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Come along with Miguel and Michelle as they learn the answers to these questions: What is a spaceport? Where is Spaceport America? Are there space aliens there? Learn about New Mexico's long history and exciting future!

Who are Arab Americans? Where do they live? The "Encyclopedia" gives students answers to these questions and introduces them to the early history of the Arab peoples and the Arab immigration to the United States. Other subject chapters include work and money, education, family and gender, religion, language, political involvement and community dynamics, and much more. Unfamiliar terms are defined within the text of each chapter as well as in t...

Arab American Voices" allows your students to study 27 full or excerpted speeches, newspaper accounts, poems, memoirs and other materials by and about Arab Americans. Excerpts are grouped together in broad subject categories so students can compare and contrast various viewpoints. Special features include: "Things to Remember While Reading, " "What Happened Next, " and "Did You Know, " definitions of terms, 40 photographs and much, much more.

This 2-vol. set provides students with 75 full-length biographical sketches on noteworthy Arab Americans including early pioneers and individuals from later generations. Featured are F. Murray Abraham, Oscar-winning actor, Michael DeBakey, world renowned heart surgeon, Norma Kamali, fashion designer, Kathy Najimy, television actress/comedian, and many more. It also includes sidebars of related information, a "Further Research" section, a "Word...

Out of this World: New Mexico & Space Travel People have dreamed of traveling into space for thousands of years, but atmospheric flight by balloon was not achieved until the late eighteenth century. Powered flight took another 120 years to became a reality. Progress toward space travel accelerated rapidly during the twentieth century, with manned orbital flights being achieved less than sixty years after the Wright Brothers' first airplane fli...

Out of this World: New Mexico & Space Travel People have dreamed of traveling into space for thousands of years, but atmospheric flight by balloon was not achieved until the late eighteenth century. Powered flight took another 120 years to became a reality. Progress toward space travel accelerated rapidly during the twentieth century, with manned orbital flights being achieved less than sixty years after the Wright Brothers' first airplane fli...

Ninety space pioneers describe their experiences while working on space research and exploration from the 1940s through the space shuttle program. Some of these men and women were well known as astronauts or members of Mission Control for Apollo flights to the Moon, and some were minor players in the programs-people like lab technicians, weather forecasters, welders, and helicopter pilots who supported rocket tests. Their stories disclose even...

The Complete Space Buff's Bucket List book is fourth in the Bucket List book series. Of course it talks about the usual things like great museums, planetariums, astronauts, space suits, rockets, planets, and stars. But it also has duct tape, Tang, Cosmos, movies, space burial, Astronaut Ice Cream, Biosphere, aliens, and the Meteorite Crater. Each Bucket List book is dedicated to an appropriate non-profit and this book highlights The National S...

Unusual as they seem, underground buildings are surprisingly common. Every day, millions in North America work, shop, dine, study, and play in the more than three hundred public and commercial structures and five thousand private homes nestled in the earth. Underground buildings are safe, attractive, useful, and comfortable places to frequent and live. Unlike a common misconception, most are dry and warm, and they are often sun-filled. More th...