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Book Dreams of Flight

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  • Author : Fran Martin
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2021-11-08
  • ISBN : 1478022221
  • Pages : 235 pages

Download or read book Dreams of Flight written by Fran Martin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dreams of Flight, Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad. On one hand, unmarried middle-class women in the single-child generations are encouraged to develop themselves as professional human capital through international education, molding themselves into independent, cosmopolitan, career-oriented individuals. On the other, strong neotraditionalist state, social, and familial pressures of the post-Mao era push them back toward marriage and family by age thirty. Martin examines these women’s motivations for studying in Australia and traces their embodied and emotional experiences of urban life, social media worlds, work in low-skilled and professional jobs, romantic relationships, religion, Chinese patriotism, and changed self-understanding after study abroad. Martin illustrates how emerging forms of gender, class, and mobility fundamentally transform the basis of identity for a whole generation of Chinese women.

Book Flight of Dreams

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  • Author : Ariel Lawhon
  • Publisher : Anchor
  • Release : 2017-01-10
  • ISBN : 1101873922
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Flight of Dreams written by Ariel Lawhon and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia, here is a suspenseful, heart-wrenching novel that brings the fateful voyage of the Hindenburg to life. On the evening of May 3rd, 1937, ninety-seven people board the Hindenburg for its final, doomed flight. Among them are a frightened stewardess who is not what she seems; the steadfast navigator determined to win her heart; a naive cabin boy eager to earn a permanent position; an impetuous journalist who has been blacklisted in her native Germany; and an enigmatic American businessman with a score to settle. Over the course of three champagne-soaked days, their lies, fears, agendas, and hopes for the future will be revealed—and one in their party will set a plot in motion that will have devastating consequences for them all.

Book Flight Dreams

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  • Author : Michael Craft
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2013-07-23
  • ISBN : 1480433969
  • Pages : 403 pages

Download or read book Flight Dreams written by Michael Craft and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVA masterpiece of mystery and suspense, this is the moving story of a man struggling to come to terms with his sexuality /divDIV Investigative journalist Mark Manning is on the trail of a story that could make his career. Airline heiress Helena Carter, who vanished seven years ago, is about to be declared legally dead. Her fortune, valued at over one hundred million dollars, will go to the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago and the Federated Cat Clubs of America./divDIV /divDIVManning is the only one who believes that the missing Chicago socialite is still alive. And he’s just been given an ultimatum by his publisher: Prove it, or he’s history. Determined to keep his job—and hoping to secure the five-hundred-thousand-dollar reward from Carter’s estate, as well as the coveted Partridge Prize for investigative journalism—Manning enters a world of religious fanatics who could turn back the clock on gay rights. At the same time, Manning grapples with his own sexuality as he falls in love for the first time—with the man of his dreams./divDIV /divDIVFlight Dreams is the first book in Michael Craft’s Mark Manning series, which continues with Eye Contact and Body Language./div/div

Book Dreams of Flight

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  • Author : Janet R. Daly Bednarek
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 2003-04-24
  • ISBN : 9781585442577
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Dreams of Flight written by Janet R. Daly Bednarek and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-24 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General aviation encompasses all the ways aircraft are used beyond commercial and military flying: private flights, barnstormers, cropdusters, and so on. Authors Janet and Michael Bednarek have taken on the formidable task of discussing the hundred-year history of this broad and diverse field by focusing on the most important figures and organizations in general aviation and the major producers of general aviation aircraft and engines. This history examines the many airplanes used in general aviation, from early Wright and Curtiss aircraft to the Piper Cub and the Lear Jet. The authors trace the careers of birdmen, birdwomen, barnstormers, and others who shaped general aviation—from Clyde Cessna and the Stinson family of San Antonio to Olive Ann Beech and Paul Poberezny of Milwaukee. They explain how the development of engines influenced the development of aircraft, from the E-107 that powered the 1929 Aeronca C-2, the first affordable personal aircraft, to the Continental A-40 that powered the Piper Cub, and the Pratt and Whitney PT-6 turboprop used on many aircraft after World War II. In addition, the authors chart the boom and bust cycle of general aviation manufacturers, the rising costs and increased regulations that have accompanied a decline in pilots, the creation of an influential general aviation lobby in Washington, and the growing popularity of “type” clubs, created to maintain aircraft whose average age is twenty-eight years. This book provides readers with a sense of the scope and richness of the history of general aviation in the United States. An epilogue examining the consequences of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, provides a cautionary note.

Book Eye Contact

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  • Author : Michael Craft
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2013-07-23
  • ISBN : 1480433950
  • Pages : 535 pages

Download or read book Eye Contact written by Michael Craft and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVReporter Mark Manning searches for a killer and stumbles upon a stunning conspiracy /divDIV Chicago Journal reporter Mark Manning has been called in to replace a colleague on a big story. Famed Swiss astrophysicist Pavo Zarnik has just stunned the science world with his announcement that he’s discovered a tenth planet in our solar system. Manning is skeptical of Zarnik’s claims and believes he’s a fraud. His suspicions grow when his fellow reporter—award-winning journalist Clifford Nolan—turns up dead, his laptop missing./divDIV /divDIVNow, Manning is covering two breaking stories and coping with the not-entirely-unwanted advances of twenty-something reporter David Bosch. In a committed relationship with architect Neil Waite, Manning is determined to resist temptation. But he soon has bigger things to worry about. On the edge of a far-reaching political conspiracy, Manning matches wits with a killer whose agenda is about to become chillingly clear./divDIV /divDIVEye Contact is the second book in Michael Craft’s Mark Manning series, which also includes Flight Dreams and Body Language./div/div

Book Dreams of Flight

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  • Author : Dana Polan
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2021-11-09
  • ISBN : 0520379292
  • Pages : 283 pages

Download or read book Dreams of Flight written by Dana Polan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Engineering The great escape : from book to film (and in-between) -- Tunneling in : The great escape : style, theme, and structure -- After-lives -- Appendix : "It really happened".

Book Dreams of Flight

Download or read book Dreams of Flight written by Eun Phil and published by Big and SMALL. This book was released on 2020 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People saw birds flying freely in the sky. They wanted to fly too. But people do not have wings, so how could they invent them? Follow a dream of flying that slowly became true. Now at last, people can go where no bird has ever flown.

Book Flying Free

Download or read book Flying Free written by Karyn Parsons and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to earn her pilot's license"--

Book Penguin Dreams

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  • Author : J.otto Seibold
  • Publisher : Chronicle Books
  • Release : 2005-09-29
  • ISBN : 9780811851008
  • Pages : 42 pages

Download or read book Penguin Dreams written by J.otto Seibold and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2005-09-29 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chongo Chingi the penguin has a dream in which he experiences the excitement of flying, but then he must wake up.

Book Hillary Rodham Clinton

Download or read book Hillary Rodham Clinton written by Kathleen Krull and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This very first picture book about Senator Hillary Clinton chronicles her life from her childhood in Chicago to serving as the nation's First Lady to her own campaign for President of the United States. Full color.

Book Dirigible Dreams

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  • Author : C. Michael Hiam
  • Publisher : ForeEdge from University Press of New England
  • Release : 2014-10-07
  • ISBN : 1611686970
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Dirigible Dreams written by C. Michael Hiam and published by ForeEdge from University Press of New England. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the story of airshipsÑmanmade flying machines without wingsÑfrom their earliest beginnings to the modern era of blimps. In postcards and advertisements, the sleek, silver, cigar-shaped airships, or dirigibles, were the embodiment of futuristic visions of air travel. They immediately captivated the imaginations of people worldwide, but in less than fifty years dirigibleÊbecame a byword for doomed futurism, an Icarian figure of industrial hubris. Dirigible Dreams looks back on this bygone era, when the future of exploration, commercial travel, and warfare largely involved the prospect of wingless flight. In Dirigible Dreams, C. Michael Hiam celebrates the legendary figures of this promising technology in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesÑthe pioneering aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, the doomed polar explorers S. A. AndrŽe and Walter Wellman, and the great Prussian inventor and promoter Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, among otherÊpivotal figuresÑand recounts fascinating stories of exploration, transatlantic journeys, and floating armadas that rained death during World War I. While there were triumphs, such as the polar flight of the Norge, most of these tales are of disaster and woe, culminating in perhaps the most famous disaster of all time, the crash of the Hindenburg. This story of daring men and their flying machines, dreamers and adventurers who pushed modern technology toÑand often beyondÑits limitations, is an informative and exciting mix of history, technology, awe-inspiring exploits, and warfare that will captivate readers with its depiction of a lost golden age of air travel. Readable and authoritative, enlivened by colorful characters and nail-biting drama,ÊDirigible DreamsÊwill appeal to a new generation of general readers and scholars interested in the origins of modern aviation.

Book Airborne Dreams

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  • Author : Christine R. Yano
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2011-01-25
  • ISBN : 0822348500
  • Pages : 247 pages

Download or read book Airborne Dreams written by Christine R. Yano and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of Pan Ams Nisei stewardess program (1955&–1972), through which the airline hired Japanese American (and later other Asian and Asian American) stewardesses, ostensibly for their Asian-language skills.

Book Let Your Dreams Take Flight

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  • Author : TeNisha Oliphant
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-10-04
  • ISBN : 9781696781923
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Let Your Dreams Take Flight written by TeNisha Oliphant and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let Your Dreams Take Flight is a compilation of stories from Moms who dared to dream. Not just dared, but fought to make their dreams come true! Fighting beyond the emotional pain and scars of abandonment, neglect, sexual and physical abuse, financial distress, grief and such trauma. Holding and keeping secrets while carrying the weight of the world, friends, family, children, coworkers, friends... from childhood to motherhood to purpose. These four Moms were yet empowered to push through their pain to experience living life full out in their dreams, gifts, purpose. But ultimately, Let Your Dreams Take Flight is a story of the JOURNEY to finding out their true purpose and doing everything possible to fulfill it every day since the discovery. You, too, are more than just a Mom! You have dreams, inspirations, aspirations, passions, gifts, talents, skills, intellect beyond boundaries. There are no limitations to what any of us can do, because we are creative beings. Each of us... and it doesn't matter what "hat" you are wearing, i.e. mother, wife, sister, daughter, friend, coworker. At the core of you lies a dream, which is not a dream at all. It only feels like a dream because it is big and scary. That's how you know exactly what you are called to do. It's a journey, and once you have accepted it, everything else will fall in line. These authors' message is clear: Don't Quit! There is more for you to do... seek it, find it, do it!

Book Say Yes

Download or read book Say Yes written by Britt Mooney and published by Iron Stream Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Say Yes is the epic story of Phoenix Roasters and the people who dared to say yes to God, allowing Him to redeem their brokenness and reveal His glory.

Book To Fly and Fight

Download or read book To Fly and Fight written by Clarence E. "Bud" Anderson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bud Anderson is a flyers flyer. The Californians enduring love of flying began in the 1920s with the planes that flew over his fathers farm. In January 1942, he entered the Army Air Corps Aviation Cadet Program. Later after he received his wings and flew P-39s, he was chosen as one of the original flight leaders of the new 357th Fighter Group. Equipped with the new and deadly P-51 Mustang, the group shot down five enemy aircraft for each one it lost while escorting bombers to targets deep inside Germany. But the price was high. Half of its pilots were killed or imprisoned, including some of Buds closest friends. In February 1944, Bud Anderson, entered the uncertain, exhilarating, and deadly world of aerial combat. He flew two tours of combat against the Luftwaffe in less than a year. In battles sometimes involving hundreds of airplanes, he ranked among the groups leading aces with 16 aerial victories. He flew 116 missions in his old crow without ever being hit by enemy aircraft or turning back for any reason, despite one life or death confrontation after another. His friend Chuck Yeager, who flew with Anderson in the 357th, says, In an airplane, the guy was a mongoosethe best fighter pilot I ever saw. Buds years as a test pilot were at least as risky. In one bizarre experiment, he repeatedly linked up in midair with a B-29 bomber, wingtip to wingtip. In other tests, he flew a jet fighter that was launched and retrieved from a giant B-36 bomber. As in combat, he lost many friends flying tests such as these. Bud commanded a squadron of F-86 jet fighters in postwar Korea, and a wing of F-105s on Okinawa during the mid-1960s. In 1970 at age 48, he flew combat strikes as a wing commander against communist supply lines. To Fly and Fight is about flying, plain and simple: the joys and dangers and the very special skills it demands. Touching, thoughtful, and dead honest, it is the story of a boy who grew up living his dream.

Book Dreams and Visions

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  • Author : Jane Hamon
  • Publisher : Chosen Books
  • Release : 2016-06-07
  • ISBN : 1441230319
  • Pages : 199 pages

Download or read book Dreams and Visions written by Jane Hamon and published by Chosen Books. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landmark, Bestselling Book Now Revised and Updated Does God really speak through dreams? Are there such things today as visions? Absolutely, says author and pastor Jane Hamon. And what is more, God wants you to get the message! This concise guidebook unravels the scriptural meanings of dreams and visions, helping you discern when a dream is a prophetic direction for your life, what to do about a warning, how to recognize false messages--and much more. In this newly revised and updated edition of her popular book, readers are encouraged to look with new eyes at the biblical basis for this everyday language. It is not complicated, says Hamon. The voice of the Lord is speaking. Don't miss what he is saying.

Book Dreams

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  • Author : Dan Sabato
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2015-06-17
  • ISBN : 1503573869
  • Pages : 151 pages

Download or read book Dreams written by Dan Sabato and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams is about is series of plays on a theatre.