In Pursuit: A Pilot's Guide to Online Air Combat

In Pursuit: A Pilot's Guide to Online Air Combat
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Excellent Resource!!

For newbies and oldies alike

Be a online ace !

Highly Recommended!

In Pursuit: A Pilot's Guide to Online Air Combat
Johan Kylander
Manufacturer: BookSurge Publishing
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Release Date: 2007-04-23

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"In Pursuit" is a thorough anthology of all facets of the life of a fighter pilot. "In Pursuit" covers, in detail, all of the positives and negatives, the things to do and the things not to do in order to become a "Top Gun" as a fighter pilot.

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Excellent Resource!!.......2007-05-30

This book is just excellent. Whether you are a beginner in the world of sim-flying, or an old pro, this is a tremendously useful resource and is a must for every pilot's bookshelf. It cover basic and advanced fighter manuevers, gunnery, psychology, situational awareness, formation tactics, etc etc. Basically everything you need to know to succeed in the competitive world of sim a2a combat.

There are easy to understand diagrams and the text is well-written. I recommend this for anyone with a remote interest in learning the fine-points of air combat. Rookie or ace alike will certainly get a lot out of it.

For newbies and oldies alike.......2007-03-30

If you are new to online fighter pilot sims then this is a must have. If you have been playing for a while but still suffer the frustration of poor kill:death ratio then it is strongly recommened. It will give you insight and knowledge in the fighter sim world and insite in your own tactics that would take years to learn on your own.

Be a online ace !.......2006-11-24

If your ready to get on the fast track to online flying then this is for you . It will save you hundreds of hours of learning the ropes by yourself .

Highly Recommended!.......2006-11-24

EXCELLENT resource, I rccomend it for anyone who flies. Points out a lot of the minor mistakes we all make, plus its written from the POV of someone with the same approach to flying and fighting that I try to follow, so its been a big eye opener for me.

Also I noticed a lot of stuff that I used to do and have moved away from, and have taken a big hit in my survivability and Kill : Death ratio as a result of. A lot of the rules I followed religiously in the AvA I've moved away from, and have lost a lot of proficiency as a result. As I've been reading through, I frequently remember using the tactic he describes properly- and just often I can recall a recent situation where I should have used them and instead got suckered into a furball or a turnfight simply because I forgot all the things I should know.

Kinda irritating to have your errors pointed out at you, but also helps to be reminded of what works and what doesn't.

The Healthy House Answer Book: Answers to the 133 Most Commonly Asked Questions

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Highly Informative Introduction. Extremely well done!
The Future is Sustaianble Architecture

The Healthy House Answer Book: Answers to the 133 Most Commonly Asked Questions
John Bower , and Lynn Marie Bower
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Among the various healthy housing books, The Healthy House Answer Book by John and Lynn Bower is something a little different. While the rest of the offerings in this field are thick, very comprehensive volumes, this is a smaller book in both size and depth--sort of a "pocket healthy housing guidebook." While covering the major concerns anyone would have about all aspects of construction and maintenance, all the information is presented in a very concise Q and A format. With subject chapters and a complete index, this is a great introductory book for anyone interested in the subject.

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Highly Informative Introduction. Extremely well done!.......2003-10-12

The Healthy House Answer Book is a tiny volume that packs a huge punch. Although small in stature, this book has much to offer on an extremely important subject. It reads well -- very well indeed! -- and offers simple, accurate explanations of many complicated topics.

In the Healthy House Answer Book, the authors -- healthy home experts, John and Lynn Bower -- tackle 133 commonly asked questions. Don't be fooled by this book's brevity, though. If you're new to the subject, this book should be a fantastic resource. I know, I read it early in my research on healthy homes for my books on natural homes and passive solar heating and cooling and felt that it brought me up to speed on the topic quite rapidly.

I especially liked the question-answer format and found it to be a delightful respite from the typical book style. The authors get right to the point. No wasted words!

Unless you're looking for an encyclopedic treatment of the subject, you should find this book to be a goldmine of valuable information. If you want a more encyclopedic treatment, the Bowers offer that option, too, in some of their other books.

The Future is Sustaianble Architecture.......2000-05-15

It is an extremely interesting volume... of iummense use... to Built-Design professionals as well as amateurs. But personally speaking, it is not the amateurs, but the professional built-design professionals, who have to be bull-dozed into accepting green architecture. Wish something more can be done about it. H K Verma Editor Interiors Today - India's only Magazine for Built Design professionals Bombay interior@bol.net.in

In Flight Fitness: Everything You Need to Know to Keep Fit and Healthy During Air Travel

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Dreas Reyneke
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Now more than ever, we are aware of the potential health hazards of long-distance flights—from “economy-class syndrome” or deep-vein thrombosis to jet lag. Fitness expert Dreas Reyneke and travel-medical journalist Helen Varley have put together the complete guide to in-flight fitness, with everything you need to know and do to enjoy a healthy and comfortable flight. Topics include preparation for travel and take-off; in-flight exercises and relaxation techniques; recognizing the early-warning signs of illness; and coping with problems like back pain, stress, and fear of flying. Whether you’re an occasional passenger or a frequent flyer—or even if you’re journeying by bus or train—this is the ideal travel companion. Dreas Reyneke, author of Ultimate Pilates, is internationally recognized for his contribution to the art and science of pilates-based fitness training. Helen Varley, editor of The Flier’s Handbook, writes widely on travel and medicine.

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Ozone (Our Environment)
Eleanor J. Hall , and Don Nardo
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The ozone gas layer in the upper atmosphere is essential for life on earth because it prevents harmful ultraviolet rays from reaching the ground. On Earth, however, ozone can be harmful to living things. The debate over ozone's dual nature is explored as scientists, policy makers, and the public confront ozone smog on earth and the ozone hole in the upper atmosphere.

Air Pollutants Effects on Forest Ecosystems

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While no one wants to breath smog or swim in polluted rivers, people often disagree about how serious pollution is and how to keep the environment pristine. Environmentalists, policy makers, and others debate the extent and causes of pollution as well as how to prevent it in this timely volume.

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In 2003, the George W. Bush administration proposed controversial changes to the Clean Air Act, provoking heated debate on the best way to protect both human health and the economy. The authors in this anthology debate whether air pollution seriously threatens human health, and how it should be regulated.

Was That a Balloon or Did Your Head Just Pop?: Lettin' the Air Out of Popularity Bubbles & Peer Fear (Johnson, Kevin, Early Teen Devotionals.)

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Was That a Balloon or Did Your Head Just Pop?: Lettin' the Air Out of Popularity Bubbles & Peer Fear (Johnson, Kevin, Early Teen Devotionals.)
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Get Real

Conquer the Three-headed Monster of Middle School: Peer Pressure, Crowd Control, and False Friends. Hear God's Call to Become a Friend Worth Having. Learn to Spot Others Who Will Become the Kind of Friends You Deserve and Need.

Anxiously-awaited and highly-anticipated, the newest early teen devotional from Kevin Johnson bursts the bubbles of popularity and will give you the low-down on becoming a friend worth having. Ideal for use in your youth group, bible studies, or individual devotions, this is a collection of forty-five short readings which will help you confront the powerful force of wanting to fit in, be popular, and rule school.

Quick-witted and filled with jokes, each reading includes a catchy opening, a Bible passage to think about, a leading question to answer, and a life-changing explanation and application of Scripture. Chapters include:

Pass the Oxygen, Please - Helps you get out of the stuffy cave of loneliness. Rip Your Buns Off - Consoling words when the world seems to beat you up. He's a Human Hockey Puck - A challenge to use your unique, God-given gifts. Doing the 'Tudes - A look at the Beatitudes and the message they have for us today.

The tools which Was That a Balloon or Did Your Head Just Pop? provides help you build the courage and understanding to follow the commands of God rather than caving to the demands of those around you. By getting past the putdowns and finding real popularity with God you'll learn to grow into a terrific friend and know what to look for in your own buds.

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Thank U JC 4 Kevin Johnson.......2002-08-28

This book opened my eyes 2 understand wut Christianity wuz all about, JESUS who will help ya trough anything and everything (exspecially school).

Exercises for Airplanes: (And Other Confined Spaces)

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More for new age people than road warriors
more books on this subject of Isometrics.
I'm the only author.

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More for new age people than road warriors.......2002-02-07

There were a few good tips and tricks to overcoming jet lag, moving your legs around while flying, helping out those cramps during long flights, and basic exercises.... but if you are a road warrior, this isn't the book for you.

I love the way the author makes out exercises that are for specific commuters (comes in handy whether flying or railing!). But sometimes the way she describes the exercises was like reading a novel instead of an exercise book. The diagrams were very helpful.

more books on this subject of Isometrics........2002-02-07

in my younger year I was a weightlifter and love the feeling of being strong and fit.back than a great strenght building exercise
came call Isometrics its fast and get good ressults in a very short time.Janet Diamond book is good for those seeking a fast exercises routine.but I would strongly recommend building a Isometric Rack! and do a whole body workout 6 days per week.you wont hurt yourself or build big muscle mass,but will build great body strength and good muscle tone!I am 57 years old,cannot do lifting big barbells so I now do Isometrics everday and feel strong as lion,try it!

I'm the only author........1999-05-19

I, Janet Diamond, am the sole author of this book. Zipora Schulz, is merely the illustrator, and Janet D. Amond does not exist. Thank you for correcting this error. Janet Diamond

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Rampant speculation. Record trading volumes. Assets bought not because of their value but because the buyer believes he can sell them for more in a day or two, or an hour or two. Welcome to the late 1920s. There are obvious and absolute parallels to the great bull market of the late 1990s, writes Galbraith in a new introduction dated 1997. Of course, Galbraith notes, every financial bubble since 1929 has been compared to the Great Crash, which is why this book has never been out of print since it became a bestseller in 1955.

Galbraith writes with great wit and erudition about the perilous actions of investors, and the curious inaction of the government. He notes that the problem wasn't a scarcity of securities to buy and sell; "the ingenuity and zeal with which companies were devised in which securities might be sold was as remarkable as anything." Those words become strikingly relevant in light of revenue-negative start-up companies coming into the market each week in the 1990s, along with fragmented pieces of established companies, like real estate and bottling plants. Of course, the 1920s were different from the 1990s. There was no safety net below citizens, no unemployment insurance or Social Security. And today we don't have the creepy investment trusts--in which shares of companies that held some stocks and bonds were sold for several times the assets' market value. But, boy, are the similarities spooky, particularly the prevailing trend at the time toward corporate mergers and industry consolidations--not to mention all the partially informed people who imagined themselves to be financial geniuses because the shares of stock they bought kept going up. --Lou Schuler

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Of Galbraith's classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse, the Atlantic Monthly said:"Economic writings are seldom notable for their entertainment value, but this book is. Galbraith's prose has grace and wit, and he distills a good deal of sardonic fun from the whopping errors of the nation's oracles and the wondrous antics of the financial community." Now, with the stock market riding historic highs, the celebrated economist returns with new insights on the legacy of our past and the consequences of blind optimism and power plays within the financial community.

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The Hobo Philosopher.......2007-09-14

This is the best book that I have read so far on the 1929 depression. Galbraith is so easy to read. He has a great sense of humor - dry but great. He is logical, sensible and supports his prejudices with numbers and facts. Anyone who is interested in the 1929 depression should have this on their list as required reading.

Financial Reporting at its finest...........2006-10-05

All writers of market histories should read and absorb Galbraith's short and eminently readable history of the start of the depression. Going beyond popular ideas it gets to the heart of the matter and provides sobering lessons to speculators in today's markets. I give this a hearty 5 stars!

Pretty Good.......2006-08-01

This gives a pretty good examination of the economic crash of 1929 and important events in the preceeding decade.

However, since this was originally published in 1954, there was at least one section in the book where the "rhetorical present" of the author's narration was in the 1950s (in its comparison on the 1929 crash with circumstances extant in the 1950s); however, in this same section, it refers to 'our current situation' in the late 1990s, and then later in the same section, it reverts back to the reference to the 1950s as 'our present.'

Also, the tone of the narration occasionally comes off as elitist when it refers to 'others who aren't intelligent enough to understand this discussion' (my paraphrase-I don't have the time/inclination to cite the exact page number).

All-in-all, though I would encourage the reading of this book for an understanding of the events leading up to and surrounding the 1929 crash and the following depression.

A little brief, but a good intro for me to the Crash.......2006-04-30

I'm not a big expert in the politics and economics of the Great Depression. I do have interests in American history, however, and I felt that this would be a good intro to both Galbraith and the nature of the Crash. For me, the day-to-day specifics of the Crash were a little rushed. I didn't get the full-blown treatment of narrative history that would have enabled me to walk away from this text feeling like a newly born expert in the field. Nor did I walk away with a great desire to learn more about the principal players in the Crash. What I did walk away with was helpful, though. This book is a more a sketch of the psychology of the American market than a history of the Crash. Galbraith strives to show that Americans want to be fooled into believing that speculative gains can lead to fulfillment of dreams of wealth. Of greater importance, this book emphasizes how our political and economic culture does not provide adequate incentives for leaders who wish to dampen our enthusiasm. Yes, there are a few villains in this book. But the greater cause for concern is our tendency to blow up balloons that will inevitably burst.

I hope that sound investing and the Great Crash our taught with great care in our schools, and I would consider this either a passable quick intro or a source for supplementary insights into the nature of how our culture can lead to this kind of market failure.

3 stars

--SD

JKG thinks he funny. He's not........2005-08-29

While I did find the book informative and a good supplement to Robert Sobel's The Great Bull Market: Wall Street in the 1920s, Galbraith interjects his sarcastic view of the participants in the 1920s Bull Market way too much. This makes parts of the book extremely difficult to read. While I persevered to the end, I fouynd Sobel's account as informative and much more enjoyable to read.

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Great slice of historical social perspectives of the 1929 Crash...
Excellent Read.
An absorbing reading experience
Compelling and a bit scary!
Compelling and a bit scary!

The Year of the Great Crash, 1929
William K. Klingaman
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Great slice of historical social perspectives of the 1929 Crash..........2006-01-08

A very good presentation of the social and economic events occurring around the 1929 stock market crash. Klingaman always has an excellent way of organizing various aspects of history during a certain time period. In this book you get a slice of what is occurring in the White House, Hollywood, organized crime and the some of the average person economic happenings. Klingaman presents the before crash event(with all the optimism), what occurs during with all the hopeful speculation, and the afterward follow-up. He highlights the ineffectiveness of Hoover and touches upon the emerging FDR and talks of how Joe Kennedy enjoyed taking others money while people fell poor. This book was a great read about social and economic history of this time. I recommend reading this, along with a "Once in Golconda" by John Brooks.

Excellent Read........2005-12-17

I cant add anything to what the other reviewers report. But the book is well-written, interesting, and holds your attention superbly.

An absorbing reading experience.......2003-05-02

I read this book because I so enjoyed reading the author's 1941: Our Lives in a World on the Edge, which I finished reading 29 Nov 1997. This book is just as good. This is not academic history, but Klingaman weaves from other books and contemporary sources an account of the time from Election Day in 1928 till mid-1930, and does a superlative job. He does not tell what happens in the future but tells the events as they unfold. The only way that the future is involved is in the selection of the events to be related. And he does not discuss only the stock market, but brings in things such as the St. Valentine's Day massacre on Feb 14, 1929, and the events when Hoover was inaugurated--supposedly Hoover and Coolidge as they rode to the Inauguration said not a word to each other! The book is just filled with interesting items of information. One wonders how different it would be written after the bubble burst of 2000-2001. I have read at least two other books on the Crash of 1929 (The Day America Crashed, by Tom Schactman--read 3 July 1979--and The Day the Bubble Burst, by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts--read 25 Mar 2000)and this book is a better book than either of those.

Compelling and a bit scary!.......2003-01-11

Had I read this book 10 years ago (it's now 2003), I would have passed it off as an interesting story and a good account of a time long past. When reading it today, I have to constantly look at the title to remind myself that it is referring to 1929 and not 1999!

Compelling and a bit scary!.......2003-01-11

The Stock Market Crash of 1929: Dawn of the Great Depression (American Disasters)

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After the Crash; America in the Great Depression.

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Black Tuesday: Prelude to the Great Depression (Snapshots in History)

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Gold Diggers of 1929: Canada and the Great Stock Market Crash

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Gold Diggers of 1929: Canada and the Great Stock Market Crash
George Fetherling
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"His recreation of 1929 makes the stock market crash come all too alive. It’s a dramatic reminder of how vulnerable we were and might be again."

Peter Newman

Even 75 years later, the Crash of 1929 throws a shadow over the financial world whenever stock markets take a tumble. Yet much of what we believe we know about it is mistaken. Brokers didn’t jump out of windows—and Bay Street wasn’t in lock-step with Wall Street. The truth is that Canada’s crash and subsequent Depression were worse than the American ones, striking at a vulnerable time, when society was in transition between agricultural and industrial economics and between the British and American styles of power.

But though the period was different here than across the border, it was no less thickly populated with outrageous scoundrels, speculators, suckers, soothsayers—and victims. Many people burned by the collapse of prices in Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg or Vancouver were still alive to tell their stories when Gold Diggers of 1929 was first published a quarter century ago. The book records their voices as it looks at politics and institutions blown apart by events set in motion in that long-ago October.

In this classic account rich in anecdote and alive with the heady flavour of the times, George Fetherling looks back at the brokers and bankers, the shrewd millionaires and blue-collar wildcatters—all of them caught up in the rush to cash in. Who were the heroes? Who were the villains? Who went to jail, who went broke, who carried on business as usual?

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