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The Flight of the Black Swan
The Flight of the Black Swan
Flight of the Black Swan
Author: Marilyn M. Barnewall
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Published: 2011-05-01
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9781432773601
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Financial Fraud, Global Elitists, IntrigueIn this sequel to In what some readers call docu-fiction, the economic terrorism currently suffered by the American populace is illuminated. Once again, Barnewall gently and skillfully weaves threads of belief, love, commitment, and patriotism throughout the dark webs of deceit.
Flight of Black Swans
Author: Laura Fish
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →QF32
Author: Richard de Crespigny
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Aus.
Published: 2012-08-01
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1743347898
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →QF32 is the award winning bestseller from Richard de Crespigny, author of the forthcoming Fly!: Life Lessons from the Cockpit of QF32 On 4 November 2010, a flight from Singapore to Sydney came within a knife edge of being one of the world's worst air disasters. Shortly after leaving Changi Airport, an explosion shattered Engine 2 of Qantas flight QF32 - an Airbus A380, the largest and most advanced passenger plane ever built. Hundreds of pieces of shrapnel ripped through the wing and fuselage, creating chaos as vital flight systems and back-ups were destroyed or degraded. In other hands, the plane might have been lost with all 469 people on board, but a supremely experienced flight crew, led by Captain Richard de Crespigny, managed to land the crippled aircraft and safely disembark the passengers after hours of nerve-racking effort. Tracing Richard's life and career up until that fateful flight, QF32 shows exactly what goes into the making of a top-level airline pilot, and the extraordinary skills and training needed to keep us safe in the air. Fascinating in its detail and vividly compelling in its narrative, QF32 is the riveting, blow-by-blow story of just what happens when things go badly wrong in the air, told by the captain himself. Winner of ABIA Awards for Best General Non-fiction Book of the Year 2013 and Indie Awards' Best Non-fiction 2012 Shortlisted ABIA Awards' Book of the Year 2013
Black Swan
Author: Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2002-11-15
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 0822979675
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the 2001 Cave Canem PrizeSelected by Marilyn NelsonFinalist, 2003 Paterson Poetry Prize"Imagine Leda black—" begins Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon's exciting new collection of poems. Mixing vernacular language with classical mythology, modern struggles with Biblical trials, she gives voice to silenced women past and present.In Van Clief-Stefanon's powerful voice, last night's angry words "puffed / into the dark room like steam / punching through the thick surface / of cooking grits." She remembers a child's innocence "lost / in the house where I learned the red rug / against my chest, my knees / my tongue, . . . ." Black Swan is filled with pain, loss, hope, and the promise of salvation.
The Flight of the Black Swan
Author: Jean Roberta
Publisher: Lethe Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 159021417X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Imagine an upper class English girl kidnapped by pirates when she was eleven, and eventually returned to her family. If this sounds familiar, you've probably either read the classic book A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes, or seen the movie. Whatever you may imagine,Jean Roberta has taken the grown-up Emily far beyond your--or the younger Emily's--wildest speculations. This is, indeed, a ''Bawdy Novella,'' but there is more to it than that. Emily is a smart, spirited heroine, adventurous enough to see the bright side of the unspoken (and unfounded) assumption that she must be ''damaged goods.'' When her romantic affair at a girls' school is abruptly ended because of her lover's cowardice, Emily tosses off the constraints of 19th century English society and returns to the sea on a more-or-less pirate ship, the Black Swan, manned by gay fugitives from the British Navy.
Black Swan
Author: Carolyn Landon
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1459624769
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A frank and powerful memoir of the life of an Aboriginal woman, from her early years on the Lake Tyers mission to discovery of her talent as a painter.
The Gray Rhino
Author: Michele Wucker
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2016-04-05
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1466887001
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The #1 English-language bestseller in China--the book that is shaping China's planning and policy for the future. A "gray rhino" is a highly probable, high impact yet neglected threat: kin to both the elephant in the room and the improbable and unforeseeable black swan. Gray rhinos are not random surprises, but occur after a series of warnings and visible evidence. The bursting of the housing bubble in 2008, the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters, the new digital technologies that upended the media world, the fall of the Soviet Union...all were evident well in advance. Why do leaders and decision makers keep failing to address obvious dangers before they spiral out of control? Drawing on her extensive background in policy formation and crisis management, as well as in-depth interviews with leaders from around the world, Michele Wucker shows in The Gray Rhino how to recognize and strategically counter looming high impact threats. Filled with persuasive stories, real-world examples, and practical advice, The Gray Rhino is essential reading for managers, investors, planners, policy makers, and anyone who wants to understand how to profit by avoiding getting trampled.
