Naked Airport

Author : Alastair Gordon
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1466869119
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naked Airport written by Alastair Gordon and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full cultural history of the ultimate modern structure: the airport, revealed as never before ... Since its origins in the muddy fields of flying machines, the airport has arguably become one of the defining institutions of modern life. In Naked Airport, critic Alastair Gordon ranges from global geopolitics to action movies to the daily commute, showing how airports have changed our sense of time, distance, travel, style, and even the way cities are built and business is done. Gordon introduces the people who shaped this place of sudden transportation: pilots like Charles Lindberg, architects like Eero Saarinen, politicians like Fiorello La Guardia, and Hitler, who built Berlin's Tempelhof as a showcase for Fascist power. He describes the airport's futuristic contributions, such as credit cards, in the form of fly-now-pay-later schemes, and he charts its shift in popular perception, from glamorous to infuriating. Finally, he analyzes the airport's function in war and peace—its gatekeeper role controlling immigration, its appeal to revolutionaries since the hijackings of the 1960s, and its new frontline position in the struggle against terror. Compelling and accessible, Naked Airport is an original history of a long-neglected yet central creation of modern reality and imagination.

Author : B.S. Hayden
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479745685
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I’ve Seen You Naked written by B.S. Hayden and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter One In this chapter is the information needed to prepare for your journey and what to as well as what not to pack in your luggage. So let’s get right to it and make your next trip a safe and more pleasurable experience. First off let’s get you in the mindset for flying and the need for planning. When planning a trip one usually has a certain destination in mind. Whether your destination is for business or pleasure the principals are the same. There is always how long are you staying and what to bring? The how long are you planning to stay is usually already established in most cases. However, in the case of the business traveler whose schedules is determined by the office, a client, or even flight schedules may dictate ones planning. This usually means everything is up in the air and can leave a lot to be desired. With this in mind whether business or pleasure the basics still apply. So let’s look at the traveler that is planning a pleasure trip. In this case the time to think about the airport is when you start planning your trip. Since the events on September 11, 2001, the whole mind set of traveling has been put on it ear so to speak. As it is with most individuals, myself included before I became a Transportation Security Officer (TSO) with the (TSA) in 2002, the name of the game was haphazard packing as a rule of thumb. This is what I call having most of the items in your luggage placed there the night before your departure. Usually these items are things that never get used in the course of ones travels. Such items as too many shoes, clothing, unnecessary foods and some toys are among the many things that are packed in luggage across this nation that need not be included. I am sure most of you know exactly what I am talking about. A good example is when I went sailing on a 32 foot sail boat in the Caribbean for a week with my daughter and son-in-law in 2000. I had packed enough clothes for a week only to use half the items packed. In this case I really only needed a swimsuit, several shirts, two pairs of shoes and traveling clothes. What is my style? There are other types of packers that travel the skyways. One of these is the individual that packs like the ones you might see in the movies or in one of your favorite television programs or commercials. Opening the dresser drawers and just stuffing items in the luggage. These individuals, while in their own rights, see no harm in the form of packing, however, they will have some difficulties at the airport. This form of packing makes inspection of their personal items by TSA difficult at best. With all the modern x-ray equipment used in today’s airports and new technologies being developed continuously, it is still up to the TSO to determine the nature of the items within your luggage. And this form of packing has and does create problems for these passengers. Ways to avoid this will be addressed later in this chapter. Then there is the traveler at the other end of the packing spectrum that has everything folded and arranged perfectly so that everything within that piece of luggage has a rhyme and a purpose for its placement. This can be either a male or a female doing the packing. These types of pack jobs are in themselves great to look at and for the most part we as the ones screening that piece of luggage look forward to. But as in all cases even these types of luggage have their problems too. The level of inspection being performed on that piece of luggage and the individual doing the screening has a lot to do with the level of neatness your luggage is in when returned to you. Not all TSOs, to be honest with you, are interested in repacking your items as carefully as you would. Even though the TSA has spent many hours training TSOs on the proper procedures for inspecting person’s luggage and the items within that piece of luggage, the manner in which the luggage has been packed may cause difficulties in its self.

Author : David H. Brown
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1463430477
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Full Body Scam written by David H. Brown and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an update of two previously published books on this subject, which are both included in this volume. As the last remaining member of, and press officer for, the Federal Aviation Administrations anti-skyjacking task force that developed the original procedure during 1969-70, the author has unique personal experience. The general theme is that the government is going around in procedural circles to provide security when a return to the original Dailey Profile as Step One would provide the same, if not better, protection against potential skyjacking. The book also defines the difference between domestic events and perceived terrorism.

Author : Alistair Gordon
Publisher : Owl Books
ISBN 13 : 9780805065190
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naked Airport written by Alistair Gordon and published by Owl Books. This book was released on 2004-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full cultural history of the ultimate modern structure: the airport, revealed as never before Since its origins in the muddy fields of flying machines, the airport has arguably become one of the defining institutions of modern life. In Naked Airport, critic Alastair Gordon ranges from global geopolitics to action movies to the daily commute, showing how airports have changed our sense of time, distance, style, and even the way cities are built and business is done. Gordon introduces the people who shaped this place of sudden transition: pilots like Charles Lindberg, architects like Eero Saarinen, politicians like Fiorello La Guardia, and Hitler, who built Berlin's Tempelhof as a showcase for Fascist power. He describes the airport's futuristic contributions, such as credit cards, in the form of fly-now-pay-later schemes, and he charts its shift in popular perception, from glamorous to infuriating. Finally, he analyzes the airport's function in war and peaceits gatekeeper role controlling immigration, its appeal to revolutionaries since the hijackings of the 1960s, and its new frontline position in the struggle against terror. Compelling and accessible, Naked Airport is an original history of a long-neglected yet central creation of modern reality and imagination.

Author : Nicholas Dagen Bloom
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812291646
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Metropolitan Airport written by Nicholas Dagen Bloom and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John F. Kennedy International Airport is one of New York City's most successful and influential redevelopment projects. Built and defined by outsize personalities—Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, famed urban planner Robert Moses, and Port Authority Executive Director Austin Tobin among them—JFK was fantastically expensive and unprecedented in its scale. By the late 1940s, once-polluted marshlands had become home to one of the world's busiest and most advanced airfields. Almost from the start, however, environmental activists in surrounding neighborhoods and suburbs clashed with the Port Authority. These fierce battles in the long term restricted growth and, compounded by lackluster management and planning, diminished JFK's status and reputation. Yet the airport remained a key contributor to metropolitan vitality: New Yorkers bound for adventure and business still boarded planes headed to distant corners of the globe, billions of tourists and immigrants came and went, and mammoth air cargo facilities bolstered the region's commerce. In The Metropolitan Airport, Nicholas Dagen Bloom chronicles the untold story of JFK International's complicated and turbulent relationship with the New York City metropolitan region. In spite of its reputation for snarled traffic, epic delays, endless construction, and abrasive employees, the airport was a key player in shifting patterns of labor, transportation, and residence; the airport both encouraged and benefited from the dispersion of population and economic activity to the outer boroughs and suburbs. As Bloom shows, airports like JFK are vibrant parts of their cities and powerfully influence urban development. The Metropolitan Airport is an indispensable book for those who wish to understand the revolutionary impact of airports on the modern American city.

Author : Alain De Botton
Publisher : Emblem Editions
ISBN 13 : 0771026285
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Week at the Airport written by Alain De Botton and published by Emblem Editions. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of The Architecture of Happiness and The Art of Travel spends a week at an airport in a wittily intriguing meditation on the "non-place" that he believes is the centre of our civilization. In the summer of 2009, Alain de Botton was invited by the owners of Heathrow airport to become their first ever writer-in-residence. Given unprecedented, unrestricted access to wander around one of the world's busiest airports, he met travellers from all over the globe, and spoke with everyone from baggage handlers to pilots, and senior executives to the airport chaplain. Based on these conversations he has produced this extraordinary meditation on the nature of travel, work, relationships, and our daily lives. Working with the renowned documentary photographer Richard Baker, he explores the magical and the mundane, and the interactions of travellers and workers all over this familiar but mysterious "non-place," which by definition we are eager to leave. Taking the reader through departures, "air-side," and the arrivals hall, de Botton shows with his usual combination of wit and wisdom that spending time in an airport can be more revealing than we might think.

Author : Hugh Pearman
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1856693562
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Airports written by Hugh Pearman and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their emergence at the start of the 20th century, airports have become one of the most distinctive and important of architectural building types. Often used to symbolize progress, freedom and trade, they offer architects the chance to design on a grand scale. At the beginning of the 21st century, airports are experiencing a new and exciting renaissance as they adapt and evolve into a new type of building; one that is complete, adaptable and catering to a new range of demands. As passengers are held in airports far longer than they used to be, they have also now become destinations in their own right. Airports celebrates the most important airport designs in the world. Beginning with an exploration of the first structures of aviation, and early designs such as the Berlin Tempelhof, the book explores the key airports of the century up to the present day, including Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal in New York, Renzo Piano's Kansai Airport and Norman Foster's Chek Lap Kok in Hong Kong.

Author : Jeffrey Rosen
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588363570
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Naked Crowd written by Jeffrey Rosen and published by Random House. This book was released on 2004-01-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Naked Crowd, acclaimed author Jeffrey Rosen makes an impassioned argument about how to preserve freedom, privacy, and security in a post-9/11 world. How we use emerging technologies, he insists, will be crucial to the preservation of essential American ideals. In our zeal to catch terrorists and prevent future catastrophic events, we are going too far—largely because of irrational fears—and violating essential American freedoms. That’s the contention at the center of this persuasive new polemic by Jeffrey Rosen, legal affairs editor of The New Republic, which builds on his award-winning book The Unwanted Gaze. Through wide-ranging reportage and cultural analysis, Rosen argues that it is possible to strike an effective and reasonable balance between liberty and security. Traveling from England to Silicon Valley, he offers a penetrating account of why well-designed laws and technologies have not always been adopted. Drawing on a broad range of sources—from the psychology of fear to the latest Code Orange alerts and airport security technologies—he also explores the reasons that the public, the legislatures, the courts, and technologists have made feel-good choices that give us the illusion of safety without actually making us safer. He describes the dangers of implementing poorly thought out technologies that can make us less free while distracting our attention from responses to terrorism that might work. Rosen also considers the social and technological reasons that the risk-averse democracies of the West continue to demand ever-increasing levels of personal exposure in a search for an illusory and emotional feeling of security. In Web logs, chat rooms, and reality TV shows, an increasing number of citizens clutter the public sphere with private revelations best kept to themselves. The result is the peculiar ordeal of living in the Naked Crowd, in which few aspects of our lives are immune from public scrutiny. With vivid prose and persuasive analysis, The Naked Crowd is both an urgent warning about the choices we face in responding to legitimate fears of terror and a vision for a better future.

Author : Annie Grace
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525537236
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Naked Mind written by Annie Grace and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Naked Mind has ignited a movement across the country, helping thousands of people forever change their relationship with alcohol. Many people question whether drinking has become too big a part of their lives, and worry that it may even be affecting their health. But, they resist change because they fear losing the pleasure and stress-relief associated with alcohol, and assume giving it up will involve deprivation and misery. This Naked Mind offers a new, positive solution. Here, Annie Grace clearly presents the psychological and neurological components of alcohol use based on the latest science, and reveals the cultural, social, and industry factors that support alcohol dependence in all of us. Packed with surprising insight into the reasons we drink, this book will open your eyes to the startling role of alcohol in our culture, and how the stigma of alcoholism and recovery keeps people from getting the help they need. With Annie’s own extraordinary and candid personal story at its heart, this book is a must-read for anyone who drinks. This Naked Mind will give you freedom from alcohol. It removes the psychological dependence so that you will not crave alcohol, allowing you to easily drink less (or stop drinking). With clarity, humor, and a unique blend of science and storytelling, This Naked Mind will open the door to the life you have been waiting for. “You have given me my live back.” —Katy F., Albuquerque, New Mexico “This is an inspiring and groundbreaking must-read. I am forever inspired and changed.” —Kate S., Los Angeles, California “The most selfless and amazing book that I have ever read.” —Bernie M., Dublin, Ireland

Author : Leslie Morgan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501174118
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Naked Truth written by Leslie Morgan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A formidable, addictive storyteller, Morgan provides a highly stimulating story of a midlife education in the messiness of modern sex and love. A steamy, liberating tale of self-exploration and self-love that encourages readers to ‘revel in your sexuality’” —Kirkus Reviews Leslie Morgan, bestselling author of Crazy Love and Mommy Wars, was a mom turning fifty, reeling from divorce and determined to reclaim her life. In a radical break with convention, she dedicated a year to searching for five new lovers, seeking the rapture absent in a life of minivans and mom jeans—and finding a profound new sense of self-worth. When Leslie Morgan divorced after a twenty-year marriage, both her self-esteem and romantic optimism were shattered. She was determined to avoid the cliché of the “lonely, middle-aged divorcée” lamenting her stretch marks and begging her kids to craft her online dating profile. Instead, Leslie celebrated her independence with an audacious plan: she would devote a year to seeking out five lovers in hopes of unearthing the erotic adventures and authentic connections long missing from her life. Clumsy and clueless at first, she overcame mortifying early missteps, buoyed by friends and blind faith. And so she found men at yoga class, the airport, and high school reunions—all without the torture of dating websites. Along the way she uncovered new truths about sex, aging, men, self-confidence, and what it means to be an older woman today. Packed with fearless, evocative details, The Naked Truth is a rare, unexpected, and wildly entertaining memoir about a soccer mom who rediscovers the magic of sexual and emotional connection, and the lasting gifts of reveling in your femininity at every age.