Dotted throughout The Flying Book I found isolated reassuring ideas - to think of air as invisible water, for example, with the aircraft sailing on it - but these come amid pages of physics which ...

I’LL TAKE THE HIGH ROAD—Wolfgang Langewiesche—Harcourf, Brace ($2.50). “Flying,” writes Wolfgang Langewiesche, “is now possible for any person of normal intelligence who is in good ...

“Fear of Flying,” a book so sexually frank that you may have found it hidden in your mother’s underwear drawer, broke new ground in the explicitness of writing by and for women. Jong’s ...

But how did the flying experience get so bad? Ganesh Sitaraman, professor of law at Vanderbilt University and author of the new book “Why Flying Is Miserable: And How to Fix It,” argues that ...

Certainly not famed children’s author, animator, and retro designer William Joyce (Meet the Robinsons, Robots), who has created a minor miracle with The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris ...

In Sarah Maslin Nir’s “The Flying Horse,” a young equestrian and her trusty steed jump back in time. By Jane Smiley When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site ...