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In the essays collected here William Langewiesche considers how flying has altered not only how we move about the earth, but also how we view our world and our place in it. With vivid descriptions of the aesthetics and excitement of flight, Langewiesche also writes of...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2010-02-25
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On January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York, when a flock of Canada geese collided with it, destroying both of its engines. Over the next three minutes, the plane's pilot Chelsey "Sully" Sullenberger, managed to...
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Penguin
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2010-02-04
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Everything around us is designed and the word 'design' has become part of our everyday experience. But how much do we know about it? Fifty Cars That Changed the World imparts that knowledge listing the top 50 cars that have made a substantial impact in the world of...
Editeur :
Conran Octopus
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2009-10-06
Collection :
Design Museum Fifty
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If I’d really been serious about getting to grips with my mid-life crisis, then I’d have been better opting for a course of therapy than going off travelling. Or if I had to travel, I’d have been better opting for somewhere warm with a beach… In an attempt to get to...
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Summersdale
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2009-04-06
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Jeremy Clarkson puts the pedal to the floor in Don't Stop Me Now; a collection of his Sunday Times motoring journalism. There's more to life than cars.Jeremy Clarkson knows this. There is, after all, a whole world out there just waiting to be discovered. So, before he...
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Penguin
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2008-10-02
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The autobiography of one of the greatest pilots in history.In 1939 Eric Brown was on a University of Edinburgh exchange course in Germany, and the first he knew of the war was when the Gestapo came to arrest him. They released him, not realising he was a pilot in the...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2008-09-18
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At home, I’m a cantankerous old git. On the boat, after a week’s cruising, I’m just a cantankerous old git with dirty hair. Steve Haywood has a problem. He doesn’t know where he comes from. In the south, people think he’s a northerner; in the north, they think he’s from...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2008-07-07
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Michael O'Leary is a business giant. He transformed Ryanair from a loss-making joke of an Irish carrier into one of the most valuable airlines in the world, and in the process he has revolutionized the very nature of commercial aviation. In this, the first biography of...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2008-03-27
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Thinking about a knockout audio system for your car? Not sure what you need, want, or can afford? Car Audio For Dummies is a great place to find some answers! But wait — what if speakers that vibrate your floorboards don’t turn you on? What if you’re thinking more...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2008-02-13
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Jeremy Clarkson gets under the bonnet in Clarkson on Cars - a collection of his motoring journalism.Jeremy Clarkson has been driving cars, writing about them and occasionally voicing his opinions on the BBC's Top Gear for twenty years.No one in the business is taller.In...
Editeur :
Penguin
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2007-06-20
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Jupiter's Travels -Ted Simon's astonishing 4 year motorbike journey around the world The book that inspired Ewan McGregor's Long Way RoundIn the late 1970s Ted Simon set off on a Triumph and rode 63,000 miles over four years through fifty-four countries in a journey...
Editeur :
Penguin
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2007-01-25
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In I Know You Got Soul, Jeremy Clarkson writes about the machines that he believes have 'soul'. It will come as no surprise to anyone that Jeremy Clarkson loves machines. But it's not just any old bucket of blots, cogs and bearings that rings his bell.In fact, he's...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2006-05-25
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Whether you fear, thrill at, or, like many, have never bothered to stop and think about the wonder of commercial flight, The Flying Book will inform, surprise, reassure, and entertain. David Blatner takes readers from the cockpit to the runway, the control tower, the...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2004-07-29
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Jeremy Clarkson invites us to Motorworld, his take on different cultures and the cars that they drive.There are ways and means of getting about that don't involve four wheels, but in this slice of vintage Clarkson,Jeremy isn't much interested in them.Back in 1996, he...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2004-05-27
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From the award-winning chief White House correspondent for U.S. News & World Report comes the definitive history of Air Force One.From FDR's prop-driven Pan Am to the glimmering blue and white jumbo 747 on which George W. Bush travels, the president's plane has captured...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2003-05-14
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Transport managers perform an essential and rewarding function in society, controlling the infrastructure that allows people and goods to move around conveniently and swiftly. However, it is also highly demanding work.In clear, jargon-free language, this book explains...
Editeur :
Kogan Page
Parution :
2002-11-29
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Walter Chrysler established the Chrysler Corporation from the embers of the Maxwell-Chambers Auto Works; then founded the much larger Dodge Brothers Motor Co. In this book he tells his story simply and with many entertaining anecdotes. He talks about his childhood, his...
Editeur :
Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2021-11-10
epub sans DRM
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A magical, airborne story of father and son.Jonathan Rotondo was 28 when his father, Antonio, died. Numb with grief, Rotondo decided to track down the object that had once given his father so much joy: a tiny single-seat biplane called Charlie Foxtrot Foxtrot Alpha...
Editeur :
Goose Lane Editions
Parution :
2019-02-19
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the electric car..• Electric driving: is it really greener? .• Driving and staying Zen: a guide to charging stations.• Are electric cars really more expensive? .• Can you use electric cars in the winter? ..Top experts share their...
Editeur :
Juniper Publishing
Parution :
2016-06-08
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NON CLASSE
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Fishing has long been documented as being the most dangerous occupation in the world. That is especially true in the harsh, and often bitter, marine environment of Atlantic Canada. These perilous conditions have caused the sinking and loss of hundreds of Atlantic...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2003-11-06
PDF sans DRM, epub sans DRM
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