Laikas Window

Author : Kurt Caswell
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595348638
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laika's Window written by Kurt Caswell and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laika began her life as a stray dog on the streets of Moscow and died in 1957 aboard the Soviet satellite Sputnik II. Initially the USSR reported that Laika, the first animal to orbit the earth, had survived in space for seven days, providing valuable data that would make future manned space flight possible. People believed that Laika died a painless death as her oxygen ran out. Only in recent decades has the real story become public: Laika died after only a few hours in orbit when her capsule overheated. Laika’s Window positions Laika as a long overdue hero for leading the way to human space exploration. Kurt Caswell examines Laika’s life and death and the speculation surrounding both. Profiling the scientists behind Sputnik II, he studies the political climate driven by the Cold War and the Space Race that expedited the satellite’s development. Through this intimate portrait of Laika, we begin to understand what the dog experienced in the days and hours before the launch, what she likely experienced during her last moments, and what her flight means to history and to humanity. While a few of the other space dog flights rival Laika’s in endurance and technological advancements, Caswell argues that Laika’s flight serves as a tipping point in space exploration “beyond which the dream of exploring nearby and distant planets opened into a kind of fever from which humanity has never recovered.” Examining the depth of human empathy—what we are willing to risk and sacrifice in the name of scientific achievement and our exploration of the cosmos, and how politics and marketing can influence it—Laika’s Windowis also about our search to overcome loneliness and the role animals play in our drive to look far beyond the earth for answers.

Author : Nick Abadzis
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781596431010
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laika written by Nick Abadzis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laika was the abandoned puppy destined to become Earth's first space traveler. This is her journey. Nick Abadzis masterfully blends fiction and fact in the intertwined stories of three compelling lives. Along with Laika, there is Korolev, once a political prisoner, now a driven engineer at the top of the Soviet space program, and Yelena, the lab technician responsible for Laika's health and life. This intense triangle is rendered with the pitch-perfect emotionality of classics like Because of Winn Dixie, Shiloh, and Old Yeller. Abadzis gives life to a pivotal moment in modern history, casting light on the hidden moments of deep humanity behind history. Laika's story will speak straight to your heart. Laika is the winner of the 2008 Eisner Award for Best Publication for Teens and an Eisner Award nominee for Best Reality-Based Work.

Author : Jeni Wittrock
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1479564141
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laika the Space Dog: First Hero in Outer Space written by Jeni Wittrock and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Owen Davey
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763668222
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laika written by Owen Davey and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laika, a stray dog found in Moscow, becomes the first animal to be launched into space.

Author : Kate Kort
Publisher : Brick Mantel Books
ISBN 13 : 1941799507
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laika written by Kate Kort and published by Brick Mantel Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laika is a finalist in the Best Book Awards for Literary Fiction and the Next Generation Indie Book Awards for Young New Adult and Second Novel. You feel watched. It's nothing new, but the feeling is amplified when the streets are busy. That hum in your head is now a buzz. Laika desperately wishes for a new life. At fourteen, she’s hardened and independent, living on the streets of Southern California. She’s finally free of her volatile home but yearns for true stability. As Graham, a waiter at a local Russian restaurant, watches Laika steal and struggle to survive, he sees there is something else going on. Something dangerous. An insidious disease that gnaws at her mind and drags her deeper into a world of chaos and delusion. Laika brings to light the often-shrouded world of paranoid schizophrenia. It also examines the socially stigmatized issues of homelessness, addiction, and PTSD, in the hopes of fostering greater awareness and compassion.

Author : Haruki Murakami
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375413464
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sputnik Sweetheart written by Haruki Murakami and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001-05-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part romance, part detective story, Sputnik Sweetheart tells the story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited love. Now with a new introduction from the author. K is madly in love with his best friend, Sumire, but her devotion to a writerly life precludes her from any personal commitments. At least, that is, until she meets an older woman to whom she finds herself irresistibly drawn. When Sumire disappears from an island off the coast of Greece, K is solicited to join the search party—and finds himself drawn back into her world and beset by ominous visions. Subtle and haunting, Sputnik Sweetheart is a profound meditation on human longing.

Author : Ithaka O.
Publisher : Imaginarium Kim
ISBN 13 : 1637930941
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laika's Void written by Ithaka O. and published by Imaginarium Kim. This book was released on 2022-07-04 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published as 'Laika's Void' by Noct Moll. The loving hug. The gentle touch. The tender pat. They sound nice, for those who don't kill or get killed. Laika is nine years old and her hands have never touched anything. "Touched," as in felt the friction, heat, or coolness of another person or object. Because, you see, her hands make matter vanish. It only takes less than a second. Way before she feels a thing, that which is touched disappears, poof. Even the milk cartons that the nuns install around her wrists to serve as shields. Even the air molecules that her fingers brush against. And sometimes, yes, even living organisms. Laika might be the loneliest girl on Earth. She lives with the void.

Author : Nolan Hester
Publisher : Peachpit Press
ISBN 13 : 9780321194022
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adobe Photoshop Album for Windows written by Nolan Hester and published by Peachpit Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Incisive text, crystal-clear screen shots, and step-by-step instructions allow readers to get up and running fast with Adobe's brand new photo editing and organizing software. - Task-based format is supplemented with real-world tips. - Photoshop Album ($AU99.95) targets a rapidly expanding consumer digital photography market at a price people can afford.

Author : Deborah Thompson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476645566
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dog of the Decade written by Deborah Thompson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do dogs mean in America? How do Americans make meaning through their dogs? The United States has long expressed its cultural unconscious through canine iconography. Through our dogs, we figure out what we're thinking and who we are, representing by proxy the things that we don't quite want to recognize in ourselves. Often, it's a specific breed or type of dog that serves as an informal cultural mascot, embodying an era's needs, fears, desires, longings, aspirations, repressions, and hopeless contradictions. Combining cultural studies with personal narrative, this book creates a playful, speculative reading of American culture through its canine self-representations. Looking at seven different breeds or types over the last seven decades, readers will go on an intellectual dog walk through some of the mazes of American cultural mythology.

Author : Elizabeth Verdick
Publisher : Free Spirit Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1575427621
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sharing Time written by Elizabeth Verdick and published by Free Spirit Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes it’s fun to share, and sometimes it’s hard. This book offers toddlers simple choices (take turns, use the toy together, wait for another time) to make sharing easier, and shows them where to turn for help when sharing is difficult. Little ones learn that sharing can mean double the fun—and sharing a while can make someone smile! Includes tips for parents and caregivers.