Flying High

Author: Michelle Meadows
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1250819946
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 23

Book Description
A lyrical picture book biography of Simone Biles, gymnastics champion and Olympic superstar. Before she was a record-breaking gymnast competing on the world stage, Simone Biles spent time in foster care as a young child. Nimble and boundlessly energetic, she cherished every playground and each new backyard. When she was six years old, Simone's family took shape in a different way. Her grandparents Ron and Nellie Biles adopted Simone and her sister Adria. Ron and Nellie became their parents. Simone was also introduced to gymnastics that same year, launching a lifelong passion fueled by remarkable talent, sacrifice, and the undying support of her family. From her athletic early childhood to the height of her success as an Olympic champion, Flying High is the story of the world's greatest gymnast from author Michelle Meadows and illustrator Ebony Glenn.

Flying High

Author: Tony Fernandes
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241970199
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 239

Book Description
'What a life. Tony Fernandes has accomplished amazing things - and who's to say what he can go on to achieve?' Sir Richard Branson The inspiring story of business hero and Apprentice Asia star Tony Fernandes As a boy, Tony Fernandes wanted to be a pilot, a footballer or a racing driver. By 2011 he'd gone one better: founding his own airline and his own formula one team, and becoming Chairman of Queens Park Rangers, helping them reach the Premier League again after a 15-year absence from the top flight. Flying High is the memoir of an exceptional business leader; the man who created Asia's first budget airline, democratizing air travel in Asia and building AirAsia into a multi-billion-dollar company in the process. Published as Tony returns as the face of the second series of Apprentice Asia, this inspiring personal story will be a major global publishing event. Tony Fernandes studied at Epsom College, UK, and the London School of Accoutancy. He worked for Virgin Communications and Warner Music before acquiring AirAsia and relaunching it as Asia's first low-cost carrier in 2001/2. He is currently Group CEO of AirAsia, Chairman of QPR football club and owner of the Caterham F1 team. Tony has been awarded a CBE, titled twice by the King of Malaysia and awarded the Legion d'Honneur by the French government. He has also received awards from major business media outlets including theInternational Herald Tribune, Business Times, Business Week, Fast Company and Forbes.

Fly High!

Author: Louise Borden
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780756929350
Category : African American women air pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book discusses the life of the determined African American woman who went all the way to France in order to earn her pilot's license in 1921.

Super Friends: Flying High (DC Super Friends)

Author: Nick Eliopulos
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375852085
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
SOMETHING STRANGE HAS happened to the birds of GOTHAM CITY. Pigeons are causing traffic jams, seagulls are making trouble at a nearby beach, and ostriches have escaped from the zoo! THE PENGUIN has enlisted his fine feathered friends to distract the DC SUPER FRIENDS while he swoops in and plucks GOTHAM’s biggest bank clean! Will BATMAN, SUPERMAN, and the other DC SUPER FRIENDS get there in time?

Flying High

Author: Calvin LeHew
Publisher:
ISBN: 1452534535
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
How do you escape the gravity of fear? When singer, songwriter, and best-selling author Stowe D. Shockey meets entrepreneur and “pilot of unique concepts” Calvin LeHew, she is fascinated with his rags-to-riches story, his positive outlook, and his ability to manifest dreams by the power of thought. Spending time with Calvin, transcribing his seminars, and writing his story brings to light the dreams Stowe has buried, along with fears she has carried. As cancer threatens not only the completion of the book but her very life, Stowe is forced to make some heart-wrenching decisions—with Calvin’s help. The true story of Flying High was originally intended to chronicle the amazing life of one writer; remarkably, the process of its creation helped rescue the life of his co-author. The result of their experience is an uplifting story for the world—a story of personal growth, a tribute to divine guidance, and a reminder to be who you were born to be.

Flying High

Author: William F. Buckley Jr.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786732113
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
If any two people can be called indispensable in launching the conservative movement in American politics, they are William F. Buckley Jr. and Barry Goldwater. Buckley's National Review was at the center of conservative political analysis from the mid-fifties onward. But the policy intellectuals knew that to actually change the way the country was run, they needed a presidential candidate, and the man they turned to was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater. Goldwater was in many ways the perfect choice: self-reliant, unpretentious, unshakably honest and dashingly handsome, with a devoted following that grew throughout the fifties and early sixties. He possessed deep integrity and a sense of decency that made him a natural spokesman for conservative ideals. But his flaws were a product of his virtues. He wouldn't't bend his opinions to make himself more popular, he insisted on using his own inexperienced advisors to run his presidential campaign, and in the end he electrified a large portion of the electorate but lost the great majority. Flying High is Buckley's partly fictional tribute to the man who was in many ways his alter ego in the conservative movement. It is the story of two men who looked as if they were on the losing side of political events, but were kept aloft by the conviction that in fact they were making history.

Flying High

Author: Wayne Greenhaw
Publisher: Dodd Mead
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description

Flying High in a Competitive Industry

Author: Loizos Th Heracleous
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Singapore - Professional
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
Singapore Airlines (SIA) is widely acknowledged as one of the world's leading airlines, if not the best airline, globally. This book provides insights into a simple but intriguing question: How has SIA managed to outperform other flag-carriers for decades in an industry where it is notoriously difficult to succeed consistently? This updated second edition of Flying High in a Competitive Industry begins with an analysis of the airline industry and its key trends, moving on to a broad outline of SIA's strategic drivers of success. Empirical research was conducted at SIA to gain a deeper understanding of its strategy, core competencies and internal organisation, innovation processes and human resource practices, in order to instill strategy lessons that can inform the strategies of any organisation competing in intensely competitive industries. This book ends with some strategic lessons that apply to any organisation that aims to achieve sustainable success in hypercompetitive markets.

Flying High

Author: Spud Webb
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description

Flying High

Author: Jane Shuter
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781410905796
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Discusses the use and development of air travel from Leonardo da Vinci's 1485 design for an airplane to space travel in the present.