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  • A Spirit of Service

    Purdue University and the United States Military

    de John Norberg ...
    Series series The Founders Series
    A Spirit of Service: Purdue University and the United States Military is a richly illustrated, comprehensive look at the intersection of this great land-grant university and the US military since classes first began in 1874. Spearheaded by the Purdue University College of Engineering in recognition of its 150th anniversary, this book examines how Purdue Boilermakers have played a consequential ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Wings of Their Dreams

    Purdue in Flight, Third Edition

    de John Norberg ...
    Series series The Founders Series
    Throughout more than 100 years of flight, Purdue University has propelled unique contributions from pioneer educators, aviators, and engineers who flew balloons into the stratosphere, barnstormed the countryside, helped break the sound barrier, and left footprints in lunar soil. Wings of Their Dreams follows the flight plans and footsteps of aviation’s pioneers and trailblazers across the ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Ever True

    150 Years of Giant Leaps at Purdue University

    de John Norberg ...
    Series series The Founders Series
    In 1869 the State of Indiana founded Purdue University as Indiana’s land-grant university dedicated to agriculture and engineering. Today, Purdue stands as one of the elite research and education institutions in the world. Its halls have been home to Nobel Prize- and World Food Prize-winning faculty, record-setting astronauts, laureled humanists, researchers, and leaders of industry. Its thirteen ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Full Steam Ahead

    Purdue Mechanical Engineering Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

    Edición de John Norberg ...
    Mechanical Engineering was the first school of engineering to be established at Purdue University in 1882. From just 120 students, the School has grown over the last 130 years to serve over 1,800 undergraduate and graduate students annually. Originally located in Mechanics Hall, a one-story red brick building, Mechanical Engineering now has extensive facilities that include two major satellite ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Spacewalker

    My Journey in Space and Faith as NASA’s Record-Setting Frequent Flyer

    de Jerry L. Ross, John Norberg ...
    Series series Purdue Studies in Aeronautics and Astronautics
    From the age of ten, looking up at the stars, Jerry Ross knew that he wanted to journey into space. This autobiography tells the story of how he came not only to achieve that goal, but to become the most-launched astronaut in history, as well as a NASA veteran whose career spanned the entire US Space Shuttle program. From his childhood in rural Indiana, through education at Purdue University, and ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • A Force for Change

    The Class of 1950

    de John Norberg ...
    Series series The Founders Series
    Some of them were grown men going to college on the new G.I. Bill, and some were boys -- eighteen years old, straight out of high school. There were also young women coming to campus, rich in the traditions of their mothers and grandmothers. These women didn't know it, but the seeds of the modern women's movement had been planted during the war and in their generation. There were African-Americans ... Leer más

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  • The Great Deluge

    Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast

    de Douglas Brinkley ...

    $13.99 USD

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  • Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles

    America’s First Black Paratroopers

    de Tanya Lee Stone ...
    They became America’s first black paratroopers. Why was their story never told? Sibert Medalist Tanya Lee Stone reveals the history of the Triple Nickles during World War II.World War II is raging, and thousands of American soldiers are fighting overseas against the injustices brought on by Hitler. Back on the home front, the injustice of discrimination against African Americans plays out as much ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Tuskegee Airman 4th Edition

    de Charlene E. McGee Smith ...
    Colonel Charles E. McGee fought in World War II in Korea and in Vietnam. He holds the record for the highest three-war total of fighter combat missions of any pilot in the U.S. Air Force history. His military service began as one of the Tuskegee Airmen in the 332nd famed pioneers who fought racial prejudices to fly and fight for their country in World War II. They are the ones who achieved the ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Mayday Over Wichita

    The Worst Military Aviation Disaster in Kansas History

    de D. W. Carter ...
    The little-known story of a major catastrophe in a 1960s African American community: A "commendable, if unsettling, account." —Richard Kluger, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Simple JusticeOn the cold Saturday morning of January 16, 1965, a U.S. Air Force KC-135 tanker carrying thirty-one thousand gallons of jet fuel crashed into a congested African American neighborhood in Wichita, Kansas. When ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Same Date of Rank - Grads at the Top and Bottom from West Point, Annapolis and the Air Force Academy

    de Lt. Col. C. J. Hoppin USAF Ret. ...
    Does class rank really matter? Q: What do you call the person who’s last in their class in medical or law school? A: Doctor or Lawyer. Q: And, what do you call the person who’s last in their class at West Point, Annapolis or the U.S. Air Force Academy? A: Lieutenant or Ensign. Same Date of Rank salutes 17 men and three women grads at the top and bottom, representing the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Piedmont Airlines

    A Complete History, 1948-1989

    de Richard E. Eller ...
    Founded by Thomas H. Davis in 1948, Piedmont Airlines was one of the most respected regional airlines of its time. This exhaustive history follows the airline from its humble beginnings at Smith Reynolds Airport in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to its 1989 absorption into USAir after a buyout at the highest price ever commanded by a regional airline.Drawing upon corporate documents, local news ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD