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| Author | : John McPhee |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2007-04-03 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780865477391 |
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 | : Dwight Jon Zimmerman |
| Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 2010-09-14 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1429988916 |
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 | : John McPhee |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 1973 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 0374137811 |
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 | : Ken W. Sayers |
| Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Warships |
| ISBN | : 9781591147602 |
200 Years of the Most Unusual American Naval Vessels.
| Author | : John McPhee |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2003-09-10 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0374706344 |
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 |
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 | : 303 |
| Release | : 2010-04-01 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780374706029 |
At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersect—in the gold disruptions of the nineteenth century no less than in the earthquakes of the twentieth—and always with relevance to a newly understood geologic history in which half a dozen large and separate pieces of country are seen to have drifted in from far and near to coalesce as California. McPhee and Moores also journeyed to remote mountains of Arizona and to Cyprus and northern Greece, where rock of the deep-ocean floor has been transported into continental settings, as it has in California. Global in scope and a delight to read, Assembling California is a sweeping narrative of maps in motion, of evolving and dissolving lands.
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| Total Pages | : 876 |
| Release | : 1920 |
| Genre | : Automobiles |
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