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2) Seven pounds
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tim Thomas was a gifted aerospace engineer with a beautiful wife. Then, while using his cell phone while driving, his car wandered across lanes and he became responsible for the deaths of 7 others, including his wife. Unable to forgive himself, Tim sets out to give "pounds of flesh" that will give new life to 7 deserving individuals to make up for the 7 lives he destroyed. Tim intends to kill himself and to bestow gifts to 7 worthy people, which includes...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 308 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes into the epic resurrection of the American space program. Nearly a half-century after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, these Space Barons-most notably Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, along with Richard Branson and Paul Allen-are using Silicon Valley-style innovation to dramatically lower the cost of space travel, and send humans even further than NASA...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The true story of how an unlikely leader helped inspire a team of rocket scientists to achieve the near impossible: landing a two-thousand pound rover on Mars. Few organizations solve as many impossible problems as NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and nobody knows more about leading rocket scientists to unlikely breakthroughs than Adam Steltzner. As the phase lead and development manager for EDL (entry, descent and landing) of the Curiosity rover...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
[7], i, 375 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"It was an arduous upbringing on a family farm in an isolated area of Northwestern Ontario, Canada. As was tradition, father hoped his eldest son would in time take over the operation. However fourth generation rancher/farmer Willard J. Stronmg imagined a different future for himself. At the age of seventeen he woke up one morning, declined his inheritance, and waved goodbye to everything and everyone he knew. Eager to explore beyond the farm fields...
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