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Author | : John McPhee |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2007-04-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780865477391 |
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McPhee, in prose distinguished by its warm humor, keen insight, and rich sense of human character, looks at the people who drive trucks, captain ships, pilot towboats, drive coal trains, and carry lobsters through the air: people who work in freight transportation.
Author | : John McPhee |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0374137811 |
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This is the fascinating story of the dream of a completely new aircraft, a hybrid of the airplane and rigid airship - huge, wingless, moving slowly through the lower sky. Its early and secrect experimenta; development took twelve years' time and one and a half million dollars. McPhee chronicles the perhaps unfathomable perseverance of the aircraft's successive progenitors and makes it seem as momentous as the first trip to the moon.
Author | : Dwight Jon Zimmerman |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2010-09-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1429988916 |
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Uncommon Valor from Dwight Jon Zimmerman and John D. Gresham presents a fascinating look at six of our bravest soldiers and the highest military decoration awarded in this country. Since the Vietnam War ended in 1973, the Medal of Honor, our nation's highest award for valor, has been presented to only eight men for their actions "above and beyond the call of duty." Six of the eight were young men who had fought in the current war in Iraq, Afghanistan, or both. All of these medals were awarded posthumously, as all had made the choice to give their lives so that their comrades might live. Uncommon Valor answers the searing question of who these six young soldiers were, and dramatically details how they found themselves in life-or-death situations, and why they responded as they did. For the first time, this book also provides a comprehensive history of the Medal of Honor itself—one marred by controversies, scandals, and theft. Using an extraordinary range of sources, including interviews with family members and friends, teammates and superiors in the military, personal letters, blogs posted within hours of events, personal and official videos and newly declassified documents, Uncommon Valor is a compelling and important work that recounts incredible acts of heroism and lays bare the ultimate sacrifice of our bravest soldiers.
Author | : Ken W. Sayers |
Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Warships |
ISBN | : 9781591147602 |
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Author | : John McPhee |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2003-09-10 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0374706344 |
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John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. Each spring, American shad-Alosa sapidissima-leave the ocean in hundreds of thousands and run heroic distances upriver to spawn. McPhee--a shad fisherman himself--recounts the shad's cameo role in the lives of George Washington and Henry David Thoreau. He fishes with and visits the laboratories of famous ichthyologists; he takes instruction in the making of shad darts from a master of the art; and he cooks shad in a variety of ways, delectably explained at the end of the book. Mostly, though, he goes fishing for shad in various North American rivers, and he "fishes the same way he writes books, avidly and intensely. He wants to know everything about the fish he's after--its history, its habits, its place in the cosmos" (Bill Pride, The Denver Post). His adventures in pursuit of shad occasion the kind of writing--expert and ardent--at which he has no equal.
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Total Pages | : 832 |
Release | : 1955 |
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Author | : David B. Bowes |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Attention-deficit-disordered adults |
ISBN | : 143892576X |
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An award-winning journalist, discovering in his early seventies that he has spent a writing life with undiagnosed Attention Deficit Disorder, sifts through seven scrapbooks of newspaper and magazine clippings bearing his by-line. What he winnows from this blizzard of adventures makes for diverse (going on whiplash!) reading--and identifies journalism as a promising career prospect for young writers with symptoms of ADD.
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Total Pages | : 992 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Industrial efficiency |
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Author | : John McPhee |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2000-06-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0374708460 |
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross section of North America at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists he traveled with. The structure of the book never changed, but its breadth caused him to complete it in stages, under the overall title Annals of the Former World. Like the terrain it covers, Annals of the Former World tells a multilayered tale, and the reader may choose one of many paths through it. As clearly and succinctly written as it is profoundly informed, this is our finest popular survey of geology and a masterpiece of modern nonfiction. Annals of the Former World is the winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction.
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Total Pages | : 876 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Automobiles |
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