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A Disturbance in the Force How and Why the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened [Audiobook]


Free Download A Disturbance in the Force: How and Why the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMVQSQ8D | 2023 | 10 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 574 MB
Author: Steve Kozak
Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Even by the standards of the 1970s, even compared to Jar-Jar Binks, the legendary 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special is a peerlessly cringeworthy pop-culture artifact. George Lucas, who completely disowned the production, reportedly has said, "If I had the time and a sledgehammer, I would track down every copy of that show and smash it." Just how on earth did this thing ever see the light of day? To answer that question, as Steven Kozak shows in this fascinating and often hilarious inside look into the making of the Special, you have to understand the cultural moment in which it appeared-a long, long time ago when cheesy variety shows were a staple of network television and Star Wars was not yet the billion-dollar multimedia behemoth that it is today.

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The Star Atlas Companion What you need to know about the Constellations (2024)


Free Download The Star Atlas Companion: What you need to know about the Constellations by Philip M. Bagnall
English | PDF (True) | 2012 | 497 Pages | ISBN : 1461408296 | 113.85 MB
Conventional star atlases are great for locating constellations and individual stars but The Star Atlas Companion goes one step further and describes the physical properties of more than 1,100 stars. With the aid of scale diagrams, the reader can get a real sense of the sizes, shapes, distances, and surface features of many of the stars visible to the naked eye in both the Nothern and Southern Hemispheres. Information on their rotational velocities and periods is given together with their spectral type and luminosity. Binary and multiple star systems are explained in detail. Special mention is made of Barnard’s, Kapteyn’s, Kepler’s, and Van Maanen’s Stars and the properties of many open clusters are given. With its emphasis on helping the amateur astronomer gain a better understanding of what they are looking at. The Star Atlas Companion will provide a new dimension to observing the star and is an invaluable supplement to any star atlas.

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Star Trek Discovery and the Female Gothic Tell Fear No


Free Download Carey Millsap-Spears, "Star Trek Discovery and the Female Gothic: Tell Fear No "
English | ISBN: 1666910511 | 2023 | 192 pages | EPUB, PDF | 289 KB + 1187 KB
While many scholars agree the Gothic mode has been a precursor to science fiction since Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Carey Millsap-Spears argues in this book that the made for streaming series Star Trek Discovery draws on an even older gothic formula, namely the Female Gothic of Ann Radcliffe’s romance novels, including The Romance of the Forest and The Mysteries of Udolpho. Millsap-Spears reads the streaming series through the lens of the Female Gothic, illustrating that each season contains the formulaic elements of a mystery, a gothic villain and heroine, an escape narrative, and the explained supernatural. In doing so, the author expands Star Trek scholarship and sheds new light on the intertextual connections between gothic literature and contemporary science fiction.

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Siemens Star CCM+ 2310 (18.06.006) (Windows & Linux)


Free Download Siemens Star CCM+ 2310 (18.06.006) | 10.2 Gb
Owner:Siemens Digital Industries Software
Product Name:Simcenter Star CCM+
Version:2310 (18.06.006)
Supported Architectures:x64
Website Home Page :www.mdx.plm.automation.siemens.com
Languages Supported:multilanguage
System Requirements:Windows & Linux *
Size:10.2 Gb
Languages Supported: English, 日本語, 한국어, 中文
The Siemens Digital Industries Software development team is pleased to announce the availability of Star CCM+ 2310 (18.06.006). New release provided engineers across industries with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) capabilities to go faster while modeling the complexity.

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Siemens Star CCM+ 2310 R8 (18.06.006-R8) (Windows & Linux)


Free Download Siemens Star CCM+ 2310 R8 (18.06.006-R8) | 10.2 Gb
Owner:Siemens Digital Industries Software
Product Name:Simcenter Star CCM+
Version:2310 R8 (18.06.006-R8)
Supported Architectures:x64
Website Home Page :www.mdx.plm.automation.siemens.com
Languages Supported:multilanguage
System Requirements:Windows & Linux **
Size:10.2 Gb

Languages Supported: English, 日本語, 한국어, 中文

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Twitch Upon a Star The Bewitched Life and Career of Elizabeth Montgomery


Free Download Herbie J Pilato, "Twitch Upon a Star: The Bewitched Life and Career of Elizabeth Montgomery"
English | 2014 | pages: 472 | ISBN: 1630760250, 1589797493 | EPUB | 3,7 mb
Based on author Herbie J Pilato’s exclusive interviews with Elizabeth Montgomery prior to her death in 1995, Twitch Upon a Star includes insider material and commentary from several individuals associated with her remarkable life and career before, during, and after Bewitched, including her classic feature films The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955), Who’s Been Sleeping In My Bed? (1963), and Johnny Cool (1963).

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Star Wars The Last Jedi – The Official Collector’s Edition


Free Download Titan, "Star Wars: The Last Jedi – The Official Collector’s Edition"
English | 2017 | pages: 99 | ISBN: 1785862111 | PDF | 247,5 mb
The official guide to the latest Star Wars movie, The Last Jedi!This essential guide to the brand new Star Wars movie introduces the characters, planets, aliens and ships featured in the brand new movie, presenting stunning images from the film and behind-the-scenes cast and crew shots.

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