The future will bring technological revolutions and political upheaval, but some things are timeless. Money talks, trust is precious, and no plan survives contact with the enemy. The Friday before Restoration Week begins, Naomi Kwan's biggest fear is losing her job. By the end of the holiday, she is running for her life. Terrorists blow up her home, her best friend gets, arrested for killing a mugger, and total strangers try to murder them both in...

She's soaring through life... ...But he's about to send her into a tailspin. Is this just turbulence or something more? Aubrey Cassen has what she wants out of life; a rewarding career, amazing friends, and the freedom of flying her own plane. Men are fun, but never a priority. When a new mechanic with soldering amber eyes begins working at her airfield, she feels her carefully controlled life veering off course. Is it heading toward disaster...

Safe Landings is filled with lessons and anecdotes from Bartholomew's decades of experience being a pilot and demonstrates timeless techniques pertinent to all for effective decision-making under pressure. In the air, division among colleagues can lead to disastrous outcomes. Bartholomew believes that only in a connected society can we truly find solutions. Safe Landings applies proven flying strategies to global issues and offers new perspectives...

Colditz Castle was one of the most famous Prisoner of War camps of the Second World War. It was there that the Germans interred their most troublesome or important prisoners. Hundreds of ingenious escape attempts were made but the most ambitious of all was to build a glider and fly to freedom.Though the glider was built, the war ended before it could be used, and it was subsequently destroyed. Using the original plans and materials used by the prisoners,...

I've always enjoyed passing knowledge onto others, and in a career spanning over 50 years with varied experiences, I've gained a lot of experience to pass on, and this book is a means of passing that knowledge on to aspiring students and would be, or existing, instructors. This book covers all the sequences required through to a commercial pilot licence, plus night flying and basic instrument flying. Not only does it detail what should be taught,...

A potent re-examination of America's history of public disinvestment in mass transit.   Many a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dependence on cars and the corresponding lack of federal investment in public transportation throughout the latter decades of the twentieth century. But as Nicholas Dagen Bloom shows in The Great American Transit Disaster, our transit networks are so bad for a very simple reason: we wanted it this way. ...