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Requiem For A Giant
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Author : Palmiro Campagna
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-08-30
Requiem For A Giant written by Palmiro Campagna and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-30 with categories.
Campagna explores the history of the controversial company that produced the Avro Arrow.
Requiem For A Giant
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Author : Palmiro Campagna
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2003-06-15
Requiem For A Giant written by Palmiro Campagna and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-15 with Transportation categories.
No Canadian company has fuelled as much speculation about its demise as A.V. Roe Canada Limited. When its name was erased off the corporate map in 1962, A.V. Roe’s most ambitious undertakings - the Jetliner, the Iroquois Engine, and the Arrow - were reduced to scrap. In Requiem for a Giant: A.V. Roe Canada and the Avro Arrow, Palmiro Campagna supplies us with new information to help dispel the myths surrounding the company. With an array of recently declassified documents, Campagna investigates the star projects of A.V. Roe Canada. Was the C-102 Jetliner technically flawed? Was the Avrocar a failure? Was the cost of the Arrow program spiralling out of control as historians have maintained? These questions and many others are put to rest in Requiem for a Giant.
Storms Of Controversy
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Author : Palmiro Campagna
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2010-04-22
Storms Of Controversy written by Palmiro Campagna and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-22 with Transportation categories.
The development of the Avro Arrow was a remarkable Canadian achievement. Its mysterious cancellation in February 1959 prompted questions that have long gone unanswered. What role did the Central Intelligence Agency play in the scrapping of the project? Who in Canada’s government was involved in that decision? What, if anything, did Canada get in return? Who ordered the blowtorching of all the prototypes? And did Arrow technology find its way into the American Stealth fighter/bomber program? When Storms of Controversy was first published in 1992, its answers to these questions sent a shock wave across the country. Using never-before-released documents, the book exploded the myth that design flaws, cost overruns, or obsolescence had triggered the demise of the Arrow. Now, in this fully revised fourth edition, complete with two new appendices, the bestselling book brings readers up-to-date on the CF-105 Arrow, the most innovative, sophisticated aircraft the world had seen by the end of the 1950s.
Even The Rhinos Were Nymphos
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Author : Bruce Jay Friedman
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2018-06-29
Even The Rhinos Were Nymphos written by Bruce Jay Friedman and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-29 with Humor categories.
A few years ago, Christopher Buckley wrote of Bruce Jay Friedman in the New York Times Book Review that he "has been likened to everyone from J. D. Salinger to Woody Allen," but that "he is: Bruce Jay Friedman, sui generis, and no mean thing. No further comparisons are necessary." We are happy to report that he remains the same Bruce Jay Friedman in his unique, unblinking, and slightly tilted essays—collected here for the first time—in Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos. A butler school in Houston, a livestock auction in Little Rock, a home for "frozen guys" in California, JFK's humidor in Manhattan—all are jumping off points for Friedman's baleful and sharply satirical scrutiny of American life and behavior in the second half of the twentieth century. Travel with Friedman from Harlem to Hollywood, from Port-au-Prince to Etta's Eat Shop in Chicago. In these pieces, which were published in literary and mass-circulation magazines from the 1960s to the 1990s, you'll meet such luminaries as Castro and Clinton, Natalie Wood and Clint Eastwood, and even Friedman's friends Irwin Shaw, Nelson Algren, and Mario Puzo. Friedman is a master of the essay, whether the subject is crime reporting ("Lessons of the Street"), Hollywood shenanigans ("My Life among the Stars"), or his outrageous adventures as the editor of pulp magazines (the classic "Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos"). We could sing his praises as a journalist, humorist, and social critic. But, as Buckley tells us, being Bruce Jay Friedman is enough. Bruce Jay Friedman is the author of seven novels (including The Dick, Stern, and A Mother's Kisses), four collections of short stories, four full-length plays (including Scuba Duba and Steambath), and the screenplays for the movies Splash and Stir Crazy.
Requiem For A Giant
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Author : Palmiro Campagna
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2003-06-15
Requiem For A Giant written by Palmiro Campagna and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-15 with History categories.
Campagna explores the history of the controversial company that produced the Avro Arrow.
Air University Library Index To Military Periodicals
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
Air University Library Index To Military Periodicals written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Aeronautics categories.
Canadian Books In Print Author And Title Index
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 1975
Canadian Books In Print Author And Title Index written by and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Canada Imprints categories.
New York Magazine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993-02-15
New York Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-02-15 with categories.
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Requiem For America S Best Idea
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Author : Michael J. Yochim
language : en
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Release Date : 2022
Requiem For America S Best Idea written by Michael J. Yochim and has been published by University of New Mexico Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Nature categories.
In his enthusiastic explorations and fervent writing, Michael J. Yochim "was to Yellowstone what Muir was to Yosemite. . . . Other times, his writing is like that of Edward Abbey, full of passion for the natural world and anger at those who are abusing it," writes foreword contributor William R. Lowry. In 2013 Yochim was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). While fighting the disease, he wrote Requiem for America's Best Idea. The book establishes a unique parallel between Yochim's personal struggle with a terminal illness and the impact climate change is having on the national parks--the treasured wilderness that he loved and to which he dedicated his life. Yochim explains how climate change is already impacting the vegetation, wildlife, and the natural conditions in Olympic, Grand Canyon, Glacier, Yellowstone, and Yosemite National Parks. A poignant and thought-provoking work, Requiem for America's Best Idea investigates the interactions between people and nature and the world that can inspire and destroy them.
Sophisticated Giant
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Author : Maxine Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2020-09-15
Sophisticated Giant written by Maxine Gordon and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon was one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began, weaving his "solo" turns with her voice and a chorus of voices from past and present. She shows that his image of the cool jazzman fails to come to terms with the three-dimensional man full of humor and wisdom, a figure who struggled to reconcile being both a creative outsider who broke the rules and a comforting insider who was a son, father, husband, and world citizen. --