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Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"With the launch of the Falcon 1 rocket in 2008, Elon Musk's SpaceX became the first private company to build a low-cost rocket that could reach orbit. And that milestone carried major implications: Silicon Valley, not NASA, was suddenly cemented as the epicenter of the new Space Age. Start-ups and the wealthy investors behind them began to realize that the universe-ungoverned and infinite-was open for business. Welcome to the wild west of aerospace...
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Texas businessman John Mills and his Czech companion, Petr Kovac, travel to the furthest reaches of post-Soviet Russia to acquire vouchers for the country's national oil company, Gazneft, moving town to town with suitcases full of cash, until the Russian mafia and Gazneft catch wind of their successes.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"Almost fifteen years later, it is still easy to recall the devastation Hurricane Katrina wrought in New Orleans-the flooded streets, the boarded-up houses, thousands of people suddenly homeless. When Katrina upended New Orleans, state leaders took this unique opportunity to remake the city's notoriously underperforming school system, handing control over to a state agency, which eagerly transformed all public schools into privately-run charters....