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Matt Andersson (’78) authored The New Airline Code: Why the Industry Must be Programmed to a Public-Private Integration, published in 2005. Andersson is the president of Indigo Aerospace and founder and former CEO of Indigo Airlines.
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Robert M. Brantner (’91) authored his third book, Five Hundred Feet Above Alaska, published in 2019. The book was an International No. 1 Amazon Bestseller in seven categories in the U.S. and Canada. Brantner started his flying career as a bush pilot in Alaska, but is now a captain and line check airman for Delta Air Lines.
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Ben Cooper (’08) authored and illustrated Launch Photography, published in 2019. The book includes wide-angle captures, night photographs and images shot from seldom-seen angles of crewed and uncrewed rockets/spacecraft, as well as informational text. Cooper has been photographing missions and launches since 1999 for NASA, SpaceX and others.
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Embry-Riddle Professor Emeritus Howard D. Curtis authored Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students, Fourth Edition, published in 2020 by Butterworth-Heinemann (Elsevier). The first edition was published in 2005. Curtis taught aerospace engineering at Embry-Riddle’s Daytona Beach Campus from 1972 to 2014.
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Andrew Lloyd Mullins (’06) authored his first novel, Compelled, a suspense thriller set in Phoenix, Arizona, published in 2020 by Zimbell House Publishing.
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T. Yomi Obidi (’76) authored Her Wedding Day, a literary book published in 2018. A member of Embry-Riddle’s adjunct faculty, he is also the author of technical books: Theory and Applications of Aerodynamics for Ground Vehicles (2014) and Thermal Management in Automotive Applications (2015), both published by SAE International.
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Mike W. O’Neal (’06) authored The World I Woke Up To, published in 2020 by Amber Cove Publishing. The novel’s plot involves an illness that turns people into monsters. “It’s been very interesting publishing a book about a pandemic during a pandemic,” O’Neal says.
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Ginger Pinholster, adjunct faculty and associate vice president for news and research communications at Embry-Riddle, authored City in a Forest, a novel published in 2019. Named a Distinguished Favorite in the contemporary novel category of the 2019 NYC Big Book Awards, the novel weaves themes of race and gender amidst a plot to save Atlanta’s urban forest.
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Thomas Tacker, who is a professor of economics at Embry-Riddle, authored Overcoming: The Inspiring Story of America’s Freed Slaves, Our Other Greatest Generation, published in 2019. The book celebrates the successes of former slaves after the Civil War.