Résultats pour "Planes" dans Biographies et mémoires

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR at 2020 Audie Awards "Incredibly evocative and compelling." The Washington Post "Although many years have passed since 9/11, this book, told with such immediacy, brings so vividly back to mind the shock of that day, and why it...

Boarding an airplane strikes at least a small sense of fear into most people. Even though we all have heard that the odds of being struck by lightning are greater than the odds of perishing in a plane crash, it still doesn't feel that way. Airplane crashes might be rare, but they do happen, and they’re usually fatal. David Soucie insists that most of these deaths could be prevented. He’s worked as a pilot, a mechanic, an FAA inspector, and an aviation executive. He’s seen death up close and personal - deaths of colleagues and friends that might have been prevented if he had approved certain safety measures in the aircrafts they were handling.

PUPO, Pommes & Plan B ist kein klassischer Ratgeber – sondern eine ehrliche, humorvolle und zutiefst menschliche Reise durch den unerfüllten Kinderwunsch. Mit viel Selbstironie, Wärme und schonungsloser Offenheit erzählt Amélie Laurent-Dubois von Hoffnung und Enttäuschung, von Klinikterminen, Hormonspritzen, absurden Ritualen und der großen Frage: Wie bleibt man bei all dem eigentlich man selbst? Dieses Hörbuch nimmt dich mit in Wartezimmer und WhatsApp-Gruppen, in schlaflose Nächte mit Dr. Google, in Gespräche mit dem Partner, die zwischen Liebe, Überforderung und schwarzem Humor schwanken.

Rave may be the middle word in travel, but when raving reporter Kirk Field created the rave new world’s first holiday company catering exclusively for clubbers, the rave new world threw everything it could at him: 9/11, volcanic ash clouds, suspicious customs officers, avalanche’s, North Sea storms, pandemics, fraudulent accountants and even Derek Acorah.

After losing his job, girlfriend, and life as he knew - it all within the span of two short months in early 2013 - Tom Edwards decided it was time to live out his lifelong dream of traveling the world. Follow the hilarious tale of travel-gone-wrong, debauchery, and adventure in Planes, Trains, and Broken Strings, as a broke indie-musician tries to find his place in the world with the help of a cast of colorful characters he meets along the way.

‘’F *** ing brilliant. I would describe it as like a bag of political nuts – moreish and fabulously salty’ JOE LYCETT A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors is an entertaining and original romp through the highs and lows of British political history and the unlikely...

¿O acaso conocen ustedes a alguien que antes de los treinta años ya ha superado tres parálisis producto del síndrome de Guillain-Barré, un mes y medio de quimioterapia y una histerectomía radical?

In 1972, Patty Bear’s father, Robert Bear, was excommunicated from their church and subsequently shunned by members including Gale, his wife. For Amish and Old Order Mennonites, known as “Plain People”, shunning is a biblical practice meant to bring wayward members back into the community’s fold.

Young peoples book of adventure in aviation with young women in the lead rolls. This is in the earlier days of aviation. - Summary by Susan Morin

Most sixteen year-old kids joyride in Daddy's pickup. Not Brian Thomas. Instead, you find him out buzzing the football team in Daddy's airplane. Flying is his life - it's in his blood. Both of his parents are pilots. His older brother is in the Air Force. And he can't imagine himself as anything but an aviator. That is, until the bleeding disorder he's battled since he was two years old sidelines him.

Expansivo recuento de los diversos, creativos, frecuentemente extraños y sin embargo increíblemente inquietantes intentos de asesinar a Fidel Castro. Fabián Escalante, el fundador de los servicios de seguridad cubanos y jefe del Departamento de Seguridad del Estado Cubano provee un lúcido recuento en primera persona de sus experiencias defendiendo a Castro contra extraordinarios intentos de homicidio. 

Many Christians lived in Asia Minor (later Turkey) before the Armenian and Greek genocide by the Muslims at the outset of the twentieth century. The author; Planes, chronicles his father’s true life experience in an effort to make clear the precious freedoms that we have in the United States. This book presents the true story of a Christian boy and his escape from the genocide of Greek and Armenian Christians.

The history of the Spitfire contains many hitherto hidden or little-known stories of the men and women behind the plane - not only the gifted creators and inventors who brought the Spitfire to life or the brave fighter pilots from many countries who triumphed in battle but also the thousands of other people whose lives were affected by their personal connection to it - engineers, ground crew, factory or office workers, and their families. Spitfire Stories recounts the memories and stories of these people, from the birth of the iconic Spitfire in the 1930s to the present day.

«C'est le début d'une grande période de résolution de cold cases», affirme la microbiologiste, Audrey-Anne Leblanc. Cartographie 3D, généalogie génétique, biologie judiciaire; de nombreuses avancées scientifiques et technologiques permettent désormais aux policiers d'épingler des criminels ayant passés sous le radar. Pour faire œuvre utile et en devoir de mémoire, le journaliste Sylvain Daignault s'est replongé dans huit affaires de meurtre et de disparition s'étant déroulées en Montérégie et pour lesquelles… le mystère plane toujours!