| With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
| This powerful memoir of an enlisted Marine involved in some of the bloodiest fighting in the Pacific in World War II has been called "the best combat memoir of any war."
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| How to Buy Cheap Airline Tickets Updated 2012
| This book is for the "Road Warriors" and anyone planning to use the airlines for trips, vacations or business trips.Travelers that want to fly at the very lowest cost while experiencing the most comfort will like the book. Airlines are businesses; their Reservation System is optimized for one purpose: getting you to pay more, NOT less. The last thing most airline websites are optimized for is getting travelers the lowest prices. It takes considerable skill and practice to use these tools to achi...More
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| The Truth About Cruise Ships - A Cruise Ship Officer Survives the Work, Adventure, Alcohol, and Sex of Ship Life
| Author's hurricane and flooding video aired on national television by ABC’s Nightline to 3.9 million people.A finalist in the Global eBook Awards, this is a behind-the-scenes look at cruise ships in a way that's never been done before. Some of the stories are shocking, some are enlightening, but most are just laugh-out-loud entertaining. This tour behind those "Crew Only" doors will reveal: - How romance on a cruise ship is unlike anywhere else - The insane things passengers do - Why alcohol i...More
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| Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic (Illustrated Edition)
| In December 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven men set sail from South Georgia for the South Pole aboard the Endurance, the object of their expedition to cross Antarctica overland. A month later the ship was beset in the ice of the Weddell Sea, just outside the Antarctic Circle. Temperatures dropped to 35 degrees Celsius below zero. Ice-moored, the Endurance drifted northwest for ten months before it was finally crushed. The ordeal, however, had barely begun. Now illustrated w...More
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| TITANIC
| The story of the sinking of the Titanic based on first hand accounts collected in the days and weeks following the disaster. The story of the Titanic is now well known, but in the months following the disaster wild speculation was rife. On Thursday 22 May 1912, a mere 37 days after the sinking, respected London publisher Grant Richards, delivered Filson Young's book to booksellers around the capital. It was the first attempt to plot the demise of the unsinkable ship from a well-respected writer ...More
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| Knots, Splices and Rope Work a Practical Treatise
| The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Knots and splices; Crafts
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| Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
| Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives and the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution. One man, John Harrison, in complete opposition to the scientific community, dared to ima...More
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| The CEO of the Cockpit
| The insights, tips, suggestions, rave-outs and pontifications of a fictional airline captain. Witty and fun, this book is a collection of the famous AVweb.com column by the same name. It also includes a few surprises. Not a piloting manual, but a book every pilot should own.
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| Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters
| The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Titanic (Steamship); Shipwrecks; Travel / Essays
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| FAR AIM - 2012 FAA Regulations & Aeronautical Information Manual
| UPDATE: Includes changes released 5 Jan 2012 and improved navigation. This 2012 FAR/AIM eBook contains complete and up-to-date information from: o AIM: Aeronautical Information Manual (Complete with Change 3)o P/CG: Pilot/Controller Glossary (with Change 3)o FAR: FAA Regulations -- Relevant sections of Titles 14 and 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 and 49 CFR) for General Aviation, Sport Pilots and Flight Instructors (Parts 1, 43, 61, 67, 71, 73, 91, 97, 103, 105, 110, 119, 135, 136, 13...More
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| Flight to Heaven: A Plane Crash...A Lone Survivor...A Journey to Heaven--and Back
| Imagine getting a glimpse of heaven, a preview of life in God's presence.Could life here ever be the same? Capt. Dale Black has flown as a commercial pilot all over the world, but one flight changed his life forever--an amazing journey to heaven and back. The only survivor of a horrific plane crash, Dale was hovering between life and death when he had a wondrous experience of heaven. What he saw, what he heard, and what he learned there continues to ripple through his life and touch others...More
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| In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
| The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819, the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with twenty crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted for more than ninety days in three tiny whaleboats, succumbing to weather, hunger, disease, and ultimately turning to drastic measures in the fight for survival. Nathanie...More
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| Historical Mysteries
| This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1904 edition by Smith, Elder, & Co., London.
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| West with the Night
| West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s. Regarded by many as one of the best adventure books ever!
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| Six Frigates
| On October 21st, 1805, an English fleet commanded by Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson hunted down and annihilated the combined fleets of France and Spain in an immense sea battle off Cape Trafalgar, near the Spanish coast. The Battle of Trafalgar, as it came to be known, crowned the Royal Navy as undisputed sovereign of the world's oceans. Her naval dominance over the century that followed was absolute. After Trafalgar, Britain's fleets held sway over the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Indian, the Caribb...More
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| The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian
| This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1854 edition by Henry G. Bohn, London.
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| The Polar Express
| A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa.
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| Fear of Landing: You Fly Like a Woman
| Getting a pilot's license was the furthest thing from her mind - until an ex-RAF instructor suggested that she wasn't competent to do so. The thing is, he could be right. Sylvia has just a few weeks to prove that she can fly as well as any man. You Fly Like a Woman tells the story of one woman's search for confidence as she stumbles into a man's world. A fast and fun read at just 26 pages.
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| OBD-II & Electronic Engine Management Systems Techbook (Haynes Techbook)
| Inside this manual you will find routine maintenance, tune-up procedures, engine repair, cooling and heating, air conditioning, fuel and exhaust, emissions control, ignition, brakes, suspension and steering, electrical systems, and wiring diagrams.
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| Amazing Airplanes (Amazing Machines)
| Join our wacky animal crew for the flight of a lifetime! From the airport terminal to the flight deck, the zippy text and zappy art take children through how a plane flies, safety rules, in-flight entertainment and air traffic control. This action-packed picture book will delight all children who love things that go!
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