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The Rarified Air of the Modern

Author : Willie Hiatt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190248904
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Rarified Air of the Modern written by Willie Hiatt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the moment news reached Peru in 1910 that Jorge Chávez Dartnell, a pilot of Peruvian parentage, had become the first man to fly across the Alps, aviation fired the imagination of the masses in his home country. His and other Peruvian pilots' achievements generated great optimism that this technology could lift Peru out of its self-perceived backwardness and transform it into a modern nation. Though poor infrastructure, economic woes, a dearth of technical expertise, and frequent pilot deaths slowed Peru's domestic aviation project, diverse groups saw in airplanes their own visions for Peruvian renewal. In this book, Willie Hiatt shows how politicians, businessmen, and military officials promoted the project as critical to the nation. At the same time, indigenous communities and provincial residents willingly gave up land for airfields, raised money to purchase aircraft for the military, named airplanes after sponsoring civic groups, towns, and regions, and breached police cordons at flying exhibitions to get close-up looks at planes and pilots. By 1928, three commercial lines were transporting passengers and goods from far-flung regions of the Amazon, highlands, and coast to Lima and beyond. Tracing the development of Peruvian aviation from heroic individual feats to essential infrastructure, The Rarified Air of the Modern shows how Peruvians mobilized airplanes to reflect their technological progress, their modern identity, and their nation's intertwining with the history of the West.

The Rarified Air of the Modern

Author : Willie Hiatt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780190248932
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book The Rarified Air of the Modern written by Willie Hiatt and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines technology, modern identity, and history-making in Peru by telling the story of the surprising success of Peruvian pilots in European aviation competitions in 1910, and how their achievements generated great optimism that this new technology could lift the country out of its self-perceived backwardness.

The Rarified Air of the Modern

Author : Willie Hiatt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190248912
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Rarified Air of the Modern written by Willie Hiatt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the moment news reached Peru in 1910 that Jorge Chávez Dartnell, a pilot of Peruvian parentage, had become the first man to fly across the Alps, aviation fired the imagination of the masses in his home country. His and other Peruvian pilots' achievements generated great optimism that this technology could lift Peru out of its self-perceived backwardness and transform it into a modern nation. Though poor infrastructure, economic woes, a dearth of technical expertise, and frequent pilot deaths slowed Peru's domestic aviation project, diverse groups saw in airplanes their own visions for Peruvian renewal. In this book, Willie Hiatt shows how politicians, businessmen, and military officials promoted the project as critical to the nation. At the same time, indigenous communities and provincial residents willingly gave up land for airfields, raised money to purchase aircraft for the military, named airplanes after sponsoring civic groups, towns, and regions, and breached police cordons at flying exhibitions to get close-up looks at planes and pilots. By 1928, three commercial lines were transporting passengers and goods from far-flung regions of the Amazon, highlands, and coast to Lima and beyond. Tracing the development of Peruvian aviation from heroic individual feats to essential infrastructure, The Rarified Air of the Modern shows how Peruvians mobilized airplanes to reflect their technological progress, their modern identity, and their nation's intertwining with the history of the West.

The Aeroplane and the Making of Modern India

Author : Aashique Ahmed Iqbal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192864203
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book The Aeroplane and the Making of Modern India written by Aashique Ahmed Iqbal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the Indian state's engagement with aviation, both civil and military, from the Second World War to the nationalization of airlines in 1953, this book argues that aviation played a critical role in state formation in modern South Asia.

Garner's Modern English Usage

Author : Bryan A. Garner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197599028
Total Pages : 1306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Garner's Modern English Usage written by Bryan A. Garner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 1306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most original and authoritative voice of today's English lexicography presents a fully revised new edition of his beloved usage dictionary When Bryan Garner published the first edition of A Dictionary of Modern American Usage in 1999, the book quickly became one of the most influential style guides ever written for the English language. After four previous editions and over twenty years, our language has evolved in many ways, and the powerful tool of big data has revolutionized lexicography. This extensively revised new edition fully captures these changes, featuring a thousand new entries and over two hundred replacement entries, thoroughly updated usage data and ratios on word frequency based on the Google Ngram Viewer, a more balanced coverage of World Englishes, not just American and British, and the inclusion of gender-neutral language. However, one thing has not changed: in no sense is this a regular dictionary but a masterpiece of lexicography written with wit and personality by one of the preeminent authorities on the English language. To put it in David Foster Wallace's words, Garner's discussion of rhetoric and style still borders on genius. From the (lost) battle between self-deprecating and self-depreciating to the misuse of it's for its, from the variant spelling patty-cake taking over pat-a-cake in American English to the singular uses of they, Garner explains the nuances of grammar and vocabulary and the linguistic blunders to which modern writers and speakers are prone, whether in word choice, syntax, phrasing, punctuation, or pronunciation. His empirical approach liberates English from two extremes: from the purists who maintain that split infinitives and sentence-ending prepositions are malfeasances and from the linguistic relativists who believe that whatever people say or write must necessarily be accepted. The purpose of Garner's dictionary is to help writers, editors, and speakers use the language effectively. And it does so in a playful and persuasive way that will help you sound grammatical but relaxed, refined but natural, correct but unpedantic.

Mexican Icarus

Author : Peter B. Soland
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822989662
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Mexican Icarus written by Peter B. Soland and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of aviation in Mexico reflected more than a pragmatic response to the material challenges brought on by the 1910 Revolution. It was also an effective symbol for promoting the aspirations of the new elite who attained prominence during the war and who fixated on technology as a measure of national progress. The politicians, industrialists, and cultural influencers in the media who made up this group molded the aviator into an avatar of modern citizenship. The figure of the pilot as a model citizen proved an adept vessel for disseminating the values championed by the official party of the Revolution and validating the technological determinism that underpinned its philosophy of development. At the same time, the archetype of the aviator camouflaged problematic aspects of the government’s unification and development plans that displaced and exploited poor and Indigenous communities.

Barth, Bonhoeffer, and Modern Politics

Author : Joshua Mauldin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192637533
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Barth, Bonhoeffer, and Modern Politics written by Joshua Mauldin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent political events around the world have raised the spectre of an impending collapse of democratic institutions. Contemporary concerns about the decline of liberal democracy are reminicent to the tumult of the 1930s and 1940s in Europe. Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived in Germany during the rise of National Socialism, and each reflected on what the rise of totalitarianism meant for the aspirations of modern politics. Engaging the realities of totalitarian terror, they avoided despairing rejections of modern society. Beginning with Barth in the wake of the First World War, following Bonhoeffer through the 1930s and 1940s in Nazi Germany, and concluding with Barth's post-war reflections in the 1950s, this study explores how these figures reflected on modern society during this turbulent time and how their work is relevant to the current crisis of modern democracy.

Garner's Modern American Usage

Author : Bryan Garner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019987462X
Total Pages : 1007 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Garner's Modern American Usage written by Bryan Garner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 1007 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since first appearing in 1998, Garner's Modern American Usage has established itself as the preeminent guide to the effective use of the English language. Brimming with witty, erudite essays on troublesome words and phrases, GMAU authoritatively shows how to avoid the countless pitfalls that await unwary writers and speakers whether the issues relate to grammar, punctuation, word choice, or pronunciation. An exciting new feature of this third edition is Garner's Language-Change Index, which registers where each disputed usage in modern English falls on a five-stage continuum from nonacceptability (to the language community as a whole) to acceptability, giving the book a consistent standard throughout. GMAU is the first usage guide ever to incorporate such a language-change index. The judgments are based both on Garner's own original research in linguistic corpora and on his analysis of hundreds of earlier studies. Another first in this edition is the panel of critical readers: 120-plus commentators who have helped Garner reassess and update the text, so that every page has been improved. Bryan A. Garner is a writer, grammarian, lexicographer, teacher, and lawyer. He has written professionally about English usage for more than 28 years, and his work has achieved widespread renown. David Foster Wallace proclaimed that Bryan Garner is a genius and William Safire called the book excellent. In fact, due to the strength of his work on GMAU, Garner was the grammarian asked to write the grammar-and-usage chapter for the venerable Chicago Manual of Style. His advice on language matters is second to none.

Garner's Modern American Usage

Author : Bryan A. Garner
Publisher : Oxford University
ISBN 13 : 0195161912
Total Pages : 930 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Garner's Modern American Usage written by Bryan A. Garner and published by Oxford University. This book was released on 2003 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Painstakingly researched with copious citations from books, newspapers, and news magazines, this new edition has become the classic reference work praised by professional copy editors.

The New Family Herbal

Author : Matthew Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The New Family Herbal written by Matthew Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transactions of the New Hampshire Medical Society ...

Author : New-Hampshire Medical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Transactions of the New Hampshire Medical Society ... written by New-Hampshire Medical Society and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of fellows in no. 92-114.

Path of Destruction

Author : Mark Schleifstein
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316076597
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Path of Destruction written by Mark Schleifstein and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2009-06-27 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 5:02 A.M. on August 29, 2005, Power Went Out in the Superdome. Not long after, wind ripped giant white rubber sheets off the roof and sent huge shards of debris flying toward Uptown. Rivulets of rainwater began finding their way down through the ceiling, dripping and pouring into the stands, the mezzanine, and the football field. Without ventilation, the air began to get gamy with the smell of sweat and garbage. The bathrooms stopped working. Many people slept; others waited, mostly in silence.

The Modern Review

Author : Ramananda Chatterjee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Review written by Ramananda Chatterjee and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Reviews and notices of books".

The Gentle Art of Columning

Author : C. L. Edson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Gentle Art of Columning written by C. L. Edson and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tales from the Wilds of New Jersey

Author : Ted Lyons
Publisher : BookLocker.com, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Tales from the Wilds of New Jersey written by Ted Lyons and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Tales from the Wilds of New Jersey," Ted Lyons invites the reader into the "wonder years, coming of age" adventures/discoveries of a Jersey kid whom you will undoubtedly come to recognize in one form or another. Ted: "We’re all here, sharing the planet for a nano second, just trying to get through it! So, of course, similar life experiences are unavoidable." In one-to-three-page chapters, Ted shares the rough and tumble life of a boy navigating his way through childhood, adolescence and finally stumbling into adulthood realizing that he’s Peter Pan in a world full of responsible grownups! The stories are largely autobiographical, and true, to the extent that "memory would allow." Included in the pages of TFTWONJ are a modest scattering of original poems, jokes, and song lyrics along with "skewed" observations of life, just to "keep the reader off balance." The tales are regaled with humor and honesty, as seen through the nostalgic prism of "rose colored glasses." If you don’t see yourself, or someone you know, inside "the wilds"...look again.

Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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THE NEW ROYAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA; OR, COMPLETE MODERN UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF ARTS & SCIENCES, ON A NEW AND IMPROVED PLAN

Author : William Henry Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (3 download)

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