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Aurora 7: The Mercury Space Flight of M. Scott Carpenter

Aurora 7: The Mercury Space Flight of M. Scott Carpenter

Colin Burgess

Following extensive research conducted by noted spaceflight historian Colin Burgess, the drama-filled flight of Aurora 7 is faithfully recounted in this engrossing book, along with the personal recollections of Scott Carpenter and those ...
Animals in Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle

Animals in Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle

Colin Burgess

From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle Colin Burgess, Chris Dubbs. [4] John B. West, ``Physiology of a Microgravity Environment: Historical Perspectives : Physiology in Microgravity,'' Journal of Applied Physiology, vol. 89, no. 1, pp.
The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives and Legacies

The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives and Legacies

Colin Burgess

Many previously-unpublished photographs of these “missing” candidates will also be included for the first time in this book.
The House of the Burgesses

The House of the Burgesses

Michael Burgess

A facsimile reprint of the Second Edition (1994) of this genealogical guide to 25,000 descendants of William Burgess of Richmond (later King George) County, Virginia, and his only known son, Edward Burgess of Stafford (later King George) ...
Thornton Burgess Five-Minute Bedtime Tales: From Old Mother ...

Thornton Burgess Five-Minute Bedtime Tales: From Old Mother ...

Thornton Waldo Burgess

From Old Mother West Wind's Library Thornton Waldo Burgess, Harrison Cady ... Please visit the product page for Thornton Burgess Five-Minute Bedtime Tales at www.doverpublications.com to see a detailed account ofthe environmental ...
Moon Bound: Choosing and Preparing NASA's Lunar Astronauts

Moon Bound: Choosing and Preparing NASA's Lunar Astronauts

Colin Burgess

This book draws on interviews to tell the astronauts' personal stories and recreate the drama of that time.
Thornton Burgess Smiling Pool Stories

Thornton Burgess Smiling Pool Stories

Thornton W. Burgess

Bibliographical Note This Dover edition, first published in 2013, contains the following three stories by Thornton W. Burgess: Grandfather Frog Gets a Ride, Baby Possum's Queer Voyage, and A Great Joke on Jimmy Skunk, all originally ...
Behind Palace Doors - My Service as the Queen Mother's Equerry

Behind Palace Doors - My Service as the Queen Mother's Equerry

Major Colin Burgess

Constantly fascinating and packed with previously untold stories, this is also a celebration of a life gone - and a way of life fast disappearing.
Remembering Colin Ward:

Remembering Colin Ward:

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At the Funeral Opening Address A Steady Rhythm of Friendship A Constant Influence What It Was Like Having Colin Ward as a Dad Nescafé and a Craven A The Memorial Meeting Welcome and Introduction Meeting Colin in the Sixties Colin ...
Thornton Burgess Bedtime Stories: Includes Downloadable MP3s

Thornton Burgess Bedtime Stories: Includes Downloadable MP3s

Thornton W. Burgess

Bibliographical Note Thornton Burgess Bedtime Stories is an unabridged republication of the work originally published as Bedtime Stories: The Fascinating Adventures of Animals Large and Small by Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, New York, ...
Animals in Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle

Animals in Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle

Colin Burgess

This book is as a detailed, but highly readable and balanced account of the history of animal space flights carried out by all nations, but principally the United States and the Soviet Union.
Scottish Archaeological Review: SAR.

Scottish Archaeological Review: SAR.

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Peter Karl Schmidt and Colin B. Burgess, 1981 The axes of Scotland and northern England, Prahistorische Bronzefunde, Abteilung IX Band 7, xi + 297pp, 4 figures, 153 plates (Miinchen: C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung). Bibliography ...
The Burgess Animal Book for Children

The Burgess Animal Book for Children

Thornton W. Burgess

Abundantly illustrated, simply written classic by a master storyteller acquaints youngsters with the habits and characteristics of four-footed animals.
Friendship 7: The Epic Orbital Flight of John H. Glenn, Jr.

Friendship 7: The Epic Orbital Flight of John H. Glenn, Jr.

Colin Burgess

Jerry McConnell, JO1, All Hands (The Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin, No. 543, April 1962, pg.5 5. Carpenter, S., Cooper, Jr. L, Glenn, Jr., J., Grissom, V., Schirra, Jr., W., Shepard, Jr., A., and Slayton, D., We Seven, Simon and ...
British Archaeological Abstracts

British Archaeological Abstracts

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4F 86/380 An unprovenanced palstave in the Armitt Collection, Ambleside Marsh, Claire E Trans Cumberland Westmorland Antiq Archaeol Soc, n ser, 85, 1985, 248-9 4F 86/381 Peter Karl Schmidt & Colin B Burgess, The axes of Scotland and  ...
Sir John Evans 1823-1908: antiquity, commerce and natural ...

Sir John Evans 1823-1908: antiquity, commerce and natural ...

Arthur MacGregor

14-16. 12 Ashmolean Museum, inv. no. AN 1927.27 18. 1 3 For the Sturrock sale, see note 92, below. For the Potarch axe see Peter Karl Schmidt and Colin B. Burgess, The Axes of Scotland and Northern England, Prahistorische Bronzefunde ...
Teacher in Space: Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger Legacy

Teacher in Space: Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger Legacy

Colin Burgess

Profiles the teacher who died with the NASA crew when the Challenger exploded in 1986, and describes the various ways her enthusiasm for learning and exploration, determination to teach children, and love of life continues all over the ...
The Death and Afterlife of Achilles

The Death and Afterlife of Achilles

Jonathan S. Burgess

With his keen, original analysis of hitherto untapped literary, iconographical, and archaeological sources, Burgess adds greatly to our understanding of this archetypal mythic hero.
Discovery and Excavation, Scotland

Discovery and Excavation, Scotland

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... 32, 1985, 268-72 Hallstatt imports in Britain Meyer, M Bull Inst Archaeol Univ London, 21-22, 1984-85, 69-81* Traprain, Adabrock, etc Peter Karl Schmidt & Colin B Burgess, The axes of Scotland and northern England, PBF IX/7 Northover , ...
Summary, Analysis & Review of T. Colin Campbell’s and Thomas ...

Summary, Analysis & Review of T. Colin Campbell’s and Thomas ...

Eureka

People. T. Colin Campbell: T. Colin Campbell is most well known for his work on the China Study and his advocacy of a ... Thomas M. Campbell, II: Thomas Campbell, II is the son of T. Colin Campbell, a clinical family medicine instructor at the ...
Freedom 7: The Historic Flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr.

Freedom 7: The Historic Flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr.

Colin Burgess

This book tells the enthralling story of that pioeering flight as recalled by many of the participants in the Freedom 7 story, including Shepard himself, with anecdotal details and tales never before revealed in print.
The Burgess Bird Book for Children

The Burgess Bird Book for Children

Thornton W. Burgess

Downy the Woodpecker, Spooky the Screech Owl, and other winged creatures tell Peter Cottontail about their migration patterns, calls, nesting habits, and more in this blend of fact and fiction. 32 black-and-white illustrations.
The Burgess Boys

The Burgess Boys

Elizabeth Strout

{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Arial;}} \viewkind4\uc1\pard\lang2057\fs18 \fs20 Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown ...
Guy Burgess: The Spy Who Knew Everyone

Guy Burgess: The Spy Who Knew Everyone

Stewart Purvis

Cambridge spy Guy Burgess was a supreme networker, with a contacts book that included everyone from statesmen to socialites, high-ranking government officials to the famous actors and literary figures of the day.
Colin Wilson's 'Occult Trilogy': A Guide for Students

Colin Wilson's 'Occult Trilogy': A Guide for Students

Colin Stanley

In Bibliographical Details, citations under Secondary Sources and Reviewsto Around, Bendau, Bergstrom, Campion, Celebration, Dossor, and Weigel, refer to the ... Bendau: Colin Wilson: The Outsider and Beyond by Clifford P. Bendau.
A Life Worth Living: The Autobiography of Lady Colin Campbell

A Life Worth Living: The Autobiography of Lady Colin Campbell

Lady Colin Campbell

She then became a model, a designer and married Lord Colin Campbell in the 1970s in a short and violent marriage. A true assortment of riches, this is her own candid, poignant and remarkable story.
The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel

The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel

Thornton W. Burgess

" In this delightfully told tale, Burgess chronicles the escapades of Chatterer the Red Squirrel, who's known throughout the Green Forest as a mischief maker.
A Life Worth Living: The Autobiography of Lady Colin Campbell

A Life Worth Living: The Autobiography of Lady Colin Campbell

Lady Colin Campbell

Lady Colin Campbell was the first person to reveal the problems in Charles and Diana's marriage, as well as writing an expose of the Queen and Prince Philip's relationship.

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