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Science Titles Spring 2020 {IPG} The Astronaut Maker How One Mysterious Engineer Ran Human Spaceflight for a Generation Michael Cassutt Summary One of the most elusive and controversial figures in NASA’s history, George W. S. Abbey was said to be secretive, despotic, a Space Age Machiavelli. Yet Abbey had more influence on human spaceflight than almost anyone in history. His story has never been told—until now. The Astronaut Maker takes readers inside NASA to learn the real story of how Abbey rose to power, from young pilot and wannabe astronaut to engineer, bureaucrat, and finally director of the Johnson Space Center. During a thirty-seven-year career, mostly out of the spotlight, he oversaw the selection of every astronaut class from 1978 to 1987, deciding who got to fly and when. He was with the Apollo 1 astronauts the night before the fatal fire in January 1967. He was in Chicago Review Press mission control the night of the Apollo 13 accident and organized the recovery effort. Abbey also led NASA’s 9781641603188 recruitment of women and minorities as space shuttle astronauts and was responsible for hiring Sally Ride. Pub Date: 6/2/20 On Sale Date: 6/2/20 The Astronaut Maker is the ultimate insider’s account of ambition and power politics at NASA. $18.99 USD Discount Code: LON Contributor Bio Trade Paperback Michael Cassutt is the coauthor of Deke!, We Have Capture , and three editions of Who’s Who in Space 480 Pages (1987, 1993, 1999), as well as five space-themed novels and 30 short stories published in Isaac Asimov’s Carton Qty: 0 Science Fiction and elsewhere. Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology BIO015000 9 in H | 6 in W | 1.4 in T | 2 lb Wt The Astronaut Selection Test Book Do You Have What It Takes for Space? Tim Peake, The European Space Agency Summary Featuring 100 real astronaut tests and exercises from the European Space Agency’s rigorous selection process, ranging from easy to fiendishly hard, The Astronaut Selection Test Book goes where no puzzle book has gone before. Including puzzles and tests on: visual perception and logic; mental arithmetic and concentration; psychological readiness; teamwork and leadership; survival, physical, and medical skills; foreign languages (every astronaut has to know Russian!); and much more. This richly illustrated book draws on Tim Peake's first-hand experience of applying to be an astronaut in 2008, when he and five others were chosen—out of more than 8,000 applications! We’ve all dreamed of being an astronaut, though of the Century estimated 100 billion people who have ever lived, only 557 people have traveled to space. But with this 9781529124149 unprecedented look into real astronaut selection, you might just find out your dreams can become reality. Pub Date: 3/1/20 $24.95 USD/£12.99 GBP Contributor Bio Discount Code: LON Tim Peake is a European Space Agency astronaut. He finished his 186-day Principia mission working on the Trade Paperback International Space Station for Expedition 46/47 when he landed back on Earth June 18, 2016. He is also a 256 Pages test pilot and served in the British Army Air Corps. Tim is a Fellow of a number of UK science, aviation, and Carton Qty: 0 Games & Activities / space-based organizations. He is also a STEM ambassador. The European Space Agency is Europe’s gateway Quizzes to space, and boasts 22 member states. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability GAM008000 and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world. 9.3 in H | 6 in W IPG Spring 2020 Science Titles - January 2020 Page 1 {IPG} The World's Most Amazing Dinosaurs The Biggest, Fiercest and the Weirdest Sona Books Summary At first glance, dinosaurs seem like the product of a wild imagination—how could such weird and wonderful creatures ever have existed on our Earth? Before the extinction event that changed their world forever, dinosaurs and their reptilian relatives of the sea and sky ruled the prehistoric world. From Allosaurus to Zuniceratops, travel back in time to the age of the dinosaurs with The Worlds Most Amazing Dinosaurs and discover these "terrible lizards" for yourself. We’ve gathered together some of the most amazing creatures Sona Books and got right under their skin so we can demonstrate to you how they worked. Did Velociraptors hunt in 9781912918041 packs? Why did herbivores grow so massive? Find out how the dinosaurs survived and thrived, about the Pub Date: 3/1/20 mass extinction event that ended it all, and what these ancient creatures left behind for us to find. On Sale Date: 3/1/20 $29.95 USD/£18.99 GBP Discount Code: LON Hardcover 128 Pages Carton Qty: 12 Nature / Animals NAT007000 10.8 in H | 8.8 in W | 0.6 in T | 1.7 lb Wt Sloths A Celebration of the World’s Most Misunderstood Mammal William Hartston Summary In public estimation, sloths have undergone an astonishing transformation in the course of the past few years. Thanks largely to YouTube clips posted by the sloth orphanage in Costa Rica, sloths have attracted a vast audience of admirers. Instead of seeing them as ridiculous anachronisms of which we know little, they have turned into creatures considered by many to be the most endearing on earth. Over much the same period, scientific investigations have also changed our view of sloths. No longer are they seen as total misfits in the modern world but, in the words of one specialist sloth investigator, they are "masters of an alternative lifestyle." This wonderfully entertaining book reveals the fascinating history of the sloth, from the prehistoric Atlantic Books ground sloth to modern pygmy sloths in Panama, explores the current state of the science of sloths, and 9781786494252 reveals the truth behind sloth behavior. Pub Date: 3/1/20 $14.95 USD/£8.99 GBP Contributor Bio Discount Code: LON Trade Paperback William Hartston is a Cambridge-educated mathematician and industrial psychologist, and the author of The Encyclopedia of Useless Information . 208 Pages Carton Qty: 36 Nature / Animals NAT001000 7.8 in H | 5 in W | 0.6 in T | 0.5 lb Wt IPG Spring 2020 Science Titles - January 2020 Page 2 {IPG} The Collectors Creating Hans Sloane's Extraordinary Herbarium Robert Huxley Summary This lavishly illustrated book reveals the lives of the people who assembled the greatest botanical collection of the Early Modern period, with stories of adventure and discovery across every continent. Sir Hans Sloane’s herbarium, housed at the Natural History Museum in London, is probably the most extensive herbarium collection of its kind. It exemplifies the rich history of exploration and discovery in the period preceding Cook’s voyages, and it remains of considerable scientific and historical value today. Assembled between the 1680s and 1750s, it comprises an estimated 120,000 pressed plant specimens. More than 300 people contributed to Natural History Museum, London its development across more than 70 countries. 9780565094881 Pub Date: 9/3/20 Contributor Bio On Sale Date: 9/3/20 Robert Huxley is former Head of Collections in the Botany Department of the Natural History Museum, $39.95 USD/£25.00 GBP Discount Code: LON London. He is a past President of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections. Hardcover 192 Pages Carton Qty: 12 Nature / Plants NAT026000 9 in H | 6.8 in W Doom with a View Historical and Cultural Contexts of the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant Kristen Iversen Summary Tucked up against the Rocky Mountains, just west of Denver, sits the remnants of one of the most notorious nuclear weapons sites in North America: Rocky Flats. With a history of environmental catastrophes, political neglect, and community-wide health crises, this site represents both one of the darkest and most controversial chapters in our nation’s history, and also a conundrum on repurposing lands once considered lost. As the crush of encroaching residential areas close in on this site and the generation of Rocky Flats workers passes on, the memory of Rocky Flats is receding from the public mind; yet the need to responsibly manage the site, and understand the consequences of forty years of plutonium production and contamination, Fulcrum Publishing must be a part of every decision for the land’s future. 9781682752548 Pub Date: 5/12/20 Contributor Bio On Sale Date: 5/12/20 $23.95 USD Anthology editor Kristen Iversen grew up in Colorado and attended the University of Colorado at Boulder Discount Code: LON (BA) and the University of Denver (PhD). A Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati, and Trade Paperback fellow at the Taft Humanities Center, she also works as the Literary Nonfiction Editor for The Cincinnati 275 Pages Review . Iversen’s work includes the books "Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Carton Qty: 28 Flats" (soon to be released as a feature-length documentary); "Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth"; and Political Science / Public Policy "Shadow Boxing: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction." Her writing has appeared in The New York Times , The POL044000 Nation , The American Scholar , Reader’s Digest, Fourth Genre , Beloit Fiction Journal , and other publications. 9 in H | 6 in W IPG Spring 2020 Science Titles - January 2020 Page 3 {IPG} The Discovery of the Universe A History of Astronomy and Observatories Carolyn Collins Petersen How the discoveries of observatories have unlocked the secrets of the Universe, from Stonehenge to Hubble. Summary This book charts the progress of astronomy through the observatories used throughout history, from the earliest such as Stonehenge, to places like Birr Castle with its Leviathan telescope used by Herschel.