Mayday

Author : Karen Harrington
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316298001

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In the tradition of Counting By 7s and The Thing About Jellyfish, a heartwarming coming-of-age story about grief, family, friendship, and the importance of finding your voice Wayne Kovok lives in a world of After. After his uncle in the army was killed overseas. After Wayne and his mother survived a plane crash while coming back from the funeral. After he lost his voice. Wayne has always used his love of facts to communicate ("Did you know more people die each year from shaking a vending machine than from shark attacks?"). Without his voice, how will he wow the prettiest girl in school? How will he stand up to his drill-sergeant grandfather? And how will he share his hopes with his deadbeat dad? It's not until Wayne loses his voice completely that he realizes how much he doesn't say. Filled with Karen Harrington's signature heart and humor, Mayday tackles an unforgettable journey of family and friendship.

Author : Nelson DeMille,Thomas Block
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0759525943

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Mayday by Nelson DeMille,Thomas Block Pdf

"Fascinating and furiously paced...unrelenting suspense." - New York Times Book Review "[Demille is] a true master." - Dan Brown, #1 bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, a missile strikes a jumbo passenger jet. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying both nature and man, three survivors must achieve the impossible: Land the plane. From master storyteller Nelson DeMille and master pilot Thomas Block comes Mayday - the classic bestseller that packs a supersonic shock at every turn of the page.

Author : Bruce Hales-Dutton
Publisher : Danann Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0993181244

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Mayday by Bruce Hales-Dutton Pdf

"This Illustrated Hardback book tells the fascinating story of how commercial airliners were developed and the crashes that changed the face of aviation and made flying the safest form of travel in the modern age."--Back cover.

Author : Chris L. Demarest
Publisher : Margaret K. McElderry Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0689851618

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Mayday! Mayday! by Chris L. Demarest Pdf

A thirty-foot yacht, adrift well out to sea, sends, "MAYDAY! MAYDAY! Please respond to our plea!" Hearing this call for help, the United States Coast Guard leaps into action. A team of four highly trained rescue specialists head out in an H-60 Jayhawk helicopter. Battling fierce conditions, the Coast Guard team finally locates the disabled boat, rescues the crew, treats injured passengers, and carries them back to safety. Complemented by dramatic, striking illustrations, Chris L. Demarest's text brings into vivid focus one of the many important jobs performed by the U.S. Coast Guard. A detailed author's note provides additional information about the search-and-rescue process, making this a terrific book for any school or home library.

Author : Seth Cropsey
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1468308289

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Mayday by Seth Cropsey Pdf

In this powerful and alarming defense of American seapower, longtime Navy insider Seth Cropsey blows the whistle on America's weakening naval might in the twenty-first century and the potential havoc this could wreak on world trade.

Author : Olivia Dade
Publisher : Lyrical Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616509378

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Mayday by Olivia Dade Pdf

Passion Between The Stacks Helen Murphy loves her supportive family, her close-knit circle of friends, and her part-time job at the library. What she doesn't love: the fact that she's a thirty-six-year-old near-virgin who lives in her parents' house. Eager to move out and reclaim her independence at long last, she's determined to get the library's new Community Outreach Coordinator position. Even if that means working side-by-side with the one man she desperately wants to avoid--Niceville's ambitious mayor Wes Ramirez, who happens to be her only previous lover, and the source of her greatest humiliation... Wes needs to make up for his disastrous one-night--actually, make that one-hour--stand with deliciously nerdy librarian Helen. As they plan the city's upcoming May Day celebrations together, he'll try to prove he can do better, in bed and out. It may take every bit of his creativity and determination, but their budding romance has already gone down in flames once . . . and he'll be damned if he'll let Helen go a second time.

Author : Leo Myers
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781796039610

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This is a story about what could happen in our near future as space exploration expands. A space organization is sending four astronauts to outer space in four different spacecrafts and in four different directions to go deep into space and to report back to Earth about their discoveries. The interesting fact is that each of the astronauts are convicted criminals and are to be executed; therefore, they volunteered to explore without any expectations of returning to Earth. However, there is an unusual development because one of the space travelers is a woman and she is with child. In the meantime, an alien spaceship appears from behind the moon and enters Earth’s atmosphere to take all the gold and silver that is present on Earth. While our planet is involved in these space matters, it is noticed that the sun is getting smaller and the inhabitants of Earth begin to plan to leave Earth as it is getting colder due to the shrinking sun. The president of the United States is able to converse with the leaders of the various countries to resolve these issues with the code word “Mayday.”

Author : Lawrence Roberts
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9781328766724

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Mayday 1971 by Lawrence Roberts Pdf

"A cinematic history of the largest act of civil disobedience in US history, in Richard Nixon's Washington."--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781442953895

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MAYDAY! (EasyRead Edition) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dan Stratman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1732599203

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Mayday by Dan Stratman Pdf

Fasten your seat belt and raise your tray table because the ride is about to get terrifying! "From start to finish, this one will keep you on the edge of your floatable seat cushion." --Steve Berry, New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author "Stratman skyrockets the aviation thriller into the information age with this fast-paced, dramatic story. Drenched in authenticity that only comes from decades in the cockpit...Perfect in-flight reading material." -K.J. Howe, bestselling author of SKYJACK The Tech-Liner--appropriately christened the Spirit of Silicon Valley--is the most advanced airliner ever built. Its speed and luxurious amenities could usher in a new golden age of air travel. Struggling Alpha Airlines is betting its future on the new jet. But on its maiden voyage--packed with VIPs from government, industry, and banking--this state-of-the-art plane is also a prime target for attack. Capt. Mark Smith, former US Air Force pilot and now Alpha Airlines Chief Pilot, will need to draw on all his decades of experience to make sure that never happens. At thirty-five thousand feet above the ocean, things on his flight spin wildly out of control. Smith will need a decidedly old-school strategy to save this high-tech marvel. If you fly on the airlines, MAYDAY! is a must read. Learn what has the FAA so nervous in this fictional aviation thriller. Ever wonder what really happens in an airliner cockpit during a life-threatening emergency? Then this is a book you won't want to miss. Airline pilot Dan Stratman takes his readers where no passenger is ever allowed to go - past the armored steel cockpit door and into the pilot seat - transporting them on a terrifying journey that has a chilling resemblance to recent actual events. Only an experienced pilot like Captain Stratman could bring such authenticity and frightening realism to this story.

Author : William Blake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1657
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021265339

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The Trial of the Ladies. Hide Park, Mayday. Or, the yellow books partner. Signed: W. B., i.e. William Blake by William Blake Pdf

Author : Raymond Williams
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786636270

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May Day Manifesto 1968 by Raymond Williams Pdf

Anniversary edition of the classic political manifesto Urgently relevant to current arguments about the crisis of austerity, the 1968 manifesto set out a new agenda for socialist Britain, after the failure of the postwar consensus. It sought to change the nature of the state, to drive a wedge between finance and empire, to stress the importance of a planned economy for all, and to detach Britain from the imperial goals to which it had long been committed. Today, the spirit of The May Day Manifesto offers a road map to a brighter future. The original publication brought together the most influential radical voices of the era. Among the seventy signatories were Raymond Williams, E. P. Thompson, Stuart Hall, Iris Murdoch, Terry Eagleton, Ralph Miliband, and R. D. Laing. This edition comes with an introduction from Owen Jones, who brings a sense of urgency and hope to the contemporary debate.

Author : Daniel Lohrmann,Shamane Tan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119835301

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Cyber Mayday and the Day After by Daniel Lohrmann,Shamane Tan Pdf

Successfully lead your company through the worst crises with this first-hand look at emergency leadership Cyber security failures made for splashy headlines in recent years, giving us some of the most spectacular stories of the year. From the Solar Winds hack to the Colonial Pipeline ransomware event, these incidents highlighted the centrality of competent crisis leadership. Cyber Mayday and the Day After offers readers a roadmap to leading organizations through dramatic emergencies by mining the wisdom of C-level executives from around the globe. It’s loaded with interviews with managers and leaders who've been through the crucible and survived to tell the tale. From former FBI agents to Chief Information Security Officers, these leaders led their companies and agencies through the worst of times and share their hands-on wisdom. In this book, you’ll find out: What leaders wish they'd known before an emergency and how they've created a crisis game plan for future situations How executive-level media responses can maintain – or shatter – consumer and public trust in your firm How to use communication, coordination, teamwork, and partnerships with vendors and law enforcement to implement your crisis response Cyber Mayday and the Day After is a must-read experience that offers managers, executives, and other current or aspiring leaders a first-hand look at how to lead others through rapidly evolving crises.

Author : Michael Beschloss
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781504039369

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Mayday by Michael Beschloss Pdf

The “definitive” book on the U-2 episode and its disastrous impact on the future of the Cold War (Kirkus Reviews). On May Day 1960, Soviet forces downed a CIA spy plane flown deep into Soviet territory by Francis Gary Powers two weeks before a crucial summit. This forced President Dwight Eisenhower to decide whether, in an effort to save the meeting, to admit to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev—and the world—that he had secretly ordered Powers’s flight, or to claim that the CIA could take such a significant step without his approval. In rich and fascinating detail, Mayday explores the years of U-2 flights, which Eisenhower deemed “an act of war,” the US government’s misconceived attempt to cover up the true purpose of the flight, Khrushchev’s dramatic revelation that Powers was alive and in Soviet custody, and the show trial that sentenced the pilot to prison and hard labor. From a U-2’s cramped cockpit to tense meetings in the Oval Office, the Kremlin, Camp David, CIA headquarters, the Élysée Palace, and Number Ten Downing Street, historian Michael Beschloss draws on previously unavailable CIA documents, diaries, and letters, as well as the recollections of Eisenhower’s aides, to reveal the full high-stakes drama and bring to life its key figures, which also include Richard Nixon, Allen Dulles, and Charles de Gaulle. An impressive work of scholarship with the dramatic pacing a spy thriller, Mayday “may be one of the best stories yet written about just how those grand men of diplomacy and intrigue conducted our business” (Time).

Author : Marion F. Sturkey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : 0965081435

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Mayday by Marion F. Sturkey Pdf

MAYDAY examines airline accidents caused by mechanical failure, fire, mid-air collision, terrorist hijacking, and human error. Also, accidents caused by sabotage, suicide, fuel exhaustion, mistaken identity shoot-down, spatial disorientation, bad weather, controlled flight into terrain, and other perils. The author is a former military and commercial pilot. Armed with meticulous research, he cuts through the fog of technical aviation jargon and describes each accident in easy to understand layman's language. For each accident the reader witnesses the aerial crisis, the crash, the "black-box" recordings, the investigation, and the often elusive Probable Cause. Readers re-live the airline accidents which have marred man's conquest of the skies. MAYDAY is a gut-wrenching and mesmerizing read for all Aviation Enthusiasts.