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A View from Above

Author : Wilt Chamberlain

Publisher : Signet Book

Page : 324 pages

File Size : 20,44 MB

Release : 1992

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN :

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Wilt Chamberlain--a man who was as uncompromising on the basketball court as he was in his life. Here, in his own words, are the outspoken opinions that made Wilt Chamberlain one of the most controversial sports icons in the world, such as his admission to bedding 20,000 women while supporting monogamy in marriage...why blacks dominate pro basketball...his initial doubts about Magic Johnson and how they were overcome...and why he made his #1 enemy on the court his #1 pick on his all-time all-star team. He was a legend in his own lifetime, a subject of controversy both on and off the court, and will go down in history as one of the greatest ever to play the game of basketball. This is his story. Book jacket.



View from Above

Author : Terry Virts

Publisher : National Geographic Books

Page : 308 pages

File Size : 18,3 MB

Release : 2017

Category : Nature

ISBN : 1426218648

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Shares photographs and details of the author's experiences in space.



View from Above

Author : John E. Fulker

Publisher : Libra Publishers

Page : 183 pages

File Size : 27,26 MB

Release : 1992-04-01

Category : Murder

ISBN : 9780872122543

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Seeing from Above

Author : Mark Dorrian

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 326 pages

File Size : 19,11 MB

Release : 2013-10-03

Category : Art

ISBN : 0857734326

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The view from above, or the 'bird's-eye' view, has become so ingrained in contemporary visual culture that it is now hard to imagine our world without it. It has risen to pre-eminence as a way of seeing, but important questions about its effects and meanings remain unexplored. More powerfully than any other visual modality, this image of 'everywhere' supports our idea of a world-view, yet it is one that continues to be transformed as technologies are invented and refined. This innovative volume, edited by Mark Dorrian and Frederic Pousin, offers an unprecedented range of discussions on the aerial view, covering topics from sixteenth-century Roman maps to the Luftwaffe's aerial survey of Warsaw to Google Earth. Underpinned by a cross-disciplinary approach that draws together diverse and previously isolated material, this volume examines the politics and poetics of the aerial view in relation to architecture, art, film, literature, photography and urbanism and explores its role in areas such as aesthetics and epistemology. Structured through a series of detailed case studies, this book builds into a cultural history of the aerial imagination.



Vermont

Author : Charles Feil

Publisher :

Page : 104 pages

File Size : 34,95 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Photography

ISBN :

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Acclaimed photographer Chuck Feil pays tribute to New England with his stunning and unusual From Above series. He carries us over the states, presenting often familiar sights from a perspective most of us have not experienced. Landmarks as mundane as a granite quarry or lumber mill take on a beauty all their own when viewed through Feil's lenses.



Before Columbus

Author : Charles C. Mann

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 128 pages

File Size : 34,90 MB

Release : 2009-09-08

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1416949003

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A companion book for young readers based upon the explorations of the Americas in 1491, before those of Christopher Columbus.



Paris from Above

Author : Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Page : 106 pages

File Size : 30,25 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Photography

ISBN : 9781844300556

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The aerial photographs in this book present a bird's eye view of the streets, famous monuments and tiny quartiers of Paris.



A Visit from the Goon Squad

Author : Jennifer Egan

Publisher : Anchor

Page : 289 pages

File Size : 19,7 MB

Release : 2010-06-08

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0307593622

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption “features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human” (The Chicago Tribune). One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. “Pitch perfect.... Darkly, rippingly funny.... Egan possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart.” —The New York Times Book Review



World War II from Above

Author : Julian Thompson

Publisher :

Page : 160 pages

File Size : 24,42 MB

Release : 2020-07-09

Category :

ISBN : 9780233006123

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World War II from Aboveoffers a never-before-seen combination of annotated satellite images and expertly drawn battle maps. It aims to satisfy both the military history buff and those seeking a visually stunning history gift book, bringing the war vividly and dramatically to life by showing the actual landscapes where battles took place along with specially commissioned annotations depicting remarkable events, troop movements, heroic last stands, or even where individual soldiers stood or fell. Each of the 25 chapters features an enhanced Google Earth image, along with specially commissioned battle maps showing every facet of the conflict in exceptional detail. Here you will find all the key milestones of World War II: the invasion of France, Germany's first blitzkrieg offensives, the Battle of Alamein, Monte Cassino, Arnhem, the invasion of Sicily, the Battle of the Bulge, Iwo Jima, D-Day and the final push to Berlin, along with a host of other strategic and battle maps from every geographical location. Written by a highly decorated soldier and leading military history expert, this is an innovative, richly detailed and visually stunning overview of history's most destructive conflict.



Secondary Mathematics for Mathematicians and Educators

Author : Michael Weiss

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 10,46 MB

Release : 2021

Category : Education

ISBN : 9781315100968

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In this engaging text, Michael Weiss offers an advanced view of the secondary mathematics curriculum through the prism of theory, analysis, and history, aiming to take an intellectually and mathematically mature perspective on the content normally taught in high school mathematics courses. Rather than a secondary mathematics textbook, Weiss presents here a textbook about the secondary mathematics curriculum, written for mathematics educators and mathematicians and presenting a long-overdue modern-day integration of the disparate topics and methods of secondary mathematics into a coherent mathematical theory. Areas covered include: Polynomials and polynomial functions; Geometry, graphs, and symmetry; Abstract algebra, linear algebra, and solving equations; Exponential and logarithmic functions; Complex numbers; The historical development of the secondary mathematics curriculum. Written using precise definitions and proofs throughout on a foundation of advanced content knowledge, Weiss offers a compelling and timely investigation into the secondary mathematics curriculum, relevant for preservice secondary teachers as well as graduate students and scholars in both mathematics and mathematics education.