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02796cam a2200337 i 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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019347163 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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Uk |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20200224162627.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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200224s2019 enkaf b 001|0|eng|d |
| 015 ## - NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER |
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| National bibliography number |
GBB962351 |
| Source |
bnb |
| 016 7# - NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC AGENCY CONTROL NUMBER |
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| Record control number |
019347163 |
| Source |
Uk |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781781259702 : (hbk.) |
| Terms of availability |
£20.00 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
StDuBDS |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
StDuBDS |
| Modifying agency |
Uk |
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IeDuRDS |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
629.40922 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
MacDonald, Fraser, |
| 9 (RLIN) |
135650 |
| Dates associated with a name |
1972- |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Escape from earth : |
| Remainder of title |
the secret history of the space rocket / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Fraser MacDonald. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
London : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Profile Books, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2019. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
©2019. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
371 p. , 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |
| Other physical details |
ill. ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
California -- The suicide squad -- Facts and fancies -- Unit 122 -- War games -- Give the fascists hell -- The way of the beast -- Enterprise -- The quest for space -- The shrinks -- The problem of escape -- These terrible times -- Definite Leftists -- Degradation Ceremonies -- The coffee can -- Taking the fifth -- The Rosenberg connection -- Light engineering -- Afterword. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Escape from earth is the untold story of the engineers, dreamers and rebels who started the American space programme. In particular, it is the story of Frank Malina, founder of what became Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the scientist who cracked the, as he called it, problem of escape from the Earth by rocket.<br/><br/>It's a wild ride. Jack Parsons, Malina's chemistry-expert research partner, was a bed-hopping occultist with delusions of grandeur. We get all the horrible details: drug parties and sex magic, cameos by Aleister Crowley and L Ron Hubbard, and an ill-fated attempt to start a mail-order religion.<br/><br/>Armed with hitherto unpublished letters, journals, and documents from the Malina family archives, Fraser MacDonald reveals what we didn't know. Jack Parsons betrayed Frank Malina to the FBI, cooperating fully in their investigation of Malina for un-American activities. The Jet Propulsion Lab's second director secretly denounced Frank as a Communist. Frank's research group had close ties to the spy network of the infamous Rosenbergs - the only Americans executed during the Red Scare. This is a story of soaring ideals entangled in the most human of complications: infidelity and divorce, betrayal and treason. |
| 530 ## - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM AVAILABLE NOTE |
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| Additional physical form available note |
Also issued online. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Malina, Frank J. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
135651 |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Parsons, Jack, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1914-1952 |
| 9 (RLIN) |
135652 |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.) |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
135658 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Astronautics |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
103487 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Communism |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
57566 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Aeronautical engineers |
| 9 (RLIN) |
94518 |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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| Koha item type |
Loanable Book |