Hard Landing

Author : Algis Budrys
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497653009

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A science fiction adventure told from the point of view of aliens who crash-land on Earth and must assimilate in secret—until their human cover is blown Budrys’s final novel opens with the report of a man found electrocuted on suburban train tracks in Shoreview, Illinois. Neville Sealman appeared to be just another commuter, but after his tragic death, no one comes forward to claim his body. And a routine autopsy reveals some disturbing physiological anomalies. Then a spaceship is unearthed in a New Jersey swamp. It’s the stuff of tabloids—except it’s all true. Years earlier, a starship crash-landed on Earth. Its passengers, human in appearance, were forced to make their separate ways in an alien world. No one knows that these otherworldly visitors have been living among the human race—but now their cover could be blown. Told in the form of an investigation reconstructed through direct and indirect witness testimony, Hard Landing takes the reader into the minds of its four protagonists as they struggle with the far-reaching ramifications of discovery. This is a suspenseful and revelatory novel about the elusive, ever-changing nature of identity.

Author : Stephen Leather
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781844568574

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The blistering first book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series. Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line. Working for an elite undercover squad he has lied, cheated and conned in order to bring Britain's most wanted criminals to justice. But when a powerful drugs baron starts to kill off witnesses to his crimes, Shepherd is given his most dangerous assignment yet. He has to go undercover in a top security prison, a world where one wrong move will mean certain death. As Shepherd gambles everything to move in on his quarry, he soon realises that the man he is hunting is even more dangerous than the police realise. And that he is capable of striking outside the prison walls and hitting Shepherd where it hurts most. THE BRAND NEW SPIDER SHEPHERD THRILLER, CLEAN KILL, IS OUT NOW!

Author : Thomas Petzinger, Jr.
Publisher : Currency
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1996-12-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812928358

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Hard Landing by Thomas Petzinger, Jr. Pdf

In this updated paperback edition of a "rich, readable, and authoritative" Fortune) book, Wall Street Journal reporter Petzinger tells the dramatic story of how a dozen men, including Robert Crandall of American Airlines, Frank Borman of Eastern, and Richard Ferris of United, battled for control of the world's airlines.

Author : Thomas Petzinger, Jr.
Publisher : Currency
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780307774491

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Hard Landing by Thomas Petzinger, Jr. Pdf

In this updated paperback edition of a "rich, readable, and authoritative" Fortune) book, Wall Street Journal reporter Petzinger tells the dramatic story of how a dozen men, including Robert Crandall of American Airlines, Frank Borman of Eastern, and Richard Ferris of United, battled for control of the world's airlines.

Author : Igor Korovin
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780557520282

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Air Crash Investigations: Hard Landing Kills 9, the Crash of Turkish Airlines Flight TK 1951 on Amsterdam Schiphol Airport by Igor Korovin Pdf

On 25 February 2009 a Boeing 737-800, flight TK1951, operated by Turkish Airlines was flying from Istanbul in Turkey to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. There were 135 people on board. During the approach to the runway at Schiphol airport, the aircraft crashed about 1.5 kilometres from the threshold of the runway. This accident cost the lives of four crew members, and five passengers, 120 people sustained injuries. The crash was caused by a malfunctioning radio altimeter and a failure to implement the stall recovery procedure correctly.

Author : Liz Hoffman
Publisher : Crown
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780593239025

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A kaleidoscopic account of the financial carnage of the pandemic, revealing the fear, grit, and gambles that drove the economy’s winners and losers—from a leading business reporter “A true masterwork . . . perceptive, well researched, and captivating.”—David M. Rubenstein, co-founder and co-chairman of The Carlyle Group, bestselling author of How to Invest It was the ultimate test for CEOs, and almost none of them saw it coming. In early March 2020, with the Dow Jones flirting with 30,000, the world’s biggest companies were riding an eleven-year economic high. By the end of the month, millions were out of work, iconic firms were begging for bailouts, and countless small businesses were in freefall. Slick consulting teams and country-club connections were suddenly of little use: Business leaders were fumbling in the dark, tossing out long-term strategy and making decisions on the fly—decisions that, they hoped, might just save them. In Crash Landing, award-winning business journalist Liz Hoffman shows how the pandemic set the economy on fire—but if you look closely, the tinder was already there. After the global financial crisis in 2008, corporate leaders embraced cheap debt and growth at all costs. Wages flatlined. Millions were pushed into the gig economy. Companies crammed workers into offices, and airlines did the same with planes. Wall Street cheered on this relentless march toward efficiency, overlooking the collateral damage and the risks sowed in the process. Based on astonishing access inside some of the world’s biggest and most iconic companies, Crash Landing is a kaleidoscopic account of the most remarkable period in modern economic history, revealing—through gripping, fly-on-the-wall reporting—how CEOs battled an economic catastrophe for which there was no playbook: among them, Airbnb’s Brian Chesky, blindsided by a virus in the middle of a high-stakes effort to go public; American Airlines’ Doug Parker, shuttling between K Street and the White House, determined to secure a multibillion-dollar bailout; and Ford’s Jim Hackett, as his assembly lines went from building cars to churning out ventilators. In the tradition of Too Big to Fail and The Big Short, Crash Landing exposes the fear, grit, and gambles behind the pandemic economy, while probing its implications for the future of work, corporate leadership, and capitalism itself, asking: Will this remarkable time give rise to newfound resilience, or become just another costly mistake to be forgotten?

Author : Cammie McGovern
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780525539063

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A game-changing exploration of what the future holds for the first generation of mainstreamed neurodiverse kids that is coming of age. After sleepless nights, intensive research, and twenty-one years of raising a child, Ethan, with autism and intellectual disability, Cammie McGovern is approaching a distinct catch-22. Once Ethan turns twenty-two, he will fall off the "Disability Cliff." By aging out of the school system, he'll lose access to most social, educational, and vocational resources. The catch is this: These resources, limited as they may be, have trained Ethan in skills for jobs that don't exist and a life he can't have. Here, McGovern expands on her #1 New York Times piece, "Looking into the Future for a Child with Autism," a future that often appears grim, with statistics like an 85 percent unemployment rate for people with ID. McGovern spent a year traveling the country and looking at the options for work and housing--and to her surprise discovered reasons to be optimistic. She asks the tough questions: What should parents prioritize as they ready their children for adulthood? How do we redefine success for our children? How can we sustain a hopeful attitude while navigating one obstacle after another? As Ethan makes his way into the world, McGovern also looks into the hardest question of all: How can we ensure an independent future when we're gone? Hard Landings will serve as a renewed beacon of hope for parents who want to ensure the fullest life possible for their child's future.

Author : Lori Wilde
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460309940

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Crash Landing by Lori Wilde Pdf

Stranded! Billionaire Gibb Martin loves risk almost as much as he loves a well-made suit. But when his business partner and longtime friend suddenly bails on a major venture to get married…well, that's one risk Gibb isn't willing to take. Now he just needs to charter a plane to Florida so he can stop the wedding—fast! Normally, bombshell pilot Sophia Cruz would have told Slick City Boy exactly where to go. Unfortunately, she really needs cash—even if it does come from an overprivileged guy with a very fine backside. But then disaster strikes midair, and Sophia is forced to crash-land the plane…. Now they're alone on a stunning deserted island—and surrounded by temptation. And this is one collision they won't be able to walk away from!

Author : Melissa DeCarlo
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062390554

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The Art of Crash Landing by Melissa DeCarlo Pdf

From a bright new talent comes this debut novel about a young woman who travels for the first time to her mother’s hometown, and gets sucked into the mystery that changed her family forever Mattie Wallace has really screwed up this time. Broke and knocked up, she’s got all her worldly possessions crammed into six giant trash bags, and nowhere to go. Try as she might, Mattie can no longer deny that she really is turning into her mother, a broken alcoholic who never met a bad choice she didn’t make. When Mattie gets news of a possible inheritance left by a grandmother she’s never met, she jumps at this one last chance to turn things around. Leaving the Florida Panhandle, she drives eight hundred miles to her mother’s birthplace—the tiny town of Gandy, Oklahoma. There, she soon learns that her mother remains a local mystery—a happy, talented teenager who inexplicably skipped town thirty-five years ago with nothing but the clothes on her back. But the girl they describe bears little resemblance to the damaged woman Mattie knew, and before long it becomes clear that something terrible happened to her mother, and it happened here. The harder Mattie digs for answers, the more obstacles she encounters. Giving up, however, isn’t an option. Uncovering what started her mother’s downward spiral might be the only way to stop her own. Hilarious, gripping, and unexpectedly wise, The Art of Crash Landing is a poignant novel from an assured new voice.

Author : Steven Otfinoski
Publisher : Tangled History
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781543541991

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Captain Sully's River Landing by Steven Otfinoski Pdf

Vivid storytelling brings an incredible story to life and place readers in the shoes of people who experienced the most successful ditching in aviation history - the emergency river landing of US Airways Flight 1549. On January 15, 2009, Captain Chesley Sully Sullenberger was faced with disaster when his Airbus A320 airplane struck a flock of Canada geese shortly after taking off from New York's LaGuardia Airport. With no engine power and no airports close enough for a landing, Captain Sully had no choice but to ditch his craft in the Hudson River. Suspenseful, dramatic events unfold in chronological, interwoven stories from the different perspectives of people who experienced the event while it was happening. Narratives intertwine to create a breathless, What's Next? kind of read. Students gain a new perspective on historical figures as they learn about real people struggling to decide how best to act in a given moment.

Author : United States. National Transportation Safety Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Airplanes
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126952949

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Special Study: Emergency Landing Techniques in Small Fixed-wing Aircraft by United States. National Transportation Safety Board Pdf

Author : Alfredo Eric Calcagno,Sandra Manuelito,Daniel Titelman,United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Publisher : Santiago, Chile : CEPAL=ECLAC
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822033511056

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From Hard-peg to Hard Landing? by Alfredo Eric Calcagno,Sandra Manuelito,Daniel Titelman,United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Aeronautics, Military
ISBN : OSU:32435061941118

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Aerospace Safety by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gnoey Peat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798575822806

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Review and Analysis of Crash Landing on You by Gnoey Peat Pdf

Wondering what made this Korean drama a global sensation? Or why multitudes have watched and have not moved on?This book offers a dissection of how refined each details of the series and how grand these all came together to give us a truly masterpiece of series. Ever wonder if you really understood the ending alright? This piece provides an analysis of exactly what was shown to us, frame by frame, of the beautiful finale ending scenes.Missing Captain Ri? Don't fret - we've got 100 ways he made our hearts flutter so much! Relive the kilig.Crash Landing On You made viewers completely disregard the spoken language barrier and made us all cry and laugh while reading subtitles. If this is not amazing, I don't know what is!

Author : Hilliard MacBeth
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781459742055

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When the Bubble Bursts by Hilliard MacBeth Pdf

A newly updated edition for the fast-changing real estate market in Canada! Over the last two decades Canadians have become convinced that real estate is the “safe haven” investment. This widely held belief and obsession with real estate led millions of Canadians to take on massive amounts of debt — tripling their collective financial burden — ensuring that Canada is one of the most indebted nations on the planet. Drawing on dozens of interviews and even more conversations with individual Canadians and couples, this second edition also tackles the economic conditions and regulatory rules that allowed such a dangerous situation to develop in Canada, formerly a nation of conservative and prudent citizens. Hilliard MacBeth argues that Canada is in the midst of an unprecedented real estate bubble and that there will soon be a crash in house prices, triggering a financial crisis. Individual Canadians and families can still take action to protect themselves from the fallout of the bubble bursting — if they act quickly.