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Bonfires To Beacons Pb
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Author : Nick A. Komons
language : en
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
Release Date : 1989-10-17
Bonfires To Beacons Pb written by Nick A. Komons and has been published by Smithsonian Books (DC) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-10-17 with Law categories.
Reprint (with a new preface). Originally published by the US Dept. of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, in 1977. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Bonfires To Beacons
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Author : Nick A. Komons
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Bonfires To Beacons written by Nick A. Komons and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Aeronautics and state categories.
To Fill Skies W Pilots Pb
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Author : PISANO DOMINICK A
language : en
Publisher: Smithsonian
Release Date : 2001-03-17
To Fill Skies W Pilots Pb written by PISANO DOMINICK A and has been published by Smithsonian this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03-17 with History categories.
Launched in 1939, the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP) was one of the largest government-sponsored vocational education programs of its time. In To Fill the Skies with Pilots, Dominick A. Pisano explores the successes and failures of the program, from its conception as a hybrid civilian-military mandate in peacetime, through the war years, and into the immediate postwar period. As originally conceived, the CPTP would serve both war-preparedness goals and New Deal economic ends. Using the facilities of colleges, universities, and commercial flying schools, the CPTP was designed to provide a pool of civilian pilots for military service in the event of war. The program also sought to give an economic boost to the light-plane industry and the network of small airports and support services associated with civilian aviation. As Pisano demonstrates, the CPTP's multiple objectives ultimately contributed to its demise. Although the program did train tens of thousands of pilots who later flew during the war (mostly in noncombat missions), military leaders faulted the project for not being more in line with specific recruitment and training needs. After attempting to adjust to these needs, the CPTP then faced a difficult and ultimately unsuccessful transition back to civilian purposes in the postwar era. By charting the history of the CPTP, Pisano sheds new light on the politics of aviation during these pivotal years as well as on civil-military relations and New Deal policy making.
Lit Up
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Author : David Denby
language : en
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Release Date : 2016-02-02
Lit Up written by David Denby and has been published by Henry Holt and Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
A bestselling author and distinguished critic goes back to high school to find out whether books can shape lives It's no secret that millions of American teenagers, caught up in social media, television, movies, and games, don't read seriously-they associate sustained reading with duty or work, not with pleasure. This indifference has become a grievous loss to our standing as a great nation--and a personal loss, too, for millions of teenagers who may turn into adults with limited understanding of themselves and the world. Can teenagers be turned on to serious reading? What kind of teachers can do it, and what books? To find out, Denby sat in on a tenth-grade English class in a demanding New York public school for an entire academic year, and made frequent visits to a troubled inner-city public school in New Haven and to a respected public school in Westchester county. He read all the stories, poems, plays, and novels that the kids were reading, and creates an impassioned portrait of charismatic teachers at work, classroom dramas large and small, and fresh and inspiring encounters with the books themselves, including The Scarlet Letter, Brave New World, 1984, Slaughterhouse-Five, Notes From Underground, Long Way Gone and many more. Lit Up is a dramatic narrative that traces awkward and baffled beginnings but also exciting breakthroughs and the emergence of pleasure in reading. In a sea of bad news about education and the fate of the book, Denby reaffirms the power of great teachers and the importance and inspiration of great books.
Airways Pb
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Author : Henry Ladd Smith
language : en
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
Release Date : 1991-05-17
Airways Pb written by Henry Ladd Smith and has been published by Smithsonian Books (DC) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-05-17 with History categories.
First published in 1942 (Knopf), Airways chronicles the development of US airlines from the dawn of powered flight and the coming of air mail to the state of the industry on the eve of WWII. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Ships Monthly
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Ships Monthly written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Ships categories.
Books In Print
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Books In Print written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with American literature categories.
Technology And Culture
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
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God S Hand On America
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Author : Michael Medved
language : en
Publisher: Crown Forum
Release Date : 2019-11-26
God S Hand On America written by Michael Medved and has been published by Crown Forum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-26 with History categories.
The national radio host and bestselling author of The American Miracle reveals the happy accidents, bizarre coincidences, and flat-out miracles that continue to shape America’s destiny. “A hopeful message for our troubled times . . . Michael Medved has an eye for a story, and a preternatural gift for telling it in beguiling ways.”—Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author of Founding Brothers Has God withdrawn his special blessing from the United States? Americans ponder that painful question in troubled times, as we did during the devastation of the Civil War and after the assassinations of the ’60s, and as we do in our present polarization. Yet somehow—on battlefields, across western wilderness, and in raucous convention halls—astounding events have reliably advanced America, restoring faith in the Republic’s providential protection. In this provocative historical narrative, Michael Medved brings to life ten haunting tales that reveal this purposeful pattern, including: • A near-fatal carriage accident forces Lincoln’s secretary of state into a canvas-and-steel neck brace that protects him from a would-be assassin’s knife thrusts, allowing him two years later to acquire Alaska for the United States. • A sudden tidal wave of Russian Jewish immigration, beginning in 1881, coincides with America’s rise to world leadership, fulfilling a biblical promise that those blessing Abraham’s children will themselves be blessed. • Campaigning for president, Theodore Roosevelt takes a bullet in the chest, but a folded speech in his jacket pocket slows its progress and saves his life. • At the Battle of Midway, U.S. planes get lost over empty ocean and then miraculously reconnect for five minutes of dive-bombing that wrecks Japan’s fleet, convincing even enemy commanders that higher powers intervened against them. • A behind-the-scenes “conspiracy of the pure of heart” by Democratic leaders forces a gravely ill FDR to replace his sitting vice president—an unstable Stalinist—with future White House great Harry Truman. These and other little-known stories build on themes of The American Miracle, Medved’s bestseller about America’s remarkable rise. The confident heroes and stubborn misfits in these pages shared a common faith in a master plan, which continues to unfold in our time. God’s Hand on America confirms that the founders were right about America’s destiny to lead and enlighten the world.
Essex Archaeology And History
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Essex Archaeology And History written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Essex (England) categories.