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  The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization

  by James Bamford

  Describes and assesses the activities of the National Security Agency, the nation's most secret government agency--established in secrecy, many times larger than the CIA, and in control of a huge budget and a vast technology.
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  Red Moon Rising

  Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age

  by Matthew Brzezinski

  For the fiftieth anniversary of Sputnik, the behind-the-scenes story of the fierce battles on earth that launched the superpowers into space   The spy planes were driving Nikita Khrushchev mad. Whenever America wanted to peer inside the Soviet Union, it launched a U-2, which flew too high to be shot down. But Sergei Korolev, Russia’s chief rocket designer, had a riposte: an artificial satellite that would orbit... (more)
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  Space Mission Analysis and Design, 3rd edition (Space Technology Library) (Space Technology Library)

  by Wiley J. Larson, James R. Wertz

  This practical handbook for Space Mission Engineering draws on leading aerospace experts to carry readers through mission design, from orbit selection to ground ops. SMAD III updates the technology, provides greater emphasis on small spacecraft design and the cost-reduction process, and includes more detail on multi-satellite manufacturing, space computers, payload design and autonomous systems.
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  Merlin's Tour of the Universe

  by Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Through the fictional persona of Merlin, a visitor from another galaxy, an astrophysicist answers the most commonly asked questions about the universe and illuminates the ideas of the most important astronomers and scientists of the past. Reprint. Tour."
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  Reducing Space Mission Cost (Space Technology Library)

  Reducing Space Mission Cost is the first complete treatment of the technology, process, and problems in the most critical areas of modern spaceflight. The demand to reduce cost is unrelenting. This pioneering book addresses all aspects of this problem, including: + Technology and processes for reducing cost + Cost reduction in mission engineering, spacecraft design, manufacture, launch, and operations +... (more)
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  Rockets, Probes, and Satellites

  by Isaac Asimov

  Examines the origins, functions, uses, and discoveries of rockets, space probes, and satellites.
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  Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control (Astrophysics and Space Science Library)

  This classic book is the first comprehensive presentation of data, theory, and practice in attitude analysis. It was written by 33 senior technical staff members in the Spacecraft Attitude Department of the Computer Sciences Corporation and incorporates their experience in supporting more than 30 space missions. Because of the extensive cross-references, complete index, and 13 technical appendices, this book can... (more)
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  The Crack in Space

  by Philip K. Dick

  In The Crack in Space , a repairman discovers that a hole in a faulty Jifi-scuttler leads to a parallel world. Jim Briskin, campaigning to be the first black president of the United States, thinks alter-Earth is the solution to the chronic overpopulation that has seventy million people cryogenically frozen; Tito Cravelli, a shadowy private detective, wants to know why Dr Lurton Sands is hiding his mistress on the... (more)
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  Sputnik Sweetheart

  by Haruki Murakami

  Haruki Murakami, the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, plunges us into an urbane Japan of jazz bars, coffee shops, Jack Kerouac and the Beatles to tell this story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited loves. A college student, identified only as “K,” falls in love with his classmate, Sumire. But devotion to an untidy writerly life precludes her from any... (more)
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  Chariots of the Gods

  by Erich von Daniken

  Erich von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods is a work of monumental importance--the first book to introduce the shocking theory that ancient Earth had been visited by aliens. This world-famous bestseller has withstood the test of time, inspiring countless books and films, including the author's own popular sequel, The Eyes of the Sphinx. But here is where it all began--von Daniken's startling theories of our... (more)
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  America's Space Sentinels

  DSP Satellites and National Security

  by Jeffrey Richelson

  From the publsiher's description: During much of the Cold War, America's first line of defence was in outer space: a network of secret satellites that could provide instant warning of an enemy missile launch. The presence of these infrared sensors orbiting 22,000 miles above the earth discouraged a Soviet first strike and stabilized international relations between the superpowers, and they now play a crucial role... (more)
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  Satellite Orbits in an Atmosphere

  Theory and Application

  by Desmond King-Hele

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  Fundamentals of Astrodynamics

  by Jerry E. White, Donald D. Mueller, Roger R. Bate

  Teaching text developed by U.S. Air Force Academy and designed as a first course emphasizes the universal variable formulation. Develops the basic two-body and n -body equations of motion; orbit determination; classical orbital elements, coordinate transformations; differential correction; more. Includes specialized applications to lunar and interplanetary flight, example problems, exercises. 1971 edition.
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  Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution

  by Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Drawing on the current cross-pollination of geology, biology, and astrophysics, Origins makes "the astonishing astronomical discoveries of recent years come alive (Michael D. Lemonick). Origin's explores cosmic science's stunning new insights into the formation and evolution of our universe— of the cosmos, of galaxies and galaxy clusters, of stars within galaxies, of orbiting planets, and of different forms... (more)
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  The U.S. Intelligence Community

  by Jeffrey Richelson

  From the author of The Wizards of Langley , this definitive survey of the US intelligence community, covering its history, organizations, operations, and management in detail, is now fully updated with new material on homeland security, intelligence sharing, POW and detainee interrogation, and national intelligence organizations. The role of intelligence in US government operations has changed dramatically and... (more)
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  Deep Black: Space Espionage and National Security

  by William E. Burrows

  They are on the cutting edge of technology--the top-secret, billion-dollar instruments of super-power espionage. They are spy satellites--the means by which the super-pwers keep tabs on each other in the deep black of space. "Excellent . . . Highly recommended!"--Booklist. HC: Villard.