Human Geography in the Air Age, (A Text for High School Students) (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Lytton, Edward Bulwer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440063230 ISBN 13: 9781440063237

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2012

Synopsis

Second, it seeks to provide pertinent aviation materials which may be woven into existing courses in the curricula of the secondary schools and, wherever feasible, of the elementary schools. To name all the men, women, schools, aviation industries and authorities, publishers, representatives of colleges, universities, school systems, non-profit institutions and agencies of State andF ederal Governments who made possible the AIR-AGE EDUCATION SERIES would be a difficult task. In individual books, authors have acknowledged assistance and advice from many sources. Yet the series owes its existence more particularly to a few individuals and organizations. Special acknowledgments are due toM r. Robert H. Hinckley, who, as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for A ir, was the pioneer advocate of air-conditioning A merica; toM r. C. I. Stanton, Administrator of the Civil Aeronautics A dministration, who gave essential support to a program of aviation-education research; toM r. Bruce Uthus of the Civil Aeronautics A dministration, whose encouragement, resourcefulness, and ability so largely account for the development of the AIR-AGE EDUCATION SERIES; toD r. John W. Studebaker, United States Commissioner of Education, who has done much to prepare American education to meet the challenge of the air age; toP rofessor N. L. Engelhardt, Teachers College, Columbia University, and his colleagues, who guided the development of materials reflected in this book and related teaching materials; and, finally, toT eachers College, Columbia University for the provision of indispensable office space, library, and other research facilities. The Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences, a non-profit scientific society devoted to the advancement of aeronautics, is glad to sponsor the AIR-AGE EDUCATION SERIES in the belief that it will aid American education to eliminate the hiatus between t
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About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1440063230
• ISBN 13: 9781440063237
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250