[Dixielandjazz] One Last Chance!

[Bob Brodsky]

>From Bob B to 
Fellow OKOMers:
 
You will no doubt remembermy fabulous book “The World in a Jug”- ‘The Lore of New Orleans andDixieland Jazz”. It has sold at least 11 copies to aficionados of the Ringwaldsyndicate persuasion and it’s been ‘out’ for only 2 years!!!  Now, you have a chance to do better(“Jug” is still available, too)!
 
Yes, my new book, my 5th,“Catch a Rocket Plane”-‘more tales from the Cutting Edge’ isfinally ready to order from Amazon.com/books @ $15 or KINDLE. Being of a semi-technicalnature, the stories told here are easily understandablefor technical and non-technical persons alike. They cover the years 1944 to thepresent.  
 
 “Rocket Plane” provides vignettes ofactions taken by the aerospace  sectorover the last 60+ years.  Since theauthor participated, both as a player and a teacher, in the successiveblossomings of  the Aviation Age,  the Atomic  Age,  the Guided Missile Age, and the Space Age,he is here providing a  kaleidoscope  of high points  in  accomplishments and  failures as  they occurred.
 
The book consists of a series of related stories , mostly in chronological order, andintroduces us to some of the ‘movers and shakers’ of the era. The Table ofContents follows:
 
                                                  CONTENTS
 
                         
Chapter 1       The Making of an Engineer
    Learning to fly at Cornell; Navyadventures during the War; 
    Hot Jazz and grad school
 
Chapter2        Atom Bomb Stories
The dawn of the nuclear age inNew Mexico; Settling in at  
Sandia; The people who made theBomb
 
Chapter3       The Space Age Cometh
                         Getting to California and then into Space; Livingit up in Paris;
                               Pioneering space adventures
 
Chapter4         La Vie Academe
                         Ames, Iowa in the ‘70s; Bringing Space to Academia;The
       Faculty Improvement Leave sabbatical in the South Bay
 
 
Chapter5        Space by the Sea
                        Working at TRW- Teaching at USC; Fighting for theSpace
                               Lifeboat, Visiting Professoring inHaifa 
 
 
Chapter6        Snapshots from the Turn of theCentury
                        A survey of lecture reviews made by the movers andshakers in
                              the period 1997 to 2009
 
Chapter7      Winding down at Work
				
				Assessing aerospace engineering academic programs;discussing the    
			        fine art of teachingat the University level; easing into retirement
 
Chapter8        Ain’t Retirement Grand
                       The ‘expert witnessing’ game; Starring  on stage, screen and radio;
Love-Hate relationship with theWEB; ‘round the World; 70th High School reunion
 
My otherbooks, all available from Amazon.com/books or on loan) are (I claim to be “The World’s Oldest MostUnsuccessful Author”):
 
On the Cutting Edge  (exciting and screw-up engineering stories)
 
Songs My Mother Never Sang To Me  (kitchy songbook; out of print- on loan from author)
 
 A Pilgrim Muddles Through  (essays and rants abouteverything)
 
The World in a Jug (New Orleans and Chicago TradJazz stories)