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Featuring the collection of airplanes, art, photographs, and memorabilia of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, this magnificently illustrated book tells the story of the beginnings of flight, through the creation of the U.S. Air Force as a separate branch of the military, to the unbelievable technological achievements of what is the preeminent air power in the world today. Here are combat aces, Medal of Honor recipients, crusty generals, and average citizens who served in the Air Force. There are philosophers, airplane designers, test pilots, rocket scientists, armorers, and grease monkeys. More than 250 color and 150 black-and-white illustrations and photos and insightful text present the story of the U.S. Air Force of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, published on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United States Air Force.

Martin T. Manton was a corrupt federal appeals court judge in New York who was convicted in 1939 and sent to prison. At the time, this was a hugely important story: Manton, a papal knight and friend of FDR, was considered the highest-ranking judge in the United States outside of the Supreme Court, and was nearly named to the high court himself. Yet his story has never been told in book-length form before, and never with the benefit of such exhaustive research.More than just a biography, Justice for Sale examines Manton's misconduct in the context of the culture of corruption and organized crime that permeated New York City during the Tammany Hall era. Scores of others-- leading corporate tycoons, Wall Street lawyers, bankers, accountants, and another federal judge, as well as a rogues' gallery of gangsters, fixers, bag men, and con men--participated in Manton's crimes. The book profiles these unscrupulous and often colorful characters as well, along with the enterprising anti-Tammany reporter and politically ambitious district attorney (future Governor Thomas E. Dewey) who brought Manton down. Justice for Sale culminates with the sensational federal prosecution and trial--held in the same courthouse where Manton once reigned--that gripped the nation and finally put this "merchant of justice" behind bars.

Great and unforgettable stories about the passion of fishing by some of the world's best writers.

In 1982, a hobby sailor and retired geography professor named Marvin Creamer embarked on a very special circumnavigation: On his 36¿ steel ketch, Globe Star, Creamer and his crew ventured out into the Atlantic a few days before Christmas on the first leg of the voyage, bound for Africa. On board they carried absolutely no navigation instruments of any kind: no LORAN, no GPS or AIS (civilian versions of which did not, in any case, exist in 1982), no sextant or astrolabe, no radar . . . nothing. They didn¿t even have a clock on board. They had some rudimentary charts and maps of the trade winds and that was it. What they did carry with them was Marv¿s blue-water sailing experience and his knowledge of the Earth, the stars, and of the winds and waves. Eighteen months later, Creamer returned, having shown the world¿or as much of it as was paying any attention¿that one could sail around the globe without using any instruments. Creamer¿s intent was to prove that such a voyage could be successful, showing that ancient peoples¿e.g., the Norse, the South Pacific Islanders, and possibly others¿could well have traveled the world¿s oceans using only their brains, their five senses, and the experience of multiple generations of their seafaring ancestors. The trip was ultimately successful, but Creamer was beset by almost-constant problems. That makes for an exciting tale, and provides some exceptional examples of seafaring ingenuity and sheer determination on the part of Creamer. The author was given exclusive access to Creamer¿s diaries, photos, and other memorabilia by Creamer¿s family.

"This reference work will be the first English-language A-Z compendium on all topics related to deserts, including geography, geology, meteorology, climatology, hydrology, botany, zoology, anthropology, art, music, film, culture, sports, as well as the specific and diversely different deserts that one finds in all parts of the world"--