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Explores the life and achievements of the rocketry pioneer who designed rockets for the Nazi war effort early in his career and later became a leading figure in the American space program.

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Acting Out by John Glenn has been reviewed in the library magazine The Bloomsbury Review. Available through all major publishers (Ingram, Baker and Taylor, Amazon.com, etc.), Acting Out has been acquired by the U.S. Library of Congress and the State of Alabama Library. Also, it is ranked among the nation's top university and public libraries systems, including the University of Alabama. As a work of African American Criticism, Acting Out is an ideal library resource. John Glenn's innovative criticism champions the connection between African and African American literature, unfolding a new theory that elaborates on the black experience itself as socially active. Linking resistance to the literary history and to the expressiveness of blacks, Glenn provides the basis for a study of African and African American fiction at the social level. He shows how empiricism and action are both central to African and African American methods of social adaptation or "acting out." Investigating performance in black literature by exploring the social resistance and adaptation of fictional archetypes, Glenn elaborates what he calls the three performative modes: linguistic, narrative, and theatrical-modes that describe the interaction of fictional characters. Glenn's critical approach analyzes the work of major authors in African and African American literature, including Chinua Achebe, Ralph Ellison, Sam Greenlee, Buchi Emecheta, Wole Soyinka, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, Okot p'Bitek, and Paul Laurence Dunbar-showing that these author's works are performative in context. A remarkable piece of work, Glenn's book examines the nature of the African diaspora. It looks within the action of performance to categorize self-identity. Through a pleasing tenacity, his research makes the black community as a whole aware of an "acting out" niche, which has paved an enduring road through black oppression. Truly, this book is a great contribution to African and African Am

Culled from the advice of a team of experts selected by the National Institute on Aging, a book-and-CD guide shares a range of exercises selected to help older adults maintain their health and independence, in a reference that provides coverage of staying motivated, increasing flexibility, and eating for optimum nutrition. Reprint.

Photographs and text follow Dale Earnhardt's life and career from his childhood in a small town in North Carolina through his rise in the world of stock car racing and his multiple Winston Cup championships.

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An array of aviation memorabilia, artifacts, and relics from the National Air and Space Museum collection offers an offbeat history of aviation that includes such treasures as George Washington's letter on American ballooning, Amelia Earhart's personal belongings, crockery salvaged from the wreckage of the Hindenburg, and the NASA Space Shuttle Enterprise. 12,000 first printing.

An anti-aging regimen originally produced for astronauts offers advice on weight, diet, and nutrition issues, explaining how to maintain muscle growth, strengthen cardiovascular fitness, halt bone deterioration, and fuel the brain.

The anti-aging regimen originally produced for astronauts in anticipation of a three-year round-trip to Mars helps readers with their own weight, diet, and nutrition issues here on Earth, explaining how to increase and maintain muscle growth, strength cardiovascular fitness, reduce stress hormones, halt bone deterioration, fuel the brain, and promote DHA production. 50,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This manual is not sold seperately. It is supplied to accompany the Video John Glenn: Supervision that Improves Teaching ( November 1999).

The first American astronaut to orbit the globe recalls a life testing the limits, from his days as a daredevil test pilot, to his terms in the U.S. Senate, to his most recent flight into space aboard the shuttle Discovery. (view table of contents)