A New York Times bestsellerFor millions of people, travel by air is a confounding, uncomfortable, and even fearful experience. Patrick Smith, airline pilot and author of the web's popular Ask the Pilot feature, separates the fact from fallacy and tells you everything you need to know...How planes fly, and a revealing look at the men and women who fly themStraight talk on turbulence, pilot training, and safetyThe real story on conge...

Predigtbruch ist ein Buch für Menschen, die funktionieren, obwohl etwas in ihnen längst müde geworden ist. Für alle, die Erwartungen tragen, sich selbst aus dem Blick verlieren, in Bruchstellen leben, lieben, zweifeln und trotzdem weitermachen. Patrick Smith schreibt über Angst und Einsamkeit, über Erschöpfung, Schuld, Sehnsucht und die stille Gewalt dessen, was andere von uns wollen. Er erzählt von den Momenten, in denen etwas zerbricht, von Abschieden, die bleiben, von Beziehungen, die u...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA fascinating fear of flying book from a commercial airline pilot and author of the popular website askthepilot.com.For millions of people, travel by air is a confounding, uncomfortable, and even frightening experience. When you go behind the scenes, however, you can see that the grand theater of air travel is actually fascinating. From the intricate design of airport architecture to the logistics of inflig...

In this best-selling novel, Patrick D. Smith tels the story of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family who battle the hardships of the frontier to rise from a dirt-poor Cracker life to the wealth and standing of real estate tycoons. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias MacIvey arrives in the Florida wilderness to start a new life, and ends in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that the land has been exploited far beyond human need. Between is a sweeping story rich in Flori...

Americans cherish their national myths, some of which predate the country's founding. But the time for illusions, nostalgia, and grand ambition abroad has gone by, Patrick Smith observes in this original book. Americans are now faced with a choice between a mythical idea of themselves, their nation, and their global "mission," on the one hand, and on the other an idea of America that is rooted in historical consciousness. To cling to old myths will ensure America's decline, Smith warns. He...

From one of our foremost experts on Asia and its history comes this brilliant dissection of the relationship between East and West.In three succinct essays, Patrick Smith investigates the East’s endeavor to adopt Western technology and all that we consider modern. He underscores a crucial distinction between modernization (the simple emulation of the West) and the true task of “becoming modern.” He examines the strategies that three prominent cultures—those of Japan, China, and Ind...

The Japanese are in the process of re-creating themselves--an endeavor they have undertaken at intervals throughout history, always prompted by a combination of domestic and global forces. In this landmark book, Patrick Smith asserts that a variety of forces--the achievement of material affluence, the Cold War's end, and the death of Emperor Hirohito--are now spurring Japan once again toward a fundamental redefinition of itself.As Smith argues, this requires of the West an equally ...

A classic and heartbreaking tale of one man's fight to protect nature, and a treasured way of life, against the forces of greed.In a corner of the Big Cypress Swamp, to the north of the Florida Everglades, lives Charlie Jumper, and eighty-six-year-old Seminole man. Unlike the younger American Indians who have adopted white civilization, Charlie and his wife cling to the old ways, hunting and fishing in the great swamp and farming a tiny plot of higher ground. Charl...

A young woman is brutally murdered on an island near Stockholm – a haunt of wealthy retirees and arty weekenders. Suspicion falls first on a family of Iraqi refugees, initially welcomed into the community but gradually feared and shunned. But then, as the victim's story unfolds, suspicion begins inexorably to fall elsewhere.Lena Sundman was rude, dysfunctional, and very young. Everything a fastidious man like Dan Byrne disliked. Taking refuge on the island after the sudden death of...

For millions of people, travel by air is a confounding, uncomfortable, and even fearful experience. Patrick Smith, airline pilot and author of the Web's popular Ask the Pilot feature, separates fact from fallacy and tells you everything you need to know . . .How planes fly, and a revealing look at the men and women who fly themStraight talk on turbulence, pilot training, and safetyThe real story on congestion, delays, and the dysfunctio...

Dieses e-book stellt alle Lösungen sowie sämtliche Transkripte zum Lehrwerk "Englisch für den Badebetrieb" bereit. Es ermöglicht die Überprüfung der eigenen Lernergebnisse.

A repülést emberek milliói tartják zavaró, kényelmetlen vagy akár félelmetes élménynek. Patrick Smith, a sokat látott pilóta azonban segít szétválasztani a tényeket a tévhitektől, és mindent elárul, amit csak tudni szeretnénk a légi utazásról. Mitől repül egy repülőgép? Mik a torlódások, késések és zavarok okai napjaink repülőterein? Mekkora veszélyt jelentenek a légörvények? Mi igaz és mi legenda a pilóták képzéséről, viselt szokásairól vagy a repülőgép irányításáról? Mi a helyzet a terro...