The History and Future of the Final Frontier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The History and Future of the Final Frontier write by William W. Zuehlke. This book was released on 2000. The History and Future of the Final Frontier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Star Trek: Designing the Final Frontier
Star Trek: Designing the Final Frontier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Star Trek: Designing the Final Frontier write by Dan Chavkin. This book was released on 2021-08-03. Star Trek: Designing the Final Frontier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-1969) was the first installment of one of the most successful and longest-running television franchises of all time. Today, Trek fans champion its writing, progressive social consciousness, and aesthetic. Designing the Final Frontier is a unique, expert look at the mid-century modern design that created and inspired that aesthetic. From Burke chairs to amorphous sculptures, from bright colors to futuristic frames, Star Trek TOS is bursting with mid-century modern furniture, art, and design elements—many of them bought directly from famous design showrooms. Together, midcentury modern design experts Dan Chavkin and Brian McGuire have created an insider’s guide to the interior of original starship Enterprise and beyond, that is sure to attract Star Trek’s thriving global fan base.
Space, the Final Frontier?
Space, the Final Frontier? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Space, the Final Frontier? write by Giancarlo Genta. This book was released on 2003-02-13. Space, the Final Frontier? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What are our motivations for going into space? Where does our long-term space future lie? Why, and how, should we strive to reach, if not for the stars, at least for the Moon and Mars? This exciting book looks first at the progress that has already been made in our attempts to explore and expand beyond the Earth. Current and past space technologies and space stations are described, and the effects of the space environment on the human body are explained. A discussion of the merits of the robotic exploration of space is followed by a look at our exploration of the Moon and Mars. Final chapters touch on propulsion methods required for leaving our solar system, and ask which of the possibilities for future space travel is most likely to succeed. This thought provoking book will appeal to all those with an interest in the future of space exploration.
History and Future
History and Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History and Future write by David J. Staley. This book was released on 2010. History and Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Perhaps the most important histiographic innovation of the twentieth century was the application of the historical method to wider and more expansive areas of the past. Where historians once defined the study of history strictly in terms of politics and the actions and decisions of Great Men, historians today are just as likely to inquire into a much wider domain of the past, from the lives of families and peasants, to more abstract realms such as the history of mentalities and emotions. Historians have applied their method to a wider variety of subjects; regardless of the topic, historians ask questions, seek evidence, draw inferences from that evidence, create representations, and subject these representations to the scrutiny of other historians. This book severs the historical method from the past altogether by applying that method to a domain outside of the past. The goal of this book is to apply history-as-method to the study of the future, a subject matter domain that most historians have traditionally and vigorously avoided. Historians have traditionally rejected the idea that we can use the study of history to think about the future. The book reexamines this long held belief, and argues that the historical method is an excellent way to think about and represent the future. At the same time, the book asserts that futurists should not view the future as a scientist might--aiming for predictions and certainties--but rather should view the future in the same way that an historian views the past.
Final Frontier
Final Frontier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Final Frontier write by Brian Clegg. This book was released on 2014-08-19. Final Frontier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Star Trek was right — there is only one final frontier, and that is space... Human beings are natural explorers, and nowhere is this frontier spirit stronger than in the United States of America. It almost defines the character of the US. But the Earth is running out of frontiers fast. In Brian Clegg's The Final Frontier we discover the massive challenges that face explorers, both human and robotic, to uncover the current and future technologies that could take us out into the galaxy and take a voyage of discovery where no one has gone before... but one day someone will. In 2003, General Wesley Clark set the nation a challenge to produce the technology that would enable new pioneers to explore the galaxy. That challenge is tough — the greatest we've ever faced. But taking on the final frontier does not have to be a fantasy. In a time of recession, escapism is always popular — and what greater escape from the everyday can there be than the chance of leaving Earth's bounds and exploring the universe? With a rich popular culture heritage in science fiction movies, books and TV shows, this is a subject that entertains and informs in equal measure.
