The Resource A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert, Karen Piper
A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert, Karen Piper
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The item A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert, Karen Piper represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Amesbury Public Library.
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- Summary
- The China Lake missile range in the Mojave Desert was created during the Second World War, and has always been shrouded in secrecy. But people who make missiles and other weapons are regular working people, with domestic routines and everyday dilemmas, and four of them were the Piper family. Her dad designed the Sidewinder. Once, when a missile nose needed to be taken offsite for final testing, her mother loaded it into the trunk of the family car, set off down a Los Angeles freeway, and even stopped off at the mall, leaving the missile in the parking lot. Piper's memoir also reaches back to her father's World War II flights with contraband across Europe. -- adapted from publisher info
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
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- Becoming China Lakers
- A teenage weaponeer
- Dynamic instability
- The Cold War at home
- Anything can be a weapon
- Off target
- Life without weapons
- Isbn
- 9780399564543
- Label
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert
- Title
- A girl's guide to missiles
- Title remainder
- growing up in America's secret desert
- Statement of responsibility
- Karen Piper
- Title variation
- Growing up in America's secret desert
- Subject
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- Anecdotes
- Autobiographies
- Biography
- California, Southern
- California, Southern -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Cold War
- Cold War (1945-1989)
- Electronic technicians -- United States -- Biography
- Employees
- Guided missiles
- Guided missiles -- United States -- History -- Anecdotes
- History
- Manners and customs
- Naval Ordnance Test Station (China Lake, Calif.)
- 1900-1999
- Piper, Earl Marwin, 1922-2005
- Piper, Karen
- Piper, Mary Dahlstrom
- United States
- United States, Office of Strategic Services
- United States, Office of Strategic Services -- Biography
- United States, West
- Young women
- Young women -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
- Naval Ordnance Test Station (China Lake, Calif.) -- Employees -- Biography
- Anecdotes
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The China Lake missile range in the Mojave Desert was created during the Second World War, and has always been shrouded in secrecy. But people who make missiles and other weapons are regular working people, with domestic routines and everyday dilemmas, and four of them were the Piper family. Her dad designed the Sidewinder. Once, when a missile nose needed to be taken offsite for final testing, her mother loaded it into the trunk of the family car, set off down a Los Angeles freeway, and even stopped off at the mall, leaving the missile in the parking lot. Piper's memoir also reaches back to her father's World War II flights with contraband across Europe. -- adapted from publisher info
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1965-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Piper, Karen Lynnea
- Dewey number
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- 358.1/7092
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- VF373
- LC item number
- .P57 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Piper, Karen
- Naval Ordnance Test Station (China Lake, Calif.)
- Piper, Earl Marwin
- Piper, Mary Dahlstrom
- United States
- Naval Ordnance Test Station (China Lake, Calif.)
- United States
- Cold War (1945-1989)
- Guided missiles
- Electronic technicians
- California, Southern
- Young women
- Cold War
- Employees
- Guided missiles
- Manners and customs
- Young women
- California, Southern
- United States
- United States, West
- Label
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert, Karen Piper
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Becoming China Lakers -- A teenage weaponeer -- Dynamic instability -- The Cold War at home -- Anything can be a weapon -- Off target -- Life without weapons
- Control code
- on1030243760
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780399564543
- Lccn
- 2018025068
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1030243760
- Label
- A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert, Karen Piper
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Becoming China Lakers -- A teenage weaponeer -- Dynamic instability -- The Cold War at home -- Anything can be a weapon -- Off target -- Life without weapons
- Control code
- on1030243760
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780399564543
- Lccn
- 2018025068
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1030243760
Subject
- Anecdotes
- Autobiographies
- Biography
- California, Southern
- California, Southern -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Cold War
- Cold War (1945-1989)
- Electronic technicians -- United States -- Biography
- Employees
- Guided missiles
- Guided missiles -- United States -- History -- Anecdotes
- History
- Manners and customs
- Naval Ordnance Test Station (China Lake, Calif.)
- 1900-1999
- Piper, Earl Marwin, 1922-2005
- Piper, Karen
- Piper, Mary Dahlstrom
- United States
- United States, Office of Strategic Services
- United States, Office of Strategic Services -- Biography
- United States, West
- Young women
- Young women -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
- Naval Ordnance Test Station (China Lake, Calif.) -- Employees -- Biography
- Anecdotes
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