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  • How Safe is Safe Enough?

    Leadership, Safety and Risk Management

    by Greg Alston ...
    Safety is not easy, it is a full time effort, and is equally important whether people are on the job or on personal time. If an organization is serious about mission success, it must take 'risk' seriously as well. Leaders need to be involved in the risk game at every turn, and understand the key elements (discussed throughout this book) that help them to win. Winning the risk game is what safety ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

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  • Flying the Knife Edge

    New Guinea Bush Pilot

    by Matt McLaughlin ...
    Sometimes it’s not about the destination...it’s about the journey.‘Flying the Knife Edge’ is the story of an ordinary man experiencing extraordinary things as a pilot in Papua New Guinea in the 1990s.After an untimely exit from the Royal New Zealand Air Force, Matt McLaughlin took a leap into the unknown, travelling to Papua New Guinea to work as a missionary pilot. He soon switched from ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Vegan Cookbooks:70 Of The Best Ever Healthy Breakfast Recipes for Vegetarians...Revealed!

    by Samantha Michaels ...
    The platitude of eating like a King for breakfast could not more pertinent especially when it comes to a vegetarian diet. This is the most important meal of the day and to achieve a balanced diet, a vegetarian will need a wide variety of food that will provide the much needed essential nutrients for a proper diet. There's of course a common perception that vegetarian diet plans are unexciting and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Statistics in Medicine

    by Robert H. Riffenburgh ...
    Statistics in Medicine, Third Edition makes medical statistics easy to understand by students, practicing physicians, and researchers. The book begins with databases from clinical medicine and uses such data to give multiple worked-out illustrations of every method. The text opens with how to plan studies from conception to publication and what to do with your data, and follows with step-by-step ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • What Went Wrong?

    Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters and How They Could Have Been Avoided

    by Trevor Kletz ...
    "What Went Wrong?" has revolutionized the way industry views safety. The new edition continues and extends the wisdom, innovations and strategies of previous editions, by introducing new material on recent incidents, and adding an extensive new section that shows how many accidents occur through simple miscommunications within the organization, and how strightforward changes in design can often ... Read more

    $86.39 USD

  • A MiG-15 to Freedom: Memoir of the Wartime North Korean Defector Who First Delivered the Secret Fighter Jet to the Americans in 1953

    Memoir of the Wartime North Korean Defector Who First Delivered the Secret Fighter Jet to the Americans in 1953

    by No Kum-Sok with J. Roger Osterholm ...
    On September 21, 1953, U.S. airmen at Kimpo Air Base near Seoul, Korea, were startled to see landing a MiG-15, the most advanced Soviet-built fighter plane of the era, piloted by Senior Lieutenant No Kum-Sok, a 21-year-old North Korean Air Force officer. Once he landed, Lieutenant No found that his mother had escaped to the South two years earlier, and they were soon reunited. At his request, No ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Aircraft Weight and Balance Handbook

    FAA-H-8083-1A

    by Federal Aviation Administration ...
    The Aircraft Weight and Balance Handbook is the official U.S. government guidebook for pilots, flight crews, and airplane mechanics. Beginning with the basic principles of aircraft weight and balance control, this manual goes on to cover in exacting detail the procedures for weighing aircraft. It also offers a thorough discussion of the methods used to determine the location of an aircraft’s empty ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer

    by Brian D. O'Neill ...
    Incorporating a wealth of new material, here is the riveting story of the bombing raids that broke the back of Nazi Germany, praised as "a well-researched, highly readable account of a B-17 combat crew's experience ... excellent." (Roger A. Freeman, author of The Mighty Eighth) ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Ditching Principles

    Survival Guide to Ditching an Aircraft

    by Bryan Webster ...
    Bryan Webster started out his 10,000+ hour flying career by taking a ride in a two-seat single engine Cessna 150 and ending up inverted in the silty Fraser River beneath a large unmarked power line span east of Vancouver, BC, Canada. This experience left a lasting impression which 25 years later was the foundation for a new training concept for pilots of light aircraft, Aviation Egress Systems. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Flying Canucks

    Famous Canadian Aviators

    by Peter Pigott ...
    Flying Canucks tells the fascinating story of aviation in Canada through this collection of 37 biographies of important aviators in our nation’s history.As early as 1908, having read the Wright brothers’ invention, Alberta farm boys and mechanics in Quebec villages were constructing large kites, attempting to fly them. Within a decade, Canadian air aces, like Bishop and Barker, swept the wartime ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Investigating Human Error: Incidents, Accidents, and Complex Systems

    by Barry Strauch ...
    In this book the author applies contemporary error theory to the needs of investigators and of anyone attempting to understand why someone made a critical error, how that error led to an incident or accident, and how to prevent such errors in the future. Students and investigators of human error will gain an appreciation of the literature on error, with numerous references to both scientific ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Magic of a Name: The Rolls-Royce Story, Part 3

    A Family of Engines

    by Peter Pugh ...
    The Magic of a Name tells the story of the first 40 years of Britain's most prestigious manufacturer - Rolls-Royce.Beginning with the historic meeting in 1904 of Henry Royce and the Honourable C.S. Rolls, and the birth in 1906 of the legendary Silver Ghost, Peter Pugh tells a story of genius, skill, hard work and dedication which gave the world cars and aero engines unrivalled in their excellence ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus