Rosetta: The Remarkable Story of Europe's Comet Explorer 9783030607203, 9783030607197, 3030607208

Rosetta: The Remarkable Story of Europe's Comet Explorer 3030607194, 9783030607197

In 2014, Rosetta became the first mission to orbit a comet and to deploy a lander onto its surface. This is the story of

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Christopher Columbus: The Story of the Intrepid Italian Explorer 9781408132654

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The Remarkable Life of William Beebe: Explorer and Naturalist [1 ed.] 9781610911450, 9781559638586

When William Beebe needed to know what was going on in the depths of the ocean, he had himself lowered a half-mile down

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Comet Madness: How the 1910 Return of Halley's Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization 9781633888562, 9781633888579, 1633888568

Halley’s Comet visits the earth every seventy-five years. Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed comets wer

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The Alamo's Forgotten Defenders : The Remarkable Story of the Irish During the Texas Revolution 9781611211924, 9781611211917

Within the annals of Alamo and Texas Revolutionary historiography, the important contributions of the Irish in winning t

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Constructing Europes Identity: The External Dimension 9781626373167

Departing from traditional analyses based on internal measures, this book explores the creation of a European identity t

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Crossing the Continent 1527-1540: The Story of the First African-American Explorer of the American South 9780061981654, 0061981656

The true story of America's first great explorer and adventurer—an African slave named Esteban Dorantes Crossing t

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A Machine Called Indomitable : The Remarkable Story of a Scientist's Inspiration, Invention, and Medical Breakthrough 9781480484696

The true story of the doctor who invented the MRI: "A fascinating account of how a significant medical development

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Extinction or Survival?: The Remarkable Story of the Tigua, an Urban American Urban Tribe 9781317259824, 1317259823

How could an urban American Indian tribe, having survived relentless earlier governmental attempts to declare its cultur

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Landlines: The Remarkable Story of a Thousand-Mile Journey Across Britain 9781639364947, 9781639364930

The powerful story of a 1,000-mile healing walk—from the lochs of Scotland to England's southwest coast—in a remark

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