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This book explores the phenomenal resources dedicated to
understanding and encouraging passengers to consume travel from
1900 to 1939, analysing how place and travel were presented for
sale. Using the Great Western Railway as a chief case study, as
well as a range of its competitors both on and off the rails,
Alexander Medcalf unravels the complex and ever-changing processes
behind corporate sales communications. This volume analyses exactly
how the company pictured passengers in the countryside, at the
seaside, in the urban landscape and in the company's vehicles. This
thematic approach brings transport and business history thoroughly
in line with tourism and leisure history as well as studies in
visual culture.
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Donald Grant, Sarah Matthews; Illustrated by Donald Grant
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Prepare for take-off! Board one of the biggest passenger planes in
the world and visit the captain's cockpit. Hover above ground in a
helicopter, soar through the sky in a glider, rise above the clouds
in a hot air balloon, and shoot into space in a rocket. Children
will learn about different types of aircraft - past and present -
fuelling their curiosity about how these mighty machines work. This
title is part of the My First Discovery paperback series - a unique
collection of beautifully illustrated information books for
children aged 4 to 7, with simple language to aid learning and
realistic artwork to inspire young minds. There are 8 transparent
overlay pages, which reveal hidden surprises and make the pages
come alive. With free access to a brand new audio app, children can
listen and read along at their own pace, page by page.
Written from hands-on experience gained from the complete
strip-down and rebuild of a Renault 4, Haynes can help you
understand, care for and repair your Renault 4. We do it ourselves
to help you do-it-yourself, and whatever your mechanical ability,
the practical step-by-step explanations, linked to over 900 photos,
will help you get the job done right. Regular servicing and
maintenance of your Renault 4 can help maintain its resale value,
save you money, and make it safer to drive. Saloon, Estate and Van.
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By coupling step-by-step instructions and detailed photos and
illustrations, Bike Repair & Maintenance For Dummies gives
readers the information they need to keep their bikes in working
order, often without taking it to the shop.
On the eve of the centennial of the Wright brothers' historic
flights at Kitty Hawk, a new generation will learn about the other
man who was once hailed worldwide as the conqueror of the
air--Alberto Santos-Dumont. Because the Wright brothers worked in
secrecy, word of their first flights had not reached Europe when
Santos-Dumont took to the skies in 1906. The dashing, impeccably
dressed inventor entertained Paris with his airborne
antics--barhopping in a little dirigible that he tied to lampposts,
circling above crowds around the Eiffel Tower, and crashing into
rooftops. A man celebrated, even pursued by the press in Paris,
London, and New York, Santos-Dumont dined regularly with the
Cartiers, the Rothschilds, and the Roosevelts. But beneath his
lively public exterior, Santos-Dumont was a frenzied genius
tortured by the weight of his own creation.Wings of Madness
chronicles the science and history of early aviation and offers a
fascinating glimpse into the mind of an extraordinary and tormented
man, vividly depicting the sights and sounds of turn-of-the-century
Paris. It is a book that will do for aviation what The Man Who
Loved Only Numbers did for mathematics.
For over 40 years NATO and Warsaw Pact aircraft faced each other
across the Iron Curtain, or fought in proxy wars around the world.
Illustrated with detailed artworks of combat aircraft and their
markings, Aircraft of the Cold War 1945-1991: Identification Guide
is a comprehensive study of the planes in service with NATO and the
Warsaw Pact and their respective units from the end of World War II
until the reunification of Germany. Arranged chronologically by
theatre, the book gives a complete organizational breakdown of the
units of both sides, including the units and aircraft used in the
proxy wars fought in Korea, Vietnam, the Middle East and elsewhere
as well as the 'frontline' in Germany. Packed with 250 colour
profiles of every major type of combat aircraft from the era,
Aircraft of the Cold War 1945-1991 is an essential reference guide
for modellers, military historians and aircraft enthusiasts.
This definitive book offers the first full study of the development
of the European Union's air-transport policy. Crucial to both
globalization and regional integration, commercial aviation, along
with other transport industries, provides the logistics for
business activities, political life, and contact between cultures.
Paradoxically, however, the airline industry was one of the last to
be liberalized in the process of European integration, and the
creation of a single market in air transport was attended by sharp
political disputes, unreconstructed nationalism, and persistent
foot-dragging. Exploring the long struggle to create a "Europe of
the air" through both regulatory change and airline strategizing,
Martin Staniland examines the political bargains that have shaped a
highly fragmented industry and its regulation. He argues that,
rather than focusing on directives and regulations issuing from
Brussels, students of integration should examine the ways in which
the contentious interaction between leaders of an industry and
relevant politicians and officials creates distinctive "market
orders." Such market orders enable firms to minimize the risks
inherent in business, while allowing regulators to pursue the
mandates of their organizations and to realize their notions of
public interest. Economic integration is therefore an often-painful
struggle to create a market order defined both by regulatory
jurisdiction and by competition among firms. An invaluable
case-study in industrial policy, this book will be essential
reading for students of aviation, as well as for scholars
interested in regulatory change and European integration.
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