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1.		Rocket Boys (The Coalwood Series #1) from Delacorte Press Price: $8.99 Customer Review: This Book is awesome. It is an inspiring true story of how a young man turned his childhood dream or being involve in space exploration into a reality and the many trials and tribulations he encountered on his journey from rural, poor coal mining region of West Virginia to one of NASA's top rocketry... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion from Bear & Company Customer Review: This book thoroughly explains antigravity and everything that surrounds it.The author, Paul A. LaViolette, writes and explains the subject very well to the extent that every reader is capable of understanding the phenomenon. This book is definitively a must-buy for everyone that wants to have a deep... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.	[no image]	Rocket Propulsion Elements from Wiley-Interscience Customer Review: Thorough book! Great depth of information on the topic of rocket propulsion. When used as class text, it was very helpful!	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Propulsion (2nd Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $119.80 Customer Review: The book was new just as described and shipped in a decent time. Thanks.	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		Thomas and Friends: Thomas and the Jet Engine (Thomas and Friends) (Step into Reading) from Golden Books Price: $1.25 Customer Review: It is a cute, short book perfect for emerging readers. As with all "Step 1" books, it is not text-heavy and is simple to follow. The words are not all easy phonetic words though so it is better for kids who are able to use more complex deciphering. The story features the Thomas taking a crazy ride... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War from Knopf Price: $10.50 Customer Review: It is really an understatement to call this book a biography of Wernher von Braun. It not only tells the life of the greatest rocket scientist of all times but it simultaneously critiques the memoirs of von Braun himself and the remembrances of many others. But Neufeld has decided that the story of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		Elements of Propulsion: Gas Turbines And Rockets (AIAA Education) (Aiaa Education Series) from AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Ast Price: $96.97 Customer Review: This is the best textbook written on the modeling and performance prediction of gas turbine engines. A systematic method is used to model a variety of engines from the basic turbojet to the advanced afterburning turbofan used in modern fighters. Performance predictions include the effect of engine... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		Aircraft Propulsion from Wiley Price: $54.88 Customer Review: Good book. Must have for Aero Engineers. Try to get a good teacher for this subject as well and it will pay huge dividends.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		Rocket Boys (The Coalwood Series #1) from Delacorte Press Price: $14.61 Customer Review: Homer Hickam has a wonderful way with words. His descriptions of life in a small West Virginia coal mining town is perfect, because I used to live in West Virginia and I have been to places like Coalwood. He makes his experiences as a "rocket boy" come to life. I enjoyed every page of this book,... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.		Jet Engines: Fundamentals of Theory, Design and Operation from Crowood Press Price: $21.51 Customer Review: The book provides a great foundation in jet propulsion principles and theory for aeronautical engineers. The book is well organized and well written with clear and easy to follow explanations. This is a reader-friendly book that most people ranging from pilots to mechanical or... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.	[no image]	Aerothermodynamics of Gas Turbine and Rocket Propulsion (AIAA Education Series) from American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Price: $66.95	Click here for more information


12.		Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons from Harcourt Price: $10.13 Customer Review: John Whiteside Parsons (1914-52) led an interesting life to say the least. He parlayed his youthful interest in amateur rocketry into a checkered scientific career. In the pre WW2 years rocketeers with their talk of space exploration were treated like fringe cranks by the scientific... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.		Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons from Feral House Price: $10.14 Customer Review: I found the first half of this book riveting - really drew me in - enough so to get me through the rest of the book. I also found the portrait of L. Ron Hubbard as a loathsome confidence trickster extremely believable. This in turn was a catalyst for me to seek out an objective biography regarding... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.	[no image]	The Development of Jet and Turbine Aero Engines from Motorbooks Intl Price: $10.00 Customer Review: If anyone wants to know more about a turbine engines this is a great book. It is not a dull like a textbook but has an interesting narrative with good pictures/diagrams. It breaks down each section of the turbo-prop, turbo-fan, turbo-jet, etc and also provides history as well as what the modern GE... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


15.		Dark Side of the Moon: Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the Space Race from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $4.79 Customer Review: I agree that Biddle's book is uneven (a bit too much about Von Braun's early days and not enough about his actual duties with the rocket program), but it's a fascinating story nonetheless. I do have a couple of quibbles: the rocket manufacturing plant is referred to as Dora, but on the included... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		Propulsion Systems for Hybrid Vehicles (Iet Power and Energy) from The Institution of Engineering and Technology Price: $68.29	Click here for more information


17.		Jet Propulsion: A Simple Guide to the Aerodynamic and Thermodynamic Design and Performance of Jet Engines from Cambridge University Press Price: $59.53 Customer Review: This is an outstanding book by a knowledgeable author that provides the basic know-how and skills that an aeronautical or mechanical engineer with an interest in jet propulsion will find useful and helpful. The book is well written in a readable and easy to follow format that provides the... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


18.		Go For Launch!: An Illustrated History of Cape Canaveral (Apogee Books Space Series) from Collector's Guide Publishing, Inc. Price: $109.98 Customer Review: An excellent book on the history of the Cape. But remember, the Apollo missions launched from the Kennedy Space Center, so don't look for them in this volume.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


19.		Saturn (Apogee Books Space Series) from Collector's Guide Publishing, Inc. Price: $89.98 Customer Review: I like facts and figures in reference books but this book overloads the reader (me). So much technical info that only a rocket scientist would really understand. If you want to know about ever feature of the saturn V, this is the book for you.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


20.		Modern Engineering for Design of Liquid-Propellant Rocket Engines (Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics) from AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Ast Price: $99.95 Customer Review: This is a fine book for the rocket scientist wannabe. The book is really great, but only scratches the surface since it does not "reveal" all the details behind the art of designing liquid rockets. I was surprised to hear from many Russian specialists that this book brings "stupid solutions" (in... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


21.		Electrogravitics Systems: Reports on a New Propulsion Methodology from Integrity Research Institute Price: $8.75 Customer Review: THIS BOOK POINT OUT THAT THERE IS MORE GOING ON WITH THIS PLAIN THAN MEETS THE EYE!IF IT WAS JUST A JET IT WOULDENT BE CLASIFIED! THE LEADING EDGES OF THE PLAIN ARE ELECTRIFIED! YEA ITS CLASSIFIED! GREAT BOOK!	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


22.		Aerospace Propulsion Systems from Wiley Price: $91.16	Click here for more information


23.		Vehicle Propulsion Systems: Introduction to Modeling and Optimization from Springer Price: $78.66 Customer Review: This is by far the best book on the topic I have found. If you plan to design or model any vehicle, but in particular a hybrid or electric vehicle, I recommend you own this book. Specifically, a large portion of the mathematical models required for design-level calculations are available... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


24.		Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science from Walker & Company Price: $0.88 Customer Review: I just finished reading this and found it excellent. It is a rare combination of personal confidences and understanding of a professional culture. I would recommend this to anyone who grew up in the 2nd half of the 20th century.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


25.		Fundamentals of Jet Propulsion with Applications (Cambridge Aerospace Series) from Cambridge University Press Price: $63.00	Click here for more information


26.		Rockets and Missiles: The Life Story of a Technology from The Johns Hopkins University Press Price: $11.74 Customer Review: In a concise manner, the author gives a history of rocketry and missiles. Starting with black powder used by the Chinese. But then rapidly the narrative passes to the Europeans, who used and improved it in their interminable wars. Naturally, most of the book is about the 20th century. Relating the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


27.		The Development of Propulsion Technology for U.S. Space-Launch Vehicles, 1926-1991 (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University) from TAMU Press Price: $44.17 Customer Review: Every few years a benchmark study appears on some aspect of space history that reinterprets our understanding of the subject. J.D. Hunley, whom I freely admit is a longtime friend and colleague, has published--along with two additional volumes on the history of rocket technology in the United... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


28.		Hypersonic Airbreathing Propulsion/Book and Disk (Aiaa Education) from AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Ast Price: $84.26 Customer Review: First, I would like to compliment the shipper who sold me the book, which was in very good unused condition. The book is rated as one of the best if not the best fundamental book on hypersonic propulsion. It flows well by giving a basic understanding of high speed flight and then slowly works into a... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


29.		Elements of Gas Turbine Propulsion (Aiaa Education Series) from AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Ast Price: $149.99 Customer Review: The book introduces the theory and operating principles of gas turbine engines. The fundamental concepts of the turbine engines design are spelled out. The primary systems and accessories of the gas turbine engine are also discussed. The book provides an excellent foundation in gas turbine... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


30.		To the End of the Solar System: The Story of the Nuclear Rocket (Apogee Books Space Series) from Collector's Guide Publishing, Inc. Price: $84.98 Customer Review: This is an important book about a topic that is often unjustly overlooked. Nuclear rockets are significant because they represent the only proved approach to gaining significant improvements in the performance of rockets to be used for space propulsion. I hope to write about this and if I do, I will... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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