Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America - Gregory Pardlo

DescriptionFrom the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: an extraordinary memoir and blistering meditation on fatherhood, race, addiction, and ambi...

Ever wonder what it takes to become an air traffic controller? Or how controllers make the whole complex system work? Life With a View is a memoir ...

Reducere. Questions of class and gender in Appalachia have, in the wake of the 2016 presidential election and the runaway success of Hillbilly Elegy, moved t...

Reducere. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2015) From Epicurus to Sam Cooke, the Daily News to Roots, Digest draws from the present and the past to f...

Reducere. In August 1981, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) called an illegal strike. The new president, Ronald Reagan, fired the...

A social history of the British presence in India between Elizabeth I's era and into the time of Elizabeth II, drawing on the recorded experiences ...

Reducere. This book is about aviation history, the pilot, and behind the scenes of the air traffic controller. It starts with the Wright brothers and covers ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Tom BeghinIllustration(s): 11 color plates, 37 halftones, 27 line drawings, 11 tablesNumber of...

Most Americans admire the determination and drive of artists, athletes, and CEOs, but they seem to despise similar ambition in their elected offici...

An Air Traffic Control specialist for over 34 years, first with the Federal Government and more lately with Lockheed Martin, Rose Marie Kern writes...

Reducere. As far back as she can remember, Azadeh Moaveni has felt at odds with her tangled identity as an Iranian-American. In suburban America, Azadeh live...

Reducere. Behind the mask of cool--a clear-eyed look at how African American inner-city youths defend themselves against the indignities, inequities, and inj...

"Engaging. . . a remarkably candid account. . . Succeeding as a centrist in public life these days can be an almost impossible task. But centrism i...

Reducere. For more than three decades, the women's movement and its scholars have exhaustively studied women's complex history, roles, and struggles. In Manh...

Reducere. In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeletons in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an ...

Powerful life lessons in a funny and moving portrait of family, community and spiritual discovery in America.Hilarious and heartfelt, Ron Wolfson's...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "ONE OF THE BEST AIR-COMBAT MEMOIRS OF ALL TIME"* BY "ONE OF THE MOST DECORATED PILOTS IN AIR FORCE HISTORY"+151 combat...

A major and controversial new biography of one of the most compelling and contradictory figures in modern British life.

The content is a compilation made of two concerts performed by traffic Strings at the radio hall in Bucharest.New arrangements of some classical na...

Reducere. "Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseem...

The spokesman for redneck America is back - and this time it's personal.

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A compelling account of a neglected but intense air campaign of the interwar period.

Reducere. Some seemingly preordained lives end up elsewhere entirely when a person manages to break the mold. Mary's mold was broken from the outside. When t...

Publisher: New Local Government NetworkAuthor(s): Matthew CliftonIllustration(s): 24 illustrationsNumber of pages: 114Publication date: 2007Dimensi...

Reducere. Considered a classic study of southeastern Indians, Powhatan's Mantle demonstrates how ethnohistory, demography, archaeology, anthropology, and car...

Reducere. DescriptionOn April 17, 1581, shots ring out in a Roman garden and a young man falls dead in an ambush. Within days, a powerful baron weds the love...

Reducere. This translation makes available nineteen orations by the fourth-century Cappadocian father Gregory of Nazianzus. Most are appearing here in Englis...

A survivor of a Japanese internment camp, the first person to cross the Atlantic in a kayak, and para-glider that jumped off of Mt. Everest in a ma...

Vow. A Memoir of Marriage - Elizabeth Gilbert

Reducere. The New York Times bestselling author of Bringing Down the House and The Accidental Billionaires tells his most incredible story yet: A true drama ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Pam Kelley"This book would pair well with Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law. . . . Incisive. . . . Highly recommended."-...

A finely wrought coming-of-age memoir about the author's relationship with her beloved grandfather Joe Simon, cartoonist and co-creator of Captain ...

A double biography of two forgotten Early Medieval queens: Brunhild and Fredegund.Publisher: Head of ZeusAuthor(s): Shelley PuhakIllustration(s): 1...

Reducere. For centuries Ignatius of Antioch has been underestimated by his admirers and vilified by his critics. Scholars tend to view him as either a carele...

Reducere. DescriptionWith the Nazi occupation of Kovno (Lithuania), her life changed forever. Zlata Santocki Sidrer was Jewish, but she survived the horrors ...

The UR: BAN MV project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy BMWi focused specifically on the user of future vehicl...

A first-person account of the myriad experiences of the modern soldier and military leader and of close combat, covering the author's 32 years of s...

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