Plane Insanity

Author : Elliott Hester
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781429905411

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Plane Insanity by Elliott Hester Pdf

You're belted into a middle seat with burly businessmen on either side. It's 92 degrees in the cabin and someone forgot to use deodorant. A baby screams. A kid kicks the back of your seat. After two hours you haven't even left the taxiway. Welcome to modern airline travel! In Plane Insanity, Elliott Hester delivers stories that could only come from someone who "rides tin" for a living-a flight attendant. You'll hear about: * the passenger from hell * a smuggled python * prostitutes working the lavatories * a riot in coach-class * a heist * the anatomy of a carryon bag * a malodorous couple * the Mile-High Club * and more! Fasten your seatbelts. After Plane Insanity, you'll never think of air travel the same way again.

Author : Yvonne Lee
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9789814382847

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Madness Aboard by Yvonne Lee Pdf

Author : Lim Khoy Hing
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789814484879

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Life In The Skies: Everything you want to know about flying by Lim Khoy Hing Pdf

Life in the Skies is a unique compendium of tips, advice, anecdotes and tales from the storied career of life-long pilot, Captain Lim Khoy Hing. Captain Lim provides insights into every aspect of air travel – informing passengers of all the hidden mysteries of airplane safety and regulations, enlightening those who wonder how someone trains and becomes an international airline pilot, and entertaining readers throughout with anecdotes, tales and jokes from his own personal experiences in the air. Complemented with more than 40 full-colour personal illustrations of the Captain, Life in the Skies will be a valuable and useful guide for air travellers and budding-pilots alike!

Author : Kathleen Barry
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0822339463

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Femininity in Flight by Kathleen Barry Pdf

'Femininity in Flight' considers flight attendants as cultural icons, looking at how attendants redeployed the 'glamourization' used to sell air travel to campaign for professional respect, higher wages, and women's rights.

Author : Joyce A. Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317181057

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Anger in the Air by Joyce A. Hunter Pdf

The new realities of airline travel came into full focus after the September 11 terrorist attacks. These horrific events escalated air rage incidents by 400%, but more importantly they put the entire airline industry under the spotlight. In subsequent years, the general public began to voice frustrations with the industry in very dramatic ways, a marked shift in consumer behavior from that of before 9/11. The International Transport Workers Federation responded with a call to action to bring about major changes to raise the airline industry to a level of service quality sufficient to meet the needs of 21st Century passengers. The quality of services that airline customers expect and the propensity toward air rage needs to be understood. Undoubtedly, some passengers are prone to air rage by factors in no way related to customer service. However, a better understanding of the customer's perception of service and airlines' offerings is one way of addressing the air rage crisis, combating the contributing factors long before they conspire to provoke a damaging incidence. Anger in the Air: Combating the Air Rage Phenomenon provides airlines with valuable input to help them better meet the service expectations of their customers and avoid instances of air rage on their flights. What do today's customers need and expect? What do airline customers perceive as the quality of services and how can the gap be closed between expectations and perceptions? The book addresses these key issues in five stages: 1.

Author : Steven Van Yoder
Publisher : Bay Tree Pub
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0972002111

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Get Slightly Famous by Steven Van Yoder Pdf

I build levers to move objects that appear to be immovable.Alexei Drovosek represents the next evolution of human: no heart, immunity to cancer, and the uncanny ability to survive in conditions that would kill normal men. As an orphan growing up in post-Soviet Russia, Alexei was taken in by the state and trained as its most vicious and effective killer. But eventually the Russian Federal Security Service's best-trained assassin did the most dangerous thing of all: he turned on his handlers, went rogue, and disappeared.In the bleak, high-tech near future, Alexei has resurfaced in a secret compound on the outskirts of Los Angeles, a city where autonomous-drive vehicles race along the highways and independent city-states operate with materialistic impunity. In the center of it all is the soaring headquarters of Pearl Knight Industries, an international mega-corporation that keeps war machines and cultural capitalism running in every country and on every continent on the planet. As a principal proponent of the 31st Amendment to the United States constitution, which legalized the transfer of suffrage from citizens to corporations, Pearl Knight has power that is truly above the law.Alexei lives a clandestine existence where his closest companions are his personal AI, Emma, and a group of orphans he has spent years amassing and training. But Alexei isn't fostering these children as a favor to the state; he's raising them with the hope that they will destroy it. As he moves each child into play in the world's highest-stakes game of chess that spans decades and continents, Alexei fights to destroy the plutocratic control of those in power and restore what matters to him most: democracy and freedom.

Author : Fairfield Goodale
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780595360857

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The Absolute Truth And Other Uncertainties by Fairfield Goodale Pdf

"We were told that everything in the Buchenwald camp was as it had been on the day of liberation-torture devices, gallows, crematoria containing charred human remains, gas chambers, piles of teeth with gold extracted, lamp shades of tattooed human skin-except that the diet and living conditions of the current population of 20,000 prisoners were a bit improved, and they were free within the barbed wire compound to move wherever they were physically able to with their slow, torturous, tiny-stepped shuffle. Their striped uniforms, bearing yellow stars and sometimes pinkish insignia, were baggy and hung in tatters from skeleton frames, yet each prisoner's appearance and demeanor displayed every vestige of dignity he could muster. No hangdogs, no whimpering, no complaining, no visible tears. They were beyond that, and above it." All of the author's proceeds from the sale of The Absolute Truth And Other Uncertainties-A Remembrance will be donated to the Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation, Santa Barbara, California.

Author : Andrew R. Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780313346538

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Aviation Security Management by Andrew R. Thomas Pdf

Because of 9/11, there is universal recognition that aviation security is a deadly serious business. Still, around the world today, the practice of aviation security is rooted in a hodgepodge of governmental rules, industry traditions, and local idiosyncrasies. In fact, nearly seven years after the largest single attack involving the air transport industry, there remains no viable framework in place to lift aviation security practice out of the mishmash that currently exists. It is the ambitious intent of Aviation Security Management to change that. The goals of this set are nothing less than to make flying safer, to make transporting goods by air safer, and to lay the foundation for the professionalization of this most important field. This dynamic set showcases the most current trends, issues, ideas, and practices in aviation security management, especially as the field evolves in the context of globalization and advances in technology. Written by leading academic thinkers, practitioners, and former and current regulators in the field, the three volumes highlight emerging and innovative practices, illustrated with examples from around the world. Volume 1 takes a penetrating look at the overall framework in which aviation security management has taken place in the past and will likely do so in the foreseeable future. It covers the major areas of focus for anyone in the aviation security business, and it provides a basis for educational programs. Volume 2 delves into the emerging issues affecting aviation security managers right now. Volume 3: Perspectives on Aviation Security Management covers the full spectrum of international aviation security-related issues. It will serve as part of the foundation for the next generation of research in the area in both a business and cultural context. Collectively, these volumes represent the state of the art in the field today and constitute an essential resource for anyone practicing, studying, teaching, or researching aviation security management.

Author : Paul B. Larsen,John Gillick,Joseph Sweeney
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 1396 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004168107

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Aviation Law: Cases, Laws and Related Sources by Paul B. Larsen,John Gillick,Joseph Sweeney Pdf

Written in the context of the post-9/11 legal climate, this text introduces all the major areas of aviation, covering such topics as the international air law regime, crimes involving aircraft, international air carriage, litigation management, and governmental immunity from liability.

Author : Kelly Williams Brown
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781623367978

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Gracious by Kelly Williams Brown Pdf

From New York Times bestselling author of Adulting: How to Become a Grown-Up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps Kelly Williams Brown comes a funny, charming guide to modern civility in these--yes, we'll say it--rather uncivil times. Graciousness is practicing the arts of kindness, thoughtfulness, good manners, humanity, and basic decency. As a bonus, it makes your life and even the world (or at least the room you're in) much lovelier. It's not about memorizing every rule of traditional etiquette to a T (though there is so much there to explore!) or spending all your time maintaining a spotless house. It's about approaching the world with compassion, conviction, self-confidence, and whole-heartedness, whether you're at the Met Gala or saying good morning to a convenience store clerk. From chatting easily with anyone to mastering the subtleties of social media etiquette (hint: block early, block often), Brown has talked to gracious women and men all over the country to give you easy ways to embody your own graciousness. Throughout the book, she provides tips on how to deal with the people and circumstances that challenge even the most socially graceful among us, advice on how to practice graciousness in everyday life, and thoughtful discussions on being kind to those around you without ever losing your sense of self. With the wisdom of gracious folk ranging from celebrities to the author's mother-in-law, this book explains the perspective, actions--and, sometimes, inaction--that help us move smoothly and effectively through whatever life tosses at us.

Author : Budislav Vukas,Trpimir Sosic
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004189966

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International Law: New Actors, New Concepts - Continuing Dilemmas by Budislav Vukas,Trpimir Sosic Pdf

The Liber Amicorum offers essays on topics Professor Božidar Bakotić has dealt with in his career at the Zagreb Faculty of Law: subjects of international law, various international régimes of spaces, international protection of human rights and humanitarian law, settlement of disputes, law of armed conflicts.

Author : Fred Goodwin
Publisher : Lichtenstein Creative Media
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781933644110

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Vacation by Fred Goodwin Pdf

Author : Steven A. Ruffin
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781574886740

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Aviation's Most Wanted™ by Steven A. Ruffin Pdf

Ever since the caveman gazed longingly at the winged creatures above him, mankind has been enamored with the idea of flight—of just taking off and soaring away. Steven A. Ruffin celebrates that spirit, that sense of wonder, with Aviation’s Most Wanted™: The Top 10 Book of Winged Wonders, Lucky Landings, and Other Aerial Oddities. With dozens of top-ten lists focusing on notable flights, memorable planes, famous and infamous aviators, aircraft combat, air travel—even space travel—and so much more, Ruffin provides a treasure trove of fun facts and amazing anecdotes celebrating the world’s love affair with flight, plus the hurt that accompanies any deep love. Will Rogers died in a plane crash near Point Barrow, Alaska, with aviation legend Wiley Post at the controls. Rogers was writing an article at the time of the crash; eerily, the last word he typed was “death.” Isoroku Yamamoto, who masterminded the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, met his fate in similarly sneaky fashion. U.S. forces intercepted and decoded information on Yamamoto’s travel plans and “Pearl Harbored” his plane, shooting it down into the island jungle of Bougainville. The safest seat in a crash depends on if you crash on takeoff or on landing—so flip a coin! You’ll read about the first and worst of flight, aces and races, and everything from crimes, sex, and controversy to planes so fast they can outrun the sun. With Aviation’s Most Wanted™ you’ll get the history of flight from the early balloon adventures of the eighteenth century until the present, laid out with trivia and tales to amuse and amaze!

Author : William D. Chalmers
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781450289276

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On the Origin of the Species Homo Touristicus by William D. Chalmers Pdf

A stunningly well-researched book, offering readers an authentically fresh and at times wickedly off -the-beaten path irreverent look at travel history and the evolution of homo touristicus. This insightful book takes you on a Grand Tour full of fun and interesting nuggets about travel the past, the present, and soon to be future, that is sure to make you laugh, make you think, and keep you reading. Just perusing the Table of Contents whets your appetite for more. This multi-disciplinary look at the travel and tourism industryand we travelers who make it all happenincludes: the age of discovery, world wonders, tourist novelties, the paths of pilgrims, travel safety and security, travel literature, geography and mapmaking, Grand Hotels, the technology of travel, travel industry porn and public relations campaigns, mysterious liaisons, and affairs to remember, along with great travel quotes and culturally relevant tourism-related anecdotes. This factual, enlightening, and oh so opinionated book is designed for real travelers, casual tourists, and armchair travelers alike; with this fi rst edition disproving myths, unveiling new legends and bursting a few overly righteous historical bubbles along the way. Indeed, this book includes something for all members of homo touristicus who have been there, done that, and keenly want to know what is next!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555080538

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Morning light [afterw.] The New-Church weekly by Anonim Pdf