The American Design Adventure, 1940-1975

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The land of iced water.......2001-12-11

Mark Twain once said that the only thing Americans really had in common with one another was a fondness for iced water. This book offers a much-needed sense of the method behind the multiplicity of American design. It's a pioneering work, even though it has important flaws.

Pulos's scholarship is good. However, there is too much about competitions, exhibitions, professional societies, design education and the Museum of Modern Art, even though Pulos is candid about their generally limited impact. Also, the author's political economy is weak. There is uncritical endorsement for Adam Smith, and for design as an instrument of what, in a bizarre Introduction to Adventure, Pulos terms 'barter'. There is a tone of injured, protectionist sensitivity whenever imports from Europe rear their head.

'Building the World of Tomorrow', the New York World's Fair of 1939-40, starts us on a brilliant survey of dreams and realities in the early 1940s. Of dreams there were plenty: Henry Dreyfuss, Raymond Loewy, Donald Deskey, Russel Wright and the entirely dotty Norman Bel Geddes, designers to the Fair and to much of mid- century America, were obsessed with science fiction futures. Dreyfuss, who earlier did the Bell telephone, now tried space-age evening dresses for Vogue. As for Bel Geddes, his highly popular Futurama exhibit, a 1960 USA spanned by 14-lane motorways, caused a massive furore.

Soon realities crowded in. Pulos covers the Jeep swiftly and then turns in a remarkable passage on US designers and the war effort. Dreyfuss, Loewy and Walter Dorwin Teague, he mentions, designed strategy rooms for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Dreyfuss did 13-foot globes for FDR, Churchill and Stalin to plan battles on. Loewy was consultant to the Office of Strategic Services, predecessor of the CIA, in a mysterious-sounding Department of Visual Presentation. Teague won a citation from the Navy for his work in ordnance. Bucky Fuller did Dymaxion Deployment Units for use by the armed forces in the Pacific and the Persian Gulf. Charles Eames, as is well known, did wooden splints for the Navy, while Eliot Noyes met Tom Watson Jr, later his client at IBM, in the Pentagon's planes department. And Bel Geddes ? His chess-like wargame panoramas for the military included, Pulos notes, 'a number of pre-invasion models for events that never occurred, such as a battle of Gibraltar, landings on the north coast of Germany, and a tank battle in the USSR'.

Pulos coasts through all this with finesse. His sketches of less prominent designers are exemplary. He shows how Durez plastics and Libbey-Owens-Ford glass, taking advantage of their products' popularity during the shortages of war, organised utopian 'kitchens of the future' for an admiring public whose hopes were later dashed. He deals well with wartime trailer homes, late-1940s prefabricated and Levitt houses, and with what he terms the 'exotic' early-1950s influence of Scandinavian furniture.

Pulos's pictures, despite b&w, are fine. He accurately attacks US post-war lighting and is justifiably cool on how, in the Third World, Teague, Wright and others, aided by the White House's International Cooperation Administration, tried and failed 'to help unstable countries maintain their political independence by developing a secure and promising economy'. But Pulos will not ground his insights with any sense of America's mid-century might, or of its de-industrialisation since. Instead of being reminded that US output, capacity and exports were massively strengthened by its Allies' wartime travail, or that Keynesian full employment policies were what allowed Bel Geddes' motorways to be built, we hear complaints of the 'formidable competition' facing the USA from overseas. We touch on 1960s revolt and 1970s 'smokestack industries', but the atmospheres or products of the atomic era, the Cold War, the Korean boom or the Vietnam war barely figure. We learn nothing of Madison Avenue, 'motivational research' and the Harvard Business Review line on design in the 1950s. Rather, we face but alternating buyers' and sellers' markets, and an Epilogue where the USA leads other countries in using design to reach ethnic, social and economic 'equilibrium'.

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The American Design Adventure 1940-1975
Arthur J PULOS
Manufacturer: MIT Press
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Art in Britain, 1969-70,
Edward Lucie-Smith
Manufacturer: Dent
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 0460038885

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High-resolution digital cameras matched with powerful computers, high-quality scanners, and photo-quality ink-jet printers virtually eliminate the need for film or processing. An introduction to the equipment (both hardware and software) is provided, and detailed information on storage options, lenses, optics, image manipulation and editing, compression of files, focusing capabilities, and outputting images to electronic format (such as the Web) onto photo-quality paper via an ink-jet printer is also covered. Hobbyists and professional photographers alike can utilize this technology to enhance their capabilities in taking and distributing good photographs.

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Great for beginners.......2001-04-05

If you want a book that will give you a basic understanding of what digital photography is, then this is your best bet. It starts out with a brief history of digital photography, and gives some background on how it differs from film. There's value in the straight-forward way it's presented.

There is also value in some of the information that's given on how to choose formats (as in, PC vs. Mac), what type of storage media is available, what kind of hardware is out there, and what software is available.

A disappointing book, primarily based on its title.......2000-12-21

This book provides a general description of the history of photography and then goes into devices used in digital photography along with definitions of terminology that may be educational to the the total novice. It does little to relate the significance of various capabilities for producing quality pictures and the trade-offs that occur. Some of the points are well developed for the novice, whereas others are treated supeficially and assume that the reader already has familiarity with the subject (e.g. the coverage on color). It major strength is an interesting chronology of the evolution of photography to where it is today. My main concern with the book is that it is far from the 'comprehensive, step-by-step guide' that it's title claims it to be. Anyone looking for a book that helps in taking and processing digital pictures will find very little of use here.

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The Dynamics of Industrial Competition provides the first extensive quantitative examination of the processes associated with competition: entry and exit, mergers, growth and decline of incumbent firms. It uses a unique data base to investigate phenomena that have rarely been measured and even more rarely set side by side so as to provide a comprehensive picture of the intensity of competition and its effects on productivity, efficiency and profitability. It will be of interest to all social scientists who are concerned with the workings of markets--economists, political scientists, government specialists, as well as antitrust lawyers.

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A book to encourage debate- not end it!!.......2002-08-25

This is not the book that many will expect it to be. If the reader is looking for a book taking a position for or against affirmative action, she will be dissapointed here. In fact, half of the book actually is absent talk of affirmative action at all. What Carter does do in "Reflections.." is relay to us his experiences, thoughts and feelings on the matter in the style of an internal socratic dialogue.

Stephen Carter is just the man to do it. He has written many books on the many aspects of law and, as he conveys in this cultural memoir, has aquired views notoriously hard to pin down (how many 'liberals' do YOU know who wrote books suggesting that church/state seperation has been taken too far?!) Accordingly, he can admits both being helped by affirmative action and being psychologically hurt by some of it's misguided effects. His willingness to think and write about these quandaries, so often neglected by other thinkers, makes this a fascinating read. No dogmatic diatribes or easy answers, just discussion that is passionate yet objective.

While affirmative action dominates the first half of the book, it is used as a springboard to the second half, which discusses a deeper problem- that of a noticeable distrust in Black America of dissenting political voices. Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, Clarence Thomas and the like are quick to be called 'white' or 'inauthentic' if they voice opinions contrary to mainstream black thought. Whether or not you agree with Carter's observation, his discussion here is lively, thoughtful and always respectful of all angles.

So, to close, the reason for the subtracted star is the fact that this book might disappoint two expectations readers may have for it- First, there are no conclusions reached here. While this is a good thing in itself, the reader looking for winning intellectual argument will need to look elsewhere. The second is that the title is a bit misleading as only about 100 pages are actually on affirmative action. Again, the discussion after is just as mind-capturing. Still, because of the title and synopsis, it is a bit misleading.

A Flawed Argument.......2002-06-06

Once over lunch with a Polish-American friend of mine, we discussed affirmative action. I support it; she doesn't. "Carolyn," she said, "you're so smart. Aren't you resentful that people will think that you got so far in school, employment, and life in general because of the color of your skin?"

"Kim," I answered, "what makes you think that black people don't think that everytime we see unqualified white people who've "made it"? Do you really think George W. Bush would have been admitted to Yale if he'd been black?" That gave her some food for thought so I was able to finish my share of the sushi before we moved on to dissect "Memento". I loved it; she hated it.

The point is, the argument that affirmative action is somehow unfair to blacks because it lumps the "unqualified" in with the "qualified" is bull. Life lumps the "unqualified" in with the "qualified" all the time. Which is why both a D student cheerleader like George W. Bush and and an A+ student bi-lingual Academy Award winner like Jodie Foster hold degrees from Yale.

Why is it that all of the black intellectuals who come out against affirmative action owe their educations and careers to its existence? It's amazing how these men and women want to turn around and lock the doors that openly admitted them so that no more minorities can pass through.

Stephen L. Carter's argument is flawed. But I'm sure it helped sell his book, so more power to ya, brotha! Count your cash and forget the cost to minorities in America.

Required reading for everyone!.......2001-09-11

I picked up this one in a second-hand bookstore in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. What an odd place for such a book, and what a treat it was for me!!

I have many friends from the US, and I have over the years heard they mentioning of "AA-programs". Some of my friends are positive to the AA-programs while others are against them. I must confess that I have absolutely no first-hand experience on this topic at all. I have the "preferred" skin-color, and also I'm living in Norway - which is one of the more advanced countries when it comes to equal opportunities - equal pay etc. Therefore, in the past, I had little to contribute with when the topic was discussed. And lack of knowledge was probably my strongest motive for reading "Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby".

One would think that a serious topic as Affirmative Action really is, would make a dry and rather verbose book. But Dr. Carter has an easy writing style, combined with his personal anecdotes - "Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby" was an entertaining read! I greatly enjoyed the book from page one. It was too good to put down, so I finished it in a few long sittings.

After reading this book, I have a better understanding on how the different AA-program works. And I must admit that I side with the ones of my friends whom are against such programs. This, simply because I truly believe that "color-blind is best". Treat everyone as individuals, and stop the stereotyping, and the building up under the belief that minorities cannot compete in a level playing field. For example, when American universities admit Blacks, Hispanics or others with lower exam scores than the rest, it is a waste of resources. They are more likely to follow the trend with lower test results than the rest, to not pass the exams, or fail to graduate at all (Thomas Sowell "Race and Culture - A world view", 1995). If any minority group be it Blacks, Hispanics or others, score lower than other groups, the recourses should be put in to improving the schools rather than telling them (the minorities) they do not need to meet the same standards as others. I can of course never completely comprehend or understand the terrible injustice and the endless frustrations that the minorities must have suffered, as I believe you have to have "walked in their shoes" to do so. But I am at least much more knowledgeable when discussing the topic.

After reading the book I passed it on to my friend, Rosa. She is living in US, but her parents moved from Puerto Rico to US some 30 years ago. She too, finished the book in a sitting or two, and she passed it on to her mother who was visiting from US. Both Rosa and her mother could perfectly well identify with Dr. Carter's book. I can never imagine what it is like to feel the doubt of colleagues to whether my success was achieved because of my race (and thereof by the privileges granted under an AA-program) rather than merit. But according to what Rosa told me, that is something all minorities has to live with. I am sure she knows what she is talking about, being a highly successful woman teaching (and doing her Ph.D.) at one of the best universities in Chicago. Another (black) friend of mine (also very successful) says "..My SAT-score was way above the score required, and I would have been admitted to the West Point Academy even if I was polka-dotted. But I am so used to the accusations of me achieving what I have achieved due to my skin-color rather than to my merits, to the point where that I am not even offended by it anymore..."

"Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby" is a book that taught me many things, and it should be required reading for everyone.

It is a book that leaves you thinking - which is not necessarily a bad thing...

Provocative Thinking about a Major Cultural Problem.......2001-03-05

I must confess from the outet that likely I am not part of a recognized minority, unless one considers a short, German belonging to a small, conservataive Christian church such.

Carter is a provocative writer and thinker. Having read other works of his on culture and religion and law, this is yet another which shows us this talented man's ability to present a lucid, well thought out opinion.

Many points put forth in this work caused me to seriously ponder my views, and my culture's. My sensisitivity has been heightened, my horizons have been stretched and broadened. Admittedly so, I have not had enough exposure to all the voices Carter provides besides his own. This is of tremendous value to me.

Still horrifying and repugnant to me personally to know the reality of racism and all of its trump cards that both sides play. Carter seeks to expose them all for what they're worth. The solidarity and love he has for his heritage shines forth, as well the balance and passionate opinions he expresses for resolve in the future.

Thought-provoking, eloquent, erudite..........2000-04-21

I was actually assigned to read a chapter of this book for one of my classes and wound up purchasing the entire thing because I found it so utterly compelling. What makes this a refreshing departure from other books on affirmative action is how Carter manages to personalize his message while at the same time not coming off as an ideologue. His arguments are too well-reasoned, too thought-provoking, for anyone to dismiss his work out of hand.

His theory of affirmative action walks the line between anecdotal evidence and policy analysis, but his exposition is so graceful that these competing methods don't create contradiction. Carter manages to write both a poignant account of his own experience with affirmative action as well as a critical analysis of the motivation behind affirmative action and it's failed execution in the U.S.

Carter's book has once again proven that affirmative action is something intelligent people can disagree about, for respectively rational and well-meaning reasons. I am no closer to knowing the "right" answer to such a muddled issue, but the fact that Carter is thinking and writing about it enrichens the debate immeasurably.

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Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby
Stephen L. Carter
Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MM9N8G

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Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby
Stephen L. Carter
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Stephen L. Carter -
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Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby-
Stephen L. Carter-
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publisher-
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Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby. (book reviews): An article from: Mid-Atlantic Journal of Business
Richard J. Hunter
Manufacturer: Stillman School of Business
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00092JCJ4
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Mid-Atlantic Journal of Business, published by Stillman School of Business on December 1, 1991. The length of the article is 435 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby. (book reviews)
Author: Richard J. Hunter
Publication: Mid-Atlantic Journal of Business (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1991
Publisher: Stillman School of Business
Volume: v27 Issue: n3 Page: p266(2)

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Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby

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Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby
Stephen L. Carter
Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KPW4MW

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The goal of this volume is to discuss--in depth--the ways in which various "deviations" from "traditional" family styles affect childrearing practices and child development. Each of the contributors illustrates the dynamic developmental processes that characterize parenting and child development in contexts that can be deemed "nontraditional" because they do not reflect the demographic characteristics of the traditional families on which social scientists have largely focused. The contributors deal with the dynamics and possible effects of dual-career families, families with unusually involved fathers, families characterized by the occurrence of divorce, single parenthood, remarriage, poverty, adoption, reliance on nonparental childcare, ethnic membership, parents with lesbian or gay sexual orientations, as well as violent and/or neglectful parents. By doing so, the authors provide thoughtful, literate, and up-to-date accounts of a diverse array of "nontraditional" or traditionally understudied family types. All the chapters offer answers to a common question: How do these patterns of childcare affect children, their experiences, and their developmental processes? The answers to these questions are of practical importance, relevant to a growing proportion of the families and children in the United States, but also have significant implications for the understanding of developmental processes in general. As a result, the book will be of value to basic social scientists, as well as those professionals concerned with guiding and advising clients and public policy.

Nontraditional Families: Parenting and Child Development

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Nontraditional Families: Parenting and Child Development

Manufacturer: Lawrence Erlbaum
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Binding: Paperback

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In the past one-hundred fifty years there has been only one armed mutiny aboard an American ship. This is the story of that incident which occurred on March 14, 1970. It is presented as a serious piece of journalism but told with the narrative drive of a novel, including dialogues solidly grounded in sworn testimony and buttressed by hundreds of interviews with the crew and investigators who were the first to arrive on the scene. The mutiny was carried out by two young crew members of an American tramp steamer transporting napalm to Thailand for the war in Vietnam. After casting most of the crew into the Gulf of Thailand in lifeboats, the mutineers--fireman Clyde McKay and bedroom steward Alvin Glatkowski--made their way to Cambodia, where after a tense impasse with the U.S. military, the Columbia Eagle was turned over to Prince Sihanouk's government, and the mutineers, declaring themselves antiwar revolutionaries, were granted asylum. But two days later the two were imprisoned when a coup put pro-US Lon Nol in power, with Sihanouk charging that the CIA had masterminded the mutiny to deliver weapons to Lon Nol.

A tale of idealism and risk-taking, madness and ultimate tragedy, the book not only chronicles for the first time the mutiny and the investigation and trials that followed, but looks at the psychological factors involved as well. Beneath the surface story of a selfless and grand political gesture, the authors find an incident with deeper, more complex motivations. As events unfold, the authors draw readers deeply into the adventure for a full appreciation of shipboard life and the vagaries of human relationships.

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A little known event of the Vietnam War........2007-07-02

In March, 1970 an American tramp steamer carrying napalm and other bombs was hijacked by two crew members. This mutiny resulted in the Columbia Eagle being taken from international waters to Cambodia and then interned.
Many thought this was a secret attempt by the CIA to arm Lon Nol's faction in the Cambodian coup de etat. It was however a simple mutiny of two individuals against the policy of the United States. This book is the story of the mutiny and what happened to the two mutineers and an Army deserter in Cambodia. One of the mutineers and the deserter were later executed by the Khymer Rouge.

I commend the authors for writing an interesting story about the Vietnam War. Since the Columbia Eagle was the only vessel to mutiny in the two hundred years of the U.S. Merchant Marine, this should be a more well known fact.

The Eagle Has Landed.......2002-11-06

Roberto Loiederman and Richard Linnett take the reader on a fascinating voyage into a little-known chapter of the Vietnam era. Meticulously researched, the authors manage to pump prose into this account of an armed mutiny aboard an American ship carrying napalm. A former merchant marine, Loiederman lends authenticity and precision grounding to this sea-going narrative. Here is a rare opportunity to get a glimpse into the mind of a mutineer. Move over Bounty - the Eagle has landed!

In Our Lives.......2001-07-18

Thirty-one years ago was way, way back! Another century. Yet Linnett and Loiederman recreate the intensity and frenzy of that era and make it wholly coherent and contemporary. This fresh, comprehensive, recall reveals a turbulent Vietnam era that is both exotic and accessible.

A fantastic story--incredibly true though it reads like a thriller movie--this mutiny not only happened as described, but becomes a metaphor for the political and social transition that color an entire generation. And like Melville, Conrad, London, Nordhoff and Hall, Wauk and O'Brian, Linnett and Loiederman make of their ship, and it's mutiny, a floating cosmos, where the rules are both observed and bent. Where too, morality is debated and diverted.

We are given two young men coming of age in the late sixties. While both wind up as merchant seamen, Clyde slips in from a life of adventure and twilight while Alvin pushes on from the mainstream. The authors bring those hyperbolic days with their hyperbolic people alive in the same way Clyde and Alvin found them vivid and attractive.

And the Columbia Eagle becomes their crucible as the world and the war plunges forward. The powers play the grand game and, in isolation, the mutineers carry out their plot, ignorant and unaffected. When they finally emerge with the ship and its cargo of napalm in Cambodian waters, players are about to change sides on them and their act of protest is swallowed up in the upheaval, the coup that deposed Sihanouk three days after their arrival.

What follows is a tale of increasing strangeness. The relationship between Alvin and Clyde deteriorates. Their capture, incarceration, escape, disappearance and reappearance are all traced. The inscrutability of both U. S. and Cambodian officials concerning the mutineers' fates, gives rise to conjecture. We're also given an overview of the huge cast of anti-war journalists, Thai and Cambodian peasants, soldiers of fortune, scholars and movement people who cross paths with the mutineers. These were dizzying, heady times, and the authors bring them to life with persuasive, exhaustive research.

At last, we are left with a portrait of an age, a time and a set of personalities shaped by that time. Way back, when passions were enough.

An amazingly detailed account of mutiny and anti-war protest.......2001-06-26

Fascinating research by Roberto Loiederman and Richard Linnett into the little-known cases of a trio of American would-be revolutionaries, two of whom later escaped loose detention in Phnom Penh and set off to join the Khmer Rouge. After falling into the custody of Mam Sabun, a Khmer Rouge district chief, their fates become confused with those of Sean Flynn and Dana Stone, the most famous of the American journalists who disappeared in Cambodia during the 1970-75 era of conflict. This work is a valuable addition to Tim Page's ongoing research to resolve the fates of those who remain "unaccounted-for" in Cambodia. Roberto Loiederman's stunningly detailed account of life aboard the the ship make this story one which anyone who loves the sea will find spellbinding. While this book deals with so-called collaborators, those outside the government who remain interested in the PW-MIA issue will find "The Eagle Mutiny" contains some information which provides new insights.

The Golden Eagle / Mutiny (Unabridged) (Reading For Men)

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Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Also Includes: Excerpts from: Oasis Nine by Victor Canning, The Three Edwards by Thomas B. Costain, The Pig In The Barber Shop by H. Allen Smith.

Reading for Men Set of 14: Gold in the Sky, Overdue, Panther Mountain, the Passionate City, the Unforgiven, the Dragon Tree, the Cavalryman, the Golden Eagle, Mutiny, His Majesty's Highwayman, the Hour After Midnight, the Gracious Lily Affair, Etc (Reading for Men)

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Reading for Men Set of 14: Gold in the Sky, Overdue, Panther Mountain, the Passionate City, the Unforgiven, the Dragon Tree, the Cavalryman, the Golden Eagle, Mutiny, His Majesty's Highwayman, the Hour After Midnight, the Gracious Lily Affair, Etc (Reading for Men)

Manufacturer: Nelson Doubleday
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ASIN: B000GPVNXM

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Reading-For-Men series published by Nelson Doubleday in New York. Includes some black and white photographs and illustrations. Includes: Gold in the Sky by Max Catto; Excerpts from: The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor, Twenty-Four Hours A Le Mans by J.A. Greoire, Hunter's Tracks by J.A. Hunter, and Fanfare by Richard Maney. Overdue by Francis Cliffeord; Excerpts from: The Old Man and The Boy by Robert Ruark, Pay the Two Dollars by Alexander Rose, The D.A.'s Man by Harold Danforth and James Horan, Dreamers of the American Dream by Stewart Holbrook. Illustrative Drawings by Paul Coker and Walter Dower. Panther Mountain by John Brick, The Passionate City by Ian Stuart Black; Excerpts from: My Strangest Case by Police Chiefs of the World, The Brides of Solomon by Geoffrey Household, I Take Pictures For Adventure by Tom Stobart. The Unforgiven by Alan Le May; Excerpts from: The Little Black by Cawallader and Nudnick, Money of Their Own by Murray Teigh Bloom, Foreign Correspondent by Robert St. John, Treasure Under the Sea by N.B. Stirling. Illustrations by R. Taylor. The Dragon Tree by Victor Canning, The Cavalryman by Harold Sinclair; Excerpts from: Moon Squadron by Jerrard Tickell, The Office Party by Corey Ford, Kicking Canvas by Captain A. A. Bestic. Illustrations by Whitney Darrow, Jr. The Golden Eagle by John Jennings, Mutiny by Frank Tilsley; Excerpts from: Oasis Nine by Victor Canning, The Three Edwards by Thomas B. Costain, The Pig In The Barber Shop by H. Allen Smith. His Majesty's Highwayman by Donald Barr Chidsey, The Hour After Midnight by Joseph Hayes; Excerpts from: The Counterfeit Traitor by Alexander Klein, Into the Silk by Ian Mackersey, The Girls on the 10th Floor by Steve Allen. The Gracious Lily Affair by Van Wyck Mason; Excerpts from: Tip On A Dead Jockey by Irwin Shaw, Rally Round the Flag Boys! By Max Shulman, They Fought For the Sky by Quentin Reynolds, Rascals in Paradise by Michener and Day. Etc.

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Eagle Mutiny
Richard Linnett
Manufacturer: NAVAL INSTITUTE PR+
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N72A4E

The Golden Eagle Plus Mutiny (Frank Tilsey) and 3 Book Excerpts: Oasis Nine (Victor Canning), The Three Edwards (Thomas Costain) and The Pig in the Barber Shop (H Allen Smith) (Reading - for - Men)

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The Golden Eagle Plus Mutiny (Frank Tilsey) and 3 Book Excerpts: Oasis Nine (Victor Canning), The Three Edwards (Thomas Costain) and The Pig in the Barber Shop (H Allen Smith) (Reading - for - Men)

Manufacturer: Nelson Doubleday
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000FHZLFM

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3-2-1, ignition, liftoff and my life changed forever.

On a wintry day in February 1962, John Glenn rocketed into space, stirring the dreams and imagination of a young boy. Reading everything I could find while saving and collecting countless space mementos became a passion and way of life.

While, the Lennox Space Museum began as a joint venture with my sister, after a little more than 10 years of fun filled adventures, I was operating solo. As the collection continued to grow, my thoughts turned to a career in the space program. Lacking the courage to even think about being an astronaut, I headed for aeronautical college with the goal of being a NASA flight controller.

Just as the plans for space missions don't always follow the normal flight plan, my goal of helping to send humans into space got derailed because of serious eye problems. Every mission has alternative strategies, though, and successes happen when you least expect them.

Vision For Space tells this motivating story as well as giving you an interesting review of space program history. It also describes the creation of my space museum--a museum that is now called "the largest private collection in the Country". Tales of witnessing an Apollo launch, getting a personal tour of the Space Shuttle, meeting astronauts and the completion of hair brained and wacky schemes will take you on the journey through my very lucky life--the journey of an ordinary Joe.

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Great Resource.......2002-10-09

This book is an excellent resource for learning about what to feed most birds that will visit your garden. There are also ideas and instructions on how to build birdfeeders - from simple to more complex. A must-have for anyone who enjoys back-yard birdwatching.

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