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Birdmen
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Author : Phil Williams
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2011-04-06
Birdmen written by Phil Williams and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-06 with Fiction categories.
Birdmen is a story about our wars. More specifically, it is the story of two young men caught in the middle of the conflict in Iraq, and their attempts to carve out meaning and purpose in the midst of a war they do not fully understand. As an old veteran in the book says, Something inside all of us dies in a war. Hope innocence maybe just navet? In a sense, we are all struggling in some form or other for a victory that seems to constantly elude us. Suddenly we find ourselves fighting a battle that may provide no real sense of absolution in the end. War is truly ugly. Truth becomes abstracted. Redemption reveals itself as an often unpleasant and complicated process. Soldiers come home from a war expecting to be free and clear of the thing, only too often to find they are still carrying it around inside them. For those who live through it, the war is never really over, and there may be no such thing as a happy ending.
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Author : Lawrence Goldstone
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2014-05-06
Birdmen written by Lawrence Goldstone and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-06 with History categories.
From acclaimed historian Lawrence Goldstone comes a thrilling narrative of courage, determination, and competition: the story of the intense rivalry that fueled the rise of American aviation. The feud between this nation’s great air pioneers, the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss, was a collision of unyielding and profoundly American personalities. On one side, a pair of tenacious siblings who together had solved the centuries-old riddle of powered, heavier-than-air flight. On the other, an audacious motorcycle racer whose innovative aircraft became synonymous in the public mind with death-defying stunts. For more than a decade, they battled each other in court, at air shows, and in the newspapers. The outcome of this contest of wills would shape the course of aviation history—and take a fearsome toll on the men involved. Birdmen sets the engrossing story of the Wrights’ war with Curtiss against the thrilling backdrop of the early years of manned flight, and is rich with period detail and larger-than-life personalities: Thomas Scott Baldwin, or “Cap’t Tom” as he styled himself, who invented the parachute and almost convinced the world that balloons were the future of aviation; John Moisant, the dapper daredevil who took to the skies after three failed attempts to overthrow the government of El Salvador, then quickly emerged as a celebrity flyer; and Harriet Quimby, the statuesque silent-film beauty who became the first woman to fly across the English Channel. And then there is Lincoln Beachey, perhaps the greatest aviator who ever lived, who dazzled crowds with an array of trademark twists and dives—and best embodied the romance with death that fueled so many of aviation’s earliest heroes. A dramatic story of unimaginable bravery in the air and brutal competition on the ground, Birdmen is at once a thrill ride through flight’s wild early years and a surprising look at the personal clash that fueled America’s race to the skies. Praise for Birdmen “A meticulously researched account of the first few hectic, tangled years of aviation and the curious characters who pursued it . . . a worthy companion to Richard Holmes’s marvelous history of ballooning, Falling Upwards.”—Time “The daredevil scientists and engineers who forged the field of aeronautics spring vividly to life in Lawrence Goldstone’s history.”—Nature “The history of the development of an integral part of the modern world and a fascinating portrayal of how a group of men and women achieved a dream that had captivated humanity for centuries.”—The Christian Science Monitor “Captivating and wonderfully presented . . . a fine book about these rival pioneers.”—The Wall Street Journal “[A] vivid story of invention, vendettas, derring-do, media hype and patent fights [with] modern resonance.”—Financial Times “A powerful story that contrasts soaring hopes with the anchors of ego and courtroom.”—Kirkus Reviews “A riveting narrative about the pioneering era of aeronautics in America and beyond . . . Goldstone raises questions of enduring importance regarding innovation and the indefinite exertion of control over ideas that go public.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Birdmen Batmen And Skyflyers
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Author : Michael Abrams
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2007-12-18
Birdmen Batmen And Skyflyers written by Michael Abrams and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with Transportation categories.
The Wright Brothers were wimps. Or so you might think after reading this account of their unsung but even more daring rivals—the men and women who strapped wings to their backs and took to the sky. If only for a few seconds. People have been dying to fly, quite literally, since the dawn of history. They’ve made wings of feather and bone, leather and wood, canvas and taffeta, and thrown themselves off the highest places they could find. Theirs is the world’s first and still most dangerous extreme sport, and its full history has never been told. Birdmen, Batmen, and Skyflyers is a thrilling, hilarious, and often touching chronicle of these obsessive inventors and eccentric daredevils. It traces the story of winged flight from its doomed early pioneers to their glorious high-tech descendants, who’ve at last conquered gravity (sometimes, anyway). Michael Abrams gives us a brilliant bird’s-eye view of what it’s like to fly with wings. And then, inevitably, to fall. In the Immortal Words of Great Birdmen... “Someday I think that everyone will have wings and be able to soar from the housetops. But there must be a lot more experimenting before that can happen.” —Clem Sohn, the world’s first batman, who plummeted to his death at the Paris Air Show in 1937 “The trouble was that he went only halfway up the radio tower. If he had gone clear to the top it would have been different.” —Amadeo Catao Lopes in 1946, explaining the broken legs of the man who tried his wings “One day, a jump will be the last. The jump of death. But that idea does not hold me back.” —Rudolf Richard Boehlen, who died of jump-related injuries in 1953 “It turned out that almost everyone from the thirties and forties had died. That just made me want to do it more.” —Garth Taggart, stunt jumper for The Gypsy Moths, filmed in 1968 “You have to be the first one. The second one is the first loser.” —Felix Baumgartner, who in 2003 became the first birdman to cross the English Channel
Birdmen
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Author : 田辺イエロウ
language : ja
Publisher: 小学館
Release Date : 2014-07-18
Birdmen written by 田辺イエロウ and has been published by 小学館 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-18 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
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Author : 田辺イエロウ
language : ja
Publisher: 小学館
Release Date : 2014-02-18
Birdmen written by 田辺イエロウ and has been published by 小学館 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-18 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
交通事故を機に、鳥男となった中学生の烏丸英司。 突如訪れる“ブラックアウト”に備えるため、仲間たちと飛ぶ練習をするも、 鳥男の恐ろしい力に気付いてしまう。 さらに、烏丸に人生最大の危機が訪れ…！？ 大注目の「SF×青春ジュブナイル」 待望の第2巻！！
The Birdmen Of Kor
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Author : Louis Shalako
language : en
Publisher: Long Cool One Books
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The Birdmen Of Kor written by Louis Shalako and has been published by Long Cool One Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
The bird men of Kor live in a brutal world that is very different in spite of its savage beauty. Whether it's hunting, mating or just soaring in the clouds, a strict hierarchy of status and merit is observed at all times. As for the females, they are a prized commodity. It's open season at all times. A short science-fiction fantasy.
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Author : 田辺イエロウ
language : ja
Publisher: 小学館
Release Date : 2014-12-18
Birdmen written by 田辺イエロウ and has been published by 小学館 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-18 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
身体から翼が生え、“鳥男”となった烏丸たちは、 研究者・龍目と共に、その謎に迫ることに… そして、龍目の口から “史上最強の科学国家”「EDEN」の名が告げられる！！ 敵対する存在のEDENに対し、烏丸たちは…！？ さらに、修学旅行とブラックアウトの 周期が重なるという事態に！！ 最悪の状況で、鳥男たちが取った行動とは…！？
Birdmen
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Author : 田辺イエロウ
language : ja
Publisher: 小学館
Release Date : 2016-03-18
Birdmen written by 田辺イエロウ and has been published by 小学館 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-18 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
（シリーズあらすじ） 交通事故で瀕死の状態になった時、目の前に現れた鳥男。烏丸英司は、彼から血を分けられ、自身も身体から翼が生える鳥男となった。 烏丸に血を分けた鳥男の正体は同級生の鷹山崇。烏丸と鷹山は、同じ事故に遭い、同様に鳥男化した友人とともに、謎の現象「ブラックアウト」との闘いを繰り返している。 （7巻あらすじ） 交通事故がきっかけで、身体から翼が生える“鳥男”となった烏丸たち。 バードガールと名乗る謎の人物との白昼堂々の戦闘。 鴨田の瀕死からの覚醒に絶望し、 自滅しかけたバードガールに鷹山は選択を迫った――。 一方、アメリカでは、あのお騒がせ鳥男・アーサーが 驚くべき行動に出る―！？
Birdmen
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Author : 田辺イエロウ
language : ja
Publisher: 小学館
Release Date : 2017-01-18
Birdmen written by 田辺イエロウ and has been published by 小学館 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-18 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
イヴ達が世界中で不穏な動きを見せる一方、 烏丸は夏休みを終えたあたりから、 頻繁に白い夢を見るようになる・・・ 自らの体の変化を感じている最中、 EDENの関係者が鳥部全員に接触する事態に――― 自分たちの状況が思っていたよりも悪い事を悟った烏丸はある決断をくだす――！！