The Great American Jet Pack

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Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613744331
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book The Great American Jet Pack written by Steve Lehto and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the remarkable history of a certain kind of flying machine—from the rocket belt to the jet belt to the flying platform and all the way to Yves Rossy's 21st-century free flights using a jet-powered wing—this historical account delves into the technology that made these devices possible and the reasons why they never became commercial successes on a mass scale. These individual lift devices, as they were blandly labeled by the government men who financed much of their development, answered man's desire to simply step outside and take flight. No runways, no wings, no pilot's license were required. But the history of the jet pack did not follow its expected trajectory and the devices that were thought to become as commonplace as cars have instead become one of the most overpromised technologies of all time. This fascinating account profiles the inventors and pilots, the hucksters and cheats, and the businessmen and soldiers who were involved with the machines, and it tells a great American story of a technology whose promise may yet, one day, come to fruition.

The Great American

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743205480
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Book Synopsis The Great American by : Alex Abella

Download or read book The Great American written by Alex Abella and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Simon & Schuster, The Great American is Alex Abella's romantic novel about a young revolutionary. Involved in a romance with Laura, a young revolutionary, Ohio Marine William Morgan, stationed in pre-Castro Havana, becomes caught up in the turbulent struggle against Batista, only to be faced with disillusionment, loss, and betrayal in the aftermath of Castro's triumph.

The Great American Heart Hoax

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Publisher : BenBella Books
ISBN 13 : 1935251635
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Great American Heart Hoax written by Michael Ozner and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clinical studies show that cardiovascular intervention does not prevent heart attacks or prolong life in stable patients with coronary artery disease . . . so why are more than 1.5 million angioplasties and coronary bypass surgeries done annually in the United States alone? In The Great American Heart Hoax, esteemed cardiologist Michael Ozner, author of The Miami Mediterranean Diet, reveals groundbreaking truths about what actually helps prevent and reverse heart disease and what isn't worth the money or risk. Discover disturbing realities from a cardiologist about the billion-dollar cardiovascular intervention industry. While a minority of patients may benefit from surgery, Ozner uncovers that the majority can employ much simpler methods, such as diet, exercise and medical therapy, to achieve better results—without stents or surgery. Most important, The Great American Heart Hoax provides a 10-step program to improve your heart health and reduce your risk of heart disease.

Sweet Waist of America

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Publisher : Random House (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
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Download or read book Sweet Waist of America written by Anthony Daniels and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1990 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the author of Coups and Cocaine, Fool or Physician and Zanzibar to Timbuktu, this is a travel book-cum-autobiography of one of the most elusive and explosive countries in Central America, Guatemala.

The Greater America

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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The Great American Whatever

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481404091
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Book Synopsis The Great American Whatever by : Tim Federle

Download or read book The Great American Whatever written by Tim Federle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Teenaged Quinn, an aspiring screenwriter, copes with his sister's death while his best friend forces him back out into the world to face his reality"--

The Great American Attraction

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Publisher : Crown Archetype
ISBN 13 : 0307449599
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis The Great American Attraction by : Rich Smith

Download or read book The Great American Attraction written by Rich Smith and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After recovering in his native England from a frivolous-crime spree through the United States in You Can Get Arrested for That, Rich Smith is back again to take another look at this great nation and its extraordinary inhabitants. In The Great American Attraction, our young Briton—along with his new sidekick, Antony—crashes the weirdest parties, participates in the quirkiest competitions, and attends the wackiest events to find the true heart of eccentric, wonderful America. Rich is fascinated by America; and America, it seems, is fascinated with festivals, parades, and parties. Follow Rich and Antony on their rollicking tour of the most ridiculous, outlandish, and irresistible American celebrations, including: • The National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa • The World Cardboard Boat Regatta in Heber Springs, Arkansas • The Oklahoma State Penitentiary's Sixty-seventh Annual Rodeo in McAlester • The World's Longest Yard Sale, stretching five hundred miles from Covington, Kentucky, to Gadsden, Alabama • The World’s Largest Machine Gun Shoot in Louisville, Kentucky Along the way, you’ll find out what Rich and Antony really think about American coins, PT Cruisers, baseball hats, dry counties, red plastic cups, “God Bless America,” and our refusal to use adverbs.

Great Short Stories by Great American Writers

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Publisher : Coyote Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 0982129874
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Book Synopsis Great Short Stories by Great American Writers by : Thomas Fasano

Download or read book Great Short Stories by Great American Writers written by Thomas Fasano and published by Coyote Canyon Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring 30 of the greatest short stories from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this new anthology begins with Washington Irving's tale "Rip Van Winkle" and ranges across more than one hundred years of storytelling, concluding with F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic, "Winter Dreams." Other selections include Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher," Melville's "Bartleby, The Scrivener," Harte's "The Luck of Roaring Camp," "To Build a Fire," by Jack London, "The Middle Years" by Henry James, plus stories by Mark Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charles Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Ambrose Bierce, Theodore Dreiser, and others. Perfect for classroom use, this outstanding collection of short stories will also prove popular with fiction readers everywhere.

The Great American Wolf

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805055283
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (552 download)

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Book Synopsis The Great American Wolf by : Bruce Hampton

Download or read book The Great American Wolf written by Bruce Hampton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-11-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 300 years, the wolf was North America's most reviled beast, pursued to the brink of extinction throughout the United States. Then, within the last half-century, public opinion changed and the wolf became the symbol of the wilderness, tolerated and even desired over much of its former range. insert. 2 maps.

America on Foot

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786425598
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Book Synopsis America on Foot by : Kerry Segrave

Download or read book America on Foot written by Kerry Segrave and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-03-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hippocrates, one of history's earliest known physicians, once asserted, "Walking is man's best medicine." Over the last three centuries, people have endorsed walking for a variety of reasons--health among them. Before the 1700s, people walked as an essential part of their lifestyle. With the coming of the transportation revolution--and the advent of such conveyances as horse-drawn coaches, railways and automobiles--walking became something that was done increasingly out of choice rather than necessity. England's fashionable society engaged in afternoon promenades as a stylish fad. While America's vast distances and sparse settlements made this activity impractical, Americans nevertheless took to walking in other ways, including engaging in long distance walking competitions complete with spectators and prize money. Thus, for most of the twentieth century, the activity of walking was much more than a means of transportation. Beginning with the history of walking as a social activity, the book discusses the various issues which have affected walkers, including increased automobile traffic, the attention of the marketing industry and pedestrian regulations. The work examines the contemplative, psychological and observational qualities of walking as well as famous personalities--including Leonardo da Vinci, William Shakespeare, John Keats and John James Audubon--who endorsed these intellectual qualifications. During the 1970s fitness boom, walking was reinvented yet again, becoming an activity of numbers and equations as participants fought to maximize health benefits. The book concludes with a legal analysis of pedestrianism as it relates to sharing space with the automobile.

Great American Sailing Stories

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493033743
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Great American Sailing Stories by : Tom McCarthy

Download or read book Great American Sailing Stories written by Tom McCarthy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few people would want to test their mettle in an ice-encrusted boat with an Arctic explorer, sail the Straits of Magellan with Joshua Slocum, or watch with Owen Chase as an angry whale sends his ship to the bottom, thousands of miles from the nearest land. But it's quite another thing to read these true accounts while settled into a favorite chair. Slocum and Chase persevered in the face of travails that would have given Job pause. Their stoic accounts are stronger and more dramatic for their total lack of affection, their frankness, and their lack of ego. Their gripping stories are custom-made for the imaginative reader who seeks adventure in a more controlled environment, safe and warm, and well fed - civilized readers with their armchairs anchored firmly to the living room floor. Rich in drama and history, here are stories that will entertain, inform, and inspire--enduring stories that have attracted generations of readers.

Great American Golf Stories

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493073451
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Great American Golf Stories written by Jeff Silverman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-04-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the day several hundred years ago that a Scottish shepherd first struck a rock with a shillelagh, perhaps no single athletic pursuit has brought man more joy and frustration, more fulfillment and utter despair, than the game of golf. It has been said by many that it is a microcosm of life itself—a beautiful game which tests the mind, body, and spirit. And as a testament to that, there is no shortage of inspired writing on the topic, as golf has long caught the interest and imagination of some of the world's finest and most celebrated writers. In Great American Golf Stories, editor Jeff Silverman collects some of the best classic writings, both fact and realistic fiction, that reflect the rich history, tradition, agony, and ecstasy of one of our most enduring and endearing pastimes. With contributions from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ring Lardner, Charles E. Van Loan, and many more . . .

Great American Shipwreck Stories

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493033727
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Great American Shipwreck Stories written by Tom McCarthy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great American Shipwreck Stories is a magnificent collection of gripping accounts of a ship's encounter with a great whale or an overwhelming monsoon or a disastrous passage through the Straits of Magellan, leading to a wreck and a crew's harrowing plight for survival on the open seas or on a desert island. Capturing all the elements of ancient and powerful tragedy, this book is chockful of thrilling tales of survival - as well as a frightful examination of man's darkest impulses - which allow the reader a gruesome glimpse behind the veil of honor and bravery that history often ascribes to such men of the sea. These are all stories that have endured the test of time, and have attracted discerning readers for generations. Includes stories by Joseph Conrad, Erskine Childers, Joshua Slocum, James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Hakluyt, Owen Chase, and many others.

Eating History

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231140928
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (49 download)

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Book Synopsis Eating History by : Andrew F. Smith

Download or read book Eating History written by Andrew F. Smith and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prologue -- Oliver Evans's automated mill -- The Erie Canal -- Delmonico's -- Sylvester Graham's reforms -- Cyrus McCormick's reaper -- A multiethnic smorgasbord -- Giving thanks -- Gail Borden's canned milk -- The homogenizing war -- The transcontinental railroad -- Fair food -- Henry Crowell's Quaker special -- Wilbur O. Atwater's calorimeter -- The Cracker Jack snack -- Fannie Farmer's cookbook -- The Kelloggs' corn flakes -- Upton Sinclair's Jungle -- Frozen seafood and TV dinners -- Michael Cullen's super market -- Earle MacAusland's Gourmet -- Jerome I. Rodale's Organic gardening -- Percy Spencer's radar -- Frances Roth and Katharine Angell's CIA -- McDonald's drive-in -- Julia Child, the French chef -- Jean Nidetch's diet -- Alice Waters's Chez Panisse -- TVFN -- The Flavr Savr -- Mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs -- Epilogue.

Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans

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Publisher : VM eBooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
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Download or read book Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans written by Edward Eggleston and published by VM eBooks. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the white people came, there were no houses in this country but the little huts of the In-di-ans. The In-di-an houses were made of bark, or mats, or skins, spread over poles. Some people came to one part of the country. Others started set-tle-ments in other places. When more people came, some of these set-tle-ments grew into towns. The woods were cut down. Farms were planted. Roads were made. But it took many years for the country to fill with people.

The International Confectioner

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The International Confectioner written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fast Food and Junk Food [2 volumes]

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031339394X
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Book Synopsis Fast Food and Junk Food [2 volumes] by : Andrew F. Smith

Download or read book Fast Food and Junk Food [2 volumes] written by Andrew F. Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-12-02 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating and revealing work examines the incredible power of junk food and fast food—how nostalgic we are about them, the influence of the companies that manufacture or sell them, and their alarming effect on our country's state of health. In the last half century, junk food and fast food have come to play an extremely important role in American economic, historical, cultural, and social life. Today, they have a major influence on what Americans eat—and how healthy we are (or aren't). Fast Food and Junk Food: An Encyclopedia of What We Love to Eat tells the intriguing, fun, and incredible stories behind the successes of these commercial food products and documents the numerous health-related, environmental, cultural, and politico-economic issues associated with them. With more than 700 alphabetically arranged entries, this two-volume encyclopedia contains enough listings to allow readers to research a wide range of fascinating topics. The author treats the massive amount of subject material within this reference title in a fair and balanced manner. A secondary focus of this encyclopedia is to chart the spread of some American fast food chains and commercially produced junk foods internationally.