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Space Rover
Stewart Lawrence Sinclair
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R257
Discovery Miles 2 570
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books
about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In 1971, the first lunar
rover arrived on the moon. The design became an icon of American
ingenuity and the adventurous spirit many equated with the space
race. The lunar roving vehicles (LRVs) would be the first and last
manned rovers to date, but they provided a vision of humanity’s
space-faring future: astronauts roaming the moon like space
cowboys. Fifty years later, that vision feels like a nostalgic
fantasy, but the LRV’s legacy would pave the way for Mars rovers
like Sojourner, Curiosity and Perseverance, who afforded humanity
an intimate portrait of our most tantalizingly (potentially)
colonizable neighbor. Other rovers have made accessible the
world’s deepest caves and most remote tundra, extending our
exploratory range without risking lives. Still others have been
utilized for search and rescue missions or in clean up operations
after disasters such as Chernobyl. For all these achievements,
rovers embody not just our potential, but our limits. Examining
rovers as they wander our terrestrial and celestial boundaries, we
might better comprehend our place, and fate, in this universe.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in
The Atlantic.
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Juggling (Paperback)
Stewart Lawrence Sinclair
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R427
Discovery Miles 4 270
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In Juggling, Stewart Lawrence Sinclair explores the
four-thousand-year history and practice of juggling as seen through
his life as a juggler. Sinclair-who learned to juggle as a child
and paid his way through college by busking-shares his experiences
of taking up juggling after an episode of suicidal ideation, his
time juggling on the streets, and ultimately finding comfort in
juggling during the COVID-19 pandemic. In many ways, this is a book
about loss and recovery. From his own juggling story to clowns
braving military checkpoints in Bosnia and Rwanda to perform in
refugee camps to contemporary avant-garde performances, Sinclair
shows how the universal language of juggling provides joy as well
as a respite from difficulties during hard times.
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Juggling (Hardcover)
Stewart Lawrence Sinclair
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R2,022
Discovery Miles 20 220
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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In Juggling, Stewart Lawrence Sinclair explores the
four-thousand-year history and practice of juggling as seen through
his life as a juggler. Sinclair-who learned to juggle as a child
and paid his way through college by busking-shares his experiences
of taking up juggling after an episode of suicidal ideation, his
time juggling on the streets, and ultimately finding comfort in
juggling during the COVID-19 pandemic. In many ways, this is a book
about loss and recovery. From his own juggling story to clowns
braving military checkpoints in Bosnia and Rwanda to perform in
refugee camps to contemporary avant-garde performances, Sinclair
shows how the universal language of juggling provides joy as well
as a respite from difficulties during hard times.
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