Author: Renee Roszel
Publisher: Diversion Books
ISBN: 1940941350
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Ronda can’t believe the nerve of this pretty boy cockpit jockey who thinks he can teach her how to do her job. After all, she was a Captain in the United States Air Force, a graduate of the Air Force Academy (just like Major Chase Corbett), and her management degree in communications make her at least as qualified as him! But this washout pilot has been reprimanded with a transfer to a desk job—her desk job! And now, to make her humiliation worse, she is HIS assistant. But the liquid lightning in his blue eyes captures her senses. And somehow she can’t keep her abhorrence for this man from turning to desire. Though she has learned time and again that these fast-living, high-flying pilots always end up disappearing into the wild blue yonder, she can’t seem to help herself. Her body betrays her whenever she’s near him, and so she falls willingly into his arms and his bed. When Chase steps back into the cockpit of a jet, will he be gone for good…and will Ronda be forgotten, the smoldering wreckage of her own folly, on the bleak, desert badlands of his past? PRAISE FOR RENEE ROSZEL: "She is delightful, eloquent and humorous all in one." —Rendezvous Magazine "Talented...realistically excellent characterization" —Romantic Times
Wild Flight
Author: Renee Roszel
Publisher: Diversion Books
ISBN: 1940941350
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Ronda can’t believe the nerve of this pretty boy cockpit jockey who thinks he can teach her how to do her job. After all, she was a Captain in the United States Air Force, a graduate of the Air Force Academy (just like Major Chase Corbett), and her management degree in communications make her at least as qualified as him! But this washout pilot has been reprimanded with a transfer to a desk job—her desk job! And now, to make her humiliation worse, she is HIS assistant. But the liquid lightning in his blue eyes captures her senses. And somehow she can’t keep her abhorrence for this man from turning to desire. Though she has learned time and again that these fast-living, high-flying pilots always end up disappearing into the wild blue yonder, she can’t seem to help herself. Her body betrays her whenever she’s near him, and so she falls willingly into his arms and his bed. When Chase steps back into the cockpit of a jet, will he be gone for good…and will Ronda be forgotten, the smoldering wreckage of her own folly, on the bleak, desert badlands of his past? PRAISE FOR RENEE ROSZEL: "She is delightful, eloquent and humorous all in one." —Rendezvous Magazine "Talented...realistically excellent characterization" —Romantic Times
Publisher: Diversion Books
ISBN: 1940941350
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Ronda can’t believe the nerve of this pretty boy cockpit jockey who thinks he can teach her how to do her job. After all, she was a Captain in the United States Air Force, a graduate of the Air Force Academy (just like Major Chase Corbett), and her management degree in communications make her at least as qualified as him! But this washout pilot has been reprimanded with a transfer to a desk job—her desk job! And now, to make her humiliation worse, she is HIS assistant. But the liquid lightning in his blue eyes captures her senses. And somehow she can’t keep her abhorrence for this man from turning to desire. Though she has learned time and again that these fast-living, high-flying pilots always end up disappearing into the wild blue yonder, she can’t seem to help herself. Her body betrays her whenever she’s near him, and so she falls willingly into his arms and his bed. When Chase steps back into the cockpit of a jet, will he be gone for good…and will Ronda be forgotten, the smoldering wreckage of her own folly, on the bleak, desert badlands of his past? PRAISE FOR RENEE ROSZEL: "She is delightful, eloquent and humorous all in one." —Rendezvous Magazine "Talented...realistically excellent characterization" —Romantic Times
The Flight of a Wild Duck
Author: Avram Miller
Publisher: Widervision Media
ISBN: 9781737287629
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
"You always needed a wild duck like Avram, a nonlinear thinker that stirred up the others. I always try to have an Avram on my team. Always. They disrupt and create." -Andy Grove, former Intel CEO In The Flight of a Wild Duck, Avram Miller describes how luck, intuition, imagination, humor, and risk-taking enabled him to become one of Silicon Valley's visionaries and leading venture capitalists. He recalls his journey of overcoming childhood illness, a troubled family, and an inability to function in the education system to eventually become a senior executive at one of the world's leading technology companies. Never one to follow a conventional path, Miller broke away from a difficult childhood, leaving home to become a merchant seaman and later a hippie and activist in 1960s San Francisco. Though he had no formal education, his childhood interest in electronics provided him with a foundation in technology, and he ended up working in medical research. He was appointed as an associate professor at twenty-nine. He later transitioned from a successful medical science career to the computer industry, landing at Intel, where he cofounded Intel Capital, one of the top venture capital organizations in the world. The Flight of a Wild Duck is rich with personal stories, told with humor and honesty, interwoven with the history of the computer industry. Throughout, Miller provides insights into the legendary industry pioneers with whom he worked, including Andy Grove, Bill Gates, and Ken Olsen. The book documents several critical events that gave rise to the personal computer, the Internet, and the creation of broadband communication, in which Miller played a leading role.
Publisher: Widervision Media
ISBN: 9781737287629
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
"You always needed a wild duck like Avram, a nonlinear thinker that stirred up the others. I always try to have an Avram on my team. Always. They disrupt and create." -Andy Grove, former Intel CEO In The Flight of a Wild Duck, Avram Miller describes how luck, intuition, imagination, humor, and risk-taking enabled him to become one of Silicon Valley's visionaries and leading venture capitalists. He recalls his journey of overcoming childhood illness, a troubled family, and an inability to function in the education system to eventually become a senior executive at one of the world's leading technology companies. Never one to follow a conventional path, Miller broke away from a difficult childhood, leaving home to become a merchant seaman and later a hippie and activist in 1960s San Francisco. Though he had no formal education, his childhood interest in electronics provided him with a foundation in technology, and he ended up working in medical research. He was appointed as an associate professor at twenty-nine. He later transitioned from a successful medical science career to the computer industry, landing at Intel, where he cofounded Intel Capital, one of the top venture capital organizations in the world. The Flight of a Wild Duck is rich with personal stories, told with humor and honesty, interwoven with the history of the computer industry. Throughout, Miller provides insights into the legendary industry pioneers with whom he worked, including Andy Grove, Bill Gates, and Ken Olsen. The book documents several critical events that gave rise to the personal computer, the Internet, and the creation of broadband communication, in which Miller played a leading role.
Vesper Flights
Author: Helen Macdonald
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802146694
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The New York Times–bestselling author of H is for Hawk explores the human relationship to the natural world in this “dazzling” essay collection (Wall Street Journal). In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing the massive migration of songbirds from the top of the Empire State Building, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk’s poplar forests. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds’ nests, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife.
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802146694
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The New York Times–bestselling author of H is for Hawk explores the human relationship to the natural world in this “dazzling” essay collection (Wall Street Journal). In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing the massive migration of songbirds from the top of the Empire State Building, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk’s poplar forests. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds’ nests, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife.
Wild Justice
Author: Wilbur Smith
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN: 1429938935
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Wild Justice by Wilbur Smith It begins as a routine trip to South Africa. It ends in a nightmare for 400 passengers taken hostage. The hijacker is a beautiful pawn for an elusive figure--codename Caliph, whose campaign of terror has just begun. And the one man who rescued Flight 070 is the only man who can stop Caliph dead in his tracks. His name is Major Peter Stride, commanding agent of a crack team of anti-terrorist operatives. He's used to doing battle--and winning. But when his help is sought by the mysterious widow of one of Caliph's victims, and his own daughter is kidnapped, Stride plunges into a darker and more personal war than ever before. A war that will take him across the oceans and continents, closer to a shocking betrayal...and closer still to a madman who has the power to destroy the world and who knows Stride's every move--down to what could be his last one...
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN: 1429938935
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Wild Justice by Wilbur Smith It begins as a routine trip to South Africa. It ends in a nightmare for 400 passengers taken hostage. The hijacker is a beautiful pawn for an elusive figure--codename Caliph, whose campaign of terror has just begun. And the one man who rescued Flight 070 is the only man who can stop Caliph dead in his tracks. His name is Major Peter Stride, commanding agent of a crack team of anti-terrorist operatives. He's used to doing battle--and winning. But when his help is sought by the mysterious widow of one of Caliph's victims, and his own daughter is kidnapped, Stride plunges into a darker and more personal war than ever before. A war that will take him across the oceans and continents, closer to a shocking betrayal...and closer still to a madman who has the power to destroy the world and who knows Stride's every move--down to what could be his last one...
Flight Ways
Author: Thom van Dooren
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231537441
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
A leading figure in the emerging field of extinction studies, Thom van Dooren puts philosophy into conversation with the natural sciences and his ethnographic encounters to vivify the cultural and ethical significance of modern-day extinctions. Unlike other meditations on the subject, Flight Ways incorporates the particularities of real animals and their worlds, drawing philosophers, natural scientists, and general readers into the experience of living among and losing biodiversity. Each chapter of Flight Ways focuses on a different species or group of birds: North Pacific albatrosses, Indian vultures, an endangered colony of penguins in Australia, Hawaiian crows, and the iconic whooping cranes of North America. Written in eloquent and moving prose, the book takes stock of what is lost when a life form disappears from the world—the wide-ranging ramifications that ripple out to implicate a number of human and more-than-human others. Van Dooren intimately explores what life is like for those who must live on the edge of extinction, balanced between life and oblivion, taking care of their young and grieving their dead. He bolsters his studies with real-life accounts from scientists and local communities at the forefront of these developments. No longer abstract entities with Latin names, these species become fully realized characters enmeshed in complex and precarious ways of life, sparking our sense of curiosity, concern, and accountability toward others in a rapidly changing world.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231537441
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
A leading figure in the emerging field of extinction studies, Thom van Dooren puts philosophy into conversation with the natural sciences and his ethnographic encounters to vivify the cultural and ethical significance of modern-day extinctions. Unlike other meditations on the subject, Flight Ways incorporates the particularities of real animals and their worlds, drawing philosophers, natural scientists, and general readers into the experience of living among and losing biodiversity. Each chapter of Flight Ways focuses on a different species or group of birds: North Pacific albatrosses, Indian vultures, an endangered colony of penguins in Australia, Hawaiian crows, and the iconic whooping cranes of North America. Written in eloquent and moving prose, the book takes stock of what is lost when a life form disappears from the world—the wide-ranging ramifications that ripple out to implicate a number of human and more-than-human others. Van Dooren intimately explores what life is like for those who must live on the edge of extinction, balanced between life and oblivion, taking care of their young and grieving their dead. He bolsters his studies with real-life accounts from scientists and local communities at the forefront of these developments. No longer abstract entities with Latin names, these species become fully realized characters enmeshed in complex and precarious ways of life, sparking our sense of curiosity, concern, and accountability toward others in a rapidly changing world.
Edge of Flight
Author: Kate Jaimet
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1459801628
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Edge of Flight is the toughest rock-climbing route Vanisha has ever faced. She has one last chance to conquer it before she moves to Vermont to start university. University is a sore point for Vanisha, who yearns for a career in the outdoors but feels pressured by her mother to earn an academic degree. Trying to put school out of her mind, she heads to the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas with her buddies Rusty and Jeb for a final weekend of climbing and camping. Deep in the woods, they stumble on an illegal marijuana plantation, and the gang of bikers who guard it. When Jeb is shot by the bikers, Vanisha alone must get help—and to do so, she must climb Edge of Flight. As she confronts her insecurities on the cliff face and in the woods, Vanisha gains a new resolve and the self-confidence to choose her own path in life.
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1459801628
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Edge of Flight is the toughest rock-climbing route Vanisha has ever faced. She has one last chance to conquer it before she moves to Vermont to start university. University is a sore point for Vanisha, who yearns for a career in the outdoors but feels pressured by her mother to earn an academic degree. Trying to put school out of her mind, she heads to the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas with her buddies Rusty and Jeb for a final weekend of climbing and camping. Deep in the woods, they stumble on an illegal marijuana plantation, and the gang of bikers who guard it. When Jeb is shot by the bikers, Vanisha alone must get help—and to do so, she must climb Edge of Flight. As she confronts her insecurities on the cliff face and in the woods, Vanisha gains a new resolve and the self-confidence to choose her own path in life.
Fly the Wild and Stay Alive
Author: Hal Terry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780967311661
Category : Bush pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780967311661
Category : Bush pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Flight of Passage
Author: Rinker Buck
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 1401305776
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Writer Rinker Buck looks back more than 30 years to a summer when he and his brother, at ages 15 and 17 respectively, became the youngest duo to fly across America, from New Jersey to California. Having grown up in an aviation family, the two boys bought an old Piper Cub, restored it themselves, and set out on the grand journey. Buck is a great storyteller, and once you get airborne with the boys you find yourself absorbed in a story of adventure and family drama. And Flight of Passage is also an affecting look back to the summer of 1966, when the times seemed much less cynical and adventures much more enjoyable.
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 1401305776
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Writer Rinker Buck looks back more than 30 years to a summer when he and his brother, at ages 15 and 17 respectively, became the youngest duo to fly across America, from New Jersey to California. Having grown up in an aviation family, the two boys bought an old Piper Cub, restored it themselves, and set out on the grand journey. Buck is a great storyteller, and once you get airborne with the boys you find yourself absorbed in a story of adventure and family drama. And Flight of Passage is also an affecting look back to the summer of 1966, when the times seemed much less cynical and adventures much more enjoyable.
Only Planet
Author: Ed Gillsepie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780957157385
Category : Voyages around the world
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In an inspirational tale of global adventure, Ed Gillespie takes anything but a plane to circumnavigate the world.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780957157385
Category : Voyages around the world
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In an inspirational tale of global adventure, Ed Gillespie takes anything but a plane to circumnavigate the world.
Aeronautics
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description