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The First Space Race: Launching the World's First Satellites
ISBN: 9781585443741 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The First Space Race" reveals the inside story of an epic adventure with world-altering stakes. From 1955 to 1958, American and Soviet engineers battled to capture the world's imagination by successfully launching the world's first satellite. The race to orbit featured two American teams led by rival services--the Army and the Navy--and a Soviet effort so secret that few even knew it existed. This race ushered in the Space Age with a saga of science, politics, technology, engineering, and human dreams.
Before 1955, the concept of an artificial satellite had been demonstrated only on... "The First Space Race" reveals the inside story of an epic adventure with world-altering stakes. From 1955 to 1958, American and Soviet engineers batt...
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78,32 |
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Electronics in the Evolution of Flight
ISBN: 9781585444137 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Electronics in the Evolution of Flight traces the paired history of modern aviation and electronics, or avionics, from its earliest years to the indispensable tool it is today. Albert Helfrick, who for twenty-five years has designed avionics for agencies and corporations such as NASA and Boeing, provides a thorough account of the roles played by the famous and the obscure, from Edwin Howard Armstrong to Nikola Tesla and David Sarnoff, in the successful creation of aviation technology. Helfrick focuses much of his work on the advancement of electronic systems. He explains the origins of...
Electronics in the Evolution of Flight traces the paired history of modern aviation and electronics, or avionics, from its earliest years to the indis...
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78,32 |
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Excerpts from the Sky: An Airline Pilot's Story
ISBN: 9781844015627 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No pilot has written about this unique career with such sincerity, honesty and wit. (Emmanuel Ukpong, British Airways Award Winner, Aviation Reporter of the Year 1991) The book is laid out in simple grammar devoid largely of aviation technical jargons and can easily be digested by both young and old with or without aviation background... (Lateef Lawal, Nigerian Tribune) Most of us imagine that the life of an airline pilot is exciting, romantic and never routine. But is this the real picture? If you want to know about the long and arduous training a would-be pilot undergoes, and about the...
No pilot has written about this unique career with such sincerity, honesty and wit. (Emmanuel Ukpong, British Airways Award Winner, Aviation Reporter ...
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69,02 |
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Anxiety at 35,000 Feet: An Introduction to Clinical Aerospace Psychology
ISBN: 9781855759657 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fear of flying is a perennial problem among both passengers and airline crews and recent terrorist attacks have heightened the levels of anxiety when boarding a plane. In this volume, one of Britain's leading aviation psychologists, Robert Bor, examines passenger behaviour when faced with anxiety towards flying; the mental health of pilots; and the possible treatments for people suffering from fear of flying. The main aim of Anxiety at 35,000 Feet is to introduce basic concepts of clinical aviation psychology, with a primary emphasis on psychotherapeutic and clinical psychological issues. Fear of flying is a perennial problem among both passengers and airline crews and recent terrorist attacks have heightened the levels of anxiety when ...
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186,06 |
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Advanced Space Propulsion Systems
ISBN: 9783211838624 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Space propulsion systems have a great influence on our ability to travel to other planets or how cheap a satellite can provide TV programs. This book provides an up-to-date overview of all kinds of propulsion systems ranging from classical rocket technology, nuclear propulsion to electric propulsion systems, and further to micro-, propellantless and even breakthrough propulsion, which is a new program under development at NASA. The author shows the limitations of the present concepts and how they could look like in the future. Starting from historical developments, the reader is taken on a...
Space propulsion systems have a great influence on our ability to travel to other planets or how cheap a satellite can provide TV programs. This book ...
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241,50 |
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Management in the Airline Industry
ISBN: 9780415390781 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combining contemporary HRM theory and practice with debates in critical management and in industrial relations, this book examines the peculiar challenge that civil aviation pilots present for management. As a highly educated, highly trained, and non-substitutable professional employee, the airline pilot wields considerable industrial power. Based on original research, this book examines the impact of human resource management on airline pilots in recent years as well as drawing out wider conclusions on the management of human resources, union-management relationship and the... Combining contemporary HRM theory and practice with debates in critical management and in industrial relations, this book examines the peculiar cha... |
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734,66 |
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Takeoff: Career Adventures in General Aviation and the FAA: Memoirs of a Great Aviation Career
ISBN: 9780738813790 / Angielski / Miękka / 612 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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111,71 |
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Air Sports
ISBN: 9780071410519 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring the ways to fly, this book discusses the fun and reward of the other flying sports such as soaring, paragliding, ballooning, remote-controlled airplane flying, ultralight piloting, and hang gliding. It discusses training requirements, the necessary time investment, cost, equipment, safety, and basics of each option.
Exploring the ways to fly, this book discusses the fun and reward of the other flying sports such as soaring, paragliding, ballooning, remote-controll...
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115,61 |
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Airport Enterprise Risk Management Model- A Study on Business Management and Airline Management
ISBN: 9783836429795 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nowadays Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) becomes focus point in the
successful airport and airline business across the world. In this book, the model suggestion is created of ERM about airport business as optimal framework to ERM implementation. Applicability assessment and current situation in the TAV Airports Holding at Turkey are reviewed about model suggestion with coordinated efforts. Enterprise risk optimization (ERO) is considered as building stone to establish ERM and its implementation. In this book, ERO model is deal with solving "how is optimal risk amount determine?" main... Nowadays Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) becomes focus point in the successful airport and airline business across the world. In this book, the |
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275,01 |
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Short Hops
ISBN: 9781436323475 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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73,32 |
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Short Hops
ISBN: 9781436323482 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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105,42 |
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Takeoff: Career Adventures in General Aviation and the FAA
ISBN: 9780738813783 / Angielski / Twarda / 612 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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157,76 |
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The Stars Were Big and Bright, Volume I: The United States Army Air Forces and Texas During World War II
ISBN: 9781933337272 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "The Stars Were Big and Bright, Volume I," Thomas Alexander has created a concise and colorful portrait of Texas during World War II and illustrated how the coming of thousands of strangers in military uniforms forever changed the faces of eight towns and cities across the Lone Star State. Based on extensive on-site research, rich anecdotal material, and personal interviews, the book briefly describes each community, establishing each location's pre-war condition, then analyzes the permanent social and economic impact each wartime airfield had on its host community.
In "The Stars Were Big and Bright, Volume I," Thomas Alexander has created a concise and colorful portrait of Texas during World War II and illustrate...
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92,30 |
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Aviation Terrorism and Security
ISBN: 9780714649061 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The conviction of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef for plotting what prosecutors called 48 hours of terror in the sky by conspiring to bomb a dozen US airliners, the increasing number of manportable SAM attacks on aircraft, and the crash of a hijacked Ethiopian airliner off the Comoro Islands causing 127 deaths, show that aviation confronts a wide range of security threats. The aim of this volume is to assess the changing threats to aviation security. It is a sad fact that despite major efforts by certain states to enhance security, much more needs to be done to remedy weaknesses in international aviation...
The conviction of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef for plotting what prosecutors called 48 hours of terror in the sky by conspiring to bomb a dozen US airliners, th...
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783,64 |
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Deregulation and the Airline Business in Europe: Selected Readings
ISBN: 9780415447225 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Almost 117 million passengers flew on Europe's low cost airlines in 2006. This statistic would have seemed beyond belief in the mid-1980s when air transport was a heavily regulated sphere. This book examines the deregulation which has taken place since then and in particular looks at the single most important reprurcussion of the deregulation of Europe's skies - the rise of the low cost airline. Sean Barret has been involved in the debates surrounding this right from the start and is well placed to provide a scholarly study of the issue. The book spends much time looking at the... Almost 117 million passengers flew on Europe's low cost airlines in 2006. This statistic would have seemed beyond belief in the mid-1980s when air ... |
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759,15 |
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Up in the Air: How Airlines Can Improve Performance by Engaging Their Employees
ISBN: 9780801447471 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "And you thought the passengers were mad. Airline employees are fed up, too-with pay cuts, increased workloads and management's miserly ways, which leave workers to explain to often-enraged passengers why flying has become such a miserable experience." New York Times, December 22, 2007 When both an industry's workers and its customers report high and rising frustration with the way they are being treated, something is fundamentally wrong. In response to these conditions, many of the world's airlines have made ever-deeper cuts in services and their workforces. Is it too much... "And you thought the passengers were mad. Airline employees are fed up, too-with pay cuts, increased workloads and management's miserly ways, which... |
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151,83 |
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Straight and Level: Practical Airline Economics
ISBN: 9780754672586 / Angielski / Miękka / 616 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This third edition of Straight and Level thoroughly updates the previous edition with extensive comments on recent industry developments and emerging business models. The discussion is illustrated by current examples drawn from all sectors of the industry and every region of the world. The fundamental structure of earlier editions, now widely used as a framework for air transport management courses, nonetheless remains unchanged. Part 1 of the book provides a strategic context within which to consider the industry's economics. Part 2 is built around a simple yet powerful model that relates...
This third edition of Straight and Level thoroughly updates the previous edition with extensive comments on recent industry developments and emerging ...
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249,73 |
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Jersey Rails
ISBN: 9781434393807 / Angielski / Miękka / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a collection of my personal photographs depicting railroad operations in the state of New Jersey. All of the railroads in the state are not included in the book.
This book is a collection of my personal photographs depicting railroad operations in the state of New Jersey. All of the railroads in the state are n...
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91,49 |
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They're All Trying to Kill Me!: (Or How I Manage to Survive as a Flight Instructor)
ISBN: 9781403354242 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,73 |
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Aviation Project Management
ISBN: 9780754673958 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combining the considerable respective expertise of Triant Flouris and Dennis Lock, this unique book highlights the ways that successful businesses are managed in the aviation industry through the identification and application of proven project management methods. Theoretical concepts are defined, clarified and shown how they can be valuable to business managers and students of the aviation business sector. Aviation Project Management builds on the successful and popular work of Dennis Lock but is considerably enhanced by applications, examples, illustrations and case examples pertaining to...
Combining the considerable respective expertise of Triant Flouris and Dennis Lock, this unique book highlights the ways that successful businesses are...
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832,62 |
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