The End of Airports

Author: Christopher Schaberg
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501305514
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237

Book Description
If air travel was once the bold future, it has now settled into a mundane, on-going present. We no longer expect romantic experiences or sublime views, but just hope that we get from here to there with minimal hassle. In The End of Airports, Christopher Schaberg suggests that even as the epoch of flight approaches a threshold of banality, there are still mysteries to be unraveled around our aircraft and airfields. Drawing from his own experiences working at an airport, as well as interpreting these spaces from the perspective of a cultural critic, Schaberg explores the secret lives of jet bridges, seating areas, concourses, and tarmac vehicles, showing how the ordinary objects of flight call for wonder and inquiry. The End of Airports is not an obituary-it's more like an ode to terminals in the digital age.

The Textual Life of Airports

Author: Christopher Schaberg
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441175210
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
From the earliest airfields to the post-9/11 turn, this book investigates how airports figure in the American cultural imagination. >

Airport

Author: Arthur Hailey
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101203781
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 551

Book Description
Caleb Marcus is a Peacemaker, a roving lawman tasked with maintaining the peace and bringing control to magic users on the frontier. A Peacemaker isn’t supposed to take a life—but sometimes, it’s kill or be killed... After a war injury left him half-scoured of his power, Caleb and his jackalope familiar have been shipped out West, keeping them out of sight and out of the way of more useful agents. And while life in the wild isn’t exactly Caleb’s cup of tea, he can’t deny that being amongst folk who aren’t as powerful as he is, even in his poor shape, is a bit of a relief. But Hope isn’t like the other small towns he’s visited. The children are being mysteriously robbed of their magical capabilities. There’s something strange and dark about the local land baron who runs the school. Cheyenne tribes are raiding the outlying homesteads with increasing frequency and strange earthquakes keep shaking the very ground Hope stands on. Something’s gone very wrong in the Wild West, and it’s up to Caleb to figure out what’s awry before he ends up at the end of the noose—or something far worse...

A Week at the Airport

Author: Alain De Botton
Publisher: Emblem Editions
ISBN: 0771026285
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 113

Book Description
The bestselling author of The Architecture of Happiness and The Art of Travel spends a week at an airport in a wittily intriguing meditation on the "non-place" that he believes is the centre of our civilization. In the summer of 2009, Alain de Botton was invited by the owners of Heathrow airport to become their first ever writer-in-residence. Given unprecedented, unrestricted access to wander around one of the world's busiest airports, he met travellers from all over the globe, and spoke with everyone from baggage handlers to pilots, and senior executives to the airport chaplain. Based on these conversations he has produced this extraordinary meditation on the nature of travel, work, relationships, and our daily lives. Working with the renowned documentary photographer Richard Baker, he explores the magical and the mundane, and the interactions of travellers and workers all over this familiar but mysterious "non-place," which by definition we are eager to leave. Taking the reader through departures, "air-side," and the arrivals hall, de Botton shows with his usual combination of wit and wisdom that spending time in an airport can be more revealing than we might think.

Naked Airport

Author: Alastair Gordon
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1466869119
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
The first full cultural history of the ultimate modern structure: the airport, revealed as never before ... Since its origins in the muddy fields of flying machines, the airport has arguably become one of the defining institutions of modern life. In Naked Airport, critic Alastair Gordon ranges from global geopolitics to action movies to the daily commute, showing how airports have changed our sense of time, distance, travel, style, and even the way cities are built and business is done. Gordon introduces the people who shaped this place of sudden transportation: pilots like Charles Lindberg, architects like Eero Saarinen, politicians like Fiorello La Guardia, and Hitler, who built Berlin's Tempelhof as a showcase for Fascist power. He describes the airport's futuristic contributions, such as credit cards, in the form of fly-now-pay-later schemes, and he charts its shift in popular perception, from glamorous to infuriating. Finally, he analyzes the airport's function in war and peace—its gatekeeper role controlling immigration, its appeal to revolutionaries since the hijackings of the 1960s, and its new frontline position in the struggle against terror. Compelling and accessible, Naked Airport is an original history of a long-neglected yet central creation of modern reality and imagination.

Airport Research Needs

Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee for a Study of an Airport Cooperative Research Program
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 0309077494
Category : Airports
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
Urges the US Congress to establish a national airport cooperative research program. The committee that produced the report called such a program essential to ensuring airport security, efficiency, safety, and environmental compatibility.

Ultimate Book of Airplanes and Airports

Author: Sophie Bordet-Petillon
Publisher: Twirl
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18

Book Description
The Ultimate series is a worldwide success because it offers readers an intriguing close-up view of their subject with lots of opportunity for hands-on interaction with flaps, tabs, pop-ups, and more! What better subject than airplanes and airports, endlessly fascinating to children of all ages—from the detailed instruments of a Boeing 747 cockpit to the mysterious innards of a baggage carousel, The Ultimate Book of Airports delivers absorbing information and hours of fun. It's the perfect book to prepare young readers for a first flight!

The Airport Book

Author: Lisa Brown
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1626720916
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
"An exploratory journey through the airport"--

Playtown

Author: Roger Priddy
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312517378
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18

Book Description
With over 70 flaps to lift, readers will discover everything about Playtown and who lives there.

Airport

Author: Byron Barton
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0064431452
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
From the excitement of arrival to the wonder of taking off -- a picture book that captures in joyous and powerful images all the magic of an airport.