Apollo in the Age of Aquarius
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (791 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B072W9BL7K |
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| Number of Pages | : | 391 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A brilliant look back at our fragile environmental history. Amazon Customer Neil Maher is the most insightful eco-historian of the modern era, connecting the dots between our actions as social beings and the rising awareness of how those actions impact our fragile planet. Weaving concrete observation and intuitive deduction with startling alacrity, Apollo in the Age of Aquarius is a serious scholarly page-tuner that will find great appeal in the wide-world beyond the halls of academia.
Many people believed it would reinvigorate a country that had lost its way, while for others it represented a colossal waste of resources needed to solve pressing problems at home. Yet Maher also discovers synergies between the space program and political movements of the era. For Neil M. The summer of 1969 saw astronauts land on the moon for the first time and hippie hordes descend on Woodstock for a legendary music festival. With its lavishly funded mandate to send a man to the moon, Apollo became a litmus test in the 19