Book Description
Exploring these early years of aviation, Joseph Corn describes the fascinating, and often bizarre, plans for the future of manned flight and brings back to life the famous and lesser-known aviators who became American heroes.
Author : Joseph J. Corn
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 13,45 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801869624
Exploring these early years of aviation, Joseph Corn describes the fascinating, and often bizarre, plans for the future of manned flight and brings back to life the famous and lesser-known aviators who became American heroes.
Author : Bobby Henderson
Publisher : Villard
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 20,49 MB
Release : 2010-04-07
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0307485560
Can I get a “ramen” from the congregation?! Behold the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), today’s fastest growing carbohydrate-based religion. According to church founder Bobby Henderson, the universe and all life within it were created by a mystical and divine being: the Flying Spaghetti Monster. What drives the FSM’ s devout followers, a.k.a. Pastafarians? Some say it’s the assuring touch from the FSM’s “noodly appendage.” Then there are those who love the worship service, which is conducted in pirate talk and attended by congregants in dashing buccaneer garb. Still others are drawn to the Church’s flimsy moral standards, religious holidays every Friday, or the fact that Pastafarian heaven is way cooler: Does your heaven have a Stripper Factory and a Beer Volcano? Intelligent Design has finally met its match—and it has nothing to do with apes or the Olive Garden of Eden. Within these pages, Bobby Henderson outlines the true facts– dispelling such malicious myths as evolution (“only a theory”), science (“only a lot of theories”), and whether we’re really descended from apes (fact: Humans share 95 percent of their DNA with chimpanzees, but they share 99.9 percent with pirates!) See what impressively credentialed top scientists have to say: “If Intelligent Design is taught in schools, equal time should be given to the FSM theory and the non-FSM theory.” –Professor Douglas Shaw, Ph.D. “Do not be hypocritical. Allow equal time for other alternative ‘theories’ like FSMism, which is by far the tastier choice.” –J. Simon, Ph.D. “In my scientific opinion, when comparing the two theories, FSM theory seems to be more valid than classic ID theory.” –Afshin Beheshti, Ph.D. Read the book and decide for yourself!
Author : Christopher Moore
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 31,89 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061807680
“Readers new to the work of Christopher Moore will want to know two things immediately. First: Where has this guy been hiding? (Answer: In plain sight, since he has a cult following.)...[H]e writes laid back fables straight out of Margaritaville, on the cusp of humor and science fiction.”—Janet Maslin, New York Times Whale researcher Nathan Quinn has a problem. It’s not a new problem; in fact, it’s been around for nearly 20 million years. And Nate’s spent most of his adult life working to solve it. You see, although everybody (well, almost everybody) knows that humpback whales sing (outside of human composition, the most complex songs on the planet) no one knows why. Nate, a Ph.D. in behavior biology, intends to discover the answer to this burning question—and soon. Every winter he and Clay Demolocus, his partner in the Maui Whale Research Foundation, ply the warm waters between the islands of Maui and Lanai, recording the eerily beautiful songs of the humpbacks and returning to their lab for electronic analysis. The trouble is, Nate’s beginning to wonder if he hasn’t spent just a little too much time in the sun. Either that, or he’s losing his mind. Because today, as he was shooting an I.D. photo of a humpback tail fluke, Nate could’ve sworn he saw the words “Bite Me” scrawled across the whale’s tail. . .
Author : Susan Ware
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 30,75 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393312553
An analysis of Amelia Earhart's life as part of the history of women and American feminism.
Author : Dominick Pisano
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 35,13 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472068333
A fascinating account of America's relationship with the airplane
Author :
Publisher : Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Courage
ISBN :
Two Dutch boys find a way to help in the underground activities during the German occupation of Holland in World War II.
Author : Janet Rose Daly Bednarek
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9781585441303
"In this history of the places that travelers in cities across America call "the" airport, Janet R. Daly Bednarek traces the evolving relationship between cities and their airports during the crucial formative years of 1917-47."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,95 MB
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 0567685144
A one-volume introduction to and overview of Christian art, from its earliest history to the present day. Diane Apostolos-Cappadona begins by examining how art and Christianity have intersected throughout history, and charts this tumultuous relationship that has yielded some of the greatest outpourings of human creativity. To introduce readers to the way a painting can be read Apostolos-Cappadona begins with an analysis of a painting of the Adoration of the Magi, helping readers to see how they can interpret for themselves the signs, symbols and figures that the book covers. In the more-than 1000 entries that follow Apostolos-Cappadona gives readers an expert overview of all the frequently used symbols and motifs in Christian art as well as the various saints, historical figures, religious events, and biblical scenes most frequently depicted. Readers are introduced to the ways in which religious paintings are often "coded'" such as what a lily means in a picture of Mary, how a goldfinch can be "Christological", or how the presence of an Eagle means it is likely to be a picture of St John. The entries are organized by topic, so that students and beginners can easily find their way to discussion of the themes and motifs they see before them when looking at a painting.
Author : Joseph J. Corn
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 10,97 MB
Release : 1996-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801853999
From Jules Verne to the Jetsons, from a 500-passenger flying wing to an anti-aircraft flying buzz-saw, the vision of the future as seen through the eyes of the past demonstrates the play of the American imagination on the canvas of the future.
Author : Patricia Owens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 37,8 MB
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1108494692
The first cross-disciplinary history of women's international thought, analysing leading international thinkers of the twentieth century.