a Bitch; 25. The Sum of All Nations; 26. Hang Time; 27. The Rules of Resigning; 28. Wonders Never Cease; Sources; Index |
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"Infinity Beckoned illuminates a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. With an irreverent and engaging style, Jay Gallentine conveys the trials and triumphs of the people on the ground who conceived and engineered the missions that put robotic spacecraft on the heavenly bodies nearest our own. These dedicated space pioneers include such individuals as Soviet Russia's director of planetary missions, who hated his job but kept at it for fifteen years, enduring a paranoid bureaucracy where even the copy machines were strictly regulated. Based on numerous interviews, Gallentine delivers a rich variety of stories involving the men and women, American and Russian, responsible for such groundbreaking endeavors as the Mars Viking missions of the 1970s and the Soviet Venera flights to Venus in the 1980s. From the dreamers responsible for the Venus landing who discovered that dropping down through heavy clouds of sulfuric acid and 900-degree heat was best accomplished by surfing to the five-man teams puppeteering the Soviet moon rovers from a top-secret, off-the-map town without a name, the people who come to life in these pages persevered in often trying, thankless circumstances. Their legacy is our better understanding of our own planet and our place in the cosmos"-- |
"Account of unmanned lunar and planetary exploration from the early 1970s to the early 1990s"-- |
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UNINA9910220138103321 |
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Investing in our children : what we know and don't know about the costs and benefits of early childhood interventions / / Lynn A. Karoly ... [et al.] |
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Santa Monica, CA, : Rand, 1998 |
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1-282-45132-4 |
9786612451324 |
0-8330-4326-9 |
0-585-36139-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (185 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Children with social disabilities - Services for - United States - Evaluation |
Children with social disabilities - Services for - United States - Costs |
Child welfare - United States |
Public welfare - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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"Funded by a grant from The California Wellness Foundation." |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-149). |
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Cover; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgements; Chapter One - Introduction; The Importance of Early Childhood Education; What is Early Intervention?; Goals and Approaches of This Study; Organization of This Report; Chapter Two - Targeted Early Intervention Programs and Their Benefits; The Origins of Early Intervention; From Theory to Practice: Determining Which Interventions Work; Historical Review of Targeted Early Intervention Programs; First Models for Targeted Early Intervention Programs; The Next Generation of Targeted Early Intervention Programs |
More Recent Models of Targeted Early Intervention Summary of Findings; Chapter Three - Comparing Costs, Savings, and Benefits; Programs Selected for Analysis; Comparing Program Costs to the Government Savings the Programs Generate; Additional Monetary Benefits to the Rest of Society; Sensitivity of Results to Discount Rate; Findings from Cost-Savings and Cost-Benefit Analyses; Chapter Four - |
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Issues Relevant to Investment Decisions; What We Know About Early Childhood Intervention; What We Don't Know About Early Childhood Intervention; Next Steps for Research and Policy |
Appendix A - Calculation of the Costs and Benefits of the Elmira Prenatal/Early Infancy Project Appendix B - Calculation of the Costs and Benefits of the Perry School; References |
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There is increasing evidence that the first few years after birth are particularly important in child development and present opportunities for enrichment but also vulnerabilities do to poverty and other social stressors. Elected officials have begun proposing potentially costly programs to intervene early in the lives of disadvantaged children. Have such interventions been demonstrated to yield substantial benefits? To what extent might they pay for themselves through lower welfare and criminal justice costs incurred by participating children as they grow into adults? This study synthesizes |
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