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Shipping Container Homes: Learn How to Find, Design, and Build an Incredible Shipping Container Home
Shipping Container Homes: Learn How to Find, Design, and Build an Incredible Shipping Container Home
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
This guide tackles the modern and interesting topic of shipping container homes. If you have ever considered building your own home from scratch, then you will want to become familiar with the concept, as shipping container homes are rapidly becoming more feasible and widespread. This eBook...
The 100 Greatest Advertisements 1852-1958
Who Wrote Them and What They Did
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Styles in advertising will change, but there is no copywriter, artist, or campaign planner who will not profit by studying proved successes, whether of 50 years ago or today. In this single volume are 100 of what are probably among the most successful advertisements ever to appear in print, plus an...
by Mark Gerchick
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
"Sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight," our pilots still intone. But who are they kidding?
In Full Upright and Locked Position, former FAA chief counsel and senior aviation policy official Mark Gerchick unravels the unseen forces and little-known facts that have reshaped our air travel experience...
Dangerous Lessons And Guardian Angels
An Airline Pilot's Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2012
DANGEROUS LESSONS AND GUARDIAN ANGELS is an action packed true adventure book that spans thirty-five years of airline flying. Stories about transporting guns to Biafra, flying cargo up and down the Berlin corridor during the cold war, and flying sensitive missions, deep into Russia.Fasten your seatbelt...
Black Box
Inside the World's Worst Air Crashes
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
The smash-hit bestseller about the world's worst air crashes and the disaster detectives who pick through the wreckage to find out why they happened - now fully revised and updated, with 30% new material. From the early tragedies of the Comet and the DC10 to the modern-day horror of the Concorde...
by Ray Ronan
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
As with the Air France Flight 447 tragedy, much of the time air crashes are a confluence of events; a cascade of bad luck, bad decisions, inappropriate airline company policy, the failure of aviation regulators, and sometimes insufficient training, or various combinations of all five.
But why?
Seconds...
LIFE Inside the Disney Parks
The Happiest Places on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Walt Disney spent his life dreaming impossible dreams, and achieved the most impossible dream of all - the amusement park to end all amusement parks: Disneyland!
Pushing the Limits
New Adventures in Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called America’s poet laureate of technology. **Pushing the Limits **celebrates some of the largest things we have created–bridges, dams, buildings--and provides a startling new vision of engineering’s...
by Jandos Rothstein
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
How does a designer create graphic solutions to the behind-the-scenes editorial challenges at a magazine? Designing Magazines is the complete guide to understanding the inner workings of magazines and their day-to-day management--and a great guide to using that knowledge to create visually stunning,...
by Douglas Davis
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The Business Skills Every Creative Needs!
Remaining relevant as a creative professional takes more than creativity--you need to understand the language of business. The problem is that design school doesn't teach the strategic language that is now essential to getting your job done. Creative...
Business Branding for the Non-Designer
A Simple Guide to Brand Your Business Like a Pro
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR BRAND Think you need a large budget and a giant marketing firm to brand your business? Not so fast. This guide breaks branding down into easy-to-understand, easy-to-execute steps, giving non-designers everything they need to create winning brands and successful...
Sixteen Acres
Architecture and the Outrageous Struggle for the Future of Ground Zero
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
A no-holds-barred look at the collision of interests behind the ambitious attempt to raise a new national icon at Ground Zero
When we stand in downtown Manhattan in the future and look up and ask, "Why?"--Why is it so strange, so rude, so striving, so right, so wrong?--we will have...
Controlled Crash
An Airline Odyssey, from Eels and Ethics to Blimps and Drunken Bears
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
Pilots like to say that every safe landing is really just a controlled crash. In this witty and entertaining memoir of his airline career, Eldon Brown whisks us back to the heyday of the airline industry, when it was fun to fly and salesmanship was a creative art. During his decades in cargo management...
Scapegoat
A Flight Crew's Journey from Heroes to Villains to Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This is the story of a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigation gone awry and one pilot's decade-long battle to clear his name. On April 4, 1979, a Boeing 727 with 82 passengers and a crew of 7 rolled over and plummeted from an altitude of 39,000 feet to within seconds of crashing...