LaGuardia
Title | LaGuardia PDF eBook |
Author | Nnedi Okorafor |
Publisher | Dark Horse Comics |
Pages | 141 |
Release | 2019-07-30 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1506710751 |
Eisner and Hugo Award Winner! Written by Nnedi Okorafor, Hugo and Nebula award-winning author and the writer of Marvel's Shuri, this deluxe trade paperback collects issues #1-#4 of the mini-series and includes artist sketches and afterword from the author. In an alternate world where aliens have integrated with society, pregnant Nigerian-American doctor Future Nwafor Chukwuebuka has just smuggled an illegal alien plant named Letme Live through LaGuardia International and Interstellar Airport...and that's not the only thing she's hiding. She and Letme become part of a community of human and alien immigrants; but as their crusade for equality continues and the birth of her child nears, Future—and her entire world—begins to change. "Laguardia" is essential reading for our times." – Comicbook.com "Classic speculative fiction at its best, coupled with an endearing protagonist, and a vibrant, living sci-fi world rendered by a fantastic art team." – Multiversity.com
LaGuardia Airport
Title | LaGuardia Airport PDF eBook |
Author | Joshua Stoff |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2008-10-27 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 1439620539 |
LaGuardia Airport, named for the mayor of New York in the mid 1930s is one of America's busiest airports and has undergone great change throughout the years. Constructed closer to Manhattan than the commercially unsuccessful Floyd Bennett Field, LaGuardia Airport was conceived in the mid-1930s as New York City mayor Fiorello LaGuardia realized the need for a great airport for one of the world's great cities. Originally known as New York Municipal Airport, the popular airport soon had its name changed to recognize LaGuardia's enormous contribution to the project. At the time of its opening in 1939, it was the largest and most advanced commercial airport in the world with terminals considered art deco masterpieces. Although a very large airport for the era in which it was built, by the late 1940s it was the world's busiest airport and clearly too small for the increasing amount of air traffic. Through the years its runways were lengthened and facilities were improved to handle larger and faster aircraft. Still one of America's busiest airports, LaGuardia has witnessed the steady progress of American commercial aviation, from flying boats to jetliners.
LaGuardia in Congress
Title | LaGuardia in Congress PDF eBook |
Author | Howard Zinn |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2018-07-05 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 150173007X |
Fiorello LaGuardia is known best as the tempestuous mayor of New York City in the days when Franklin Delano Roosevelt sat in the White House. There had been, however, an earlier time, which matched his mayoralty years in sheer drama and perhaps surpassed them in lasting achievement—LaGuardia's years in Congress. He served in the House of Representative almost continuously from 1917 to 1933, representing two ethnically diverse congressional districts: the Fourteenth (Greenwich Village), from 1917 to 1919, and the Twentieth (East Harlem), from 1923 to 1933. Although barred from important committee posts because of his political independence and thus denied from playing a direct role in lawmaking, he was a tireless and vocal champion of Progressive causes, from allowing more immigration and removing U.S. troops from Nicaragua to speaking up for the rights and livelihoods of striking miners, impoverished farmers, oppressed minorities, and struggling families. A goad to the era's plutocrats and their enablers in government, LaGuardia fought for progressive income taxes, greater government oversight of Wall Street, and national employment insurance for workers idled by the Great Depression. In this book, first published by Cornell University Press in 1959, Howard Zinn establishes LaGuardia's tenure in Congress as a vital link between the Progressive and New Deal eras, offering a lively and informative account of his many legislative battles, his political philosophy, and the distinctly urban (specifically, New York City) sensibilities he brought to the Progressive movement.
LaGuardia Airport East End Roadway Improvements Project, Queens County
Title | LaGuardia Airport East End Roadway Improvements Project, Queens County PDF eBook |
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Pages | 472 |
Release | 1999 |
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Terminal Doppler Weather Radar, JFK International Airport and LaGuardia Airport
Title | Terminal Doppler Weather Radar, JFK International Airport and LaGuardia Airport PDF eBook |
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Pages | 592 |
Release | 1999 |
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LaGuardia Airport, East End Terminal, Draft EA B1; Final EA
Title | LaGuardia Airport, East End Terminal, Draft EA B1; Final EA PDF eBook |
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Pages | 522 |
Release | 1989 |
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City of Ambition: FDR, LaGuardia, and the Making of Modern New York
Title | City of Ambition: FDR, LaGuardia, and the Making of Modern New York PDF eBook |
Author | Mason B. Williams |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 2013-05-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0393240983 |
“Fascinating. . . . Williams tells the story of La Guardia and Roosevelt with insight and elegance.”—Edward Glaeser, New York Times Book Review