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Revolution in the Air

Author : Max Elbaum
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786634597
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Revolution in the Air written by Max Elbaum and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth study of the long march of the US New Left after 1968 The sixties were a time when radical movements learned to embrace twentieth-century Marxism. Revolution in the Air is the definitive study of this turning point, and examines what the resistance of today can learn from the legacies of Lenin, Mao and Che. It tells the story of the “new communist movement” which was the most racially integrated and fast-growing movement on the Left. Thousands of young activists, radicalized by the Vietnam War and Black Liberation, and spurred on by the Puerto Rican, Chicano and Asian-American movements, embraced a Third World oriented version of Marxism. These admirers of Mao, Che and Amilcar Cabral organized resistance to the Republican majorities of Nixon and Ford. By the 1980s these groups had either collapsed or become tiny shards of the dream of a Maoist world revolution. Taking issue with the idea of a division between an early “good sixties” and a later “bad sixties,” Max Elbaum is particularly concerned to reclaim the lessons of the new communist movement for today’s activists who, like their sixties’ predecessors, are coming of age at a time when the Left lacks mass support and is fragmented along racial lines. With a new foreward by Alicia Garza, cofounder of #BlackLivesMatter.

The Airline Revolution

Author : Gordon Mills
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317045319
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Airline Revolution written by Gordon Mills and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When starting new airlines in response to government deregulation, entrepreneurs in the U.S. and Europe reduced some traditional service qualities (to reduce costs), concentrated on non-stop services between city pairs not already so connected, improved on-time performance, and offered low fares to win leisure travelers from the incumbents and to encourage more travel. In recent developments, some of the new airlines have offered optional extras (at higher fares) to attract business travelers and entered major routes alongside the legacy carriers. Within both the U.S. and Europe, deregulation removed most geographical barriers to expansion by short-haul airlines. Later, limited deregulation spread to other world regions, where many short-haul routes connect city pairs in different countries, and where governments have retained traditional two-country mechanisms restricting who may fly. To gain access to domestic routes in other countries, some new airlines are setting up affiliate companies in neighboring countries, with each company legally controlled in the country of domicile. With air travel growing strongly, especially in Asia, a common result is intense, but potentially short-lived, competition on major routes. The recent developments give clear signposts to likely mid-term outcomes, and make this an opportune time to report on the new-airline scene. The Airline Revolution will provide valuable economic analysis of this climate to students, airline professionals advancing to senior positions, public servants and others who provide advice to governments.

Canard

Author : Andy Lennon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Canard written by Andy Lennon and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fortæller om udviklingen af Canard-konstruktionsprincippet, om de specielle egenskaber, der er forbundet hermed, og om nogle af de fly, der er bygget efter dette princip.

Sir Frederick Sykes and the Air Revolution 1912-1918

Author : Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Ash
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136315160
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Sir Frederick Sykes and the Air Revolution 1912-1918 written by Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Ash and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a long-overdue study of Sir Frederick H. Sykes, Chief of the Air Staff of Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) during the First World War. Historians, for the most part, have either overlooked Sykes or misinterpreted him, leaving a gap in the story of British flying. Contrary to previous images of Sykes, we now see that he was not a secretive intriguer or a tangential subject in RAF history. Rather, he played a fundamental part in organizing and leading British aviation from 1912 to the end of 1918. He provided organization, visionary guidance and efficient administrative control for the fledgling service that tried to survive infancy in the heat of battle.

Re-platforming the Airline Business

Author : Nawal K. Taneja
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429768974
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Re-platforming the Airline Business written by Nawal K. Taneja and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Airline business models continue to be shaped by powerful forces relating to customers, complexities and regulators. However, at the same time, there are emerging technologies that can help airlines cater to the needs of their changing customer bases and manage the complexities of the business. In his previous books, Nawal Taneja has deliberated on these forces and how the airline industry is poised for disruptive change that could come from within or outside of the industry. He also discussed the point that the airline planning systems and process in use are neither contemporary nor sufficiently integrated to meet the changing needs of customers who now are looking for outcomes, not products. In Re-platforming the Airline Business: To Meet Travelers' Total Mobility Needs, Taneja not only reiterates the need for transformation of the airline business but provides a map of the transformational process. This book proposes that different sectors of the aviation industry, particularly airlines and airports, should consider using not just a wide array of technologies (Artificial Intelligence, biometrics, blockchain, and the Internet of Things), but also specifically-designed customer-centric platforms to make informed decisions and to develop and implement transformative strategies to meet travelers’ total mobility needs. These technologies and platforms can enable airlines and airports to achieve scale and scope as well as agility and flexibility (through strategic partnerships) to offer intelligently aggregated travel-related services right now. Subsequently, they will enable various members in the travel chain to provide solutions to travelers’ global mobility requirements, effectively and with better experiences.

Free Flight

Author : James Fallows
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 0786741759
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Free Flight written by James Fallows and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2008-11-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The troubles of the airline system have become acute in the post-terrorist era. As the average cost of a flight has come down in the last twenty years, the airlines have survived by keeping planes full and funneling traffic through a centralized hub-and-spoke routing system. Virtually all of the technological innovation in airplanes in the last thirty years has been devoted to moving passengers more efficiently between major hubs. But what was left out of this equation was the convenience and flexibility of the average traveler. Now, because of heightened security, hours of waiting are tacked onto each trip. As James Fallows vividly explains, a technological revolution is under way that will relieve this problem. Free Flight features the stories of three groups who are inventing and building the future of all air travel: NASA, Cirrus Design in Duluth, Minnesota, and Eclipse Aviation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. These ventures should make it possible for more people to travel the way corporate executives have for years: in small jet planes, from the airport that's closest to their home or office directly to the airport closest to where they really want to go. This will be possible because of a product now missing from the vast array of flying devices: small, radically inexpensive jet planes, as different from airliners as personal computers are from mainframes. And, as Fallows explains in a new preface, a system that avoids the congestion of the overloaded hub system will offer advantages in speed, convenience, and especially security in the new environment of air travel.

Sir Frederick Sykes and the Air Revolution, 1912-1918

Author : Eric Ash
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0714643823
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Sir Frederick Sykes and the Air Revolution, 1912-1918 written by Eric Ash and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study presents Sir Frederick Sykes, Chief of the Air Staff of Britain's Royal Air Force during World War I, as playing a fundamental part in organizing and leading British aviation from 1912 to the end of 1918.

Common As Air

Author : Lewis Hyde
Publisher : Union Books
ISBN 13 : 190852605X
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Common As Air written by Lewis Hyde and published by Union Books. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous ‘ I Have a Dream’ speech. Thirty years later his son registered the words ‘ I Have a Dream’ as a trademark and successfully blocked attempts to reproduce these four words. Unlike the Gettysburg Address and other famous speeches, ‘ I Have a Dream’ is now private property, even though some the speech is comprised of words written by Thomas Jefferson, a man who very much believed that the corporate land grab of knowledge was at odds with the development of civil society. Exploring the complex intersection between creativity and commerce, Hyde raises the question of how our shared store of art and knowledge might be made compatible with our desire to copyright everything, and questions whether the fruits of creative labour can – or should – be privately owned, especially in the digital age. ‘ In what sense,’ he writes, ‘ can someone own, and therefore control other people’ s access to, a work of fiction or a public speech or the ideas behind a drug?’ Moving deftly between literary analysis, history and biography (from Benjamin Franklin’ s reluctance to patent his inventions to Bob Dylan’ s admission that his early method of songwriting was largely comprised of ‘ rearranging verses to old blues ballads, adding an original line here or there… slapping a title on it’ ), Common As Air is a stirring call-to-arms about how we might concretely legislate for a cultural commons that would simultaneously allow for financial reward and protection from monopoly. Rigorous, informative and riveting, this is a book for anyone who is interested in the creative process.

The Future of Pricing

Author : E. Boyd
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230606903
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Future of Pricing written by E. Boyd and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story about science, technology, and people, The Future of Pricing provides an inside look at how airlines price tickets and how practices developed in the airline industry are now revolutionizing the world of pricing. This book is written for business professionals and students wanting to better understand the rapid growth of scientific pricing.

Revolution in the Air

Author : Clinton Heylin
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569762686
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Revolution in the Air written by Clinton Heylin and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive book on Bob Dylan's song lyrics, this volume arranges the more than 300 songs by the date they were actually written rather than when they appeared on albums.

Something in the Air

Author : Marc Fisher
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307547094
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Something in the Air written by Marc Fisher and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping, anecdotal account of the great sounds and voices of radio–and how it became a bonding agent for a generation of American youth When television became the next big thing in broadcast entertainment, everyone figured video would kill the radio star–and radio, period. But radio came roaring back with a whole new concept. The war was over, the baby boom was on, the country was in clover, and a bold new beat was giving the syrupy songs of yesteryear a run for their money. Add transistors, 45 rpm records, and a young man named Elvis to the mix, and the result was the perfect storm that rocked, rolled, and reinvented radio. Visionary entrepreneurs like Todd Storz pioneered the Top 40 concept, which united a generation. But it took trendsetting “disc jockeys” like Alan Freed, Murray the K, Wolfman Jack, Cousin Brucie, and their fast-talking, too-cool-for-school counterparts across the land to turn time, temperature, and the same irresistible hit tunes played again and again into the ubiquitous sound track of the fifties and sixties. The Top 40 sound broke through racial barriers, galvanized coming-of-age kids (and scandalized their perplexed parents), and provided the insistent, inescapable backbeat for times that were a-changin’. Along with rock-and-roll music came the attitude that would literally change the “voice” of radio forever, via the likes of raconteur Jean Shepherd, who captivated his loyal following of “Night People”; the inimitable Bob Fass, whose groundbreaking Radio Unnameable inaugurated the anything-goes free-form style that would come to define the alternative frontier of FM; and a small-time Top 40 deejay who would ultimately find national fame as a political talk-show host named Rush Limbaugh. From Hunter Hancock, who pushed beyond the limits of 1950s racial segregation with rhythm and blues and hepcat patter, to Howard Stern, who blew through all the limits with a blue streak of outrageous on-air antics; from the heyday of summer songs that united carefree listeners to the latter days of political talk that divides contentious callers; from the haze of classic rock to the latest craze in hip-hop, Something in the Air chronicles the extraordinary evolution of the unique and timeless medium that captured our hearts and minds, shook up our souls, tuned in–and turned on–our consciousness, and went from being written off to rewriting the rules of pop culture.

Flying the Line

Author : George E. Hopkins
Publisher : Nicholson
ISBN 13 : 9780960970810
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Flying the Line written by George E. Hopkins and published by Nicholson. This book was released on 1996 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Leviathan and the Air-Pump

Author : Steven Shapin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400838495
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Leviathan and the Air-Pump written by Steven Shapin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise Leviathan and vehement critic of systematic experimentation in natural philosophy, and Robert Boyle, mechanical philosopher and owner of the newly invented air-pump. The issues at stake in their disputes ranged from the physical integrity of the air-pump to the intellectual integrity of the knowledge it might yield. Both Boyle and Hobbes were looking for ways of establishing knowledge that did not decay into ad hominem attacks and political division. Boyle proposed the experiment as cure. He argued that facts should be manufactured by machines like the air-pump so that gentlemen could witness the experiments and produce knowledge that everyone agreed on. Hobbes, by contrast, looked for natural law and viewed experiments as the artificial, unreliable products of an exclusive guild. The new approaches taken in Leviathan and the Air-Pump have been enormously influential on historical studies of science. Shapin and Schaffer found a moment of scientific revolution and showed how key scientific givens--facts, interpretations, experiment, truth--were fundamental to a new political order. Shapin and Schaffer were also innovative in their ethnographic approach. Attempting to understand the work habits, rituals, and social structures of a remote, unfamiliar group, they argued that politics were tied up in what scientists did, rather than what they said. Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer use the confrontation between Hobbes and Boyle as a way of understanding what was at stake in the early history of scientific experimentation. They describe the protagonists' divergent views of natural knowledge, and situate the Hobbes-Boyle disputes within contemporary debates over the role of intellectuals in public life and the problems of social order and assent in Restoration England. In a new introduction, the authors describe how science and its social context were understood when this book was first published, and how the study of the history of science has changed since then.

Transport Revolutions

Author : Richard Gilbert
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317705289
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Transport Revolutions written by Richard Gilbert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First released in 2007, the bestselling Transport Revolutions argued that land transport in the first half of the 21st century will feature at least two revolutions. One will involve the use of electric drives rather than internal combustion engines. Another will involve powering many of these drives directly from the electric grid - as trains and trolley buses are powered today - rather than from on-board fuel. Now available for the first time in paperback and updated with the most recent data, it sets out the challenges to our growing dependence on transport fuelled by low-priced oil. These challenges include an early peak in world oil production and profound climate change resulting in part from oil use. It proposes responses to ensure effective, secure movement of people and goods in ways that make the best use of renewable sources of energy while minimizing environmental impacts. Synthesizing engineering, economics, environment, organization, policy and technology in a detailed yet highly readable style, Transport Revolutions is essential reading for anyone working, studying or interested in transport and the environment.

CANARD--A REVOLUTION IN FLIGHT--Commemorative Edition: Military, Civilian, Homebuilt

Author : Andy Lennon
Publisher : Markowski International Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780938716884
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book CANARD--A REVOLUTION IN FLIGHT--Commemorative Edition: Military, Civilian, Homebuilt written by Andy Lennon and published by Markowski International Publishers. This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DISCOVER THE EXCITEMENT OF CANARDS! "Now, Andy Lennon has provided us with an excellent history of the canard and tandem-wing airplanes. We have, for the first time in a single source, descriptions and photos of the tail-first aircraft from the Wright Flyer to the Starship I. The text also details the specific flying qualities exhibited by many of the aircraft. To the aviation enthusiast and pilot, the book will provide interesting and sometimes fascinating accounts of how the various shapes handled in the air.... The designer will find the book useful in highlighting many of the problems inherent in tandem-wing design." -From the Foreword by Burt Rutan.IN THIS COMMEMORATIVE EDITION you'll learn how and why canards were developed, and how they evolved into some of the most beautiful aircraft in history. SOME OF THE ABSORBING TOPICS FEATURED INCLUDE: -The historical significance and design evolution of the canard concept. - Why properly designed canards won't stall or spin. - Basic canard aerodynamics, performance characteristics, and handling qualities. - Over 200 drawings, inboard profiles, cutaways, and photos. -A review of proposed homebuilt and general aviation designs. - The amazing maneuverability of canard jet fighters. SOME OF THE AIRCRAFT DESCRIBED INCLUDE... The Wright brothers' designs and how the canard saved them from serious accidents - The outstanding designs of Burt Rutan, originator of modern canards - The Quickie Series - The Dragonfly - The COZY - Ultralight Canards - Secret German Experimentals - The Russian Utka - Details are also presented for General Aviation canards, including: The Beech Starship I - The Avtek-400 - OMAC-1 - The Gates-Piaggio GP-180, and many other exciting canards from around the world. CANARD--A REVOLUTION IN FLIGHT gives you "the-story-behind-the-story" of this intriguing aspect of flight. Whether you're thinking of building your own airplane, or simply want to become more knowledgeable of the qualities of these unique aircraft, this book could prove to be quite helpful to you. Or if you simply want to learn about the engrossing historical technological development of canards, and the role they have played in aviation, this book is for you.

No Frills

Author : Simon Calder
Publisher : Virgin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780753510445
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book No Frills written by Simon Calder and published by Virgin Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of new and dynamic low cost airlines is currently Europe's biggest business success story. This title provides an analysis of this unexpected aviation business phenomenon and investigates the entrepreneurs who took the risks. This new edition also looks at how these companies have spread around the world.

The Spectacle of Flight

Author : Robert Wohl
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300106923
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book The Spectacle of Flight written by Robert Wohl and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From historian Wohl comes an extraordinary account of the development of aviation and the heroism, romance, adventure, and shattered dreams that followed. Archival photos.