Aviation This comprehensive, easy-to-use guide tells the fascinating story of one of the greatest technical triumphs of our times—the story of flight. Produced in association with the world-renowned Smithsonian Institution, Aviation is lavishly illustrated with materials from the collection of the National Air and Space Museum. This Smithsonian Guide features: 
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<li>Detailed text by a Smithsonian expert clearly explaining how world aviation developed</li> <li>More than 350 full-color photographs and explanatory illustrations of airplanes, equipment, people, and events</li> <li>Full-color foldout timeline of aviation milestones decade by decade</li> <li>40-page quick-access A-to-Z glossary, including capsule biographies, special terms, and key concepts</li> </ul> Smithsonian Guides is an illustrated home reference series exploring the worlds of science, nature, technology, and history, produced in unique partnership with the world's most popular museum. Each superbly produced guide stands alone as a compact introduction to its subject. Taken together, Smithsonian Guides form a library on topics timeless in their appeal. Other titles: Spaceflight • Planets • Zoo Animals • Automobiles • Railroads

Aviation: From Our Earliest Attempts at Flight to Tomorrow's Advanced Designs (Smithsonian Guides Series)

Literature & Fiction

Lopez, Donald S.

History & Criticism

wiley

Aviation: From Our Earliest Attempts at Flight to Tomorrow's Advanced Designs (Smithsonian Guides)

The National Air and Space Museum: A Visit in Pictures

Business & Money

Industries

Random House Value Pub

Full color illustrations throughout book. So much better that the title suggests, this is a great pop-up book of aircraft, with a superb 3-D model that explodes from every center-spread - the 8 pop-ups themselves are of the Wright Flyer, the Bleriot XI, Fokker Triplane, Lindbergh's Ryan monoplane 'Spirit of St Louis', a Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat, a Spitfire and Messerschmitt Bf 109, a TWA Constellation, and Concorde. As well as the pop-ups, each spread has images of contemporary aircraft, with accompanying text. Pop-ups engineered by David Rosendale and Rodger Smith.

Flight: Great Planes of the Century (Pop-Up Book)

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

VIKING

Buddhism: An Introduction And Guide

Religion & Spirituality

Allen Lane.

Originally written for Tibetan lay people, Opening the Eye of New Awareness is a succinct, thorough overview of the doctrines of Buddhism as they have been practiced for a thousand years in Tibet. In his first book on Buddhist philosophy to appear in English, the Dalai Lama discusses the need for religious practice and the importance of kindness and compassion, and a new introduction by the translator places these teachings in their proper historical context. Completed in 1963, just four years after his escape from Tibet and four years after completing his religious education, it is a work of consummate scholarship — not an edited transcript of public lectures, but His Holiness's own summation of Buddhist doctrine and practice. Nowhere in his many subsequent works does one find a more clear and concise exposition of the essentials of Buddhist thought.

Opening the Eye of New Awareness (Wisdom Intermediate Book. White Series)

Hopkins, Jeffrey

Dalai-Lama, Xiv

Buddhism

Wisdom Pubns

The development of jet aviation is studied, probing its social and economic impact and analyzing the crucial commerical decisions by the aircraft industry

The Jet Age: Forty Years of Jet Aviation

Science & Math

BOYNE, Walter J.

Technology

Smithsonian Inst. Pr.

Over 120 color photographs of highlights of the National Air and Space Museum.

Astronomy & Space Science

In this book, the authors explore and reconsider the contemporary significance of the Christ and the Bodhisattva. The volume includes essays by three eminent Christian theologians, Langdon Gilkey, Brother David Steindl-Rast, and Ann Belford Ulanov, that explore the significance of the Christ from the perspectives of the Roman Catholic contemplative tradition, modern depth psychology, and liberal Protestantism. Drawing on information previously unavailable in English, three distinguished scholars of Buddhism, Robert Thurman, Luis Gomez, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, investigate the significance of the Bodhisattva in India, East Asian, and Tibet. A substantive introduction sets the historical background for the Christ in Christianity and the Bodhisattva in Buddhism. Contributors' essays enhance our understanding of current presuppositions, problems, and prospects for the Buddhist-Christian dialogue.

Christ and the Bodhisattva

State Univ of New York Pr

A Study of Svatantrika

Snow Lion Pubns

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