Author: Charles JohnstonePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Reverie, Or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools
Author: Charles JohnstoneFlight
Author: BEWARE OF FOOLS
Author: JOHN JAMES ABEKAHPublisher: JOHN JAMES SEKOH ABEKAH
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
The vicious cycle of wrong thoughts, wrong choices, wrong actions, and wrong outcomes can be broken when you identify and break away from that one wrong person in your life. In this yet another masterpiece, BEWARE OF FOOLS: ESCAPING THE WEB OF WRONG ASSOCIATION, the author John James Abekah unveils a host of wrong people around you and equips you to break off from them and from the fool in particular. You will: *Discover that wrong association, indeed, is a slow poison *Identify and connect with a true friend *Undo the generational effects of wrong associations on your destiny *And many more...
Escape to the Sky
Author: Donald E. FinkPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 147972243X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
It is 1936, and BEN FINDLAY, a 16-year-old Michigan farm boy, wanders to a local airport to escape his abusive father. Ben meets BRICE, a crusty flight instructor and veteran pilot with the U. S. Army Air Corps in the 1914-1918 Great War, who teaches Ben to fly in a bi-wing, open-cockpit Stearman trainer. Ben quickly masters advanced maneuvers, including aerial combat tactics, and is recruited to fly for Spains Republican Air Force in that countrys bloody civil war. Ben slips away from home before his eighteenth birthday, and after additional combat training, sails for Barcelona, Spain. Thus begins an adventure filled odyssey that sweeps Ben from Spain to England and into the early days of World War 2 as a Spitfire pilot with Britains Royal Air Force. Following Americas entry into the war Ben transfers to the U. S. Army Air Force and opts to fly Boeing B-17 bombers to carry the war directly to Germany. Escape to the Sky ends with Bens thirtieth and final bombing raid over Regensburg, Germany.
Film Year Book
Author: Flying against Fate
Author: S. P. MacKenziePublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700624694
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
During World War II, Allied casualty rates in the air were high. Of the roughly 125,000 who served as aircrew with Bomber Command, 59,423 were killed or missing and presumed killed—a fatality rate of 45.5%. With odds like that, it would be no surprise if there were as few atheists in cockpits as there were in foxholes; and indeed, many airmen faced their dangerous missions with beliefs and rituals ranging from the traditional to the outlandish. Military historian S. P. MacKenzie considers this phenomenon in Flying against Fate, a pioneering study of the important role that superstition played in combat flier morale among the Allies in World War II. Mining a wealth of documents as well as a trove of published and unpublished memoirs and diaries, MacKenzie examines the myriad forms combat fliers' superstitions assumed, from jinxes to premonitions. Most commonly, airmen carried amulets or talismans—lucky boots or a stuffed toy; a coin whose year numbers added up to thirteen; counterintuitively, a boomerang. Some performed rituals or avoided other acts, e.g., having a photo taken before a flight. Whatever seemed to work was worth sticking with, and a heightened risk often meant an upsurge in superstitious thought and behavior. MacKenzie delves into behavior analysis studies to help explain the psychology behind much of the behavior he documents—not slighting the large cohort of crew members and commanders who demurred. He also looks into the ways in which superstitious behavior was tolerated or even encouraged by those in command who saw it as a means of buttressing morale. The first in-depth exploration of just how varied and deeply felt superstitious beliefs were to tens of thousands of combat fliers, Flying against Fate expands our understanding of a major aspect of the psychology of war in the air and of World War II.
The Film Daily Year Book of Motion Pictures
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture industry
Languages : en
Pages : 1296
Book Description
Tales From The Wild Blue Yonder *TAKING MEXICO FLYING*
Author: John Quinn OlsonPublisher: Dust Devil Press
ISBN: 0982070349
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Welcome to the adventures and misadventures from a quarter century of hang gliding and travel. Huck yourself off cliffs, soar into the Wild Blue, and land where no human has landed before, all from the comfort and safety of your easy chair. Visit exotic lands and foreign skies, experience the thrill of foot-launched human flight and never even risk your neck. Come along with a wild cast of characters, who fly like their lives depend upon it. Realize mankind's most ancient dream, FLY WITH THE BIRDS!
The Language of Flowers in the Time of COVID
Author: Joan D. StammPublisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1803411910
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
In 2020, as COVID-19 spread from Asia to North America, Zen Buddhist and ikebana practitioner Joan Stamm was forced to cancel her long-anticipated trip to Japan, where she had planned to research a flower temple pilgrimage and learn the deeper meaning of flowers known as “little Buddhas”. But with lockdowns and stay-at-home orders, Stamm, who lives on a mountain on an island in the Salish Sea, sequestered herself like a hermit and turned to her own flower garden for solace and meaning as the pandemic engulfed the world around her. The Language of Flowers in the Time of COVID tells the story of Stamm’s life and spiritual journey through these difficult times. Using traditional Japanese flowers as seasonal indicators, Stamm speaks the poetic language of flowers to explore ancient flower metaphor as it relates to the pandemic and the many manifestations of impermanence in one of the most tumultuous years in American history.
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