Walker & Company.Walker & Company 104--5th Ave., New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of NY 10011 www.walkerbooks.com Setting: the late 1960s: Astro Turf (0802714277 $24.00) author M.G. Lord was becoming a teen in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, , her mother was dying of cancer, and her rocket engineer father disappeared into his work at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena. Fast forward thirty years later, where Lord is assigned to report on the lab--and turns a report into a search of her past, an elusive father figure, and rocket science as a whole. Lord celebrates and examines her eccentric father and provides a history of the JPL (language) JPL - JAM Programming Language. concurrently: readers interested in rocket science will find this packed with intrigue, insights, and industry revelations, making it much more than another girl's inspection of a father. Andrew Taylor's World Of Gerard Mercator (0802713777, $26.00) provides a review of the mapmaker map·mak·er n. A person who makes maps; a cartographer. map  mak·ing n. whose techniques changed geography. Mercator lived in 16th century Europe, when wear threatened the land and the Inquisition muffled muf·fle 1 tr.v. muf·fled, muf·fling, muf·fles 1. To wrap up, as in a blanket or shawl, for warmth, protection, or secrecy. 2. a. creativity and science. While Mercator never traveled beyond northern Europe, his imagination fueled a whole new field--mapmaking--and was to foster a new era of navigation and exploration. |
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