{"id":4868,"date":"2013-10-09T19:46:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T19:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2013-10-09T19:46:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T19:46:22","slug":"books-russia-in-space-and-my-brief-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4868","title":{"rendered":"Books: &#8220;Russia in Space&#8221; and &#8220;My Brief History&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a0I&#8217;ve had these book review links in my queue for weeks and finally posting them. I&#8217;m reading several books for review myself and will try to say something about them soon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Anatoly Zak, who runs the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.russianspaceweb.com\/\">RussianSpaceWeb.com<\/a>\u00a0website, \u00a0has a book out on the Russian space program and industry and its getting good reviews:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/spacecoalition.com\/blog\/book-review-russia-in-space-%E2%80%93-the-past-explained-the-future-explored?doing_wp_cron\" target=\"_d\">Book Review: Russia in Space \u2013 The Past Explained, The Future Explored &#8211; Coalition for Space Exploration<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/2372\/1\" target=\"_d\">Review: Russia in Space &#8211; The Space Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?t=hobbyspace&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=1926837258&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Foust writes about a new autobiography of Stephen Hawking :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/2368\/1\" target=\"_d\">Review: My Brief History &#8211; The Space Review<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>My Brief History<\/i>\u00a0is not just a play on words, but an accurate description: it is a short (less than 150 pages, with pictures) autobiography by Hawking, describing his life from his modest childhood through his academic pursuits and personal challenges. His decision to study cosmology, he writes, was rooted in a childhood interest in model trains and complex board games: \u201can urge to know how systems worked and how to control him,\u201d something he says his studies of the universe now satisfy. \u201cIf you understand how the universe operates, you control it, in a way.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?t=hobbyspace&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=0345535286&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0I&#8217;ve had these book review links in my queue for weeks and finally posting them. I&#8217;m reading several books for review myself and will try to say something about them soon. &#8212; Anatoly Zak, who runs the\u00a0RussianSpaceWeb.com\u00a0website, \u00a0has a book out on the Russian space program and industry and its getting good reviews: Book Review: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4868\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Books: &#8220;Russia in Space&#8221; and &#8220;My Brief History&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-space-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1gw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7657,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7657","url_meta":{"origin":4868,"position":0},"title":"Space policy roundup &#8211; 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