European Skyways

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Genre : Aeronautics
Author : Lowell Thomas
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Release : 1927
File : 646 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015035918096


Military Review

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Genre : Military art and science
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Release : 1927
File : 1396 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105072022762


U S Air Services

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Genre : Aeronautics
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Release : 1928
File : 562 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015024398987


Cartographic Fictions

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Maps are stories as much about us as about the landscape. They reveal changing perceptions of the natural world, as well as conflicts over the acquisition of territories. Cartographic Fictions looks at maps in relation to journals, correspondence, advertisements, and novels by authors such as Joseph Conrad and Michael Ondaatje. In her innovative study, Karen Piper follows the history of cartography through three stages: the establishment of the prime meridian, the development of aerial photography, and the emergence of satellite and computer mapping. Piper follows the cartographer's impulse to "leave the ground" as the desire to escape the racialized or gendered subject. With the distance that the aerial view provided, maps could then be produced "objectively," that is, devoid of "problematic" native interference. Piper attempts to bring back the dialogue of the "native informant," demonstrating how maps have historically constructed or betrayed anxieties about race. The book also attempts to bring back key areas of contact to the map between explorer/native and masculine/feminine definitions of space.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Karen Lynnea Piper
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Release : 2002
File : 244 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0813530733


Review Of Current Military Literature

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Genre : Military art and science
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Release : 1926
File : 846 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCAL:B2861860


Naked Airport

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The first full cultural history of the ultimate modern structure: the airport, revealed as never before ... Since its origins in the muddy fields of flying machines, the airport has arguably become one of the defining institutions of modern life. In Naked Airport, critic Alastair Gordon ranges from global geopolitics to action movies to the daily commute, showing how airports have changed our sense of time, distance, travel, style, and even the way cities are built and business is done. Gordon introduces the people who shaped this place of sudden transportation: pilots like Charles Lindberg, architects like Eero Saarinen, politicians like Fiorello La Guardia, and Hitler, who built Berlin's Tempelhof as a showcase for Fascist power. He describes the airport's futuristic contributions, such as credit cards, in the form of fly-now-pay-later schemes, and he charts its shift in popular perception, from glamorous to infuriating. Finally, he analyzes the airport's function in war and peace—its gatekeeper role controlling immigration, its appeal to revolutionaries since the hijackings of the 1960s, and its new frontline position in the struggle against terror. Compelling and accessible, Naked Airport is an original history of a long-neglected yet central creation of modern reality and imagination.

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Genre : Transportation
Author : Alastair Gordon
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Release : 2014-04-22
File : 352 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781466869110


Wisconsin Library Bulletin

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Genre : Libraries
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Release : 1928
File : 380 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCAL:B2921163


Women In British Imperial Airspace

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The romance of flying the airways that developed above the British empire between the two world wars seduced young women with the promise of independence, glamour, and adventure.

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Genre : History
Author : Liz Millward
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release : 2008
File : 249 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780773560512


Aeronautical Publications

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Author : United States. Bureau of Air Commerce
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Release : 1932
File : 24 Pages
ISBN-13 : MINN:31951D00123630O


Canadian Bookman

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Genre : Books
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Release : 1927
File : 694 Pages
ISBN-13 : IOWA:31858046235374