Bossart: America`s Forgotten Rocket Scientist, Mitchell Don

Автор: Mitchell, Don
Название: Liftoff-Rlb
ISBN: 0792259009 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792259008
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
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Цена: 19440.00 T
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Описание: War hero, test pilot, American astronaut, and U.S. Senator--for John Glenn, serving his country has always been a joyous adventure. How does a boy from a small Ohio town grow up to become one of the most enduring heroes in American history?

Young readers find out as they follow his inspiring story from his schoolboy days in New Concord, Ohio, to his adventures as a highly decorated Marine Corps pilot in both World War II and the Korean War, a test pilot, one of the seven Mercury astronauts and the first American to orbit Earth, a successful businessman, a U.S. Senator, and, at the age of 77, the oldest human being in space.

Don Mitchell skillfully weaves highlights from John Glenn's extraordinary life with inspirational quotes and dynamic images to create an intimate portrait of a man whose challenge to young people everywhere is to become dedicated "to a purpose larger than themselves."

This superbly illustrated book follows the life trajectory of a very focused, highly competitive man, driven by a sense of duty to his country and an innate sense of obligation towards others. Readers will find themselves inspired to "liftoff" to new heights of achievement.

Автор: Mitchell Don
Название: Shibai: Remembering Jane Britton`s Murder
ISBN: 1732952183 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781732952188
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 21580.00 T
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In Japanese culture, shibai means "drama," or "play," but in Hawaiian slang it means "smokescreen," "bullshit," "gaslighting." In this uncategorizable work, Don Mitchell weaves together the brutal 1969 murder of his friend, Harvard graduate student Jane Britton, with harassment by law enforcement and the media, the language and culture of the Nagovisi people of Bougainville, the Big Island of Hawai'i and the high barrens of its dormant volcano Mauna Kea, ultra running and walking, and the New York milieus of Buffalo and Ithaca. The unforgettable Jane Britton threads through the book, along with one of the suspects, the State Police detective who eventually solved the case, and Becky Cooper, an investigative journalist in whose book about Jane's murder Mitchell is a continuing presence. Addressing himself in the second person, Mitchell explores how memory and meaning shapeshift, the way facts can shatter long-held perceptions about one's self and others, and how love and connection transcend time and culture. Mitchell creates a fascinating meld of fiction and nonfiction, past and present, speculation and discovery that excavates layers of truth, of error . . . and of shibai.

Автор: Mitchell Don
Название: A Red Woman Was Crying
ISBN: 0983307245 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780983307242
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Цена: 21580.00 T
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Don Mitchell's new collection of short stories, set among tribal people on Bougainville Island in the late 1960s, demystifies ethnography by turning it on its head. The narrators are Nagovisi - South Pacific rainforest cultivators - and through their eyes the reader comes to know the young American anthropologist, himself struggling with his identity as a Vietnam-era American, who's come to to study their culture in a time of change. Beautifully written, evocative, and utterly original, A Red Woman was Crying takes the reader into the rich and complex internal lives of Nagovisi -- young and old, male and female, gentle and fierce -- as they grapple with predatory miners, indifferent colonial masters, missionaries, their own changing culture, their sometimes violent past, and the "other" who has come to live with them.

Автор: Mitchell, Don
Название: Lady is a spy: virginia hall, world war ii`s most dangerous secret agent
ISBN: 1407191381 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781407191386
Издательство: Scholastic UK
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Цена: 7030.00 T
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Описание: Learn about Virginia Hall, the "most dangerous of all Allied spies", in this exciting biography! In The Lady is a Spy, award-winning author Don Mitchell explores the fascinating life of America`s greatest female spy. An extraordinary, in-depth look at a true hero.