A Dream to Unite Humanity... Scientists discover the technology to successfully construct Earth's first interstellar spacecraft, code named Frontier. Hank Reynolds, a gifted and courageous test pilot for the United States Air Force, is assigned to test pilot humanity's first interstellar spacecraft on a historic flight to Alpha Centauri. Under the command of the fledgling Earth Space Alliance the spacecraft will carry human beings to the stars, and beyond. A Plot to see it Fail Someone doesn't want to see this happen and will stop at nothing to see it fail---including murder... When the Frontier is sabotaged, it leaves Hank stranded and alone to die in the Alpha Centauri system. With their dreams crumbling around them, will they be able to discover who is behind the plot to steal the alien technology, and to murder those closest to it?
A thrilling homoerotic odyssey etched in the cross-currents of lust, greed, murder, and revenge as the struggle of two men against a depraved killer draws us into the heart of...
They made knowledge. Frontiers of Science offers a new framework for approaching American intellectual history, one that transcends political and cultural boundaries and reveals persistence across the colonial and national eras.
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Will the settlement of Mars prove much different from the settlement of the West? Look to science fiction master Kim Stanley Robinson for fascinating ideas; then turn to historian Carl...
The story of the Cherokee Indians from Earliestt Times to the Date of their removal to the west, 1838.
The surprising connections between the American frontier and empire in southern Africa, and the people who participated in both This book begins in an era when romantic notions of American frontiering overlapped with Gilded Age extractive ...
Unsettled Frontiers provides a fresh view of how resource frontiers evolve over time.
In this provocative book, Michael Bhaskar looks at why the flow of big, world-changing ideas has slowed, and what this means for the future.
Foucault, Michel. 2007. Security, Territory, Population. Lectures at the Collège de France: 1977–1978. Edited by Arnold J. Davidson. Translated by Graham Burchell. New York: Picador. Foucault, Michel. 2010. The Birth of Biopolitics: ...
The purpose and location of frontiers affect all human societies in the contemporary world – this book offers an introduction to them and the issues they raise.