Journey Beyond Selene: Remarkable Expeditions Past Our Moon & to the Ends of the Solar System and Its 63 Moons

Engineering & Transportation

Jeffrey Kluger

Transportation

Little,Brown

Apollo 13

Biographies & Memoirs

James Lovell

Professionals & Academics

Coronet

Journey Beyond Selene: Exploring the Solar System's 63 Moons

ABACUS +

To The Moon

Teen & Young Adult

Education & Reference

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The Narcissist Next Door Understanding the Monster in Your Family, in Your Office, in Your Bed--in Your World

Book by Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger

Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13

Science & Math

Jim Lovell

Astronomy & Space Science

Houghton/Mifflin

An illustrated journey through the entire Apollo space program features photographs, diagrams, trivia, a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the movie Apollo 13, and a foreword by Ron Howard. Original. Movie tie-in.

The Apollo Adventure: The Making of the Apollo Space Program and the Movie Apollo 13

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Pocket_Books

Simplexity: The Simple Rules of a Complex World

Business & Money

John Murray

A #1 New York Times Bestselling Author
 With rivalries, reversals, and a race against time, the struggle to eradicate polio is on of the great tales of modern history. It begins with the birth of Jonas Salk, shortly before one of the worst epidemics in history. Salk entered medical school just as a president crippled by the disease took office. FDR provided the impetus, and, by the early 1950s, Salk had helped create an influenza vaccine and was hot on the trail of the polio virus.

Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio

Thorndike Press

The riveting story of one of the greatest scientific accomplishments of the twentieth century, from the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Apollo 13. With rivalries, reversals, and a race against time, the struggle to eradicate polio is one of the great tales of modern history. It begins with the birth of Jonas Salk, shortly before one of the worst polio epidemics in United States history. At the time, the disease was a terrifying enigma: striking from out of nowhere, it afflicted tens of thousands of children in this country each year and left them-literally overnight-paralyzed, and sometimes at death's door. Salk was in medical school just as a president crippled by the disease, Franklin D. Roosevelt, was taking office-and providing the impetus to the drive for studies on polio. By the early 1950s, Salk had already helped create an influenza vaccine, and was hot on the trail of the polio virus. He was nearly thwarted, though, by the politics of medicine and by a rival researcher eager to discredit his proposed solution. Meanwhile, in 1952, polio was spreading in record numbers, with 57,000 cases in the United States that summer alone. In early 1954, Salk was weighing the possibility of trials of a not-yet-perfected vaccine against-as the summer approached-the prospect of thousands more children being struck down by the disease. The results of the history-making trials were announced at a press conference on April 12, 1955: "The vaccine works." The room-and an entire nation-erupted in cheers for this singular medical achievement. Salk became a cultural hero and icon for a whole generation. Now, at the fiftieth anniversary of the first national vaccination program-and as humanity is tantalizingly close to eradicating polio worldwide-comes this unforgettable chronicle. Salk's work was an unparalleled achievement-and it makes for a magnificent read.

Tantor Audio

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