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Author: Christopher Schaberg
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2015-11-19
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1501305506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sequel and companion to the groundbreaking The Textual Life of Airports, The End of Airports combines critical theory, cultural studies, and media studies to encourage readers to think differently about contemporary air travel.
Author: Christopher Schaberg
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2012-02-02
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1441175210
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the earliest airfields to the post-9/11 turn, this book investigates how airports figure in the American cultural imagination. >
Author: Arthur Hailey
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2000-08-01
Total Pages: 551
ISBN-13: 1101203781
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCaleb Marcus is a Peacemaker, a roving lawman tasked with maintaining the peace and bringing control to magic users on the frontier. A Peacemaker isn’t supposed to take a life—but sometimes, it’s kill or be killed... After a war injury left him half-scoured of his power, Caleb and his jackalope familiar have been shipped out West, keeping them out of sight and out of the way of more useful agents. And while life in the wild isn’t exactly Caleb’s cup of tea, he can’t deny that being amongst folk who aren’t as powerful as he is, even in his poor shape, is a bit of a relief. But Hope isn’t like the other small towns he’s visited. The children are being mysteriously robbed of their magical capabilities. There’s something strange and dark about the local land baron who runs the school. Cheyenne tribes are raiding the outlying homesteads with increasing frequency and strange earthquakes keep shaking the very ground Hope stands on. Something’s gone very wrong in the Wild West, and it’s up to Caleb to figure out what’s awry before he ends up at the end of the noose—or something far worse...
Author: Alain De Botton
Publisher: Emblem Editions
Published: 2010-09-21
Total Pages: 113
ISBN-13: 0771026285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe bestselling author of The Architecture of Happiness and The Art of Travel spends a week at an airport in a wittily intriguing meditation on the "non-place" that he believes is the centre of our civilization. In the summer of 2009, Alain de Botton was invited by the owners of Heathrow airport to become their first ever writer-in-residence. Given unprecedented, unrestricted access to wander around one of the world's busiest airports, he met travellers from all over the globe, and spoke with everyone from baggage handlers to pilots, and senior executives to the airport chaplain. Based on these conversations he has produced this extraordinary meditation on the nature of travel, work, relationships, and our daily lives. Working with the renowned documentary photographer Richard Baker, he explores the magical and the mundane, and the interactions of travellers and workers all over this familiar but mysterious "non-place," which by definition we are eager to leave. Taking the reader through departures, "air-side," and the arrivals hall, de Botton shows with his usual combination of wit and wisdom that spending time in an airport can be more revealing than we might think.
Author: Lisa Brown
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2016-05-10
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 1626720916
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An exploratory journey through the airport"--
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee for a Study of an Airport Cooperative Research Program
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 0309077494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUrges the US Congress to establish a national airport cooperative research program. The committee that produced the report called such a program essential to ensuring airport security, efficiency, safety, and environmental compatibility.
Author: Sophie Bordet-Petillon
Publisher: Twirl
Published: 2017-10-24
Total Pages: 18
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Ultimate series is a worldwide success because it offers readers an intriguing close-up view of their subject with lots of opportunity for hands-on interaction with flaps, tabs, pop-ups, and more! What better subject than airplanes and airports, endlessly fascinating to children of all ages—from the detailed instruments of a Boeing 747 cockpit to the mysterious innards of a baggage carousel, The Ultimate Book of Airports delivers absorbing information and hours of fun. It's the perfect book to prepare young readers for a first flight!
Author: United States. Federal Aviation Administration
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 208
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: IBP USA
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2013-08
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1433054205
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. US Airports Handbook: Regulations and Business Opportunities
Author: Patrick Smith
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781594480041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThough we routinely take to the air, for many of us flying remains a mystery. Few of us understand the how and why of jetting from New York to London in six hours. How does a plane stay in the air? Can turbulence bring it down? What is windshear? How good are the security checks? Patrick Smith, an airline pilot and author of Salon.com's popular column, "Ask the Pilot," unravels the secrets and tells you all there is to know about the strange and fascinating world of commercial flight. He offers: A nuts and bolts explanation of how planes fly Insights into safety and security Straight talk about turbulence, air traffic control, windshear, and crashes The history, color, and controversy of the world's airlines The awe and oddity of being a pilot The poetry and drama of airplanes, airports, and traveling abroad In a series of frank, often funny explanations and essays, Smith speaks eloquently to our fears and curiosities, incorporating anecdotes, memoir, and a life's passion for flight. He tackles our toughest concerns, debunks conspiracy theories and myths, and in a rarely heard voice dares to return a dash of romance and glamour to air travel.
