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Author : James Blish
Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 : 9780099086604
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (866 download)
Download or read book A Clash of Cymbals written by James Blish and published by Arrow. This book was released on 1974 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Hill
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 0143770535
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (437 download)
Download or read book Flight Path written by David Hill and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping novel for young adults that captures both the daring and the everyday realities of serving in the Air Force during the Second World War. Pete and Paul yelled together. 'Bandit! Nine o'clock! Bandit!' Jack spun to stare. There was the Messerschmitt on their left, streaking straight at them. Eighteen-year-old Jack wanted to escape boring little New Zealand. But he soon finds that flying in a Lancaster bomber to attack Hitler’s forces brings terror as well as excitement. With every dangerous mission, he becomes more afraid that he’ll never get back alive. He wants to help win the war, but will he lose his own life? My Brother’s War: '... there are stories that need to be told over and over again, to introduce a new generation of readers to important ideas and to critical times in their country's history ... Hill's descriptions of trench warfare are unforgettable.' from the Judges' Report of the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2013
Author : Jason Sheehan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593109511
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Children of the Flying City written by Jason Sheehan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Richly imagined and emotionally resonant, Children of the Flying City is a fantasy for young and old alike. This book gave my heart wings.” –Pierce Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Red Rising “Children of the Flying City feels, at once, timeless and wondrously, gloriously new.” –Katie Williams, author of Tell the Machine Goodnight Brought to the flying city of Highgate when he was only five years old, orphan Milo Quick has never known another home. Now almost thirteen, Milo survives one daredevil grift at a time, relying only on his wit, speed, and best friends Jules and Dagda. A massive armada has surrounded Highgate’s crumbling armaments. Because behind locked doors—in opulent parlors and pneumatic forests and a master toymaker’s workshop—the once-great flying city protects a powerful secret, hidden away for centuries. A secret that’s about to ignite a war. One small airship, the Halcyon, has slipped through the ominous blockade on a mission to collect Milo—and the rich bounty on his head—before the fighting begins. But the members of the Halcyon’s misfit crew aren’t the only ones chasing Milo Quick. True friendship is worth any risk in this clever, heart-racing adventure from award-winning author and journalist Jason Sheehan. Sheehan weaves together wry narration and multiple points of view to craft a richly imagined tale that is dangerous and surprising, wondrous and joyful.
Author : James Fallows
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 0786741759
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
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.
Author : James Blish
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1590209303
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Cities in Flight written by James Blish and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2005-01-04 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Hugo Award–winning author, the classic millennia-spanning epic in one volume: “A wholly new concept of the far future.” —The New York Times Originally published in four volumes, Cities in Flight brings together the famed “Okie novels” of science fiction master James Blish. Named after the migrant workers of America’s Dust Bowl, these novels convey Blish’s “history of the future,” a brilliant and bleak look at a world where cities roam the Galaxy looking for work and a sustainable way of life. In the first novel, They Shall Have Stars, humankind has thoroughly explored the solar system, yet the dream of going even farther seems to have died in all but one man. His battle to realize his dream results in two momentous discoveries: anti-gravity and the secret of immortality. In A Life for the Stars, it is centuries later and antigravity generations have enabled whole cities to lift off the surface of the earth to become galactic wanderers. In Earthman, Come Home, the nomadic cities revert to barbarism and marauding rogue cities begin to pose a threat to all civilized worlds. In the final novel, The Triumph of Time, history repeats itself as the cities once again journey back into space, making a terrifying discovery which could destroy the entire universe. A serious and haunting vision of our world and its limits, Cities in Flight marks a milestone in science fiction. “Compelling . . . If you haven’t read this yet, I envy you. Blish’s cities will fly through your dreams.” —Stephen Baxter “In a century that brimmed with human short-sightedness, James Blish was one of the very first genuine visionaries of a new millennium.” —David Brin
Author : Clifford D. Simak
Publisher : S.F. Masterworks
ISBN 13 : 9780575105232
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (52 download)
Download or read book City written by Clifford D. Simak and published by S.F. Masterworks. This book was released on 2011 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a far future Earth, mankind's achievements are immense: artificially intelligent robots, genetically uplifted animals, interplanetary travel, genetic modification of the human form itself. But nothing comes without a cost. Humanity is tired, its vigour all but gone. Society is breaking down into smaller communities, dispersing into the countryside and abandoning the great cities of the world. As the human race dwindles and declines, which of its great creations will inherit the Earth? And which will claim the stars?
Author : Erich Friedrich Schmidt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Flights Over Ancient Cities of Iran written by Erich Friedrich Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Vanhoenacker
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473572150
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Imagine a City written by Mark Vanhoenacker and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-05-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pilot's love letter to the world's greatest cities from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Skyfaring 'A journey around both the author's mind and the planet's great cities that leaves us energised, open to new experiences and ready to return more hopefully to our lives' ALAIN DE BOTTON Growing up in his small hometown, Mark Vanhoenacker spun the illuminated globe in his bedroom and dreamt of elsewhere - of distant, real cities, and a perfect metropolis that existed only in his imagination. Now, as a commercial airline pilot, Mark has spent more than two decades crossing the skies of our planet and touching down in the cities he'd always longed to see. Imagine a City celebrates the metropolises he has come to know and love through the lens of the hometown his heart has never left. From the sweeping roads of Los Angeles and the old gates of Jeddah to the intricate, dream-inspired plan of Brasília, he shows us with warmth and fresh eyes the extraordinary places that billions of us call home. 'Vanhoenacker... has a near-bottomless appetite for fresh sights and guidebook curiosities... Intimate and thoughtful' PICO IYER, AIR MAIL 'A love letter to the cities he's returned to again and again... Vanhoenacker captivates when describing the silent beauty of a world glimpsed from above' Washington Post 'Eloquent... A love song to cities the world over' Wall Street Journal
Author : Vanna Bonta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780912339177
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Flight written by Vanna Bonta and published by . This book was released on 1996-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A science fiction tale on the theme that love knows no boundaries. The protagonist is an SF writer who creates a woman character and falls in love with her. Such is the power of his love she ceases to be fiction and joins him in reality.
Author : James Blish
Publisher : London, Faber
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Earthman, Come Home written by James Blish and published by London, Faber. This book was released on 1956 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When the cities left Earth, they exchanged a simple environment for one of constant, sometimes shattering change. The Universe was littered with cultures in every conceivable stage of development. Only the iron hand of the germanium-backed economy and occasional interventions by the Earth police imposed some kind of order on the spaceways. Even John Amalfi never got used to the life - and he had been mayor of New York for nearly five hundred years now."--Goodreads.com
Author : James Blish
Publisher : Baen Books
ISBN 13 : 9780671720506
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Cities in Flight written by James Blish and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities in Flight brings together the famed "Okie novels" of science fiction master James Blish. Named after the migrant workers of America's Dust Bowl, these novels convey Blish's "history of the future," a brilliant story where cities roam the Galaxy looking for work and a sustainable way of life. In the first novel, They Shall Have Stars, man has thoroughly explored the Solar System, yet the dream of going even further seams to have died in all but one man. His battle to realize his dream results in two momentous discoveries--antigravity and the secret of immortality. In A Life for the Stars, it is centuries later and antigravity generations have enabled whole cities to lift off the surface of the earth to become galactic wanderers. In Earthman, Come Home, the nomadic cities revert to barbarism and marauding rogue cities begin to pose a threat to all civilized worlds. An armada of renegade cities attempts to destroy Earth, their ancient birthplace. In the final novel, The Triumph of Time, history repeats itself as the cities once again journey back in to space making a terrifying discovery which could destroy the entire Universe. A serious and haunting vision of our world and its limits, Cities in Flight marks the return to print on one of science fiction's masterpieces.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Flying written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Gazdik
Publisher : Vault Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1581313039
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Vault Guide to Flight Attendant Careers written by Mark Gazdik and published by Vault Inc.. This book was released on 2004-12-08 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new Vault guide to Flight Attendant Careers provides the inside scoop on everything from training programs and unions to crew schedules and perks for this exciting career.
Author : HarryW. Orlady
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351563432
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Human Factors in Multi-Crew Flight Operations written by HarryW. Orlady and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the pace of ongoing technological and teamwork evolution across air transport, there has never been a greater need to master the application and effective implementation of leading edge human factors knowledge. Human Factors in Multi-Crew Flight Operations does just that. Written from the perspective of the well-informed pilot it provides a vivid, practical context for the appreciation of Human Factors, pitched at a level for those studying or engaged in current air transport operations. Features Include: - A unique seamless text, intensively reviewed by subject specialists. - Contemporary regulatory requirements from ICAO and references to FAA and JAA. - Comprehensive detail on the evolutionary development of air transport Human Factors. - Key statistics and analysis on the size and scope of the industry. - In-depth demonstration of the essential contribution of human factors in solving current aviation problems, air transport safety and certification. - Future developments in human factors as a 'core technology'. - Extensive appendices, glossary and indexes for ease of reference. The only book available to map the evolution, growth and future expansion of human factors in aviation, it will be the text for pilots and flight attendants and an essential resource for engineers, scientists, managers, air traffic controllers, regulators, educators, researchers and serious students.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 982 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book The Red Cross Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1018 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Red Cross Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bulletin no. 1 includes: Letter from the secretary of war, transmitting the Report of the proceedings of the American National Red Cross. (Jan. 1906). (59th Cong., 1st Sess. House. Doc. No. 383).
Author : Kathleen Barry
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822339465
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Femininity in Flight written by Kathleen Barry and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Femininity in Flight' considers flight attendants as cultural icons, looking at how attendants redeployed the 'glamourization' used to sell air travel to campaign for professional respect, higher wages, and women's rights.
