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Topic: Partnership in Space: Mid to Late Nineties (Evans)
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cspg Member Posts: 6210 From: Geneva, Switzerland Registered: May 2006
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posted 12-29-2011 01:21 AM
Partnership in Space: The Mid to Late Nineties by Ben Evans April 12, 2011 was the 50th Anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering journey into space. To commemorate this momentous achievement, Springer-Praxis has produced a mini-series of books that reveals how humanity's knowledge of flying, working, and living in space has grown in the last half century."Partners in Space" focuses on the early to late 1990s, a time in the post-Soviet era when relations between East and West steadily - though not without difficulty - thawed and the foundations of real harmony and genuine co-operation were laid for the first time with Shuttle-Mir and the International Space Station. This book explores the events which preceded that new ear, including the political demise of Space Station Freedom and the consequences of the fall of the Soviet Union on a once-proud human space program. It traces the history of "the Partnership" through the often traumatic times of Shuttle-Mir and closes on the eve of the launch of Zarya, the first component of today's International Space Station. - Springer-Praxis, Softcover, November 28, 2012
- 580 p. 100 illus.
- ISBN 978-1-4614-3277-7
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cspg Member Posts: 6210 From: Geneva, Switzerland Registered: May 2006
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posted 03-11-2013 06:12 AM
New release date is August 31, 2013. |
cspg Member Posts: 6210 From: Geneva, Switzerland Registered: May 2006
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posted 08-03-2013 10:34 AM
More likely to be late 2013, early 2014. |
hermit Member Posts: 186 From: Scotland Registered: Jun 2009
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posted 08-05-2013 09:02 AM
It was signed off by the author/editor some time ago and is now somewhere in Springer's system.
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cspg Member Posts: 6210 From: Geneva, Switzerland Registered: May 2006
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posted 08-19-2013 04:36 AM
I emailed the "Springer System" because the retail price is now....$186, hoping that's a typo (I pre-ordered mine for $33.08! from amazon). |
cspg Member Posts: 6210 From: Geneva, Switzerland Registered: May 2006
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posted 08-27-2013 09:51 AM
No word from Springer (not really surprising) but Amazon also gives a list price of $186...but you can pre-order for $33.74! That's probably the largest discount I've ever seen on Amazon! |
cspg Member Posts: 6210 From: Geneva, Switzerland Registered: May 2006
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posted 09-10-2013 08:25 AM
Too late. Now you can pre-order for $50.34.Still no answer from Springer regarding the retail price of this final volume ($189). |
pollux Member Posts: 54 From: London, England Registered: Dec 2005
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posted 09-10-2013 12:17 PM
This isn't the last volume — this series is a pentalogy in six parts. According to the preface of volume 4, agreement was reached to extend the series by a further volume to allow it to be completed with the same amount of detail as it started.
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hermit Member Posts: 186 From: Scotland Registered: Jun 2009
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posted 09-10-2013 12:46 PM
Yes, there will be six volumes in the series.
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cspg Member Posts: 6210 From: Geneva, Switzerland Registered: May 2006
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posted 09-10-2013 01:32 PM
Okay, my mistake. Thanks for the info. And the latest volume will fetch for what, $250?I fail to see the logic — if there's one — in the pricing of the series and compared to other Springer-Praxis space exploration books. |
cspg Member Posts: 6210 From: Geneva, Switzerland Registered: May 2006
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posted 11-15-2013 09:39 AM
quote: Originally posted by cspg: Still no answer from Springer regarding the retail price of this final volume ($189).
Needless to say that nobody (from Springer) cared to explain the retail price for this volume. On the other hand, all pictures are in color... |