Reaching for the High Frontier tells the story of the pro-space movement from the end of the moon landing program to the beginning of the space station program. It describes the origins, constituencies, and goals of the various groups in the movement, and reviews their tactics, successes, and the opportunities they may have missed.

Reaching for the High Frontier: The American Pro-Space Movement, 1972-84

Science & Math

MICHAUD, Michael

Astronomy & Space Science

Praeger

This book describes a wide variety of speculations by many authors about the consequences for humanity of coming into contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. The assumptions underlying those speculations are examined, and some conclusions are drawn. The book emphasizes the consequences of contact rather than the search, and takes account of popular views. As necessary background, the book also includes brief summaries of the history of thinking about extraterrestrial intelligence, searches for life and for signals, contrasting paradigms of how contact might take place, and the paradox that those paradigms allegedly create.

Contact with Alien Civilizations: Our Hopes and Fears about Encountering Extraterrestrials

Reference

Copernicus

Providing ideas for using and cooking all parts of the vegetable, this text instructs on vegetable-based recipes that can also be used in combination with meat, fish or other ingredients. It also gives guidance on selecting vegetables for cultivation, including more exotic and unusual varieties.

Cool Green Leaves and Red Hot Peppers

McFadden, Christine

Frances Lincoln Ltd.

This book describes a wide variety of speculations by many authors about the consequences for humanity of coming into contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. The assumptions underlying those speculations are examined, and some conclusions are drawn.

Computers & Technology

Programming

Shares over one hundred recipes for vegetable dishes using fresh plant parts including fruits, flowers, leaves, stems, bulbs, roots, tubers, pods, and seeds

Cool Green Leaves & Red Hot Peppers: A Guide to Cooking With Fresh Vegetables

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Adams Media Corp.

This story suggests the potentially threatening implications of genetic manipulation. In San Diego, an oceanographer is struggling to restore her career after being fired for criticizing rich donors. Her lover, a charter yacht captain, is barely surviving financially after following her to San Diego. With their relationship strained by conflicting career demands, they lead a voyage with four younger scientists to observe whales in a Mexican lagoon. There they discover a frightening reptilian mother and her child, apparently identical to a sea-going reptile species that went extinct sixty million years ago. The dinosaur-like animals escape into the Pacific Ocean, heading toward an unknown destination. With telephotos as their only evidence, the six voyagers begin a quest to prove that these creatures exist. They meet with ridicule because the images they have make the dinosaur-like creatures look like a hoax known as the Loch Ness monster. Struggling with the cost of their investigation, the searchers begin to suspect that people with vast financial resources have used powerful genetic engineering techniques to make new, enhanced versions of plesiosaurs, a disturbing achievement for what scientists call synthetic biology. Tracking down clues, the searchers discover an abandoned plesiosaur nursery. They seek the genetic laboratory where new creatures are made. One rich Maker has a conscience; he helps them with clues until he is killed. Samples from a dead plesiosaur on the ocean bottom prove the searchers right. The implications are vast: synthetic biology can be used to modify any form of life into a new species. New sightings show that the plesiosaurs have multiplied and spread to other parts of the Pacific Ocean. Religious leaders and their supporters want these new plesiosaurs exterminated as violations of God's laws. Near the end of the book, the searchers find modern versions of other extinct creatures. Are bored billionaires playing with this new technology to entertain themselves? Who are the monsters? The plesiosaurs, or those who make them?

Monsters

Literature & Fiction

Action & Adventure

Independently published

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Reaching for the High Frontier: The American Pro-Space Movement, 1972-84

Contact with Alien Civilizations: Our Hopes and Fears about Encountering Extraterrestrials

Cool Green Leaves and Red Hot Peppers

Contact with Alien Civilizations: Our Hopes and Fears about Encountering Extraterrestrials

Cool Green Leaves & Red Hot Peppers: A Guide to Cooking With Fresh Vegetables

Monsters