Synopsis The Becker Technology Trilogy presents a thumbnail sketch of key events from the beginning of the Renaissance in Europe to the amazing air and space technologies of the 21st century. Mixed with equally startling cultural and political perspectives, events are presented in three companion volumes. Book 1, Eight Against The World: Warriors Of The Scientific Revolution, follows the close-knit lives of eight extraordinary men of science and technology - Gutenberg, Leonardo, Copernicus, Nostradamus, Brahe, Galilei, Kepler and Newton to the doorstep of the Industrial Revolution. These giants of the past, willing to endure heartbraking hardships, dedicated their lives to building the foundation of today's technological and scientific achievements. Book 2, A Season Of Madness: Life and Death In The 1960s, begins the author's participation in the emergence of new technologies as an eyewitness to the final two-thirds of the 20th century. Incredible events come to life as the background of the cultural disorders of the Civil Rights Movement, Cuban Missile Crisis, the Space Race for the Moon, 1967 Detroit Riot, and the Kent State University Massacre.Book 3, The Race For Technology: Conquering The High Frontier is an explanation of major science and technology events from about 1970 to the start of the 21st century.Global miracles of invention such as the Hubble Space Telescope, the Assault On Mars, Thames River Flood Barrier and Netherlands Ijsselmeer Project, satellites searching for the Chernobyl Disaster, the Armada To Halley's Comet, and the changing nature of hurricanes on our doorstep, are highlighted in terms of everyday cultural technology. The Trilogy is being published in 2007 and 2008 - three must-read, exciting books you need to have on your own bookshelf to be alive and well in the 21st century. About the Author After discharge from the U.S. Navy, Tom Becker graduated from the University of Missouri as a high school history teacher and quickly became drawn into the world of space science and technologies. He spent forty years teaching gifted young people including sixteen years classroom teaching, and engaged in on-site technology research in America and Europe. Studying American and Soviet space programs as a start, his work eventually encompassed space technologies of Canada, China, Japan, India and the European Space Agency learning about technologies for both manned and unmanned space explorationAs an eyewitness to the 20th century, his work took him from the launch pads of Apollo-Saturn moon rockets to the doorways of North Atlantic hurricanes and the look-alike Mars geology of the American southwest. He taught space technology to gifted high-school scholars for three seasons in the Missouri Scholars Academy and later for five seasons at the British national space school at Brunel University in west London. He learned foreign and domestic cultural technologies from Arizona's Meteor Crater and the New York Finger Lakes to the Thames River Flood Control Barrier and the Ijsselmeer construction in the Netherlands focusing on satellite imaging and emerging new technologies. A past-editor for three commercial magazines and the recipient of numerous literary and public awards and honors, Tom authored more than 300 professional articles and 12 books having to do with numismatics, science and technology education. He was on-site investigator, for example, during numerous Apollo-Moon launches, Atlantic hurricanes, the 1967 Detroit Riot, and the Viking spacecraft to Mars. He now lives in Spring City, Pennsylvania where he occasionally gives teacher-training seminars and speaks to public audiences about science, culture and society.
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