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Download or read book A Life Aloft written by Thomas Gompf and published by . This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back when he was first learning to fly an airplane, Tom Gompf found himself applying terms from his beloved sport of diving to the maneuvers he was mastering. The line began blurring between the two disciplines, and he realized being a pilot and being a diver had an awful lot in common. Both were forms of flying. Being airborne, aloft, free of the bonds of gravity-that, for Tom, has always been the stuff of life. As an Air Force officer serving in the Vietnam War and a commercial airline pilot for 30 years, Tom knows his way around an airplane. And, as a champion diver who earned the bronze medal in the 10-meter platform diving event at the 1964 Olympics, Tom has found numerous ways to soar physically. A devoted husband, father, friend, and mentor, Tom's ongoing work in support of Olympic divers through endless hours of volunteer service and as the "father of synchronized diving" has certainly left an enduring legacy that's increased opportunities for others to fly, too. In all things, Tom has sought to climb up to the next rung, offering a hand up to those around him as he's crept skyward in his lifelong pursuit of high flight. In "A Life Aloft," Tom reflects back on what he's learned from pushing himself and the sport of diving to ever greater heights.
Download or read book Aloft written by Chang-rae Lee and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling novel by the critically acclaimed author of Native Speaker, A Gesture Life and My Year Abroad. At 59, Jerry Battle is coasting through life. His favorite pastime is flying his small plane high above Long Island. Aloft, he can escape from the troubles that plague his family, neighbors, and loved ones on the ground. But he can't stay in the air forever. Only months before his 60th birthday, a culmination of family crises finally pull Jerry down from his emotionally distant course. Jerry learns that his family's stability is in jeopardy. His father, Hank, is growing increasingly unhappy in his assisted living facility. His son, Jack, has taken over the family landscaping business but is running it into bankruptcy. His daughter, Theresa, has become pregnant and has been diagnosed with cancer. His longtime girlfriend, Rita, who helped raise his children, has now moved in with another man. And Jerry still has unanswered questions that he must face regarding the circumstances surrounding the death of his late wife. Since the day his wife died, Jerry has turned avoiding conflict into an art form-the perfect expression being his solitary flights from which he can look down on a world that appears serene and unscathed. From his comfortable distance, he can't see the messy details, let alone begin to confront them. But Jerry is learning that in avoiding conflict, he is also avoiding contact with the people he loves most.
Download or read book Women Aloft written by Valerie Moolman and published by Time Life Education. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the accomplishments of early women aviators and describes the obstacles they had to overcome to become flyers
Download or read book Look at That! written by Bobbie Herron and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-22 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Look at That!" is a fun guide to instant calm through seeing-and-sketching for everyone, including "non-artists."
Book Synopsis A Compendium of American Literature, Chronologically Arranged by : Charles Dexter Cleveland
Download or read book A Compendium of American Literature, Chronologically Arranged written by Charles Dexter Cleveland and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Treehouse Chronicles by : S. Peter Lewis
Download or read book Treehouse Chronicles written by S. Peter Lewis and published by TMC Books, LLC. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Gesture Life written by Chang-rae Lee and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second novel from the critically acclaimed New York Times–bestselling author Chang-rae Lee. His remarkable debut novel was called "rapturous" (The New York Times Book Review), "revelatory" (Vogue), and "wholly innovative" (Kirkus Reviews). It was the recipient of six major awards, including the prestigious Hemingway Foundation/PEN award. Now Chang-rae Lee has written a powerful and beautifully crafted second novel that leaves no doubt about the extraordinary depth and range of his talent. A Gesture Life is the story of a proper man, an upstanding citizen who has come to epitomize the decorous values of his New York suburban town. Courteous, honest, hardworking, and impenetrable, Franklin Hata, a Japanese man of Korean birth, is careful never to overstep his boundaries and to make his neighbors comfortable in his presence. Yet as his story unfolds, precipitated by the small events surrounding him, we see his life begin to unravel. Gradually we learn the mystery that has shaped the core of his being: his terrible, forbidden love for a young Korean Comfort Woman when he served as a medic in the Japanese army during World War II. In A Gesture Life, Chang-rae Lee leads us with dazzling control through a taut, suspenseful story about love, family, and community—and the secrets we harbor. As in Native Speaker, he writes of the ways outsiders conform in order to survive and the price they pay for doing so. It is a haunting, breathtaking display of talent by an acclaimed young author.
Book Synopsis Modern Mobility Aloft by : Amy D. Finstein
Download or read book Modern Mobility Aloft written by Amy D. Finstein and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first half of the twentieth century, urban elevated highways were much more than utilitarian infrastructure, lifting traffic above the streets; they were statements of civic pride, asserting boldly modern visions for a city’s architecture, economy, and transportation network. Yet three of the most ambitious projects, launched in Chicago, New York, and Boston in the spirit of utopian models by architects such as Le Corbusier and Hugh Ferriss, ultimately fell short of their ideals. Modern Mobility Aloft is the first study to focus on pre-Interstate urban elevated highways within American architectural and urban history. Amy Finstein traces the idealistic roots of these superstructures, their contrasting realities once built, their impacts on successive development patterns, and the recent challenges they have posed to contemporary urban designers. Filled with more than 100 historic photographs and illustrations of beaux arts and art deco architecture, Modern Mobility Aloft provides a critical understanding of urban landscapes, transportation, and technological change as cities moved into the modern era.
Book Synopsis Confidential Documents by : United States. Army Air Forces
Download or read book Confidential Documents written by United States. Army Air Forces and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Borrowers written by Mary Norton and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1953 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a family of miniature people who live in a quiet, out-of-the-way country house and who tried never to be seen by human beings.
Book Synopsis Bureau of Ships Journal by : United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ships
Download or read book Bureau of Ships Journal written by United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ships and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Native Speaker written by Chang-rae Lee and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-03-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE ATLANTIC’S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS The debut novel from critically acclaimed and New York Times–bestselling author of On Such a Full Sea and My Year Abroad. In Native Speaker, author Chang-rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park. Park has spent his entire life trying to become a true American—a native speaker. But even as the essence of his adopted country continues to elude him, his Korean heritage seems to drift further and further away. Park's harsh Korean upbringing has taught him to hide his emotions, to remember everything he learns, and most of all to feel an overwhelming sense of alienation. In other words, it has shaped him as a natural spy. But the very attributes that help him to excel in his profession put a strain on his marriage to his American wife and stand in the way of his coming to terms with his young son's death. When he is assigned to spy on a rising Korean-American politician, his very identity is tested, and he must figure out who he is amid not only the conflicts within himself but also within the ethnic and political tensions of the New York City streets. Native Speaker is a story of cultural alienation. It is about fathers and sons, about the desire to connect with the world rather than stand apart from it, about loyalty and betrayal, about the alien in all of us and who we finally are.
Book Synopsis Nuggets of The New Thought by : William Walker Atkinson
Download or read book Nuggets of The New Thought written by William Walker Atkinson and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I Can and I will!!" Have you ever said these words to yourself with a firm conviction that you were speaking the truth-wht the strong feeling that needed no other proof?
Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gleanings from English Poetry by : D. Hoekzema
Download or read book Gleanings from English Poetry written by D. Hoekzema and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Prose and Poetry of Europe and America written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Anton and Cecil, Book 3 by : Lisa Martin
Download or read book Anton and Cecil, Book 3 written by Lisa Martin and published by Algonquin Young Readers. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tuckered out from a journey across the Wild West, cat brothers Anton and Cecil are ready to head east for home--until a minor stop to change trains in Chicago turns into a major adventure. A bloodhound detective recruits the brothers to help solve a case: puppies are disappearing right off their leashes! Anton and Cecil’s search takes them deep into the heart of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, where they befriend exotic animals, ride the newly invented Ferris Wheel, and look for clues amid the crowds of fairgoers. Just as they close in on the culprit, Cecil is carried away in a giant flying balloon and Anton is left behind. Can the cat brothers find the puppies and each other in this big, busy city? Fans of classic animal adventures such as A Cricket in Times Square and Poppy will love Anton and Cecil’s world, brimming with action and rich, true-to-life detail.
