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  Leadership Moments from NASA -...

  Dr. Dave Williams, Elizabeth...

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  Space exploration is as much a story of leadership and teamwork as it is a story of exploration and discovery. Leadership Moments from NASA delves into the organizational culture, leadership styles, and insights of NASA senior executives spanning five decades of human spaceflight, to share the lessons they learned from critical moments where they took on seemingly insurmountable challenges. How did they prioritize? How did they resolve differences? How did they decide what to do when no one had done it before? How did they build highly competent teams? How did they build organizational resilience? How did they fight complacency and rebuild a culture of safety and innovation?Through interviews with famous leaders such as Apollo's Gene Kranz, the first Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission's Joe Rothenberg, "astronaut maker" George Abbey, and former NASA Administrator Dan Goldin, this book shows how NASA recovered from tragedy and adversity, and how it developed a culture of competency that continues to attract the best and brightest.

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  The Kinetoscope - A British History

  Richard Brown, Barry Anthony

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  The story of how the motion-picture device was developed, and its role in Victorian society and early cinema. 
   
  The position of the kinetoscope in film history is central and undisputed; indicative of its importance is the detailed attention American scholars have given to examining its history. However, the Kinetoscope’s development in Britain has not been well documented and much current information about it is incomplete and out of date. 
   
  This book, for the first time, presents a comprehensive account of the unauthorized and often colorful development of British kinetoscopes, using many previously unpublished sources. The commercial and technical backgrounds of the kinetoscope are looked at in detail; the style and content of the earliest British films analyzed; and the device’s place in the wider world of Victorian popular entertainment examined. In addition, a unique legal case is revealed and a number of previously unrecorded film pioneers are identified and discussed.

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  Effective Software Project...

  Robert K. Wysocki

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  Why another book on software project management?      For some time, the fields of project management, computer science,  and software development have been growing rapidly and  concurrently. Effective support for the enterprise demands the  merging of these efforts into a coordinated discipline, one that  incorporates best practices from both systems development and  project management life cycles. Robert K. Wysocki creates that  discipline in this book--a ready reference for professionals and  consultants as well as a textbook for students of computer  information systems and project management.    By their very nature, software projects defy a "one size fits all"  approach. In these pages you will learn to apply best-practice  principles while maintaining the flexibility that's essential for  successful software development.    Learn how to make the planning process fit the need  * Understand how and why software development must be planned on a  certainty-to-uncertainty continuum  * Categorize your projects on a four-quadrant model  * Learn when to use each of the five SDPM strategies--Linear,  Incremental, Iterative, Adaptive, and Extreme  * Explore the benefits of each strategic model and what types of  projects it supports best  * Recognize the activities that go into the Scoping, Planning,  Launching, Monitoring/Controlling, and Closing phases of each  strategy  * Apply this knowledge to the specific projects you manage  * Get a clear picture of where you are and how to get where you  want to go

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  Death Before the Fall - Biblical...

  Ronald E. Osborn

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  ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award
  Did animals have predatory natures before the fall? Did God punish innocent animals with a curse because of human sin? Is it possible for theistic evolution to be compatible with the Bible, even though animal death before the fall would contradict the teaching that death began after the first sin?
  In this eloquent and provocative "open letter" to evangelicals, Ronald Osborn wrestles with these pointed questions and with the problem of biblical literalism and animal suffering within an evolutionary understanding of the world.
  Considering the topic of animal suffering and predation as a theodicy dilemma, Osborn offers an open-minded exploration of the subject, specifically coming against the fundamentalist and literalist view of the book of Genesis and the creation account. He challenges one-dimensional reading of Scripture and shines a sobering light on the evangelical dogma responsible for advancing viewpoints long ago dismantled by science.
  Always acknowledging the traditionalist viewpoint, Osborn demonstrates with a wealth of exegetical and theological insight how orthodox Christianity can embrace evolutionary concepts without contradiction. Osborn forces us to ask hard questions, not only of the Bible and church tradition, but also and especially of ourselves.

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  The Martians - Evidence of Life...

  Nick Redfern

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  "The Martians opens a door into a possibility that most would reject as impossible. But Nick Redfern in this provocative and exciting book makes a startling case for there being life on Mars—and, in fact, for the whole history of Mars being very, very different from what we have supposed. A wonderful adventure and a very exciting story!"—Whitley Strieber, #1 New York Times bestselling author, CommunionThe Martians is an in-depth study of the theory that Mars was once a world that teemed with life. Perhaps, even, life not too dissimilar to ours. Incredibly, the Martians may still be there. Alive. The questions that this book asks and answers include the following:  •What kind of society did the Martians have?•What caused their world to become harsh and desertlike? •Did global warming or nuclear war ensure the extinction of the Martians?•Are Martian artifacts strewn about the surface, just waiting to be found by the likes of NASA?•Has NASA already found such evidence, but chosen to withhold such monumental finds from the public and the media?•Could some form of the Martians still exist, deeply below the surface of the planet, in secure installations that allow them to ensure their civilization continues?•What do we know about the Martian environment, its atmosphere, and its landscape?The Martians explores the CIA's top-secret search for the Martians, multiple photos of strange anomalies, and the latest revelations about the environment and water on Mars. And most tantalizing of all: Did an ailing Martian race come to Earth in past eons and were they confused with gods? The questions concerning life on Mars—then and now—are many. The answers are astounding.

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  Sleep Demons - An Insomniac’s...

  Bill Hayes

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  “A lovely weave of memory and science, great characters and compassionate humor” from the author of Sweat: A History of Exercise (Anne Lamott). 
   
  We often think of sleep as mere stasis, a pause button we press at the end of each day. Yet sleep is full of untold mysteries—eluding us when we seek it too fervently, throwing us into surreal dream worlds when we don’t, sometimes even possessing our bodies so that they walk and talk without our conscious volition. Delving into the mysteries of his own sleep patterns, Bill Hayes marvels, “I have come to see that sleep itself tells a story.” 
   
  An acclaimed journalist and memoirist—and partner of the late neurologist Oliver Sacks—Hayes has been plagued by insomnia his entire life. The science and mythology of sleep and sleeplessness form the backbone to Hayes’s narrative of his personal battles with sleep and how they colored his waking life, as he threads stories of fugitive sleep through memories of growing up in the closet, coming out to his Irish Catholic family, watching his friends fall ill during the early years of the AIDS crisis in San Francisco, and finding a lover. An erudite blend of science and personal narrative, Sleep Demons offers a poignant introduction to the topics for which Hayes has since become famous, including art, eros, city life, the history of medical science, and queer identity. 
   
  “This intimate and beautifully written book brings scientific research alive in a heartfelt and deeply personal narrative.” —The Guardian 
   
  “Memoir, history, and science come together and apart again in a book that reads very much like a dream.” —Out magazine

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