William S. Burroughs, Author, William E. Burrows, Author Random House (NY) $22.5 (401p) ISBN 978-0-394-54124-2
Spain banned slavery in 1817, but Spanish slavers continued to smuggle Africans into their Cuban colony, where slavery was legal. In 1839, the ship Amistad was seized by blacks being transported; the officers, misleading the insurrectionists,...
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William E. Burrows, Author Random House (NY) $24.95 (502p) ISBN 978-0-394-56983-3
Journalist Burrows's ( Deep Black ) time-capsule history of interplanetary space flight focuses on the ``golden age'' of unmanned space exploration: the robot flights of deep-space probes like Voyager, Pioneer, Ranger and Magellan. Political...
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William E. Burrows, Author, Burrows, Author Random House (NY) $34.95 (912p) ISBN 978-0-679-44521-0
""The cold war was over. The great space race was over. And the first space age was over, too."" With these simple sentences, written in the past tense, Burrows (Deep Black; Exploring Space, etc.), director of NYU's Science and Environmental...
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William E. Burrows, Author . Forge/Doherty $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1114-6
Burrows (Deep Black
) provides a catalogue of catastrophes that might destroy civilization as we know it. His list is long and includes the usual suspects; a devastating impact by an asteroid or comet, nuclear holocaust, famine, earthquakes,...
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William E. Burrows, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-374-11747-4
When a Chinese fighter collided with an American EP-3E Aries II reconnaissance plane on April 1, 2001, it was merely the most recent incident in a long string dating back to the end of WWII. Burrows (Deep Black), a professor of journalism at New...
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