The Airport Book

The Airport Book
Author: Lisa Brown
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2016-05-10
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1626720916

"An exploratory journey through the airport"--

A Week at the Airport

A Week at the Airport
Author: Alain De Botton
Publisher: Emblem Editions
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2010-09-21
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0771026285

The bestselling author of The Architecture of Happiness and The Art of Travel spends a week at an airport in a wittily intriguing meditation on the "non-place" that he believes is the centre of our civilization. In the summer of 2009, Alain de Botton was invited by the owners of Heathrow airport to become their first ever writer-in-residence. Given unprecedented, unrestricted access to wander around one of the world's busiest airports, he met travellers from all over the globe, and spoke with everyone from baggage handlers to pilots, and senior executives to the airport chaplain. Based on these conversations he has produced this extraordinary meditation on the nature of travel, work, relationships, and our daily lives. Working with the renowned documentary photographer Richard Baker, he explores the magical and the mundane, and the interactions of travellers and workers all over this familiar but mysterious "non-place," which by definition we are eager to leave. Taking the reader through departures, "air-side," and the arrivals hall, de Botton shows with his usual combination of wit and wisdom that spending time in an airport can be more revealing than we might think.

A Day at an Airport

A Day at an Airport
Author: Sarah Harrison
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2008-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 158013551X

Illustrates the daily activities at an airport, including a rock star arrival, a flight delay, and a thunderstorm.

Little World: at the Airport

Little World: at the Airport
Author:
Publisher: Ladybird
Total Pages: 8
Release: 2020-04-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9780241410530

Curious minds will love to explore the bustling airport in this interactive title from Little World. This bright and colourful board book features a novelty to slide, push or pull on every spread - so check in the bags, walk through security, shop in the terminal and board the plane with Little World At the Airport!

Airport

Airport
Author: Arthur Hailey
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 551
Release: 2000-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101203781

Caleb Marcus is a Peacemaker, a roving lawman tasked with maintaining the peace and bringing control to magic users on the frontier. A Peacemaker isn’t supposed to take a life—but sometimes, it’s kill or be killed... After a war injury left him half-scoured of his power, Caleb and his jackalope familiar have been shipped out West, keeping them out of sight and out of the way of more useful agents. And while life in the wild isn’t exactly Caleb’s cup of tea, he can’t deny that being amongst folk who aren’t as powerful as he is, even in his poor shape, is a bit of a relief. But Hope isn’t like the other small towns he’s visited. The children are being mysteriously robbed of their magical capabilities. There’s something strange and dark about the local land baron who runs the school. Cheyenne tribes are raiding the outlying homesteads with increasing frequency and strange earthquakes keep shaking the very ground Hope stands on. Something’s gone very wrong in the Wild West, and it’s up to Caleb to figure out what’s awry before he ends up at the end of the noose—or something far worse...

Playtown

Playtown
Author: Roger Priddy
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 18
Release: 2014-08-26
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0312517378

With over 70 flaps to lift, readers will discover everything about Playtown and who lives there.

Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport

Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport
Author: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1990-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780808531241

A New York City boy's preconceived ideas of life in the West make him very apprehensive about the family's move there

Airport

Airport
Author: Byron Barton
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1987-09-25
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0064431452

From the excitement of arrival to the wonder of taking off -- a picture book that captures in joyous and powerful images all the magic of an airport.

Politics at the Airport

Politics at the Airport
Author: Mark B. Salter
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2008
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0816650144

Politics at the Airport brings together leading scholars to examine how airports both shape and are shaped by current political, social, and economic conditions. Focusing on the ways that airports have become securitized, the essays address a wide range of practices and technologies--from architecture, biometric identification, and CCTV systems to "no-fly lists" and the privatization of border control--now being deployed to frame the social sorting of safe and potentially dangerous travelers.