Requiem For A Giant

Author : Palmiro Campagna
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781459712744

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Requiem for a Giant by Palmiro Campagna Pdf

No Canadian company has fuelled as much speculation about its demise as A.V. Roe Canada Limited. When its name was erased off the corporate map in 1962, A.V. Roe’s most ambitious undertakings - the Jetliner, the Iroquois Engine, and the Arrow - were reduced to scrap. In Requiem for a Giant: A.V. Roe Canada and the Avro Arrow, Palmiro Campagna supplies us with new information to help dispel the myths surrounding the company. With an array of recently declassified documents, Campagna investigates the star projects of A.V. Roe Canada. Was the C-102 Jetliner technically flawed? Was the Avrocar a failure? Was the cost of the Arrow program spiralling out of control as historians have maintained? These questions and many others are put to rest in Requiem for a Giant.

Author : Palmiro Campagna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1525258265

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Requiem for a Giant by Palmiro Campagna Pdf

Campagna explores the history of the controversial company that produced the Avro Arrow.

Author : Palmiro Campagna
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781550024388

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Requiem for a Giant by Palmiro Campagna Pdf

Campagna explores the history of the controversial company that produced the Avro Arrow.

Author : Palmiro Campagna
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781770705456

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Storms of Controversy by Palmiro Campagna Pdf

The development of the Avro Arrow was a remarkable Canadian achievement. Its mysterious cancellation in February 1959 prompted questions that have long gone unanswered. What role did the Central Intelligence Agency play in the scrapping of the project? Who in Canada’s government was involved in that decision? What, if anything, did Canada get in return? Who ordered the blowtorching of all the prototypes? And did Arrow technology find its way into the American Stealth fighter/bomber program? When Storms of Controversy was first published in 1992, its answers to these questions sent a shock wave across the country. Using never-before-released documents, the book exploded the myth that design flaws, cost overruns, or obsolescence had triggered the demise of the Arrow. Now, in this fully revised fourth edition, complete with two new appendices, the bestselling book brings readers up-to-date on the CF-105 Arrow, the most innovative, sophisticated aircraft the world had seen by the end of the 1950s.

Author : Bruce Jay Friedman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-29
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780226475769

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Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos by Bruce Jay Friedman Pdf

A few years ago, Christopher Buckley wrote of Bruce Jay Friedman in the New York Times Book Review that he "has been likened to everyone from J. D. Salinger to Woody Allen," but that "he is: Bruce Jay Friedman, sui generis, and no mean thing. No further comparisons are necessary." We are happy to report that he remains the same Bruce Jay Friedman in his unique, unblinking, and slightly tilted essays—collected here for the first time—in Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos. A butler school in Houston, a livestock auction in Little Rock, a home for "frozen guys" in California, JFK's humidor in Manhattan—all are jumping off points for Friedman's baleful and sharply satirical scrutiny of American life and behavior in the second half of the twentieth century. Travel with Friedman from Harlem to Hollywood, from Port-au-Prince to Etta's Eat Shop in Chicago. In these pieces, which were published in literary and mass-circulation magazines from the 1960s to the 1990s, you'll meet such luminaries as Castro and Clinton, Natalie Wood and Clint Eastwood, and even Friedman's friends Irwin Shaw, Nelson Algren, and Mario Puzo. Friedman is a master of the essay, whether the subject is crime reporting ("Lessons of the Street"), Hollywood shenanigans ("My Life among the Stars"), or his outrageous adventures as the editor of pulp magazines (the classic "Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos"). We could sing his praises as a journalist, humorist, and social critic. But, as Buckley tells us, being Bruce Jay Friedman is enough. Bruce Jay Friedman is the author of seven novels (including The Dick, Stern, and A Mother's Kisses), four collections of short stories, four full-length plays (including Scuba Duba and Steambath), and the screenplays for the movies Splash and Stir Crazy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1126 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : PSU:000068751463

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Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1610 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Canada Imprints
ISBN : 00688398

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Canadian Books in Print. Author and Title Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Todd Gitlin
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307834027

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The Sixties by Todd Gitlin Pdf

Say “the Sixties” and the images start coming, images of a time when all authority was defied and millions of young Americans thought they could change the world—either through music, drugs, and universal love or by “putting their bodies on the line” against injustice and war. Todd Gitlin, the highly regarded writer, media critic, and professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, has written an authoritative and compelling account of this supercharged decade—a decade he helped shape as an early president of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and an organizer of the first national demonstration against the Vietnam war. Part critical history, part personal memoir, part celebration, and part meditation, this critically acclaimed work resurrects a generation on all its glory and tragedy.

Author : Michael J. Yochim
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780826363435

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Requiem for America's Best Idea by Michael J. Yochim Pdf

In his enthusiastic explorations and fervent writing, Michael J. Yochim "was to Yellowstone what Muir was to Yosemite. . . . Other times, his writing is like that of Edward Abbey, full of passion for the natural world and anger at those who are abusing it," writes foreword contributor William R. Lowry. In 2013 Yochim was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). While fighting the disease, he wrote Requiem for America's Best Idea. The book establishes a unique parallel between Yochim's personal struggle with a terminal illness and the impact climate change is having on the national parks--the treasured wilderness that he loved and to which he dedicated his life. Yochim explains how climate change is already impacting the vegetation, wildlife, and the natural conditions in Olympic, Grand Canyon, Glacier, Yellowstone, and Yosemite National Parks. A poignant and thought-provoking work, Requiem for America's Best Idea investigates the interactions between people and nature and the world that can inspire and destroy them.

Author : Maxine Gordon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520350793

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Sophisticated Giant by Maxine Gordon Pdf

Tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon was one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began, weaving his "solo" turns with her voice and a chorus of voices from past and present. She shows that his image of the cool jazzman fails to come to terms with the three-dimensional man full of humor and wisdom, a figure who struggled to reconcile being both a creative outsider who broke the rules and a comforting insider who was a son, father, husband, and world citizen. --

Author : John Terborgh
Publisher : Shearwater Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : MINN:31951D01911845R

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Requiem for Nature by John Terborgh Pdf

For ecologist John Terborgh, Manu National Park in the rainforest of Peru is a second home; he has spent half of each of the past twenty-five years there conducting research. Like all parks, Manu is assumed to provide inviolate protection to nature. Yet even there, in one of the most remote corners of the planet, Terborgh has been witness to the relentless onslaught of civilization. Seeing the steady destruction of irreplaceable habitat has been a startling and disturbing experience for Terborgh, one that has raised urgent questions: Is enough being done to protect nature? Are current conservation efforts succeeding? What could be done differently? What should be done differently? In Requiem for Nature, he offers brutally honest answers to those difficult questions, and appraises the prospects for the future of tropical conservation. His book is a clarion call for anyone who cares about the quality of the natural world we will leave our children. Terborgh examines current conservation strategies and considers the shortcomings of parks and protected areas both from ecological and institutional perspectives. He explains how seemingly pristine environments can gradually degrade, and describes the difficult social context –a debilitating combination of poverty, corruption, abuses of power, political instability, and a frenzied scramble for quick riches –in which tropical conservation must take place. He considers the significant challenges facing existing parks and examines problems inherent in alternative approaches, such as ecotourism, the exploitation of nontimber forest products, "sustainable use," and "sustainable development." Throughout, Terborgh argues that the greatest challenges of conservation are not scientific, but are social, economic, and political, and that success will require simultaneous progress on all fronts. He makes a compelling case that nature can be saved, but only if good science and strong institutions can be thoughtfully combined.

Author : Sören Eriksson,Harm-Jan Steenhuis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136672392

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The Global Commercial Aviation Industry by Sören Eriksson,Harm-Jan Steenhuis Pdf

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of the changes and development of the civil international aircraft/aviation industry. It offers a fully up-to-date account of the international developments and structure in the aircraft and aviation industries from a number of perspectives, which include economic, geographical, political and technological points of view. The aircraft industry is characterized by very complex, high technology products produced in relatively small quantities. The high-technology requirements necessitate a high level of R&D. In no other industry is it more of inter-dependence and cross-fertilisation of advanced technology. Consequently, most of the world’s large aircraft companies and technology leaders have been located in Europe and North America. During the last few decades many developing countries have tried to build up an internationally competitive aircraft industry. The authors study a number of important issues including the political economy of the aircraft industry, globalization in this industry, innovation, newly industrializing economies and the aircraft industry. This book also explores regional and large aircraft, transformation of the aviation industry in Central and Eastern Europe, including engines, airlines, airports and airline safety. It will be of great value to students and to researchers seeking information on the aircraft industry and its development in different regions.

Author : Susan Tyler Hitchcock
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595508792

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Sixty Candles by Susan Tyler Hitchcock Pdf

Founded in 1948, the American Society of Journalists and Authors is the nation's leading organization of independent nonfiction writers. Written by ASJA members in celebration of their sixty year anniversary, this book is a wonderful read and a great testament to where the organization has been over the past 60 years, where it is today, and where it may be headed over the years to come.

Author : Matthew D. Tribbe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199313525

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No Requiem for the Space Age by Matthew D. Tribbe Pdf

'No Requiem for the Space Age' paints a portrait of a nation in the midst of questioning the very values that had guided it through the post-war years as it began to develop new conceptions of progress that had little to do with blasting ever more men to the moon. Here is a narrative of the 1960s and 1970s unlike any told before, with the story of Apollo as the story of America itself in a time of dramatic cultural change.

Author : Tim Sweijs,Saskia van Genugten,Frans Osinga
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781040098585

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Defence Planning for Small and Middle Powers by Tim Sweijs,Saskia van Genugten,Frans Osinga Pdf

This book examines the processes, practices and principles of defence planning in small and middle powers. Small and middle powers are recalibrating their force postures in this age of disruption. They are adapting their defence planning and military innovation processes to protect the security of their nations. The purpose of this book is to explore defence planning and military innovation in 11 contemporary case studies of small and middle powers in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Oceania. Employing a structured focused comparison framework, it traces patterns in the choices of small and middle powers across the following themes: (1) alliances, dependencies and national ambitions; (2) approaches, processes, methods and techniques; and (3) military innovation strategies and outcomes. Breaking new theoretical ground, it offers a three-pronged typology distinguishing between the strategic defence planner, the transactional defence planners and the complacent defence planner. The book offers a rich array of insights into cases that fall across different geographies, strategic cultures and governance systems. These insights can help guide discussions on how to structure decision-making structures, arrive at ambition levels, formulate priorities, select partners and design defence planning and military innovation processes. This book will be of much interest to students of defence studies, security studies, public policy and international relations, as well as to professionals in defence planning.