The Flight

DescriptionWhen Arlington National Cemetery refused to accept my grandmother's last request to be laid to rest there, I refused to let her legacy a...

Reducere. In this book Kyong Hwa Lee combines the art of origami and the science of flight to create unique paper airplane designs for aviation enthusiasts o...

Reducere. The year is 1969. Neil Armstrong walks on the moon. Upstate New York hosts an outdoor concert called Woodstock. The Vietnam war rages on. Tom Combs...

Reducere. Our "American Girl" of horses, each novel in the Breyer Horse Collection--based on Breyer Animal Creations' top-selling horse breeds--tells a compe...

After forty-one years of emergency services, the former flight nurse / paramedic recalls some of the most challenging, heartbreaking, and simply hi...

DescriptionVivid storytelling and authentic dialogue bring an incredible story to life and place readers in the shoes of people who experienced the...

Reducere. The year is 1969. Neil Armstrong walks on the moon. Upstate New York hosts an outdoor concert called Woodstock. The Vietnam war rages on. Tom Combs...

Explains not only how and why the helicopter flies but also on the correct handling techniques needed to master the flying exercises required to ob...

Reveals the secret wartime role of actor Leslie Howard, star of The Scarlet Pimpernel and Gone with the Wind.

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Robert H. EdwardsIllustration(s): 100+ colour & b/w photos, maps & graphicsNumber of pages: 264Publica...

Reducere. When Arlington National Cemetery refused to accept my grandmother's last request to be laid to rest there, I refused to let her legacy as a veteran...

Reducere. A decade after September 11, 2001, the nation continues to mourn what was lost: nearly 3, 000 lives, and the innocence of a nation that will foreve...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Robert WhitfordIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 168Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 127 x 202 x ...

Description"Magnet Ass And The Stone-Cold Truck Hunters" is a Vietnam War memoir about Captain Alan "Magnet Ass" Milacek, the "man who flew his pla...

Reducere. African slavery in the Americas has left indelible marks on thegeographical, political, economic, social and cultural landscapes of theAmericas. An...

Reducere. First to fly the Atlantic-the navigator's story in his own wordsBrown was a Scottish aviator, born in Glasgow in 1886. Although he was initially co...

This non-fiction title, On the Wing, explores different animals with wings, how they use their wings, including how they catch their food. This boo...

Reducere. During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate, " a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived...

Reducere. DescriptionAs persecution, war, and deportation savaged their communities, Jews tried to flee Nazi Europe through both legal and clandestine routes...

Reducere. Developed by Bell in the early 1950s, the UH-1 Iroquois was the first turbine-powered helicopter to enter production for the U.S. military. Origina...

Reducere. "Blends adventure, romance, humor and pathos. . . . Offers vivid descriptions of her sky-diving subjects and the seductive beauty of the wilderness...

Reducere. Developed to replace the UH-1 Iroquis, Sikorsky's UH-60 Black Hawk first entered service in 1979. A four-blade, twin-engine, medium-lift utility he...

Reducere. Eight Miles High documents the evolution of the folk-rock movement from mid-1966 through the end of the decade. This much-anticipated sequel to Tur...

Publisher: Crecy PublishingAuthor(s): Jeremy M. PrattIllustration(s): illustrationsNumber of pages: 300Publication date: 2003Dimensions: 241 x 188 ...

Reducere. What happens when a 19-year-old girl, alone and exhausted, follows a fleeting impulse and tosses her screaming infant son out a window? What happen...

Reducere. Ask anybody what superpower they wished to possess and odds are the answer just might be "the ability to fly." What is it about soaring through the...

Reducere. At age 19 Ryan Campbell CIRCUMNAVIGATED THE GLOBE SOLO IN A SINGLE ENGINE AIRCRAFTWhen Ryan Campbell was six, he fell in love with airplanes. Inspi...

The unsuccessful pursuit of two German Imperial navy warshipsThe Goeben-Breslau Incident was a naval action which took place in 1914 in the Mediter...

Reducere. In the winter of 1947, Admiral Richard E. Byrd allegedly flew a secret mission across the frozen waters of the arctic. There, he claimed to have se...

Reducere. Dramatic, highly readable, and painstakingly researched, The Great Desert Escape brings to light a little-known escape by 25 determined German sail...

1940, Nazi occupied France. In the middle of a devastating war, how many lives can you save?Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Julie Orr...

Reducere. A book "no aviation buff will want to miss" (The Wall Street Journal) and "the perfect tale that educates as it entertains" (#1 bestselling author ...

This book presents a remarkable picture of the men and machines that played such an important part in the early history of flight.Illustrations: Ap...

Reducere. Welcome to an enchanted land ruled by unicorn princesses Cressida Jenkins, a unicorn-obsessed girl who is sure that unicorns are real, is invited t...

Reducere. L.A. Times Book PrizeOn the eve of the centennial of the Wright brothers' historic flights at Kitty Hawk, a new generation will learn about the oth...

The biography of Second World War Spitfire pilot John Gillespie Magee who penned the poem `High Flight', which would inspire legions of aspiring av...

Provides a fresh 'take' on an old story and includes recently revealed facts about the Spitfire's design, now delivered to a wider audience.

Reducere. On December 29, 1972 an Eastern Air Lines' Lockheed L-1011, as Flight 401 on its way from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, to Miami...

Reducere. Nothing had prepared her for the hostility of a city gripped by prejudice . . . With her first trial a dramatic success, Kit Shannon steps out from...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Dana PolanIllustration(s): 25 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimens...

Reducere. IT'S NOT LIKE IT'S MURDER, Mimi said."Don't kid yourself, sister, " her boss growled. "People commit all kinds of crimes for all kinds of reasons. ...

Publisher: Smithsonian BooksAuthor(s): Samme (Samme Chittum) ChittumNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 229 x 186 x 18Cover type:...

Reducere. The passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001 have earned their rightful place among the pantheon of American heroes. Flight 93...

Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyAuthor(s): Eileen CaddyIllustration(s): 19 b&w halftonesNumber of pages: 262Publication date: 2002Dimen...

Reducere. The Best Selling Series Drones is back with Drones: The Complete Collection. A comprehensive collection which contains incredibly relevant informat...

Reducere. A historical novel based on the life of Mary Rowlandson -An authentic drama of Indian captivity...A compelling, emotionally gripping tale.---Eliot ...

Reducere. Description'How to Become a Flight Attendant for airlines in the Middle East' will teach you how to be successful at the cabin crew interview from ...

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 ...

Reducere. In 1970 Yung Yung arrives in New York City where it is rare to see a young Asian woman outside of Chinatown. Modern Dance icon Martha Graham has re...

Reducere. In a time of terror for Europe s monarchs--imprisoned, exiled, executed--Napoleon s army marched toward Lisbon. Cornered, Prince Regent Jo\u00e3o h...

Reducere. Midwest Book Award (MIPA)As a furious squall swept down Lake Michigan on June 23, 1950, a DC-4 with 58 souls on board flew from New York toward Min...

Reducere. The Man You Never Knew You KnewIt's one of the most powerful and popular images in the history of space exploration: an astronaut in a snow-white s...

Reducere. Origami Peace Cranes is a multicultural children's story about the capacity for friendship in all of us and the power that small things have to mak...

There can be few technologies in the history of the modern world that have progressed so rapidly, and have seen so much change in such a short time...

Reducere. Test Prep Books' SIFT Study Guide: SIFT Test Study Guide and Practice Exam Questions for the Military Flight Aptitude Test 5th Edition] Taking the ...

On 17 July 2014 Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down amid unrest in Ukraine, a conflict that led to a NATO-Russia standoff and the onset of...

Reducere. *Winner Moonbeam Children's Book Award**Winner Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award* Origami Peace Cranes is a multicultural children's b...

Reducere. Preserved in medieval and early modern witch-lore, the image of the witch embarking upon flight has become iconic from a historic and folkloric per...

'Ghost towns, corporate cruelty, the centuries-old relationship betweenhumans and a species almost magical in its abilities ... fabulous.' - The Ne...

**Soon to be a major TV drama**The true story behind the secret of Flight 149 and the most shocking government cover-up of the last thirty years.Pu...

DescriptionIn March of 1967, Ken Killmeyer became a crew member of USS Forrestal CVA-59, the first of the super aircraft carriers. In 1995, Ken was...

Reducere. The definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid of Entebbe, by acclaimed military historian Saul David.On June...

Flight Through the Ages' was the title of the first annual exhibition of the Guild of Aviation Artists in 1971.

Reducere. In a provocative and sometimes controversial style, this guide starts where standard-issue flight training manuals leave off. The Thinking Pilot gu...

Reducere. DescriptionStanding along the coast of today's Outer Banks, it can be hard to envision the barrier island world at Kitty Hawk as it appeared to Wil...

DescriptionFlight to Fame, a classic adventure story, tells the hair-raising tale of the world-first flight from England to Australia, in the words...

Reducere. In direct and experiential language, Dzogchen Pema Kalsang Rinpoche explains clearly how to put Shabkar's classic verses on trekcho meditation into...

A propulsive investigation into the curious role that carrier pigeons play in South African diamond smuggling.

From the author of international bestseller THE FLIGHT comes another clever and engrossing thriller with a sucker-punch ending.Publisher: Hodder & ...

Reducere. You've spent most of your adult life focused on the care and raising of your children, and now they're leaving. For you and for them, this major tr...