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1) Money Makers
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company Pub
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
110p.
Language
English
Description
Presents ideas, tips, and true accounts to encourage girls to make,manage,and save money. Includes business starter tools such as business cards and price tags.
2) How to make a spaceship: a band of renegades, an epic race, and the birth of private space flight
Author
Language
English
Description
"Alone in a spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill rocketed toward space. He had eighty seconds to exceed the speed of sound and begin the climb to a target no civilian pilot had ever reached. He might not make it back alive. If he did, he would make history as the world's first commercial astronaut. The spectacle defied reason, the result of a competition dreamed up by entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, whose vision for a new race to space required...
Author
Language
English
Description
Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, sold one of his internet companies, PayPal, for $1.5 billion. Ashlee Vance captures the full spectacle and arc of the genius's life and work, from his tumultuous upbringing in South Africa and flight to the United States to his dramatic technical innovations and entrepreneurial pursuits. Vance uses Musk's story to explore one of the pressing questions of our age: can the...