Patrick Smith
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For millions of people, travel by air is a confounding, uncomfortable, and even fearful experience. Patrick Smith, airline pilot and author of the popular website www.askthepilot.com, separates fact from fallacy and tells you everything you need to know: How planes fly, and a revealing look at the men and women who fly them -- Straight talk on turbulence, pilot training, and safety -- The real story on delays, congestion, and the dysfunction of the...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
The author "asserts that a variety of forces--the achievement of material affluence, the Cold War's end, and the death of Emperor Hirohito--are now spurring Japan once again toward a fundamental redefinition of itself" and that the Japanese are seeking to alter "the relationship between the individual and society."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Americans cherish their national myths, some of which predate the country's founding. But the time for illusions, nostalgia, and grand ambition abroad has gone by, Patrick Smith observes in this original book. Americans are now faced with a choice between a mythical idea of themselves, their nation, and their global "mission," on the one hand, and on the other an idea of America that is rooted in historical consciousness. To cling to old myths will...
Author
Publisher
Pineapple Press
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
In this best-selling novel, Patrick Smith tells the story of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family who battle the hardships of the frontier to rise from a dirt-poor Cracker life to the wealth and standing of real estate tycoons. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias MacIvey arrives in the Florida wilderness to start a new life with his wife and infant son, and ends two generations later in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The end of the world has come and gone. Well ... Kappa Tau's 'End of the World' party, that is. And now the students of Cypress-Rhodes University face an uncertain future as a consequence of their actions. Can Rusty keep his GPA above the minimum to stay in the honors engineering program? Will Casey finally win the heart of Cappie? Can Dale make penance for his temporary lapse in morality?
13) I am Bolt
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Documentary on the fastest man alive, Usain Bolt. With archive footage of his youth in Jamaica. Will reveal the man and define the legacy of this incredible athlete.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Andrew Brown and his family are starting their second year in tiny Everwood, Colorado. Enough time to begin recovering from the death of Andy's wife, put down roots and be at home. Or maybe just enough time to be in total turmoil. Andy finds he can indeed fall in love again, 16-year-old Ephram falls hard for an older girl, and Ephram's friend Amy, in shock from the death of her boyfriend, falls prey to depression and turns to the wrong guy for...
