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Watching Skies

Mark O'Connell
Watching Skies Book PDF

Author : Mark O'Connell
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780750986151

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Mark O'Connell didn't want to be Luke Skywalker, He wanted to be one of the mop-haired kids on the Star Wars toy commercials. And he would have done it had his parents had better pine furniture and a condo in California. Star Wars, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Superman didn't just change cinema – they made lasting highways into our childhoods, toy boxes and video stores like never before. In Watching Skies, O'Connell pilots a gilded X-Wing flight through that shared universe of bedroom remakes of Return of the Jedi, close encounters with Christopher Reeve, sticker album swaps, the trauma of losing an entire Stars Wars figure collection and honeymooning on Amity Island. From the author of Catching Bullets – Memoirs of a Bond Fan, Watching Skies is a timely hologram from all our memory systems. It is about how George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, a shark, two motherships, some gremlins, ghostbusters and a man of steel jumper a whole generation to hyperspace.

Watching Skies

Mark O'Connell
Watching Skies Book PDF

Author : Mark O'Connell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Blockbusters (Motion pictures)
ISBN : 0750970197

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A unique and timely memoir, full of '80s nostalgia, that explores the golden age of Hollywood cinema

Keep Watching the Skies!

W. Patrick McCray
Keep Watching the Skies Book PDF

Author : W. Patrick McCray
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691128542

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Keep Watching the Skies! by W. Patrick McCray Pdf

After the launch of Sputnik, thousands of ordinary Americans became "Moonwatchers," a network of citizen-scientists who helped professional astronomers by providing critical and otherwise unavailable information about the first satellites.

Keep Watching the Skies!

Bill Warren
Keep Watching the Skies Book PDF

Author : Bill Warren
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476625058

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Keep Watching the Skies! by Bill Warren Pdf

Bill Warren’s Keep Watching the Skies! was originally published in two volumes, in 1982 and 1986. It was then greatly expanded in what we called the 21st Century Edition, with new entries on several films and revisions and expansions of the commentary on every film. In addition to a detailed plot synopsis, full cast and credit listings, and an overview of the critical reception of each film, Warren delivers richly informative assessments of the films and a wealth of insights and anecdotes about their making. The book contains 273 photographs (many rare, 35 in color), has seven useful appendices, and concludes with an enormous index. This book is also available in hardcover format (ISBN 978-0-7864-4230-0).

Daniel X: Watch the Skies

James Patterson,Ned Rust
Daniel X Watch the Skies Book PDF

Author : James Patterson,Ned Rust
Publisher : jimmy patterson
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780316072199

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Daniel X: Watch the Skies by James Patterson,Ned Rust Pdf

It's a dangerous time for Daniel X-and when he's cast in an evil director's TV show, he must fight to stay alive. Daniel X thought he'd seen it all in his dangerous days of hunting outlaws-but there's no business like show business, and Number Five on his list of deadly targets is the most appalling criminal yet. An intergalactic reality television producer has orchestrated the extermination of millions, with a soundtrack and laugh track to accompany it. The evil entertainer's catching it all on film, and he's looking for a big-ticket draw. Who better to star than the Alien Hunter himself? Daniel finds himself cast in the lead role of a terrifying season premiere . . . of the gravest show on Earth. Can Daniel X stop this deranged outlaw-or will he find himself on the cutting room floor?

Keep Watching the Skies!

W. Patrick McCray
Keep Watching the Skies Book PDF

Author : W. Patrick McCray
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400829705

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When the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957, thousands of ordinary people across the globe seized the opportunity to participate in the start of the Space Age. Known as the "Moonwatchers," these largely forgotten citizen-scientists helped professional astronomers by providing critical and otherwise unavailable information about the first satellites. In Keep Watching the Skies!, Patrick McCray tells the story of this network of pioneers who, fueled by civic pride and exhilarated by space exploration, took part in the twentieth century's biggest scientific endeavor. Around the world, thousands of teenagers, homemakers, teachers, amateur astronomers, and other citizens joined Moonwatch teams. Despite their diverse backgrounds and nationalities, they shared a remarkable faith in the transformative power of science--a faith inspired by the Cold War culture in which they lived. Against the backdrop of the space race and technological advancement, ordinary people developed an unprecedented desire to contribute to scientific knowledge and to investigate their place in the cosmos. Using homemade telescopes and other gadgets, Moonwatchers witnessed firsthand the astonishing beginning of the Space Age. In the process, these amateur scientists organized themselves into a worldwide network of satellite spotters that still exists today. Drawing on previously unexamined letters, photos, scrapbooks, and interviews, Keep Watching the Skies! recreates a pivotal event from a perspective never before examined--that of ordinary people who leaped at a chance to take part in the excitement of space exploration.

Watching The Skies & Other Beastly Tales

Jim Marquez
Watching The Skies Other Beastly Tales Book PDF

Author : Jim Marquez
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781300731016

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Watching The Skies & Other Beastly Tales by Jim Marquez Pdf

"Watching The Skies & Other Beastly Tales" is Jim Marquez's 14th self-published book in 8 years! A departure of sorts for Jim as he leaves the grimy confines of Downtown Los Angeles and takes us on a surreal journey across the alien landscape of a forbidden Nevada desert (through the eyes of a 'young Jack Morales'), tumbles alongside the inebriated canals of Amsterdam, looks for love in all the wrong places in Scotland, and has to run for his life in London! This collection of 'Beastly' tales of life on the rocks then returns to the warped sensibility of L.A. for a wicked homage to Nathaniel West's "Day of the Locust" (illustrated by artist Emmeric Konrad), and finally comes to a crushing halt in Jim's hometown of East L.A. In between, for how could he resist (?), Jim examines the base nature of man back on the wee-hours-streets of a changed & vanishing Downtown arts scene: Booze. Sex. Racism. Violence. Madness. Family fun for all!

Keep Watching the Skies! An Anthology of Prize-Winning Short Stories

John Howard Reid
Keep Watching the Skies An Anthology of Prize Winning Short Stories Book PDF

Author : John Howard Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780557023233

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Keep Watching the Skies! An Anthology of Prize-Winning Short Stories by John Howard Reid Pdf

Seventeen prize-winning short stories are contributed by Peter L. Lyons, Raymond Southall, Robert Bailey, Rachel Robertson, John Clanchy, Stephen Reilly, Gordon Phipps, Amy Dunkleberger, Christine Taylor, Robyn Hukin, Wendy Dartnall, Lainie Jones, Fred Flint, Nancy Christie, Peter Endersbee, John Howard Reid, and Sally Odgers. These award-winning prose pieces range across many genres, including personal experiences, humor, science fiction, fantasy, adventure, reminiscence, satire, and romance.

Blue Skies

Anne Bustard
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Author : Anne Bustard
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534446069

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For fans of Kate DiCamillo’s Louisiana’s Way Home, this heartwarming novel tells the story of ten-year-old Glory Bea as she prepares for a miracle of her very own—her father’s return home. Glory Bea Bennett knows that miracles happen in Gladiola, Texas, population 3,421. After all, her grandmother—the best matchmaker in the whole county—is responsible for thirty-nine of them. Now, Glory Bea needs a miracle of her own. The war ended three years ago, but Glory Bea’s father never returned home from the front in France. Glory Bea understands what Mama and Grams and Grandpa say—that Daddy died a hero on Omaha Beach—yet deep down in her heart, she believes Daddy is still out there. When the Gladiola Gazette reports that one of the boxcars from the Merci Train (the “thank you” train)—a train filled with gifts of gratitude from the people of France—will be stopping in Gladiola, she just knows daddy will be its surprise cargo. But miracles, like people, are always changing, until at last they find their way home.

NightWatch

Terence Dickinson
NightWatch Book PDF

Author : Terence Dickinson
Publisher : Firefly Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : 9781552093023

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A practical guide to viewing the universe.

The Life of the Skies

Jonathan Rosen
The Life of the Skies Book PDF

Author : Jonathan Rosen
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1429956038

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Aerial delights: A history of America as seen through the eyes of a bird-watcher John James Audubon arrived in America in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was president, and lived long enough to see his friend Samuel Morse send a telegraphic message from his house in New York City in the 1840s. As a boy, Teddy Roosevelt learned taxidermy from a man who had sailed up the Missouri River with Audubon, and yet as president presided over America's entry into the twentieth century, in which our ability to destroy ourselves and the natural world was no longer metaphorical. Roosevelt, an avid birder, was born a hunter and died a conservationist. Today, forty-six million Americans are bird-watchers. The Life of the Skies is a genre-bending journey into the meaning of a pursuit born out of the tangled history of industrialization and nature longing. Jonathan Rosen set out on a quest not merely to see birds but to fathom their centrality—historical and literary, spiritual and scientific—to a culture torn between the desire both to conquer and to conserve. Rosen argues that bird-watching is nothing less than the real national pastime—indeed it is more than that, because the field of play is the earth itself. We are the players and the spectators, and the outcome—since bird and watcher are intimately connected—is literally a matter of life and death.

Keep Watching the Skies!

Bill Warren
Keep Watching the Skies Book PDF

Author : Bill Warren
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786442300

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Keep Watching the Skies! by Bill Warren Pdf

Bill Warren's Keep Watching the Skies! was originally published in two volumes, in 1982 and 1986. It was then greatly expanded in what we called the 21st Century Edition, with new entries on several films and revisions and expansions of the commentary on every film. In addition to a detailed plot synopsis, full cast and credit listings, and an overview of the critical reception of each film, Warren delivers richly informative assessments of the films and a wealth of insights and anecdotes about their making. The book contains 273 photographs (many rare, 35 in color), has seven useful appendices, and concludes with an enormous index. This book is also available in softcover format (ISBN 978-1-4766-6618-1).

The Skies We Watch

Cidney Swanson
The Skies We Watch Book PDF

Author : Cidney Swanson
Publisher : Williams Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781939543820

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This title is a special anniversary edition of the book previously released as STRIKING MARS. Fleeing for their lives, Jess and Pavel make it to the Moon, narrowly avoiding the attack on Space Station 92-AE. They should be safe and happy, but they discover they are not alone on Tranquility Base. The stranger they encounter seems uniquely qualified to leak their presence to Chancellor Lucca Brezhnaya, especially when the Marsians contemplate airing Lucca's political dirty laundry. But Lucca has already shown she would destroy worlds rather than see her secrets exposed. THE SKIES WE WATCH is the fifth book in a science fiction adventure series set in a dystopian future where colonization on Mars has survived for centuries without any contact with Earth, until now.

Stars and Planets

W. S. Kals
Stars and Planets Book PDF

Author : W. S. Kals
Publisher : Sierra Club Books for Children
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003972390

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Stars and Planets by W. S. Kals Pdf

Tells how to locate stars, planets, and constellations with the naked eye, discusses variable stars, comets, meteors, and other night sky phenomena, and includes a pronunciation guide.

The Sky Is Everywhere

Jandy Nelson
The Sky Is Everywhere Book PDF

Author : Jandy Nelson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-09
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101222867

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The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson Pdf

Jandy Nelson's beloved, critically adored debut is now an Apple TV+ and A24 original film starring Jason Segel, Cherry Jones, Grace Kaufman, and Jacques Colimon. “Both a profound meditation on loss and grieving and an exhilarating and very sexy romance." —NPR Adrift after her sister Bailey’s sudden death, Lennie finds herself torn between quiet, seductive Toby—Bailey’s boyfriend who shares Lennie’s grief—and Joe, the new boy in town who bursts with life and musical genius. Each offers Lennie something she desperately needs. One boy helps her remember. The other lets her forget. And she knows if the two of them collide, her whole world will explode. As much a laugh-out-loud celebration of love as a nuanced and poignant portrait of loss, Len­nie’s struggle to sort her own melody out out the noise around her makes for an always honest, often uproarious, and absolutely unforgettable read.