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Beyond has the exhilaration of a fine thriller but it is vividly embedded in the historic tensions of the Cold War and peopled by men and women brought sympathetically and sometimes tragically to lifeColin Thubron author of Shadow of the Silk Road0907 am April 12 1961 A top secret rocket site in the USSR A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Unions most powerful intercontinental ballistic missileoriginally designed to carry a nuclear warheadand blasts into the skies His name is Yuri Gagarin And he is about to make history Travelling at almost 18000 miles per hourten times faster than a rifle bulletGagarin circles the globe in just 106 minutes From his windows he sees the earth as nobody has before crossing a sunset and a sunrise crossing oceans and continents witnessing its beauty and its fragility While his launch begins in total secrecy within hours of his landing he has become a world celebrity the first human to leave the planet Beyond tells the thrilling story behind that epic flight on its 60th anniversary It happened at the height of the Cold War as the US and USSR confronted each other across an Iron Curtain Both superpowers took enormous risks to get a man into space first the Americans in the full glare of the media the Soviets under deep cover Both trained their teams of astronauts to the edges of the endurable In the end the race between them would come down to the wireDrawing on extensive original research and the vivid testimony of eyewitnesses many of whom have never spoken before Stephen Walker unpacks secrets that were hidden for decades and takes the reader into the drama of one of humanitys greatest adventures to the scientists engineers and political leaders on both sides and above all to the American astronauts and their Soviet rivals battling for supremacy in the heavens . brPage 1br Astonishing Swordsmen Sorcere rs of Hyperborea 2013 North Wind Adventures LLC astonishing Swordsmen Sorcerers OF Hyperborea brPage 2br Astonishing Swordsmen Sorcere rs of H - Mayor Bill de Blasio. 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A scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombis and the voudoun culture of Haiti by a Harvard scientist.In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis—people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of rituals and celebrations, Davis penetrated the vodoun mystique deeply enough to place zombification in its proper context within vodoun culture. In the course of his investigation, Davis came to realize that the story of vodoun is the history of Haiti—from the African origins of its people to the successful Haitian independence movement, down to the present day, where vodoun culture is, in effect, the government of Haiti’s countryside. The Serpent and the Rainbow combines anthropological investigation with a remarkable personal adventure to illuminate and finally explain a phenomenon that has long fascinated Americans. This first-person narrative about an archaeological discovery is rewriting the story of human evolution. A story of defiance and determination by a controversial scientist, this is Lee Berger\'s own take on finding Homo naledi, an all-new species on the human family tree and one of the greatest discoveries of the 21st century.In 2013, Berger, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, caught wind of a cache of bones in a hard-to-reach underground cave in South Africa. He put out a call around the world for petite collaborators--men and women small and adventurous enough to be able to squeeze through 8-inch tunnels to reach a sunless cave 40 feet underground. With this team of underground astronauts, Berger made the discovery of a lifetime: hundreds of prehistoric bones, including entire skeletons of at least 15 individuals, all perhaps two million years old. Their features combined those of known prehominids like Lucy, the famous Australopithecus, with those more human than anything ever before seen in prehistoric remains. Berger\'s team had discovered an all new species, and they called it Homo naledi.The cave quickly proved to be the richest primitive hominid site ever discovered, full of implications that shake the very foundation of how we define what makes us human. Did this species come before, during, or after the emergence of Homo sapiens on our evolutionary tree? How did the cave come to contain nothing but the remains of these individuals? Did they bury their dead? If so, they must have had a level of self-knowledge, including an awareness of death. And yet those are the very characteristics used to define what makes us human. Did an equally advanced species inhabit Earth with us, or before us? Berger does not hesitate to address all these questions.Berger is a charming and controversial figure, and some colleagues question his interpretation of this and other finds. But in these pages, this charismatic and visionary paleontologist counters their arguments and tells his personal story: a rich and readable narrative about science, exploration, and what it means to be human.