My High Life
My High Life

Author: Denis Wood

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2018-10-29

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1543492061

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The book starts with the author’s early flying experiences as a co-pilot with British Airways and moves on to his life as a Captain and after nearly 30 years of airline flying this was followed by 10 years of flying a 1934 vintage aeroplane. Then Denis on his 60th birthday, decided to build a composite 4-seater single engine aeroplane. This project took 5 years and the book continues with an account of their flight across the North Atlantic in 2003 to commemorate the successful powered flight by the Wright Brothers in 1903 – one hundred years before.

High Life
High Life

Author: Matthew Lasner

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2023-04-04

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 030026934X

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The first comprehensive architectural and cultural history of condominium and cooperative housing in twentieth-century America. Today, one in five homeowners in American cities and suburbs lives in a multifamily home rather than a single-family house. As the American dream evolves, precipitated by rising real estate prices and a renewed interest in urban living, many predict that condos will become the predominant form of housing in the twenty-first century. In this unprecedented study, Matthew Gordon Lasner explores the history of co-owned multifamily housing in the United States, from New York City’s first co-op, in 1881, to contemporary condominium and townhouse complexes coast to coast. Lasner explains the complicated social, economic, and political factors that have increased demand for this way of living, situating the trend within the larger housing market and broad shifts in residential architecture and family life. He contrasts the prevalence and popularity of condos, townhouses, and other privately governed communities with their ambiguous economic, legal, and social standing, as well as their striking absence from urban and architectural history.

China and the Victorian Imagination
China and the Victorian Imagination

Author: Ross G. Forman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-08-15

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1107013151

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What happens to our understanding of 'orientalism' and imperialism when we consider British-Chinese relations during the nineteenth century, rather than focusing on India, Africa or the Caribbean? This book explores China's centrality to British imperial aspirations and literary production, underscoring the heterogeneous, interconnected nature of Britain's formal and informal empire. To British eyes, China promised unlimited economic possibilities, but also posed an ominous threat to global hegemony. Surveying anglophone literary production about China across high and low cultures, as well as across time, space and genres, this book demonstrates how important location was to the production, circulation and reception of received ideas about China and the Chinese. In this account, treaty ports matter more than opium. Ross G. Forman challenges our preconceptions about British imperialism, reconceptualizes anglophone literary production in the global and local contexts, and excavates the little-known Victorian history so germane to contemporary debates about China's 'rise'.

Small-town Russia
Small-town Russia

Author: Anne White

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780415338745

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This book examines a number of key questions about social change in contemporary Russia - issues such as how people survive when they are not paid for months on end, 'the New Poor', the falling birth rate, why so many Russian men die in middle age, whether regional identities are becoming stronger, and how people's sense of 'Russianness' has developed since the creation of the Russian Federation in 1992. It examines these issues by looking at actual experiences in three small Russian towns. It includes a great deal of original ethnographic research, and, by looking at real places overall, provides a good sense of how different aspects of social change are interlinked, and how they actually affect real people's lives.