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The Infinite (Hardcover)
Phoebe Greenberg, Marie Brassard; Text written by Ryoji Ikeda, Ariane Koek, Felix Lajeunesse, …
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"The Infinite" documents the making of the ground-breaking
immersive VR experience shot entirely aboard the International
Space Station. Artists and astronauts joined forces to capture life
in the cosmos as never before. In this oversize publication,
brand-new views of space and stunning production shots reveal the
human imagination's limitless potential. In Summer 2021, PHI and
EMMY (R) Award-winning digital entertainment pioneers Felix &
Paul Studios will launch the public into an infinite universe. A
ground-breaking immersive VR exhibition will enable the audience to
visit the ISS, where they encounter experiments, zero-gravity
living, and breathtaking spacewalks. Beautifully designed, "The
Infinite" features interviews with leaders in VR and contemporary
art. It perfectly complements the exhibition's role in rendering
the innovation, collaboration and humanity's quest for the skies.
In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks,
the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the
moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had burned to death in
their spacecraft, and since then the Apollo program had suffered
one setback after another. Meanwhile, the Russians were winning the
space race, the Cold War was getting hotter by the month, and
President Kennedy's promise to put a man on the moon by the end of
the decade seemed sure to be broken. But when Frank Borman, Jim
Lovell and Bill Anders were summoned to a secret meeting and told
of the dangerous mission, they instantly signed on. Written with
all the colour and verve of the best narrative non-fiction, Apollo
8 takes us from Mission Control to the astronaut's homes, from the
test labs to the launch pad. Then, on Christmas Eve, a nation that
has suffered a horrendous year of assassinations and war is
heartened by an inspiring message from the trio of astronauts in
lunar orbit. And when the mission is over-after the first view of
the far side of the moon, the first earth-rise, and the first
re-entry through the earth's atmosphere following a flight to deep
space-the impossible dream of walking on the moon suddenly seems
within reach.
The best-selling book that inspired the blockbuster movie
"A story of courage -- in space, at NASA, and at the homes of those
involved." -- Houston Chronicle
A timeless tribute to the enduring American spirit, Apollo 13 tells
the story of America's fifth mission to the moon, a mission that
nearly ended in catastrophe in April 1970. Only fifty-five hours
into the flight, disaster struck for Jim Lovell and two other
astronauts after an explosion left them with a rapidly declining
supply of oxygen and power. Lovell and Kluger vividly chronicle how
the men were forced to abandon the main ship for the lunar module,
a tiny craft designed to keep two men alive for only two days. At
home, a nation watched the desperate efforts of Mission Control to
bring the crew back in what many consider NASA's finest hour.
"A thrilling story of a thrilling episode in the history of space
exploration." -- James A. Michener, author of Space
"Puts the reader in one of those [Apollo] slingshots, pulls, and
lets go. What a moon shot. What a time. What a ride." -- Baltimore
Sun
"A tale of adventure to chill a reader's spine." -- Atlantic
Monthly
Jim Lovell joined NASA in 1962 and flew a total of four missions
before retiring in 1973. He continues to lecture across the
country, speaking about space exploration.
Jeffrey Kluger is a senior writer at Time and the author of several
other books, including Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Polio
Vaccine.
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Holdout (Paperback)
Jeffrey Kluger
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Jonas Salk was born shortly before one of the worst polio epidemics
in United States history.
In medical school when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was diagnosed
with the disease shortly before assuming the Presidency, Salk was
given an impetus to conduct studies on polio. His progress in
combating the virus was hindered by the politics of medicine and by
a rival researcher determined to discredit his proposed solution.
But Salk's perseverance made history-and for more than fifty years
his vaccine has saved countless lives, bringing humanity close to
eradicating polio throughout the world.
"Splendid Solution" chronicles Dr. Salk's race against time-and a
growing epidemic that reached 57,000 reported cases in the summer
of 1952-to achieve an unparalleled medical breakthrough that made
him a cultural hero and icon for a whole generation.
A provocative and surprising exploration of the longest sustained
relationships we have in life--those we have with our siblings.
Nobody affects us as deeply as our brothers and sisters. Our
siblings are our collaborators and co-conspirators, our role models
and cautionary tales. They teach us how to resolve conflicts and
how not to, how to conduct friendships and when to walk away. Our
siblings are the only people we know who truly qualify as partners
for life.
In this perceptive and groundbreaking book, Jeffrey Kluger explores
the complex world of siblings in equal parts science, psychology,
sociology, and memoir. Based on cutting-edge research, he examines
birth order, twins, genetic encoding of behavioral traits,
emotional disorders and their effects on sibling relationships, and
much more. With his signature insight and humor, Kluger takes
science's provocative new ideas about the subject and transforms
them into smart, accessible insights that will help everyone
understand the importance of siblings in our lives.
Why are the instruction manuals for cell phones incomprehensible?
Why is a truck driver's job as hard as a CEO's?
How can 10 percent of every medical dollar cure 90 percent of the
world's disease?
Why do bad teams win so many games? Complexity, as any scientist
will tell you, is a slippery idea. Things that seem complicated can
be astoundingly simple; things that seem simple can be dizzyingly
complex. A houseplant may be more intricate than a manufacturing
plant. A colony of garden ants may be more complicated than a
community of people. A sentence may be richer than a book, a
couplet more complicated than a song. These and other paradoxes are
driving a whole new science--simplexity--that is redefining how we
look at the world and using that new view to improve our lives in
fields as diverse as economics, biology, cosmology, chemistry,
psychology, politics, child development, the arts, and more. Seen
through the lens of this surprising new science, the world becomes
a delicate place filled with predictable patterns--patterns we
often fail to see as we're time and again fooled by our instincts,
by our fear, by the size of things, and even by their beauty. In
Simplexity, Time senior writer Jeffrey Kluger shows how a drinking
straw can save thousands of lives; how a million cars can be on the
streets but just a few hundred of them can lead to gridlock; how
investors behave like atoms; how arithmetic governs abstract art
and physics drives jazz; why swatting a TV indeed makes it work
better. As simplexity moves from the research lab into popular
consciousness it will challenge our models for modern living.
Jeffrey Kluger adeptly translates newly evolving theory into a
delightful theory of everything that will have you rethinking the
rules of business, family, art--your world.
Why does kicking the TV work? What can the US military learn from
the lowly bacterium? Why are the instruction manuals for cell
phones incomprehensible? How does a spark of a single virus trigger
an epidemic that claims millions? In recent years, cutting-edge
studies in fields such as economics, genetics, stock-market
analysis and child development have hit on a startling new theory -
'simplexity'. To put it simply, simple things can be more
complicated than they seem, and complex things more simple. The
evidence is before our eyes: in your elaborate network of household
plumbing actually run on a very basic mechanism, or the crystal
paperweight on your desk, spectacular in its complexity. As
simplexity moves from the research lab into popular consciousness
it will challenge our models for modern living. You'll never
unknowingly whack the TV again and you'll understand just how much
it means to smile at your child. Popular science journalist Jeffrey
Kluger adeptly translates cutting-edge theory into a high-octane
history of everything, which will have you rethinking the rules of
business and pleasure. From the micro to the macro, Simplexity is a
startling reassessment of the building blocks of life and how they
affect us all.
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