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Sky Sailors

True Stories of the Balloon Era

By: David L. Bristow

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Sky Sailors

True Stories of the Balloon Era

By: David L. Bristow

For more than a century before airplanes, people explored the sky in balloons. From 1783 to the early 1900s, aeronauts flew into storms, crossed large bodies of water, sailed over enemy armies, and soared to deadly altitudes. Illustrated in full color with dramatuc period artwork, Sky Sailors by David L. Bristow presents the stories of the pioneers of human flight, such as daredevil Sophie Blanchard from Napoleon's France, and Salomon Andree, who lead an aerial assault on the North Pole in 1897.

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156

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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ISBN 10

1466871423

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9781466871427

A Dirty, Wicked Town

Tales of 19th Century Omaha

By: David L. Bristow

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A Dirty, Wicked Town

Tales of 19th Century Omaha

By: David L. Bristow

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press "It requires but little if any, stretch of the imagination to regard Omaha as a cesspool of iniquity, for it is given up to lawlessness and is overrun with a horde of fugitives from justice and dangerous men of all kinds who carry things with a high hand and a loose rein... If you want to find a rogue's rookery, go to Omaha." A Kansas City newspaper.

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322

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Caxton Press

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0870045326

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9780870045325

Flight to the Top of the World

The Adventures of Walter Wellman

By: David L. Bristow

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Flight to the Top of the World

The Adventures of Walter Wellman

By: David L. Bristow

In his day Walter Wellman (1858-1934) was one of America's most famous men. To his contemporaries, he seemed like a character from a Jules Verne novel. He led five expeditions in search of the North Pole, two by dogsled and three by dirigible airship, and in 1910 made the first attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air--which the self-styled expert on aerial warfare saw as a mission of world peace. He endured hardships, cheated death on more than one occasion, and surrounded himself with a team of assistants as eccentric and audacious as he was. In addition to his daring adventures, Wellman became a nationally known political reporter and unofficial spokesman for the McKinley and Roosevelt administrations. He was not the first newspaper-sponsored adventurer, but more than any of his predecessors he turned exploration into a real-time media event, and his reputation both flourished and suffered because of it. Wellman lived during a time of rapid social and technological change, when explorers were racing to fill in the last remaining blank spots on the map and when aviation promised to fulfill humanity's greatest hopes and darkest fears. Flight to the Top of the World is a window into Wellman's time and illuminates many of its dreams and contradictions.

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481

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496207041

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9781496207043

Fundamentals of Clinical Trials

By: Lawrence M. Friedman,Curt Furberg,David L. DeMets

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Fundamentals of Clinical Trials

By: Lawrence M. Friedman,Curt Furberg,David L. DeMets

This classic reference, now updated with the newest applications and results, addresses the fundamentals of such trials based on sound scientific methodology, statistical principles, and years of accumulated experience by the three authors.

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384

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387985867

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9780387985862

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Sky Sailors

Sky Sailors

A Dirty, Wicked Town

A Dirty, Wicked Town

Flight to the Top of the World

Flight to the Top of the World

Fundamentals of Clinical Trials

Fundamentals of Clinical Trials

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