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(0)William L. Simon
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English
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In Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer, Rob Manning, the project's chief engineer, tells of bringing the groundbreaking spacecraft to life. Manning and his team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, tasked with designing a lander many times larger and more complex than any before, faced technical setbacks, fights over inadequate resources, and the challenges of leading an army of brilliant, passionate, and often...
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Hampton Roads Pub. Co
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2005
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English
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"Recounts four years of experiments at the University of Arizona with the real Allison DuBois--the inspiration for NBC's drama "Medium"--as well as the true-life cases Allison has worked on. These experiments clearly demonstrate the validity of psychic ability and mediumship"--Provided by publisher.
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Español
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Hay gente que escoge su camino en la vida. Hay gente que tiene que cargar con él. Y, por último, hay quien descubre su vocación casi accidentalmente, sin que nunca la haya buscado. Steve Jobs dijo en una ocasión que descubrió la fascinación por los ordenadores en su preadolescencia, cuando visitó el Centro Ames de Investigación de la NASA, cerca de Mountain View. De hecho, resulta que nunca vio un ordenador, solamente una terminal. Cuando...
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English
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The buzzword of the twenty-first century is India-and it's not just a story of software, outsourcing, and faraway call centers. With the economy soaring at 8 percent a year, India is a medical and pharmaceutical front-runner, an R&D powerhouse, a rising manufacturing hub, and an up-and-coming cultural trendsetter in areas from fashion to film. And the world is taking note: Western companies from Lockheed Martin to McDonald's are moving in, Ford is...