Thomas' Ten Balloons

Thomas' Ten Balloons
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Publisher : Egmont Books (UK)
Total Pages : 22
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ISBN-10 : 140525128X
ISBN-13 : 9781405251280
Rating : 4/5 (8X Downloads)

Book Synopsis Thomas' Ten Balloons by : W. Awdry

Download or read book Thomas' Ten Balloons written by W. Awdry and published by Egmont Books (UK). This book was released on 2010 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One windy day, Thomas and the engines see ten bright balloons floating in the sky. But the balloons keep flying away. First there are ten... then nine... then eight.

The Twenty-one Balloons

The Twenty-one Balloons
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 179
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:608084038
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Download or read book The Twenty-one Balloons written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of a disillusioned schoolteacher who sails across the Pacific Ocean in a giant balloon, and witnesses the explosion of the island of Krakatoa.

Cloudbursts

Cloudbursts
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Publisher : Knopf
Total Pages : 577
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ISBN-10 : 9780385350211
ISBN-13 : 038535021X
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Book Synopsis Cloudbursts by : Thomas McGuane

Download or read book Cloudbursts written by Thomas McGuane and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2018 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR For more than four decades, Thomas McGuane has been heralded as an unrivaled master of the short story. Now the arc of that achievement appears in one definitive volume--forty-five stories, including two new and six previously uncollected pieces. Set in the seedy corners of Key West, the remote shore towns of the Bahamas, and McGuane's hallmark Big Sky country with its vast and unforgiving landscape, these are stories of people on the fringes of society, whose twisted pasts meddle with their chances for companionship. Moving from the hilarious to the tragic and back again, McGuane writes about familial dysfunction, emotional failure, and American loneliness, celebrating the human ability to persist through life's absurdities.

Wings for the Fleet

Wings for the Fleet
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Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Total Pages : 191
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ISBN-10 : 9781682471432
ISBN-13 : 1682471438
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Wings for the Fleet by : George van Deurs

Download or read book Wings for the Fleet written by George van Deurs and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The men who ventured into the air in the Navy’s first frail aircraft were not only daring—they had vision, persistence, and a nearly unlimited determination to convince the skeptics that their frail kite-like structures could someday possess military value. This is the story of their trials, tragedies, and triumphs. They patched cooling systems with chewing gum, they lived by “crash, repair, and fly again,” but they succeeded in developing this new service into an effective arm of the fleet. Wings for the Fleet, first published in 1966, covers the fascinating details of those pioneering days from 1910 to the entry of the United States into World War I. All of the heroic “early birds” are here with full accounts of their exploits. Admiral van Deurs, himself a naval aviator since the early 1920s, has rendered a significant service by his careful preparation of this well-balanced, thoroughly illustrated historical account, which comes complete with appendixes listing early naval aviators and the planes they flew. Over one hundred photographs were selected from official and private sources to illustrate this book.

Ward's Automobile Topics

Ward's Automobile Topics
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Total Pages : 1126
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433089968220
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Download or read book Ward's Automobile Topics written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Drug and Chemical Markets

Drug and Chemical Markets
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Total Pages : 666
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015073176508
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Download or read book Drug and Chemical Markets written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Managing Medical Authority

Managing Medical Authority
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 9780691223551
ISBN-13 : 0691223556
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Managing Medical Authority by : Daniel A. Menchik

Download or read book Managing Medical Authority written by Daniel A. Menchik and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the authority of medicine is continuously shaped by relationships among physicians, industry, colleagues, and organizations Exploring how the authority of medicine is controlled, negotiated, and organized, Managing Medical Authority asks: How is knowledge shared throughout the profession? Who makes decisions when your heart malfunctions—physicians, hospital administrators, or private companies who sell pacemakers? How do physicians gain and keep their influence? Arguing that medicine’s authority is managed in collegial competition across venues, Daniel Menchik examines the full range of stakeholders driving the direction of the field: medical trainees, clinicians, researchers, administrators, and even the corporations that develop groundbreaking technologies enabling longer and better lives. Menchik takes us into Superior Hospital to witness surgeries and executive negotiations. He moves outside the hospital to watch professional committees craft standards for treatments, case management, and professional ethics. At industry-sponsored meetings, he observes company representatives who train some experienced doctors on their technologies, while deterring others who they think might injure patients. Using an innovative ethnographic approach tying individual actions and their collective consequences, he considers how stakeholders ally across the various venues of medicine, even as they are sometimes pressed into competition within those venues. Menchik finds that these alliances and rivalries strengthen the authority of medicine as a whole. From place to place, and group to group, we see how a medical specialty renews and reinvigorates itself. Beginning within the walls of the hospital, and moving to the professional and commercial venues that shape it, Managing Medical Authority offers an agenda-setting take on the social organization of medical authority.