Author: Emma E. RugglessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Wheels, Wings and Other Things
Wings
Author: Tracey TurnerPublisher: Wheels/Wings
ISBN: 9780753445198
Category : Airplanes
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A visually stunning book about all kinds of wings - not just those on aeroplanes!
Wheels, Wings, and Motors
Author: Robert CoupePublisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1477763163
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Follow the evolution of transportation from the wheel to the internal combustion engine to the airplane. Discover how the simple wheel has inspired modern and future transportation. With detailed diagrams, essential history, and explanations of the underlying science, this is a book that will keep readers moving in the right direction.
Wheels and Wings
Author: Publisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Provides answers to questions about bikes, cars, trucks, trains, ships, submarines, planes, and rockets, including how they are built, why they work, and how to operate them safely. An activities section is included.
Childcraft: How things work
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Tour Book
Author: Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2754
Book Description
The Organization of Things
Author: Martin ParkerPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040230253
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
This is a book about knowledge and how it is organized. The business school has captured ideas about organization, and reduced them to questions of formal structures, documented processes, logistics and operations. This book shows how the concept can be understood more generously by illuminating the fundamental importance of culture to our understanding of organization. Using the idea of a cabinet of curiosities, the author shows how we can learn a lot about authority from choirs of angels, about secrecy from shipping containers, or work from art galleries. In disorganizing categories, forcing unusual conjunctions, the work opens itself to organization studies and studies of organizing, as well as cultural sociology, human geography, and social theory. Bringing together arguments developed over the last two decades, this book brings together and updates work that will provide a unique and valuable reference for students and scholars of management and organization around the world.
Childcraft-6
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780716601760
Category : Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
China's Wings
Author: Gregory CrouchPublisher: Bantam
ISBN: 034553235X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
From the acclaimed author of Enduring Patagonia comes a dazzling tale of aerial adventure set against the roiling backdrop of war in Asia. The incredible real-life saga of the flying band of brothers who opened the skies over China in the years leading up to World War II—and boldly safeguarded them during that conflict—China’s Wings is one of the most exhilarating untold chapters in the annals of flight. At the center of the maelstrom is the book’s courtly, laconic protagonist, American aviation executive William Langhorne Bond. In search of adventure, he arrives in Nationalist China in 1931, charged with turning around the turbulent nation’s flagging airline business, the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC). The mission will take him to the wild and lawless frontiers of commercial aviation: into cockpits with daredevil pilots flying—sometimes literally—on a wing and a prayer; into the dangerous maze of Chinese politics, where scheming warlords and volatile military officers jockey for advantage; and into the boardrooms, backrooms, and corridors of power inhabited by such outsized figures as Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek; President Franklin Delano Roosevelt; foreign minister T. V. Soong; Generals Arnold, Stilwell, and Marshall; and legendary Pan American Airways founder Juan Trippe. With the outbreak of full-scale war in 1941, Bond and CNAC are transformed from uneasy spectators to active participants in the struggle against Axis imperialism. Drawing on meticulous research, primary sources, and extensive personal interviews with participants, Gregory Crouch offers harrowing accounts of brutal bombing runs and heroic evacuations, as the fight to keep one airline flying becomes part of the larger struggle for China’s survival. He plunges us into a world of perilous night flights, emergency water landings, and the constant threat of predatory Japanese warplanes. When Japanese forces capture Burma and blockade China’s only overland supply route, Bond and his pilots must battle shortages of airplanes, personnel, and spare parts to airlift supplies over an untried five-hundred-mile-long aerial gauntlet high above the Himalayas—the infamous “Hump”—pioneering one of the most celebrated endeavors in aviation history. A hero’s-eye view of history in the grand tradition of Lynne Olson’s Citizens of London, China’s Wings takes readers on a mesmerizing journey to a time and place that reshaped the modern world.