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wonderful.......2000-12-22
A wonderful compilation of Pan Am history. A godsend for Pan Am fans like me.
Pan Am and Coca Cola - Two most recognized in the world.......2000-12-15
Glad that Pan Am is coming back as a deserving legend in aviation as well as a legend in world history. As a daughter of a 38 year veteran Pan Am pilot, I melted when I saw this book on the shelf of a book store the other day. I immediately bought it just for the face value but then when I took it home and read though the book, I found a beautifully and respectfully assembled book of Pan Am history. This book gives Pan Am the due admiration of the "World's Most Experienced Airline"...Forever....
Made me cry.........2000-07-12
Growing up in the Pan Am family, I have nothing but fond memories of this great era. This book has helped me relive those memories. 30 years later, this airline would be the reason I would become a professional pilot myself. Those were the days when flying was more of a luxury then a convience. Men dressed in suits and women in their best. It was an age of glamour that again can be enjoyed through this book. Thank you
Pan Am and American Panache.......2000-05-13
This book is really about what America once was and could be again, perhaps. The author tipped his hand a few years ago when he wrote a genuine masterpiece of a coffee table book, THE MARTINI. Like that book, a delight to read (and as beautiful designed by Tom Morgan as PAN AM is), this book is about an aspect of American elegance that seems to have been replaced by a crude kind of arrogant upscale consumerism. But on a simpler level this book is just about the sheer joy of luxury travel in a time when the world was much bigger than today, and a white shirt, a bow tie, and leather shoes not considered the mark of the White Male Oppressor. Today we live in the age of tourism; this book celebrates the Age of Travel, which ended in the years after World War Two. Since when did a dozen airplanes -- production of the last clipper model B314 built by Boeing was a mere twelve -- inspire nostalgia like these? Like Elvis, Pan Am was purely American, and one of a kind.
Pan Am, An Aviation Legend---a review---.......2000-01-12
Pan Am, An Aviation Legend is a must for anyone who considers herself or himself a romantic and a traveler by air, in the 20th century.
The book is loaded with vintage photos of early aircraft landing in the tropics, of founder Juan Trippe and longtime Pan Am advisor, Charles Lindberg, as well as art deco brochures and jet age memorabilia. The juxtaposition of fabulous pictures, creative and original advertising art and lucid prose makes this book stand out in its genre of coffee table books.
The author captures with great style the legend of Pan Am from the heroic pilots and their engineering feats (e.g. the first crossing of the Pacific Ocean) to the best flight attendants in the world. Anyone who traveled internationally after World War II will remember how wonderful it was to be served by the elite of the airline industry.
If you miss the romance of traveling to far away places, this is the book for you. Pan Am, An Aviation Legend faithfully salutes our memory of Pan American World Airways as the airline that with panache transported us abroad.
Whether you are American or European or Asian or South American or African my guess is that your experience with this book about Panamerican World Airways ("The World's Most Experienced Airline") will be one of nostalgia. Pan Am brought us together. It truly contributed to making the world a smaller place.
We the extended Pan Am family, employees and passengers will revere this book as a fitting tribute to Pan Am's pioneering spirit.
Pan Am, An Aviation Legend will be on most prominent display in the home of all of us.
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In this stunning, emotionally charged memoir, Ken Dornstein interweaves the moving story of his own coming-of-age with the promise of greatness his brother never lived to fulfill. The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky is a heartbreaking but profoundly hopeful book about finding beauty in the midst of tragedy and making sense of it.
David Dornstein was twenty-five years old, a handsome, charismatic young man on the verge of becoming an extraordinary writer, when he boarded Pan Am Flight 103 from London on the evening of December 21, 1988. Thirty-eight minutes after takeoff, he died, along with the 258 other passengers and crew, when a terrorist’s plastic explosive ripped the plane apart over Lockerbie, Scotland.
David’s brother, Ken, was nineteen, a college sophomore home on winter break, when the call came. All his life Ken had looked up to David, confided in him, followed where he led. David’s death left Ken with a void that both crushed and consumed him. What were his brother’s plans when he died? Was David really carrying home a draft of the great novel everyone knew was in him? Was he in love with the woman he was living with overseas? Ken Dornstein needed to learn the truth about his brother’s life and death. In this harrowing and affecting memoir, he records what he found out.
It was years before Ken could bring himself to confront the stacks of notebooks and letters David left behind, but once he began to read he was drawn deep into his brother’s world. From David’s early obsession with writing down his every thought to his misadventures on the streets of New York, from an unraveling love affair in Israel to a devastating childhood secret, piece by piece Ken assembles a complex, disturbing portrait of an artist struggling to find a voice for passions that often threatened to tear him apart. Then, by chance, Ken runs into David’s college girlfriend on a train and everything changes once again. He starts to question his motives and his memories, and finally sets off on a complicated journey to finish the book that his brother started.
As haunting as a dream, as electrifying as the day’s news, The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky is an incandescent and unforgettable account of one man’s struggle to find inspiration in his brother’s life and create a life of his own. What begins as a tragedy turns into a love story of deeply affirming power.
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There's nothing I can say that will do this justice.......2007-10-01
I kept coming across this book on bookstore shelves and failed to pick it up each time. Finally after searching the library shelves for hours, I gave in , therefore making on of the better book choices I've made in years.
I was sucked into the story and didn't stop until I reached the end. I turned back to the beginning and re-read it again. It's a story of love, siblings and ultimately finding oneself. It's made me appreciate my own siblings a bit more. I've recommended this book to all of them and hope that they can gain what I have from this compelling story of brothers.
Excellent book!.......2007-04-03
Wonderfully written, touching "memoir" about a brother's love and finding a way to honor that love and life when it is gone.
Pure narcissism.......2007-01-11
For those who enjoy rambling, narcissistic screed. In an unintentionally amusing chapter, the author Biblically rationalizes his attempts at shtupping both of his deceased brother's girlfriends, which is truly an innovative way of coping with grief. The brothers shared narcissism as a trait, but at least the deceased one had an undiagnosed mental illness (bipolar) as the potential cause.
Misses somewhere.......2006-12-27
The premise of the book was interesing...a man finding himself through the exploration of his brother's life. But it lost my attention somewhere. I put the book down for a couple weeks and then finally finished the last chapter. The beginning of the book was compelling and moving. However, by the end, I just didnt care about the outcome. The author, in my opinion, while he tries, did not fully convey how he was able to move on.
As others have stated, i tried to like this book, but couldnt.
I Wanted to Like This Book.......2006-10-05
As the saying goes, "I wanted to like this book." A brother's attempt to reconstruct the life and genius of a sibling killed in the Lockerbie bombing should have made compelling reading. Yet the real tragedy of David Dornstein is not his death on Pan Am 103, but the years of agony he endured with untreated manic depression.
The cyclic unraveling of a life is painful to witness. If you find that fascinating, read this book. I am left wondering why David went undiagnosed and untreated. Were there no interventions, or was everyone lured into the myth that only tortured souls can produce great art?
We can only wonder what a functioning David might have contributed to the world. Might he have worked in a soup kitchen or tutored someone in English? Instead we are left with another set of narcissistic ramblings from the young and grandiose. Is there a real parent in this book? What a tragic reminder of the mindless price untreated mental illness exacts.
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Marvelous Collection of Photos.......2005-07-24
Pan Am's Clippers flying the Pacific served as a bridge between the age of the ship and the age of the plane. Yes, of course there were planes before 1935, and there are still ships, but Pan Am changed the concept. Now air mail and air passenger service was a reality.
This huge book, obviously a labor of love lasting for many years is a masterpiece. It has literally hundreds of photographs of planes, people, and the collectable memorabilia from Pan Am's Clipper days.
Each aircraft used in Pacific service is described -- there were only twelve. Three were Sikorsky S-42's, three were Martin M-130's, six were Boeing B-314's. It is remarkable that the story of twelve aircraft is still being told, romanticized (Indiana Jones movies for instance), and have instant recognition this many years later.
A mystery -- in the harbor at Port Vila, Vanuatu (previously the New Hebrides) there is a sunken flying boat. The story they tell there is that this was the last pre-war flight of a Pan Am Clipper coming home after Pearl. On the takeoff run the pilot spotted a native in an outrigger canoe directly in his path, he swerved the plane and avoided the native but tore a hole in the bottom of the plane when he hit a coral head. He managed to beach the plane where the expensive parts - engines, instruments, etc. were removed. The hulk of the plane was then towed out to a deep part of the harbor and sunk.
There is a plane there, I made a SCUBA dive on it. It is a seaplane. At the time I hadn't seen this book and couldn't identify what type. Now I do have the this book, it lists all of the Pan Am planes, and none of them were lost at Port Vila. I wonder what that plane really is.
This book marvelously tells the story of an interesting chapter in the development of aircraft.
Amazing look at an all too brief moment in aviation history.......2005-03-04
This book is a scrapbook of materials related to one of the most romantic and overlooked periods of aviation history. Photos, Pan-Am promotional materials, personal recollections and a variety of other materials are collected into the book. Many of the items are apparently taken from the author's personal collection -- lucky guy. The text is limited and the book really focuses on the imagery, as it should.
The only complaint I have, and it's an extremely minor one, is the red indicator arrows overlaid on some photos to point out an item of interest from the caption. This only occurs on a handful of photos, but almost always, the item in question was readily apparent and didn't need the photo marring red arrows anyway. In my mind, it's akin to drawing a moustache on photos of grandma in the family album.
Kudos to the author, you can feel the passion that was put into every page of this outstanding collection.
Best and most complete pictoral account of Pan-Am's flights.......1998-05-24
This book wonderfully commmerates the Yankee Clippers, Pan-Am's historic aircrafts, that united the Pacific Rim from 1935-46.
The book gives complete coverage of this exciting era of pioneering air travel and discovery.
Never before had aircraft bridged the Pacific and never has a book covered the era so well.
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- Great reading
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The Pan Am Building and the Shattering of the Modernist Dream
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The Pan Am Building and the reaction to it signaled the end of an era. Begun when the modernist aesthetic and the architectural star system ruled architectural theory and practice, the completed building became a symbol of modernism's fall from grace. In The Pan Am Building and the Shattering of the Modernist Dream, Meredith Clausen tells the story as both history and cautionary tale -- a case study of how not to plan and execute a large-scale urban project that seems especially relevant in light of the World Trade Center and the ongoing discussions over what should be built in its place.
The Pan Am Building was despised by many as soon as the plans were announced in 1958. The star power of the celebrity architects -- those deans of modernism, Walter Gropius and Pietro Belluschi -- overrode critics' objections. When construction was completed in 1963, it became more than an architectural question; this "mute, massive, overscaled octagonal slab," as Clausen describes it, built over Grand Central Terminal, blocked the view down Park Avenue, created deep shadows where there had been sunlight, and poured 25,000 office workers on the sidewalks each morning and evening. As Clausen tells it, the story of the building -- which was undistinguished architecturally but important because of its location and its moment in history -- encompasses the end of modernism's social idealism, the decline of Gropius's and Belluschi's reputations, the victory of private interests over public good, the revival of architectural criticism in the press (both Ada Louise Huxtable and Jane Jacobs emerged as prominent and influential critics), the birth of the historic preservation movement, and the changing culture and politics of New York City.
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Great reading.......2006-01-23
Amazingly researched biography of a (bad) icon of New York's skyline. The only drawback is the overly academic, detached tone which lessens the thesis that the Pan Am assisted in the fall of the modernist regime. In any case, this is a must read simply for the story of how a big building gets built in a complicated urban environment.
A Behemoth Bad Example.......2005-01-19
In 1987, _New York_ magazine ran a poll to determine the buildings that New Yorkers hate the most. The results were plain on a cover of the magazine, which showed a gigantic wrecking ball taking its first swipe at the Pan Am Building. The building is not only on New Yorkers' most hated list; though it has had a few defenders, it has since its inception drawn criticism from a worldwide public, from architects, and from professional architecture critics. How could such an unloved mass ever have been plonked on Park Avenue? There are plenty of reasons for the failure, and plenty of repercussions from it, and all is told in _The Pan Am Building and the Shattering of the Modernist Dream_ (MIT Press) by Meredith L. Clausen. Professor Clausen teaches architectural history, and she has produced a big, well-illustrated, and weighty volume that covers the history of the building and the history of much of twentieth century urban architecture. There are plenty of books devoted to particular building that are considered architectural successes; Clausen shows that one devoted to a failure can be just as interesting, though perhaps not as inspiring.
The Pan Am Building was conceived in 1958. It was to be part of the complex of the Beaux Arts masterpiece, the Grand Central Station, which had been completed in 1913. The economic force behind the construction was Erwin Wolfson, a highly respected and successful real estate developer who had a quiet manner, broad interests, and remarkable erudition. Wolfson was unable to accept the proposal of Richard Roth, whose firm was prolifically designing efficient and economic buildings for businesses, and wanted a well known architect with a name, one that would provide the building with prestige and enable it more readily to be rented to moneyed clients. He didn't get one architect with a name, but two. Walter Gropius had an established worldwide reputation as an architect and an academic spokesman for the Modern Movement, the glass and steel functionalism produced by the famous Bauhaus school. He was joined by Pietro Belluschi, who had previously worked with him, an architect who had experience as a design consultant and architect for corporations, and who had previously designed tall office buildings, as Gropius had not. The resulting design was released to the public in February 1959. It was the largest office tower in the world, 59 stories tall, of faceted glass and concrete exterior, in a shape of a broad octagonal prism. It spanned the full width of Park Avenue, looming over the Grand Central Terminal. Where the terminal had above it the less soaring but more delicate New York General Building and then simply sky, the new building would block any vista and would dwarf adjacent buildings due to its immensity. Observers found the building a betrayal of the civic principles that Gropius and Belluschi had espoused. Just as the public could not stop the construction, it could not stop Pan Am's installation of a heliport on the roof, for express trips to and from the surrounding airports. It was too noisy and too dangerous, people said, and they were eventually proved right; the heliport was closed after a fatal crash in 1977, and one of the five fatalities was a pedestrian on the street below.
The accident sullied the reputation of Pan American Airways, which was under financial difficulties and went bankrupt in 1979. The building now bears a MetLife sign, but has had no change in the professional and amateur dislike directed toward it. Paris's Eiffel Tower was disliked when it was built, and is now beloved; nothing like that is going to happen to the Pan Am Building. The debacle has had its upside. The next development of the area was to have been a huge rectangular block constructed over the station, but the preposterous addition was so vilified that the Landmarks Preservation Commission's refusal to allow it was upheld by the Supreme Court. The Pan Am Building had disillusioned architectural professionals and the public, and served best in the capacity of a bad example, something the city should never allow again. Clausen's wonderful, detailed look at the failure is also a cautionary tale on hubris and the risks of letting money do just what it wants to make more of itself.
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Pan Am 103: The Bombing, the Betrayals, and a Bereaved Family's Search for Justice
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1988: Pan Am flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 people on board. The Cohens, whose daughter died in the tragedy, vowed to discover the truth about the bombing-by asking demanding questions no one else in the world dared to.
¥ Why did the Bush Administration distance itself from the tragedy?
¥ How could Pan Am allow an unattended bomb to pass through security?
¥ Why did it take over a decade to hold the terrorists accountable?
¥ Why were the bereaved families lied to by the airline and the government?
In the most controversial book of the year, the Cohens reveal the stunning answers.
Zealous in their pursuit of justice...the Cohens have played an important and valuable role. (The Washington Post)
Painfully sad and passionately angry. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
The Cohens less ask for justice than demand it. If you read their book, you'll want it for them. (The Times - Trenton, NJ)
Customer Reviews:
Sad, Angry, and Uninformed.......2006-12-02
One can be sympathetic to family members of the Pan Am 103 tragedy. Unfortunately being sad and angry does not guarantee knowledge of the intimate details of this tragedy. For real knowledge of what happened read Marquise' book "ScotBom".
There by the grace of God go I!.......2006-04-13
The Cohen's did sound bitter but they had every right to be. I wonder how I would be if the same thing had happened to one of my children!
The Federal Government had warned the airlines FOR YEARS to do something about the holes in their security. But it was all about money honey. And finally, when these thugs attacked the big boys in Washington, something was finally done!
I for one have stopped traveling on the Washington Metro train system. Until they do something about the security on them, I am not getting on the Metro train system again!
Important Story Undone by Tone.......2005-07-31
This book details the struggle two parents faced when dealing with the aftermath of their daughter's death in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103.
The disaster undestandably embittered the Cohens, and their anger translates well onto the pages -- too well. For the most part, the Cohens' writing is laced with stinging contempt at anyone who disagreed with their way of thinking. They are justifiably angry at the lack of proportional help from the Bush, Reagan and Clinton Administrations in seeking justice for the victims; but too often the Cohens deride and attack other victims' families, as well.
Also unsatisfactory is the Cohens' glossing over the incident of a commercial airline being downed by the US as a possible motive. There is no sympathy for those victims, and the Cohens write as if their daughter was the sole victim of the tragedy.
The book does have its strong moments, however, and there are times when the anger that the writers convey works. Also good is the debunking of the "noble victim" myth -- the kind where one would assume that somone becomes a "better person" after a tragedy like this -- The Cohens vehemently oppose this persona and eschew it, in favor of a more strident, outspoken guise, which is more difficult to take -- and rightly so.
Thanks Micheal!.......2005-07-21
"Hatred, vengeance, and bitterness are emotions that are more poisonous than cyanide. And the Cohens certainly prove that."
Of course, there will always be people who put on a smile after their head has been dipped into a toilet bowl - a North-American tradition. There are times, however, when the only thing that is left is being true to oneself, no more need to conceal emotions, to work out compromises.
Or even act in a descent way to the other victims of the disaster! I guess the cohen answer to "being dipped in a toliet bowl" is to randomly fling crap at the other victims of the disaster! What a wonderful rationalization you've come up with, Micheal! I don't know how treating the other victims with respect translates to "working out compromises" but I'm sure you can tell me how those two things are related!
From a reader to whomever.......2005-06-16
I am a junior/ senior in college and after doing A LOT of research on the flight of Pan Am 103 and reading about the victims and their families, as well as participating in a play about Dec. 21, 1988, I became one of the victims who had lost someone on that flight. Reading this book by the Cohens brings into perspective what others deem as another horrific accident caused by terrorism, or just another day. But it's more than that, it's of a family letting the world know what went on, what could and should be done and how it could have and should be prevented.
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Bratt soars.......2005-03-17
I thoroughly enjoyed "Glamour and Turbulence". This is not just a book for people who travel often. Any person who is frustrated with the behind-the-scenes politics of any large company will enjoy this easy read from Ms. Bratt. It is informative as well as entertaining. After reading this work you'll have more respect for those who work in the flight industry and must smile through the pain
An entertaining treat.......2005-03-17
An entertaining and informative treat! Aimeé Bratt's description of life at Pan Am is captivating. This is an easy read, yet loaded with witty remarks depicting the strenuous working conditions at airlines. The reader will immediately feel Ms. Bratt's love for Pan Am, the pride of having worked for the company for 25 years, and her frustration with the internal and external factors that brought Pan Am down. This is one of those books you will want to read again.
Interesting but hard on the commoner........2003-06-15
I read this book because of Pan Am and the job depicted. I reached the minimum age required to apply for the job just when Pan Am collapsed, but the legend of this airline is precisely what has always made me dream as well as ache about the airline industry. And this book says it all: on the one hand, it's all about glamour, exotic places, a jet-set way of life, and on the other hand, you get to read insulting judgment about how the non-elite (translate anyone who was not a Pan Am crew member, deadhead or first class passenger) managed to ruin the image and glory of a flight attendant's life, especially when we arrived by busloads with deregulation. I found those terms appalling from the mouth of someone who has made service industry her career and lived a wonderful life from it. No one really chooses to be in economy class, though.
Finally, after reading this book, I came to wonder whether Pan Am wasn't in fact also victim of its elitist image... How could an airline survive today with such a haughty behavior towards its passengers? How could they have been rescued by other airlines they once despised? Could Pan Am be something else than a legend of the past? In light of the author's state of mind, I bet most of its survivors would not have it any other way... Wouldn't it be nice however, if a contemporary, friendlier Pan Am reappeared and let us experience the magic of worldwide air travel?
Don't get me wrong: I too miss Pan Am because it had such a great image, great routes and it's true it's responsible for the best-looking image of crew members, and sure, I too would have been proud and happy to be a part of it and quite depressed when losing it all. In fact, this book really taught me how self-indulgence can be dangerous. Let's just hope the author got a glimpse of this deep inside herself.
By the way, I don't know when the author last came to Tokyo, but the Oriental Bazar in Tokyo still exists, at least it has since 91 until now.
high-flying tripe.......2003-05-11
Simply put, this self-published book from Vantage Press is the literary equivalent of the rubber chicken airlines used to serve in coach class. Bratt's name gives it away -- this is pure egotistical self-indulgence.
A Pompous, Pretentious Tone Throughout - Not Recommended.......2003-05-04
I thought I would have a good read about the ups and downs of a flight attendant in the "good old days" of flying, including funny anecdotes and perhaps a harrowing story or two. Not so. Instead the author comes across as a pretentious and bitter employee with a condescending, "holier than thou" attitude toward other crew members and passengers who didn't meet up to her "superior" standards. She categorizes fellow flight attendants, passengers and crew into neat little cylinders of critical judgement, headed up by titles such as the disillusioned ones, the lazy ones, the zealous ones, the subservient ones, and the tacky tarts. Overall, I found the book to be an unpleasant read - one I would not recommend to others. (Instead, consider "Footsteps in the Sky," by Helen E. McLaughlin, which provides a much more enjoyable read of the life of flight attendants in the "good old days.")
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An American saga: Juan Trippe and his Pan Am empire
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An absolute must read!!!.......2007-04-12
This book should be a classic. The author covers with great details and without losing the reader's interest, a true American saga.
The book has it all, drama, machines, ego, power, betrayal, politics, wars, impossible dreams come true.
Excellent book!!!
20 Years In Waiting.......2001-07-07
For 20 years I have regretted not purchasing this book. I first saw it in a book store while in college, and ever since the subject intrigued me.
The Pan Am story is truly an American Saga. Robert Daley takes an "Detective Friday" approach in only reporting the facts. Nevertheless, the tale is worth reading. Prior to Juan Trippe's Pan Am, the only way to get from one continent to another was via steamer. Trippe, Lindbergh and the orignal Pan Am employees established commerical aviation as we know it today. Daley, as dry as he can be, does a thorough job of factually describing the infancy of commercial air travel.
If you can get your hands on a copy of this book, do it. It is a far better way to spend your time than on some of a mindless pap currently available.
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Pan Am: Gone but Not Forgotten
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Excellent coffe table book.......2007-04-16
This is a great book for everyone.
It is easy to read with lots of facts, photos, maps and airplane drawings.
You get a good sense of what Pan Am went through from the very beginning.
what a fascinating story and the book does a great job summarizing it!
passing of a jet age icon.......2001-12-02
Pan Am was an American icon. In a short span, Juan Trippe established the inter-American air system and most of the airline's of Latin America. The acquisition of landing rights, mail contracts, aircraft, navigational aids, landing fields, not to mention the backing of moneyed friends--Juan Trippe had it all, or made sure he got it.
The book is organized around the various aircraft and route systems of Pan American. The aircraft drawings and photographs are oustanding, and the book is beautiful in its white slip cover.
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Recommended Books
- AP Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law
- On Writing
- Corporate, Partnership, Estate and Gift Taxation
- Electrical Machines, Drives and Power Systems
- JBoss at Work: A Practical Guide
- Reader's Digest Family Songbook
- National Electrical Code 1999
- Accounting and the Enterprise: A Social Analysis
- Global Finance and the Macroeconomy
- Glial Cell Development: Basic Principles and Clinical Relevance
Pan American's Pacific Pioneers: The Rest of the Story
Glamour and Turbulence: I Remember Pan Am, 1966-91
Classic American Airliners (Zenith Classics)
Last of the Flying Clippers: The Boeing B-314 Story (Schiffer Military/Aviation History)
Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am
