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Working the Skies
Author : Drew Whitelegg
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 23,25 MB
Release : 2007-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814794076
Working the Skies
Author : Drew Whitelegg
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 27,53 MB
Release : 2007-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814794084
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Scramble for the Skies
Author : Namrata Goswami
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 12,68 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1498583121
Book Description
With a focus on China, the United States, and India, this book examines the economic ambitions of the second space race. The authors argue that space ambitions are informed by a combination of factors, including available resources, capability, elite preferences, and talent pool. The authors demonstrate how these influences affect the development of national space programs as well as policy and law.
Secrets of a Sky Princess
Author : Carol Guffey
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 26,99 MB
Release : 2012-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781478718437
Book Description
"Secrets of a Sky Princess" gives readers rare insight into the serious aspects of an award-winning flight attendant's career and provides many amusing and entertaining anecdotes involving passengers and flight crews abroad the aircraft and in the airport.
Death from the Skies!
Author : Philip C. Plait
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 26,12 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780670019977
Book Description
It's only a matter of time before a cosmic disaster spells the end of the Earth. But how concerned should we about about any of these catastrophic scenarios? And if they do post a danger, can anything be done to stop them?
Cruising Attitude
Author : Heather Poole
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,10 MB
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0062098845
Book Description
Real-life flight attendant Heather Poole has written a charming and funny insider’s account of life and work in the not-always-friendly skies. Cruising Attitude is a Coffee, Tea, or Me? for the 21st century, as the author parlays her fifteen years of flight experience into a delightful account of crazy airline passengers and crew drama, of overcrowded crashpads in “Crew Gardens” Queens and finding love at 35,000 feet. The popular author of “Galley Gossip,” a weekly column for AOL’s award-winning travel website Gadling.com, Poole not only shares great stories, but also explains the ins and outs of flying, as seen from the flight attendant’s jump seat.
Eyes on the Skies
Author : Govert Schilling
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 2011-12-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 3527657053
Book Description
Adopted as the official book of the International Year of Astronomy (IYA) 2009, this stunningly illustrated history of telescopic discovery spans the range from the first telescopes via the Hubble Space Telescope to next generation platforms, and how they have changed and continue to change our view of the universe, our place in it and where it all came from. EYES ON THE SKIES features numerous full-page photographs and is printed in high-quality color throughout. Also includes the official IYA DVD with 59 minutes of narrated text, expert comments and interviews, animations, computer simulations, science results, plus footage from observatories.
For Spacious Skies
Author : Nancy Churnin
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 37,87 MB
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0807525294
Book Description
A Mighty Girl's 2020 Books of the Year The true story of the unconventional woman and her enduring song about the spirit of America. Katharine Lee Bates first wrote the lines to "America the Beautiful" after a stirring visit to Pikes Peak in 1893. But the story behind the song begins with Katharine herself, who pushed beyond conventional expectations of women to become an acclaimed writer, scholar, suffragist, and reformer. Katharine believed in the power of words to make a difference, and in "America the Beautiful," her vision of the nation as a great family, united from sea to shining sea, continues to uplift and inspire us all.
The Brain is Wider Than the Sky
Author : Bryan Appleyard
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 31,14 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Brain
ISBN : 9781780220154
Book Description
Simplicity has become a brand and a cult. People want simple lives and simple solutions. And now our technology wants us to be simpler, to be 'machine readable'. It is time, says Bryan Appleyard, to resist, and to reclaim the full depth of human experience. We are, he argues, naturally complex creatures, we are only ever at home in complexity. Through art and literature we see ourselves in ways that machines never can. He makes an impassioned plea for the voices of art to be heard before those of the technocrats.
Skies
Author : Eileen Myles
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 18,21 MB
Release : 2001
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9781574231748
Book Description
In a departure from earlier work, Eileen Myles' Skies is a book of pared-down, cloud-like poems, wisp-like on the page yet as intensely colored as a sunset. Although their work conjures the texture of wind and the broad spaces of the sky, these poems are not serenely pastoral. Rather, Myles' sparse blank verse is concerned with the diaphanous qualities of perception, as if her momentary experiences were as slippery and translucent as clouds. A sometimes brutal loneliness and urgent but stoic sensuality results, finding its expression in simple colors: orange, grey, yellow, white, rose.
