Falling Off Air

Author : Catherine Sampson
Publisher : Mysterious Press
ISBN 13 : 0446562971
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Falling Off Air written by Catherine Sampson and published by Mysterious Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robin Ballantyne's life is finally coming together. After learning she was pregnant with twins and being abandoned by her irresponsible boyfriend, Adam, she's settling into life as a single mother. But one night, after putting the children to bed, she hears what she thinks is an argument outside. Then, suddenly, a body falls past her window. Running outside, she finds Paula Carmichael, a renowned activist, dead on the ground. Although Robin and Paula weren't acquainted, the police find Robin's name mentioned - frequently - in the dead woman's diary. Robin then learns that her ex-boyfriend had been making a documentary about Paula and may know more than he lets on. But before she can ask him, he's killed by a hit-and-run driver - who was driving Robin's car. Now a suspect herself, Robin must figure out who wanted both Robin and Adam dead before she loses her freedom, her children, and her life.

Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307908704
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Falling Upwards written by Richard Holmes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)** **Time Magazine 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013** **The New Republic Best Books of 2013** In this heart-lifting chronicle, Richard Holmes, author of the best-selling The Age of Wonder, follows the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, the daring and enigmatic men and women who risked their lives to take to the air (or fall into the sky). Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet is a compelling adventure that only Holmes could tell. His accounts of the early Anglo-French balloon rivalries, the crazy firework flights of the beautiful Sophie Blanchard, the long-distance voyages of the American entrepreneur John Wise and French photographer Felix Nadar are dramatic and exhilarating. Holmes documents as well the balloons used to observe the horrors of modern battle during the Civil War (including a flight taken by George Armstrong Custer); the legendary tale of at least sixty-seven manned balloons that escaped from Paris (the first successful civilian airlift in history) during the Prussian siege of 1870-71; the high-altitude exploits of James Glaisher (who rose) seven miles above the earth without oxygen, helping to establish the new science of meteorology); and how Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, and Jules Verne felt the imaginative impact of flight and allowed it to soar in their work. A seamless fusion of history, art, science, biography, and the metaphysics of flights, Falling Upwards explores the interplay between technology and imagination. And through the strange allure of these great balloonists, it offers a masterly portrait of human endeavor, recklessness, and vision. (With 24 pages of color illustrations, and black-and-white illustrations throughout.)

Author : Michael Crichton
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345526775
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Airframe written by Michael Crichton and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes this extraordinary thriller about airline safety, business intrigue, and a deadly cover-up. “The pacing is fast, the suspense nonstop.”—People Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin is virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane. At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner flying from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation. Airframe is nonstop reading, full of the extraordinary mixture of super suspense and authentic information on a subject of compelling interest that are the hallmarks of Michael Crichton. “A one-sitting read that will cause a lifetime of white-knuckled nightmares.”—The Philaelphia Inquirer “The ultimate thriller . . . [Crichton’s] stories are always page-turners of the highest order. . . . [Airframe] moves like a firehouse dog chasing a red truck.”—The Denver Post “Dramatically vivid.”—The New York Times

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accident Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : BIMAL K SRIVASTAVA
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1639046615
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fall of Ice from the Sky written by BIMAL K SRIVASTAVA and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-06-06 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports of the Incidents of fall of large ice blocks from the sky have been appearing in media since times. These ice chunks, also known as “Blue ice” or “Aircraft Ice” happen to be the frozen mixture of human bio-waste and liquid disinfectant, that emerge in the form of the leakage from the defective toilet lines from a commercial airliner or any other transport category aircraft carrying passengers. The book gives an account of more than 600 such cases of ice fall worldwide extracted from various languages. Many people believe that the colour of ice blocks fallen from the aircraft toilets must be Blue or Green, but as a matter of fact, it could be of any colour, blue, green, yellowish, rusty, muddy, ash, white, dirty, or colourless. These ice blocks are potential hazards that are likely to endanger the lives and properties on the ground. As, the incidents are generally viewed from the perspective of weather and therefore, no preventive measures are contemplated against them. However, a majority of them are actually found to be aviation-related, and thus there appears to be some possibility of minimising them provided appropriate precautionary measures are taken and implemented in the matter by the airlines, regulatory authorities for aviation and other concerned. "This is the first occasion that a book on the topic of ice-fall from the sky has been written by an aviation expert, who has done it after conducting high-quality research work considering various aeronautical aspects as well as the facts & figures related to aviation - Satendra Singh, Former DGCA, India"

Author : Pennsylvania. Department of Mines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1064 pages
Book Rating : 4.I5/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the Department of Mines of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania. Department of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alfred Daniell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Text book of the principles of physics written by Alfred Daniell and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Royal Society of Canada
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 890 pages
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Download or read book Mémoires Et Comptes Rendus de la Société Royale Du Canada written by Royal Society of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elise Kova
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781619849525
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fire Falling written by Elise Kova and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soldier... Sorcerer... Savior... Who is Vhalla Yarl? Vhalla Yarl marches to war as property of the Solaris Empire. The Emperor counts on her to bring victory, the Senate counts on her death, and the only thing Vhalla can count on is the fight of her life. As she grapples with the ghosts of her past, new challenges in the present threaten to shatter the remnants of her fragile sanity. Will she maintain her humanity? Or will she truly become the Empire's monster?

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Code of Federal Regulations written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.