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Luminous Airplanes

Author : Paul La Farge
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429949910
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Luminous Airplanes written by Paul La Farge and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A decade after the publication of Haussmann, or the Distinction, his acclaimed novel about nineteenth-century Paris, Paul La Farge turns his imagination to America at the dawn of the twenty-first century in Luminous Airplanes. In September 2000, a young computer programmer comes home from a festival in the Nevada desert and learns that his grandfather has died. He must return to Thebes, a town so isolated that its inhabitants have their own language, and clean out the house where his family has lived for five generations. While he's there, he remembers San Francisco in the wild years of the Internet boom, and begins an ill-advised romance in which past and present are dangerously confused. La Farge's Luminous Airplanes is an expansive, hugely imaginative, and very funny novel about history, love, memory, family, flying machines, dance music, and the end of the world.

Luminous Airplanes

Author : Paul LaFarge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780007459544
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book Luminous Airplanes written by Paul LaFarge and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even a wrong turn leads somewhere... It's the year 2000 and a young man learns that his grandfather has died. He is faced with a choice: should he return to the family home in upstate New York for the last time? Or simply let his twin mothers, Marie Celeste and Celeste Marie, throw all his grandparents' possessions away? Going back would mean the chance of meeting again with childhood sweetheart Yesim, and finding out what really happened to his mysterious father, the charismatic Richard Ente. But the past has a way of turning into a messy present, and every choice has repercussions felt long after it is made. Exposing the fragility of love, sanity and family, 'Luminous Airplanes' resonates with the echoes of repeated mistakes, and the hope that one day things could be better.

Luminous Airplanes

Author : Paul LaFarge
Publisher : Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374194314
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (943 download)

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Download or read book Luminous Airplanes written by Paul LaFarge and published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his grandfather dies, a young programmer must go back to Thebes, a town so isolated that the residents have their own language, and soon begins a romance with an old flame and reflects on other ghosts of the past. By the author of Haussmann, or the Distinction. 15,000 first printing.

The Artist of the Missing

Author : Paul LaFarge
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374525803
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book The Artist of the Missing written by Paul LaFarge and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-06-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surrealistic tale on an artist searching for his missing girlfriend, a police crime photographer. He encounters some revolutionaries, also seeking missing persons, joins them and lands in jail.

Moon Plane

Author :
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805079432
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book Moon Plane written by and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-08-22 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young boy looks at a plane in the sky and imagines flying one all the way to the moon.

The Night Ocean

Author : Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Night Ocean written by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Night Ocean" is told from the first person narrative and it follows the young painter who arrives in a small village of Ellston where he is supposed to enter a contest with his large mural. At first, he enjoys peace and quiet surroundings, but as he stays longer he start seeing and experiencing some strange things which, along with the loneliness, have strong effect to his psyche.

Haussmann, Or the Distinction

Author : Paul LaFarge
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312420925
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)

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Book Synopsis Haussmann, Or the Distinction by : Paul LaFarge

Download or read book Haussmann, Or the Distinction written by Paul LaFarge and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-10-02 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stunning, imaginative novel, LaFarge explores a secret in the life of Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann, the great architect who demolished and rebuilt Paris in the middle of the 19th century. A "New York Times" Notable Book of 2001. 3 illustrations.

Flying

Author : Richard Bach
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743247477
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Flying written by Richard Bach and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-10-29 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here for the first time in a single volume are three of Richard Bach's most compelling works about flight. From his edgy days as a USAF Alert pilot above Europe in an armed F84-F Thunderstreak during the Cold War to a meander across America in a 1929 biplane, Bach explores the extreme edges of the air, his airplane, and himself in glorious writing about how it feels to climb into a machine, leave the earth, and fly. Only a handful of writers have translated their experiences in the cockpit into books that have mesmerized generations.

Empire in the Air

Author : Chandra D. Bhimull
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479873055
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Empire in the Air written by Chandra D. Bhimull and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorable Mention, 2019 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, given by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology Honorable Mention, 2019 Sharon Stephens Prize, given by the American Ethnological Society Examines the role that race played in the inception of the airline industry Empire in the Air is at once a history of aviation, and an examination of how air travel changed lives along the transatlantic corridor of the African diaspora. Focusing on Britain and its Caribbean colonies, Chandra Bhimull reveals how the black West Indies shaped the development of British Airways. Bhimull offers a unique analysis of early airline travel, illuminating the links among empire, aviation and diaspora, and in doing so provides insights into how racially oppressed people experienced air travel. The emergence of artificial flight revolutionized the movement of people and power, and Bhimull makes the connection between airplanes and the other vessels that have helped make and maintain the African diaspora: the slave ships of the Middle Passage, the tracks of the Underground Railroad, and Marcus Garvey’s black-owned ocean liner. As a new technology, airline travel retained the racialist ideas and practices that were embedded in British imperialism, and these ideas shaped every aspect of how commercial aviation developed, from how airline routes were set, to who could travel easily and who could not. The author concludes with a look at airline travel today, suggesting that racism is still enmeshed in the banalities of contemporary flight.

Aviation

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1022 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aviation written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

U.S. Air Services

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1064 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book U.S. Air Services written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aviation Weather for Pilots and Flight Operations Personnel

Author : United States. Federal Aviation Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Aviation Weather for Pilots and Flight Operations Personnel written by United States. Federal Aviation Administration and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Interactive Digital Narrative

Author : Hartmut Koenitz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317668685
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Interactive Digital Narrative written by Hartmut Koenitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is concerned with narrative in digital media that changes according to user input—Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN). It provides a broad overview of current issues and future directions in this multi-disciplinary field that includes humanities-based and computational perspectives. It assembles the voices of leading researchers and practitioners like Janet Murray, Marie-Laure Ryan, Scott Rettberg and Martin Rieser. In three sections, it covers history, theoretical perspectives and varieties of practice including narrative game design, with a special focus on changes in the power relationship between audience and author enabled by interactivity. After discussing the historical development of diverse forms, the book presents theoretical standpoints including a semiotic perspective, a proposal for a specific theoretical framework and an inquiry into the role of artificial intelligence. Finally, it analyses varieties of current practice from digital poetry to location-based applications, artistic experiments and expanded remakes of older narrative game titles.

Aerial Age Weekly

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1042 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Aerial Age Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Course in Aerodynamics and Aeroplane Design

Author : Alexander Klemin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Course in Aerodynamics and Aeroplane Design written by Alexander Klemin and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Safety in Air Navigation. Hearings ... Jan. 22-23, 28-31, 1947

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2130 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Safety in Air Navigation. Hearings ... Jan. 22-23, 28-31, 1947 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 2130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nonstop Metropolis

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520285948
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Nonstop Metropolis written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonstop Metropolis,Êthe culminating volume in a trilogy of atlases, conveys innumerable unbound experiences of New York City through twenty-six imaginative maps and informative essays. Bringing together the insights of dozens of expertsÑfrom linguists to music historians, ethnographers, urbanists, and environmental journalistsÑamplified by cartographers, artists, and photographers, it explores all five boroughs of New York City and parts of nearby New Jersey. We are invited to travel through ManhattanÕs playgrounds, from polyglot Queens to many-faceted Brooklyn, and from the resilient Bronx to the mystical kung fu hip-hop mecca of Staten Island. The contributors to this exquisitely designed and gorgeously illustrated volume celebrate New York CityÕs unique vitality, its incubation of the avant-garde, and its literary history, but they also critique its racial and economic inequality, environmental impact, and erasure of its past.ÊNonstop MetropolisÊallows us to excavate New YorkÕs buried layers, to scrutinize its political heft, and to discover the unexpected in one of the most iconic cities in the world. It is both a challenge and homage to how New Yorkers think of their city, and how the world sees this capital of capitalism, culture, immigration, and more. Contributors:ÊSheerly Avni,ÊGaiutra Bahadur,ÊMarshall Berman,ÊJoe Boyd,ÊWill Butler,ÊGarnette Cadogan,ÊThomas J. Campanella,ÊDaniel Aldana Cohen,ÊTeju Cole,ÊJoel Dinerstein,ÊPaul La Farge,ÊFrancisco Goldman,ÊMargo Jefferson,ÊLucy R. Lippard,ÊBarry Lopez,ÊValeria Luiselli,ÊSuketu Mehta,ÊEmily Raboteau, Molly Roy, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts,ÊLuc Sante,ÊHeather Smith,ÊJonathan Tarleton,ÊAstra Taylor,ÊAlexandra T. Vazquez,ÊChristina Zanfagna Interviews with:ÊValerie Capers, Peter Coyote, Grandmaster Caz,ÊGrand Wizzard Theodore,ÊMelle Mel, RZA