Aviation Book Reviews Samples For Students

Book Report: Left BehindCadet Christian Thomas

Book Report: Left Behind

A bored airline pilot Rayford Steele is not happy with his marriage. Having an affair with the beautiful flight attendant, named Hattie Durham is a dream come true. However, fate changes right when the plane takes off for London, almost all of the travelers on the plane strangely vanish into thin air. On earth, mothers run around terrified trying to find their vanished children. Babies are zapped up and pregnant women stomachs suddenly disappear. Yells and screams are heard everywhere as terror takes over the earth. The Rapture has occurred, suddenly driverless cars are colliding everywhere, ...

Major themes to be tackled:

What is author's fundamental purpose? how does the work contribute to our knowledge of history? What sources did the author rely on? Contain judgements? Emergence of tragedy in the public eye.

Finding Amelia

Finding Amelia is perhaps one of the most controversial stories ever written on the real life case where a woman and her navigator disappeared. This story has a large number of warts and all in it but it is also extremely interesting in the sense that it portrays the author’s purpose in getting to the bottom of things accordingly. The author also relies on several important sources including the ...

Property Laws on Aircraft in Public Use

Property Laws on Aircraft in Public Use
Speciale discussed a lot of concepts about property and how it relates to aircraft and airports in public use (2006). Speciale covered different topics – such as the difference between real properties and personal properties, the number of owners, ways to acquire, and the usage of properties (2006). This paper will only discuss personal property laws and how it guided aviation laws on aircrafts used in public in terms of ownership, acquisition and leasing only.
Speciale mentioned that personal properties can be owned by single or multiple owners (2006). However, it appears that ...

The chapter on Tort Liability and Air Commerce is focused on tort law and how it influences the aviation industry. It addresses intentional, negligence, wrongful death and strict product liability torts. The aviation industry has adopted commendable safety mechanisms but whenever accidents occur, there is always a high potential for occurrence of significant challenges. The paper will summarize the key torts that affect the aviation industry while also providing key insights into the operations of the aviation industry. From this chapter, the most important idea is that the understanding of torts in the aviation industry can play a critical ...

The Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor took place in December 1941; this is after a long period of clouds of war gathering over the pacific part of the world. This was a surprise attack by Japan on the naval base of the United States which was based at the Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The casualties of the attack were massive since 2,400 Americans lost their lives while 21 ships were either damaged or sunk and approximately 188 United States aircraft were destroyed (Davenport 2009, 27). The Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor angered and outraged the United States government ...

Chapter five of the textbook addresses the origin of regulatory and administrative agencies (both state and federal), specific to the aviation industry in the United States, and the roles of those agencies. It also addresses how the agencies deal with a complaint or problem, and the litigation process when such predicaments arise.
Three main agencies involved in the aviation industry are the Department of Transportation (DOT), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
The DOT was created and made law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1966. Its purpose was to ensure safe and secure ...

In "Confessions of an Economic Hitman," John Perkins tells the story about how he and others like him were able to have a huge impact on the world today in ways that many of the elite in society would rather keep secret. The story involves a lot of deceit, murderers, and traitors who are motivated by greed and power. Perkins gives details on how strong countries have the power to exploit another and even goes so far as to influence their politics. He explains how some countries are willing to go to extremes such as robbing another country of their natural resources, ...

Chapter 2 Raymond Speciale’s Fundamentals of Aviation law discusses the historical evolution of the US Constitution and how this document that came way before the airplane was invented has come to have such a significant influence on the US aviation industry. It shows the challenge of establishing a federal g that faced the US after gaining independence. The US Congress commenced by adopting the Articles of Confederation, but these were later found to be inadequate to fully govern all the states. This then led to the Constitutional Convention convened in 1787 in Philadelphia and yielded the current US ...

The book ‘Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire’ written by Martin Thomas is one of the unique books on the concept of decolonization. In the book, the author explains shows how Britain’s imminent withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and the dispatch of troops to the Central African Republic by France are the recent observations of a long-standing trend of decolonization. Author Thomas begins in the book, a vast and impressive study to examine the entire range of acts of decolonization, differentiating those where scurry or flight were the order. In the case of the British, the ...

The author of the book Travel Etcetera: the World on another Plane (Stephen Scourfield) is a well known travel writer. Stephen is a re-known Australian writer whose capital base is in Perth. In his lifestyle, the author is mostly passionate about music, travelling as well as the wide brown Australian land. Capitalized on fictional grounds, some of his winning awards include the other country novel which featured in the 2007 book Premier awards. In the most resent commonwealth writer’s prize awards, Stephen Scourfield was shotlisted and acknowledged for his work. In addition, he was further appraised in the 2009 International ...

"Rocketeers" by Michael Belfiore

Space travel has been seen as an expensive adventure affair. While the government of the United states has been using millions of dollars to send explorer in space, and quite often when the mission is not complete, they are hulled with a lot of criticism and always the measure of losses are weighed against food, shelter, education, and medical assistant not directed to the less fortunate in the society.
The dream of ascending to the outer space to many is a mere dream that and too thin to be achieved. But as history has always spelt, a group of people do ...

Q 1
In today’s world, the aviation industry faces the risk of malicious motives and acts. For example, incidents of terrorism can be perpetrated in any country, and at any time. In the wake of the terrorism challenges that bedevil the society, the aviation industry must be steps ahead in terms of safety management. To counteract these challenges, there is need for enhanced capabilities for surveillance and data collection. This will weed out any persons wanted for terrorism-linked charges, and makes airlines safe for travel. In addition, there is need for enhanced scenario planning and uncertainty analysis. ...

WWII – Book Review

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Laura Hillenbrand is the author of the book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. She has written a book with two historical plots intertwined. One is the personal experience of the airman Louis Zamperini and the other is a historical view of World War II (WWII). Zamperini was a famous track star for the U.S. He participated in the Olympic track events in Berlin, Germany where he ran the 5000 meter race. Zamperini has published his autobiography titled The Devil at my Heels but Hillenbrand’s ...

Written and published after his release in 1990, Nelson Mandela’s A Long Walk to Freedom gives precious insight into the life of the heroic South African president. Though his long-standing devotion to the fight against racial oppression won him both the Noble Peace Prize and the position as president of his country, the book reveals the less agreeable aspects of his life choice as political and moral leader. A Long Walk to Freedom provides not only an intimately reflective account of Mandela’s life, but also unmasks the grander story of the efforts of South Africans of color ...

Introduction

The Bottom Billion is a short book that addresses contemporary issues in the world today. Collier looks at the main problems causing Poverty in Africa. He contends the traditional definitions of underdeveloped, developing and developed countries. According to the author, poverty is only a fifty eighty countries. To resolve the problems in the third world countries whose inhabitants make up the bottom million, countries should resolve corruption, improve infrastructure and governance practices. He argues against the imposition of radical changes by the developed countries on the third world countries. Collier focuses on the problem facing the African countries and relates them ...

Literature:

Memoirs of a Proud Father
“Is he really my son?” I sometimes wonder at the ways of my son, Amir. I had been so different as a child. The best kite flyer, tall and athletic and loved as a football hero! While my son seems to be hiding behind his mother’s books all the time. He doesn’t even enjoy watching football, let alone play it. I observe with a sinking heart that he is easily bullied, and Hassan, who is only living as a servant’s son, defends him and protects him. The most disgusting habit of his is to cry, ...

In his description of himself, Baer acknowledges that he wasn’t born a patriot whose intention was to work for the CIA. He describes himself as a struggling student who had personal agendas (Baer, 2002). The book gives several accounts of what Baer describes as frustrations and mistakes he made while posted in Lebanon and India. The book also discusses the failings of the CIA. Baer gives the reasons for a failing CIA as: replacement of human intelligence with computer and satellite technology; a risk aversion approach by the agency that promoted bureaucratic practices and undermined intelligence gathering; and the prioritization of interests ...

“Midsummer Night’s Dream” is the story that represents how people’s desires together with the assistance of higher forces carve up their destinies. The comedy’s best part for me is narration because it holds the reader’s interest with a great deal of witty and jolly remarks. As the worlds of people and fairies are closely interacting, characters come up with funny situations that revolve the plot and forward the story into unexpected corners.
My favorite episode is when Puck and sprinkles the love potion over Lysander’s eyes, which makes him madly fall in love with ...

Abstract

The paper gives a review of the seminal work that explicates the history of business and technology in the modern day society. The author goes on to delve deep into the dynamics of the people involved in starting up and consolidating one of the most famous companies in the entire world. The three visionaries and their characteristics and actions constitute the major part of the book. The review explores the inter-personal relationship and dynamics, and documents the history of the company over the years.
The Intel Trinity
The Intel Trinity is one of the seminal literary works penned ...

The September 11, 2001 (9/11) terrorist attack in the United States of America has brought this common and urgent query if the country is safe to all the citizens who live in for a better living. Asking this question is wrong; America is still a safe place to everyone. It is safer since the government has a massive increased in homeland security and the expenditures are high. The best and correct query is that, if the expenditures in the security have its worth. Howard Kunreuther, analyst, raised the central question after the 9/11 terrorist attack that how much do the government is ...

Book Review No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller

Summary of the Book
Harry Markopolos introduces the book to the reader on the accounted date of December 11, 2008. December 11, 2008 was a crucial day Bernie Madoff was arrested. Madoff was arrested for creating and running a Ponzi scheme. The Ponzi scheme was the largest in history of United States. Markopolos makes sure that the reader comprehends the revelations by incorporating a short story of a man in a plane. The man is shocked by the streaming exposures on the CNBC. The man reveals to his wife that they have lost millions of dollars they had invested with Madoff. However, the ...

Book Review: One Minute to Midnight

It is almost two decades since the occurrence of the infamous Cuban missile crisis. The events that unfolded in the fall of 162 have attracted many researchers, who have focused on the analysis of how Cuba, a small island nation, became the focal point of the Cold War. One of the most researched and written about events in the Cold War is the Cuban missile crisis. Prominent researchers have taken this course to give the political view and possible consequences of this infamous event. Various authors and experts have compiled extensive amounts of information from a number of different written sources ...

This is a report paper which provides a brief summary of introduction to linear algebra by John R. Durbin. The paper shall provide a brief summary of the three chapters of the book; chapter 11, 12 and thirteen.

Introduction

Modern algebra has been causing much difficulty to the learners and the professors as well. This is attributed to the complexity of the unit and elaborative theorems and formula used in the unit .therefore in this papers I have tried to simplify the theorems and formulas to easen the understanding of the topics such as Galois theorems permutation and many more. This report will ...

Biography of Ferdinand Porsche

Ferdinand Porsche is a German automotive engineer born in 1875 in Maffersdorf Austria. He had an honorary degree in engineering. He was an engineer operating in two countries, Austria and Germany. His early love towards cars and electricity landed him his first job in Vienna in 1893 when he was only 18. He enrolled for part-time studies around the same time at the Imperia Technical University in Reichenberg (current Vienna University of Technology).
He is popularly known a remembered for his design of Beetle vehicle, first hybrid vehicle while which could use both gasoline and electricity. He also went ahead ...

Aaron Ralston’s Story

Aaron Ralston's Story
Aaron Ralston, a 27-year-old mountain sports fanatic from Colorado in the United States, found himself in dire straits* alone in a canyon* in the desert when a 500kg rock came crashing down the canyon to smash his right hand and trap it against the canyon wall. A terrible accident, but the situation was made all the more serious because on this occasion Aaron had failed to tell anyone where he was going. At the last minute the plans for a trip with his climbing partners had fallen through, and on the spur of the moment he decided to head ...

Book Review - Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War

In Bray Hammond's Banks and Politics in America, the ways in which the practices of American politics and banking changed between the American Revolution and the time of the Civil War are explicated. Of particular interest to the author is the examination of these issues through the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian lens, which he strangely refers to as ill-defined "agrarians" and those who support laissez faire. These terms have had very negative connotations in the past, as laissez faire was used even in the 1950s as an insult, and agrarian is often used to make those with that label seem ...

Book Review

The book illusion is about the adventure of a reluctant Messiah as expressed by the title. Richard Bach likes flying, and as he travels all over United States, he gives people plane rides at $3.00 for ten minutes. One fateful day during his journey he comes across a man named Donald Shimoda who also likes doing what Bach is doing. He also flies a vintage plane, and he never has to clean his airplane, or even gas it up or eat or sleep, but it is always ready. Donald then becomes Richard’s mentor. Bach learns from Donald to be a teacher, and a ...

Great Black Women of the World

Part I: (Please Add where in your textbook to find the appropriate topic: Slavery, racism, women’s issues) I have written about two African women sold into slavery Abina and Ama and about Mary Church Terrell. Terrell is a great African-American woman who not many people know about. I did not know about her until I started browsing the web links that were suggested for this assignment. Ama and Terrell show the same strength and spirit as Abina. They are all women with a strong sense of what is right and what is wrong in the world. Two were born in Ghana ...

Hitler’s Table Talk is written in a way to make you feel as if you are having a direct conversation with Hitler over the dining room table. Or maybe it is more like being lectured by him because the talk offered in the book are monologues. The date and time of day is noted as well as who is with him during his talk. His conversations in the book explain the beliefs he holds dear such as the superiority of the Aryan race and who he considers to be a part of that race. He discusses his feelings on breeding pure ...

Joe Navarro and Marvin Karlins

Navarro, Joe, and Karlins, Marvin. What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s
Guide to Speed Reading People. New York: HarperCollins, 2008, 250 pages.

Joe Navarro was a counterintelligence special agent with the FBI for 25 years. Now, he consults with the FBI, the U.S. State Department and other intelligence institutions. He also appears regularly as an expert on such programs as the CBS Early Show. He also wrote Phil Hellmuth Presents Read ‘Em and Reap, and he is a popular lecturer for Fortune 500 companies as well. His co-writer, Marvin Karlins, has a Ph.D. in psychology from Princeton, and ...

Introduction

This report scrutinizes international terrorist threats, events, responses and policies, as well as analyzing the worldwide use of apparatus available to fight terrorism, from international cooperation, international relations, covert action, constructive dedication, economic sanctions, military force, to objective security improvement. A contemporary style in terrorism emerges to be toward self- financed insecurely organized, international association of terrorists. Ever more, fundamental Islamist groups who use religion, or as a excuse, pose a grave threat to United States of America interests and to its friendly establishments. But of great unease as well is the growing political involvement of extremist Islamist gathering in foreign ...