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Œuvres de D. S. Halacy

Cooking With the Sun: How to Build and Use Solar Cookers (1992) — Auteur — 47 exemplaires
Solar Science Projects (1959) 28 exemplaires
Ripcord (1962) 14 exemplaires
Nuclear Energy (First Book) (1978) 10 exemplaires
The sky trap (1975) 10 exemplaires
Coming Age of Solar Energy (1975) 10 exemplaires
The solar cookery book : everything under the sun (1978) — Joint Author. — 8 exemplaires
Empire in the Dust (1989) 8 exemplaires
Experiments with solar energy (1969) 7 exemplaires
They Gave Their Names to Science (1967) 5 exemplaires
Weather Changers (1968) 4 exemplaires
Man and memory (1970) 4 exemplaires
The Complete Book of Hang Gliding (1975) 4 exemplaires
Earthquakes: A Natural History (1974) 4 exemplaires
Soaring (1972) 3 exemplaires
X Rays and Gamma Rays (1969) 3 exemplaires
Rocket Rescue (1971) 3 exemplaires
The Energy Trap (1974) 3 exemplaires
Feast and Famine (1971) 2 exemplaires
Man Alive (1970) 2 exemplaires
Fuel cells: power for tomorrow (2006) 2 exemplaires
En chute libre (1967) 2 exemplaires
Survival in the World of Work (1975) 2 exemplaires
Return From Luna 2 exemplaires
The geometry of hunger (1972) 2 exemplaires
Surfer! 2 exemplaires
'Copter Cowboy (1963) 2 exemplaires
Sky on fire! 2 exemplaires
The robots are here! (1965) 2 exemplaires
Power from the Sun 2 exemplaires
Star for a compass (1956) 2 exemplaires
Your city tomorrow 2 exemplaires
High Challenge (1957) 1 exemplaire
Star for a compass 1 exemplaire
Rocket rescue 1 exemplaire
Ripcord 1 exemplaire
Valar i sikte 1 exemplaire
How to Improve Your Memory (1977) 1 exemplaire
The master spy 1 exemplaire
The in sports 1 exemplaire
Duster pilot 1 exemplaire
SOARING 1 exemplaire
Master Spy (1968) 1 exemplaire
Energy and engines (1967) 1 exemplaire

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1964. The racism is not unexpected. New England boy moves West, eager to see real cowboys and real Indians, and Arizona does not disappoint. The "squaws", he notes, are the most colourfully dressed. Too many scalping jokes are thrown around, even by the protagonist's father. If (after the boys bond during a very narrow escape while they are fighting a wildfire) the protagonist ever apologizes for calling his schoolmate a dumb Indian, I missed that part. The other young man, the "full blooded Apache", does apologize for having been a dumb Indian. This is all very unpleasant to read and detracts from the story of heroism -- both boys emerge from the conflagration as heroes. This is the reason I gave the book two stars instead of four.

As a side issue, the other thing about the story that's incredibly dated is the university applications. Even by early 1970s standards, leaving your decision until after high school graduation would be pretty lax. Mild anxiety about where to attend college (US terminology)-- expensive MIT, or "almost as good" Cal Tech, or even Arizona State? -- runs through the whole book, but our hero does little or nothing about it. Is that the way everyone arranged their post-secondary education in the 1960s, or was the author lax about prodding his literary creation into action?
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muumi | Mar 24, 2019 |

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Œuvres
72
Membres
348
Popularité
#68,679
Évaluation
3.8
Critiques
1
ISBN
53
Langues
2

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