Terry L Master (2 results)
Avian Ecology and Conservation:; A Pennsylvania Focus with National Implications
Majumdar, Shyamal K. & Terry L. Master & Margaret C. Brittingham & Robert M. Ross & Robert S. Mulvihill & Jane E. Huffman
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- First Edition
Seller: Autumn Leaves, Allentown, PA, U.S.A.Autumn Leaves
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Fine
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Clean and pristine, with no signs of any prior use or wear. The jacket has a touch of shelfwear, but it is now protected by a mylar Brodart cover. Fast shipping, with tracking number provided. ; Pennsylvania Academy Of Science; 9.4 X 5.9 X 0.9 inches; 368 page…s.
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Published by The Lyons Press, an imprint of The Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, Connecticut, 2004
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.Vero Beach Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine condition light silver gray boards, dark blue spine, and silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Prologue; Author's Note; Prologue: Dead Horses; Epilogue; Afterword…: Turning Writers into Pukes and Bibliography. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates. "Take the best pilots. And the best teachers. Put them through a taut-nerve, adrenaline-infused training program where only a handful of mistakes will lead to dismissal. The stakes are high and few succeed. Hand-picked, pressure-tested, and astronaut gung ho, the young pilots of Eye Of the Viper are poised for the toughest assignment of their career: the exhaustive six-month training course at Arizona's Luke Air Force Base, at a cost aof $2 million each. Luke, the world's largest fighter wing, is the only F-16 fighter training base in the United States, and each year it produces one thousand pilots who will fly the F-16 from Korea to Afghanistan to Iraq. But being among the elite pilots who are selected for the course is by no means a guarantee that they will earn the right to fly the F-16, perhaps the most agile jet fighter ever sent into combat. Only a few select individuals have what it takes. Award-winning journalist Peter Aleshire, given unprecedented access to the pilots and teachers at Luke, provides a full blast of the rigors and intensity of the course - the personalities, the incredible machines, the irreverence, the bravado, and the toughness, not only of the hand-picked students seeking a place in the warrior subculture, but of the veteran pilots who must teach them how to stay alive. Readers will quickly come to understand the extraordinary mental and physical demands on a modern pilot - and the incredible joy and sense of freedom that makes most F-16 pilots describe their single-engine, weapons-laden, needle-nosed jet in terms that sound more like true love or helpless addiction. Eye of the Viper is a frank, ambitious, and eminently entertaining look at the ambitions, fears, frailties, and courage that make or break the young pilots at the exquisitely sensitive controls of a $35-million jet." - from the inner front jacket flap. Doyle, Stephanie (book design); Blossom, Peter (jacket design); Thurby, Cherie A., Staff Sgt. (front cover and spine photos); Davis, III, Bernie J., Staff Sgt (rear cover top photo); Blevins, Terry L., Master Sgt. (rear cover bottom photo) (illustrator).
