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Author : Robert B. Haas
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781426306945
Robert Haas, a photographer with National Geographic, presents his photographs of animals from around the world, which he shot from the air.
Author : Matt Higgins
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780698163829
PEN / ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing (2015 LONGLIST) “[P]erversely entertaining... In a truly intoxicating read that was hard to put down, Matt Higgins has managed to make real a world about as far removed from daily life as it gets.” --Daily Beast "Matt Higgins cracks open this astonishingly dangerous sport and captures the spectacular adrenaline surges it delivers."--The Wall Street Journal "[R]iveting... a must-read. A highflying, electrifying story." --Kirkus (STARRED) A heart-stopping narrative of risk and courage, Bird Dream tells the story of the remarkable men and women who pioneered the latest advances in aerial exploration—from skydiving to BASE jumping to wingsuit flying—and made history with their daring. By the end of the twentieth century BASE jumping was the most dangerous of all the extreme sports, with thrill-seeking jumpers parachuting from bridges, mountains, radio towers, and even skyscrapers. Despite numerous fatalities and legal skirmishes, BASE jumpers like Jeb Corliss of California thought they had discovered the ultimate rush. But all this changed for Corliss in 1999, when, high in the mountains of northern Italy, he and other jumpers watched in wonder as a stranger—wearing a cunning new jumpsuit featuring “wings” between the arms and legs—leaped from a ledge and then actually flew from the vertiginous cliffs. Drawing on intimate access to Corliss and other top pilots from around the globe,Bird Dream tracks the evolution of the wingsuit movement through the larger than life characters who, in an age of viral video, forced the sport onto the world stage. Their exploits—which entranced millions of fans along the way—defied imagination. They were flying; not like the Wright brothers, but the way we do in our dreams. Some dared to dream of going further yet, to a day when a wingsuit pilot might fly, and land, all without a parachute. A growing number of wingsuit pilots began plotting ways in which a human being might leap from the sky and land. A half dozen groups around the world were dedicated to this quest for a “wingsuit landing,” conjuring the pursuit of nations that once inspired the race to first summit Everest. Given his fame as a stuntman, the brash, publicity-hungry Corliss remained the popular favorite to claim the first landing. Yet Bird Dream also tracks the path of another man, Gary Connery—a forty-two-year-old Englishman—who was quietly plotting to beat Corliss at his own game. Accompanied by an international cast of wingsuit devotees—including a Finnish magician, a parachute tester from Brazil, an Australian computer programmer, a gruff hang-gliding champion-turned-aeronautical engineer, a French skydiving champion, and a South African costume designer—Corliss and Connery raced to leap into the unknown, a contest that would lead to triumph for one and nearly cost the other his life. Based on five years of firsthand reporting and original interviews, Bird Dream is the work of journalist Matt Higgins, who traveled the world alongside these extraordinary men and women as they jumped and flew in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Offering a behind-the-scenes take on some of the most spectacular and disastrous events of the wingsuit movement, Higgins’s Bird Dream is a riveting, adrenaline-fueled adventure at the very edge of human experience.
Author : Bob Morris
Publisher : Inspiring Voices
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Airplanes
ISBN : 9781462410378
Simon Scott lives on a farm with his mother, father, brother and sister. At night he sometimes dreams of flying like a bird. In his dreams he can feel the wind through his hair as he soars above the treetops. His dreams are so much fun that he wishes he could really fly when he wakes up. He never tires of watching birds fly overhead, especially the big, strong eagles. Simon even tries to fly himself. He flaps his arms the way the birds flap their wings, but he never leaves the ground. As Simon grows older, he realizes he cannot fly with his arms, but he can build an airplane. Building an airplane is a lot of hard work, and Simon will need help to bring his dream of flying to life. Will Simon's family be able to help him get off the ground, or are his dreams just too high up in the clouds?
Author : Vilém Flusser
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781937561352
In Natural:Mind, published for the first time in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1979, Vilém Flusser investigates the paradoxical connection between the concepts of nature and culture through a lively para-phenomenological analysis of natural and cultural phenomena. Can culture be considered natural and nature cultural? If culture is our natural habitat then do we not inhabit nature? These are only some of the questions that are raised in Natural:Mind in order to examine our continual redefinition of both terms and what that means for us existentially. Always applying his fluid and imagistic Husserlian style of phenomenology, Flusser explores different perspectives and relations of items from everyday life. The book is composed of a series of essays based on close observations of familiar objects such as paths, valleys, cows, meadows, trees, fingers, grass, the moon, and buttons. By focusing on things we mostly take for granted, he manages not only to reveal some aspects of their real and obscured nature but also to radically change how we look at them. The ordinary cow will never be seen in the same way again.
Author : Virginia Parker Dawson,Mark D. Bowles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : IND:30000102104613
Author : National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0160831512
These essays in celebration of the Wright brothers' first flight 100 years ago grew out of presentations by a group of prominent scholars in 2003 at a conference sponsored by the NASA History Division and held at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The volume focuses on the careers of some of the many men and women who helped to realize the dream of flight both through the atmosphere and beyond. These accounts are original and compelling because they examine the history of flight through the lens of biography.
Author : E. Paul Zehr
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421404882
Tony Stark has been battling bad guys and protecting innocent civilians since he first donned his mechanized armor in the 1963 debut of Iron Man in Marvel Comics. Over the years, Stark’s suit has allowed him to smash through walls, fly through the air like a human jet, control a bewildering array of weaponry by thought alone, and perform an uncountable number of other fantastic feats. The man who showed us all what it would take to become Batman probes whether science—and humankind—is up to the task of inventing a real-life Iron Man. E. Paul Zehr physically deconstructs Iron Man to find out how we could use modern-day technology to create a suit of armor similar to the one Stark made. Applying scientific principles and an incredibly creative mind to the question, Zehr looks at how Iron Man’s suit allows Stark to become a superhero. He discusses the mind-boggling and body-straining feats Iron Man performed to defeat villains like Crimson Dynamo, Iron Monger, and Whiplash and how such acts would play out in the real world. Zehr finds that science is nearing the point where a suit like Iron Man’s could be made. But superherodom is not just about technology. Zehr also discusses our own physical limitations and asks whether an extremely well-conditioned person could use Iron Man’s armor and do what he does. A scientifically sound look at brain-machine interfaces and the outer limits where neuroscience and neural plasticity meet, Inventing Iron Man is a fun comparison between comic book science fiction and modern science. If you’ve ever wondered whether you have what it takes to be the ultimate human-machine hero, then this book is for you.
Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780744037494
This nonfiction chapter book about flight is chock-full of bite-size facts, black-and-white photographs, and CGI illustrations to dazzle and engage even the most reluctant reader. The astonishing science of airplanes, helicopters, and other flying contraptions might seem beyond reach, but Microbites: Flight breaks it all down into manageable chunks of information on need-to-know topics like how planes fly, history's largest airships, early spacecraft, and other feats of flight engineering. Illustrations and photographs accent nearly every page, while highlighted text calls out important takeaways about each chapter topic, revealing new details about what keeps these marvelous machines aloft. For further learning, kids can turn to the book's eight-page reference section, where they'll find a glossary, a historical timeline, and a list of the most awe-inspiring aviators. Whether they're new to flight science or seasoned pros, readers will find plenty of fascinating facts to chew on in Microbites: Flight. DK's Microbites series takes daunting nonfiction topics and transforms them into easy-to-digest, mini-guides on kids' favorite subjects from history, science, and the natural world. Packed with eye-catching illustrations, detailed photographs, and the latest scientific research on everything from dinosaurs to mummies, the Microbites series encourages a healthy reading appetite in kids ages 8 through 12, and will leave them hungry to learn more.
Author : Russell Hemmell,A.J. Flowers,Jude-Marie Green
Publisher : Bards and Sages Publishing
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
First launched in January 2009, The Bards and Sages Quarterly is a celebration of short speculative fiction. Each issue brings readers a vibrant collection of speculative works from both new and established writers. Our goal remains the same today as when we began: to create a showcase in which to introduce readers to amazing voices they might have otherwise missed. In this issue: Stories by Russell Hemmell, James Victor Jordan, Steve Rodgers, J.G. Follansbee, George Nikolopoulos, Peter Medeiros, Robin Reed, Scarlett R. Algee, Judith Field, James Fitzsimmons, Jude-Marie Green, and A.J. Flowers.
Author : Mohamed Yasar
Publisher : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781544248080
Revealing a controversial novel about Tun Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamad. Find out untold story that hidden through breaking the secret code set in it. Within each story there is a thread of truth, something to be drawn out and learned. In this profound tale, a spiritual young man searches for the meaning of love, and through his journey we see a truth of the world laid out before us. What is true love? What is God’s real message? The unique approach of this heavy storyline, adapted from a true story, gradually brings us to a change of perception. By doling out insights and winding a compelling parable, it reveals humanity’s path into a golden age. World doesn't know exactly before who's Dzulkarnain or Alexander the Great that mentioned in the Qur’an and the Bible. Careful study has revealed matching clues in both the Bible and the Qur’an that set in this novel. Unfolds the mystery that will become clear, learn with confident and strong. Together, we can connects the truth from the past to the present for the future world. The author donate this work to the world’s top 100’s of public Universities, media, TV and news, members of government authorities particularly the leaders of the Arab and OIC countries, Muslim’s scholars and Bishop of Rome at Vatican City, with regard to making an assessment and post-mortem on the facts that we disclose in this work, especially regarding Dzulqarnain or Alexander the Great and its relationship to The Strong Barrier Gog and Magog that we ‘found’ very clear. I urge this work to be facilitate and further investigation to ensure this findings and to prevent any parties that may tries to cover up the discovery that will change the world’s perspective and prove to the world that the promises of God was imminent and is known throughout the world without any doubt.
Author : Robert B. Haas
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Aerial photography
ISBN : 9781426306945
Robert Haas, a photographer with National Geographic, presents his photographs of animals from around the world, which he shot from the air.
Author : Schafer, Stephen Brock
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781466698925
For decades we have witnessed the emergence of a media age of illusion that is based on the principles of physics—the multidimensionality, immateriality, and non-locality of the unified field of energy and information—as a virtual reality. As a result, a new paradigm shift has reframed the cognitive unconscious of individuals and collectives and generated a worldview in which mediated illusion prevails. Exploring the Collective Unconscious in a Digital Age investigates the cognitive significance of an altered mediated reality that appears to have all the dimensions of a dreamscape. This book presents the idea that if the digital media-sphere proves to be structurally and functionally analogous to a dreamscape, the Collective Unconscious researched by Carl Jung and the Cognitive Unconscious researched by George Lakoff are susceptible to research according to the parameters of hard science. This pivotal research-based publication is ideally designed for use by psychologists, theorists, researchers, and graduate-level students studying human cognition and the influence of the digital media revolution.
Author : Marvin Rosen
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Dreams
ISBN : 9780791086391
Although many aspects of sleep remain a mystery to neuroscientists, in recent years, great headway has been made toward developing a solid understanding of how and why the brain causes us to sleep and to dream.
Author : Havelock Ellis
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664633064
"The World of Dreams" by Havelock Ellis aims to take a look at what goes on in the human mind while it's immersed in its dreaming state. Beginning by discussing the pitfalls of this sort of study, especially at the time of the book's writing, it goes on to look at the connection substances, color, attention, and more have with one's ability to remember and manipulate their dreams. As such, this book served as an insightful text in the study of one of the most curious parts of existence.
Author : Orion
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1983-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780671762681
From Simon & Schuster, Dreams is Orion's bedside guide to dream interpretation—including the hidden meanings and secrets. From abacus to zoo, Dreams is a concise dictionary of dreams and is your guide to understanding the knowledge that comes through to you in your dreams form the innermost depths of your being.