Mixing in elements of pop culture, Dierikx provides a chronological history of the evolution of air travel. He covers the significant challenges and developments in air transportation for a specific period, starting with how and why aviation came to play an important role in international politics and economic relations. He follows with an examination of how improvements in technology influenced existing concepts of distance, created new travel patterns, and what effect the growth in numbers of passenger and cargo had on air transportation. Finally, Dierikx looks at how airlines have...
Mixing in elements of pop culture, Dierikx provides a chronological history of the evolution of air travel. He covers the significant challenges an...
When his father dies, Joe Bradford has one desire: head home for the funeral and depart without revisiting the past. But his plans are foiled, first by the smoldering ruins of an old gatehouse and then by his sister Mary, who is determined to unearth a secret long buried. Avoiding Mary becomes harder and harder as the past becomes entwined with the present, bringing with it the only person who ever gave him hope for a better life. Before long, Joe has no choice but to give in, leading to a confrontation that could hold the key to Mary's happiness and his own redemption.
When his father dies, Joe Bradford has one desire: head home for the funeral and depart without revisiting the past. But his plans are foiled, first b...
How has the popularity of "Gilmore Girls" influenced perspectives on teenage pregnancies? How did the mother-in-law assume such monstrous proportions? Did the Republicans' view of motherhood--and their continual hectoring of Hillary Clinton for putting ambition ahead of family--cost them the 2008 election? "Mommy Angst: Motherhood in American Popular Culture" considers questions like these as it probes our country's views on mothers, and how those views shape--and are shaped by--the habitually oversimplified portrayals of mothers in pop culture, politics, and the media.
"Mommy Angst"...
How has the popularity of "Gilmore Girls" influenced perspectives on teenage pregnancies? How did the mother-in-law assume such monstrous proportio...
