Air Born

Author : Kenneth Oppel
Publisher : EOS
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015059296601

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Airborn by Kenneth Oppel Pdf

Sailing toward dawn, and I was perched atop the crow's nest, being the ship's eyes. We were two nights out of Sydney, and there'd been no weather to speak of so far. I was keeping watch on a dark stack of nimbus clouds off to the northwest, but we were leaving it far behind, and it looked to be smooth going all the way back to Lionsgate City. Like riding a cloud. . . . Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora, a huge airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean, ferrying wealthy passengers from city to city. It is the life Matt's always wanted; convinced he's lighter than air, he imagines himself as buoyant as the hydrium gas that powers his ship. One night he meets a dying balloonist who speaks of beautiful creatures drifting through the skies. It is only after Matt meets the balloonist's granddaughter that he realizes that the man's ravings may, in fact, have been true, and that the creatures are completely real and utterly mysterious. In a swashbuckling adventure reminiscent of Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevenson, Kenneth Oppel, author of the best-selling Silverwing trilogy, creates an imagined world in which the air is populated by transcontinental voyagers, pirates, and beings never before dreamed of by the humans who sail the skies.

Author : Kenneth Oppel
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443441797

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Kenneth Oppel Airborn Series: Three-Book Bundle by Kenneth Oppel Pdf

In Airborn, enter a past in which airplanes have never been invented, giant airships rule the skies and the glittering skyscrapers of Lionsgate City, Canada’s greatest metropolis, rise near the Pacificus Ocean. When Matt Cruse, the cabin boy on the luxury airship Aurora, fearlessly performs a dramatic rescue to save an old man from his damaged hot air balloon, he doesn’t know what events he’s setting in motion. Will he and the balloonist’s fiery granddaughter, Kate de Vries, be able to solve the mystery of impossible flying creatures seen among the clouds? And will they figure it out before pirates and shipwreck end their voyage forever? Pushed high into the sky by a storm over the Indian Ocean, the decrepit training ship Flotsam makes an astonishing discovery before being forced to descend. Adrift at 20,000 feet is a tattered, ice-crusted airship bearing the name Hyperion. Could it really be the legendary lost craft, now a vast treasure and a frozen mausoleum to a ghostly crew? Matt Cruse is the only member of Flotsam’s oxygen-starved crew able to remember the ghost ship’s coordinates—and it seems as if everyone in the fabulous city of Paris wants them. In Skybreaker, Matt and Kate de Vries are challenged with another thrilling adventure, this time among the icy dangers and strange wonders of the upper atmosphere. At long last, Matt Cruse is at the helm. Though it’s only a summer job piloting a humble aerocrane, he’s thrilled to be helping to build the Celestial Tower, Paris’s extraordinary gateway to outer space. But Matt’s idyllic summer is short-lived. He narrowly survives a deadly attack by the fanatical Babelites, who are opposed to humans reaching the heavens. Worse still, his nights spent stargazing with Kate de Vries must end when she’s summoned back to Lionsgate City by her parents. But then the chance of a lifetime boosts Matt’s hopes of being airborne once more. Canada wants to reach space first, and the Canadian Minister of Air has asked Kate to join the first expedition as an expert on aerial zoology. There’s a place for Matt, too—if he can pass the gruelling tests to become one of the world’s first astralnauts on board the incredible ship Starclimber.

Author : Jl Pawley
Publisher : Steam Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-14
Category : Flight
ISBN : 1990000258

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Air Born is book one in the exciting unique YA crossover sci-fi series, Generation Icarus. Based on the Wattpad sensation First Flight which had 1 million + downloads, this is a completely revised four book series. The fast moving action story also explores timely issues in society: diversity, the real effects of uncontrolled experiments, developing identity and community, and in many ways is a metaphor for the struggles of coming of age.My past. My present. My future.Destroyed in an instant.So, who am I?Seventeen-year-old Tyler Owen is smart, good-looking, and destined to be a fighter pilot. He's mapped out his life and knows exactly where he's headed. That is, until his first solo sky-dive, when he undergoes a terrifying transformation. Caught on camera, Tyler becomes a viral hit. Everyone wants a piece of him, including the sinister Evolutionary Corporation and a religious cult known as the Angelists.But the worldwide media coverage also alerts others like him. Driven by instinct, they come together and form the Flight. The first of an extraordinary new species, they have only one way to survive.Fly.

Author : Iain Hutchison
Publisher : kea publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0906437148

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The Story of Loganair by Iain Hutchison Pdf

Written from the outside looking in, this book seeks to provide an insight into the growth and operations of a unique airline.

Author : Steve Sheinkin
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781626721319

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Born to Fly by Steve Sheinkin Pdf

Born to Fly is the gripping story of the fearless women pilots who aimed for the skies—and beyond. Just nine years after American women finally got the right to vote, a group of trailblazers soared to new heights in the 1929 Air Derby, the first women's air race across the U.S. Follow the incredible lives of legend Amelia Earhart, who has captivated generations; Marvel Crosson, who built a plane before she even learned how to fly; Louise Thaden, who shattered jaw-dropping altitude records; and Elinor Smith, who at age seventeen made headlines when she flew under the Brooklyn Bridge. These awe-inspiring stories culminate in a suspenseful, nail-biting rate across the country that brings to life the glory and grit of the dangerous and thrilling early days of flying, expertly told by the master of nonfiction history for young readers, National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin. Featuring illustrations by Bijou Karman.

Author : Informa Healthcare
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000-12-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0748408479

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International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors - 3 Volume Set by Informa Healthcare Pdf

The first encyclopaedic source in this interdisciplinary field. This is a unique professional reference available in either three hardback volumes or CDROM.

Author : Kenneth Oppel
Publisher : HarperTrophy
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 1554685214

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Starclimber by Kenneth Oppel Pdf

At long last, Matt Cruse is at the helm. Though it's only asummer job piloting a humble aerocrane, he's thrilled tobe helping to build the Celestial Tower, Paris's extraordinarygateway to outer space. But Matt's idyllic summer is short-lived.He narrowly survives a deadly attack by the fanatical Babelites,who are opposed to humans reaching the heavens. Worse still,his nights spent stargazing with Kate de Vries must end whenshe's summoned back to Lionsgate City by her parents. But then the chance of a lifetime boosts Matt's hopes of beingairborne once more. Canada wants to reach space first, andthe Canadian Minister of Air has asked Kate to join the first expeditionas an expert on aerial zoology. There's a place for Matt,too--if he can pass the grueling tests to become one of theworld's first astralnauts on board the incredible ship Starclimber. It's a race to the very top, and Matt is determined to be apart of the adventure. But can he outlast his competition? Andif he is chosen to join the crew, will they ever return to Earth?

Author : Balaram Jana
Publisher : B. Jain Publishers
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 8170213452

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Preventive and Social Medicine by Balaram Jana Pdf

Helps You Take The Examination With Confidence.Covers All The Frequently Asked Questions.The Latest Figures And Concepts Are Incorporated.

Author : Peter Adey
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781780232959

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Air by Peter Adey Pdf

Outside of yoga class, we don’t pay too much attention to the air we take in every day. Long one of the essential elements to life on earth—from the atmospheric composition that gave life to the coal-forming forests some three hundred million years ago to the air that fuels our most important technologies today—we think little of its incredible properties. In this innovative cultural and scientific history, Peter Adey takes stock of the great ocean of air that surrounds us, exploring our attempts to understand, engineer, make sense of, and find meaning in it. Adey examines how humans have managed and manipulated air as a natural resource and, in doing so, have been taken to the limits of survival, brought to high-altitude mountain peaks, subterranean worlds, and the troughs of new moral depths. Going beyond how vital air has been to our philosophical, scientific, and technological pursuits, he also reveals the way that the artistic and literary imagination has been lifted through air and how, in air, cultures have learned to express and inspire each other. Combining established figures such as Joseph Priestley, John Scott Haldane, and Marie Curie with unlikely individuals from painting, literature, and poetry, this richly illustrated book unlocks new perspectives into the science and culture of this pervasive but unnoticed substance.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Aviation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : PSU:000012833269

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Oversight of Aviation Safety by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Aviation Pdf

Author : J. Schlottmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Aerial reconnaissance
ISBN : UOM:39015095268556

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Results of Airborn Reconnaissance and Exploration in the Troublesome Area, Middle Park, Grand County, Colorado by J. Schlottmann Pdf

Author : Paul Kalanithi
Publisher : Random House
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812988413

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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The Washington Post • Slate • Harper’s Bazaar • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly • BookPage Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1548 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UOM:39015021113165

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Safety in Air Navigation by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Pdf

Author : Lars Rydén,Pawel Migula,Magnus Andersson
Publisher : Baltic University Press
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Baltic Sea Region
ISBN : 9789197001700

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Environmental science : understanding, protecting, and managing the environment in the Baltic Sea region by Lars Rydén,Pawel Migula,Magnus Andersson Pdf

Author : Dr. R. R. Tembhurne,Dr. N. S. Mali,Shri. S. U. Shinde,Shri. D. S. Bhise,Mrs. S. M. Satpute
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781365621406

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A TEXT-BOOK OF BOTANY by Dr. R. R. Tembhurne,Dr. N. S. Mali,Shri. S. U. Shinde,Shri. D. S. Bhise,Mrs. S. M. Satpute Pdf