Why do planes disappear or fall out of the sky? Brace for Impact traces the evolution of accident investigation and explains why flying is the safest form of travel.
The history of air accidents is a harrowing one. Yet today flying is the safest mode of transportation, thanks in no small part to the work of crash detectives. Whenever a plane falls from the sky, the investigators pick through the wreckage for the clues they need to decipher what happened to that flight. Before the invention of the ‘black box’ and the evolution of forensic accident investigation, the causes often remained a mystery.
Since the Wright brothers first took flight, aircraft design, pilot training, aircraft maintenance, and air traffic control have all evolved to current standards of safety. Because of lessons learned from tragedies such as what befell the Comets in the 1950s, the Douglas DC-10s in the 1970s, and ill-fated Air India, TWA, and Swissair flights, flight safety continues to improve. In many ways, the history of aviation is the history of air crash investigation.
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Author: Peter Pigott Publisher: Dundurn ISBN: 9781459732544 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: June 2016 208 pages
Christianity Unshackled follows the development of Western thought over the last 2,000 years, showing how Christianity has grown up side-by-side with Western philosophy. Great errors have resulted from that entanglement, primarily because Western philosophy has its roots in the ancient Greek worldview. After untangling that mess, Harold R. Eberle rebuilds a Christian worldview, laying biblical truths on the ancient Hebrew foundation. This yields a worldview which is liberating, answers the questions of today’s society and stands up against the most fearsome attacks from Christianity’s modern opponents.
Author: Harold Eberle Publisher: Destiny Image, Inc. ISBN: 9780768497670 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: December 2009 284 pages
This volume presents case studies from around the world aiming to serve as a hands-on book for management and treatment of archaeological World Heritage properties. It comprises not only sites inscribed as World Heritage due to their archaeological character but also World Heritage properties where the analysis of their archaeological dimension provides a deeper and better understanding of the assets and includes the potential for disseminating this knowledge. The origin for the idea of this book was the First International Conference on Best Practices in World Heritage: Archaeology, celebrated in Menorca, April 2012, where these topics were discussed.
The book has an important practical value, since all the works presented here illustrate – with practical examples and critical perspectives, the best and most appropriate ways to manage World Heritage properties. The aim of the cultural heritage management at these World Heritage sites is to improve conservation and increase understanding and communication in such a way that the communities living in those sites or who earn a livelihood from them can be positively affected by these initiatives. The book presents exemplary models or proposals of heritage management in World Heritage properties–an issue not treated in depth up to now and Best Practices in this management. Therefore, this volume becomes a new, original source presenting model strategies to be followed by other initiatives in order to improve the consideration and treatment of the most outstanding valued sites considered by UNESCO.
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Author: Alicia Castillo Publisher: Springer New York ISBN: 9781493902835 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: April 2014 121 pages
Published in 1999, Children and Disasters is a valuable contribution to the field of Counseling and School Therapy.
Author: Norma Gordon; Norman L. Farberow; Carl A. Maida Publisher: Taylor and Francis ISBN: 9781134871292 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: June 2013 192 pages
60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Houston uncovers hikes around Houston that previously had gone unnoticed. This is the essential guide to this area, from the Big Thicket of east Texas to the coast of Galveston Island. Explore most of the 138-mile Lone Star Trail with over a dozen hikes breaking up the trail into manageable segments. Hikes lead to old native homesteads, native prairies, deep forests, riparian woodlands, urban byways, wildlife preserves along the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail, wetlands, and numerous bayous and waterways. Each chapter serves as both a navigational aide and an interpretive guide to familiarize hikers with wondrous destinations in and around The Bayou City.
After a decade of elegant pleasures and luxe living with the Atlanta brothers and sisters with the best clothes and biggest dreams, Ava Johnson has temporarily returned home to Idlewild—her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits by cold reality. But what she imagines to be the end is, instead, a beginning. Because, in the ten-plus years since Ava left, all the problems of the big city have come to roost in the sleepy North Michigan community whose ordinariness once drove her away; and she cannot turn her back on friends and family who sorely need her in the face of impending trouble and tragedy. Besides which, that one unthinkable, unmistakable thing is now happening to her: Ava Johnson is falling in love.
Acclaimed playwright, essayist, New York Times bestselling author, and columnist Pearl Cleage has created a world rich in character, human drama, and deep, compassionate understanding, in a remarkable novel that sizzles with sensuality, hums with gritty truth, and sings and crackles with life-affirming energy.
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Author: Pearl Cleage Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 9780061807176 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: March 2009 256 pages
Bei den bisheJigen Untersuchungen auf dem Gebiete des Raman Effektes wurde in erster Linie versucht, möglichst vollständige Spektren von den verschiedenen Substanzen zu erhalten, diese zu diskutieren, die heobachteten Frcquenzen bestimmten Schwingun gen zuzuordnen und die bcstehenden Kraftfelder zu berechllpn. Es sollten vor allem Strukturfragen geklärt werden. Schon bald nach dcr Entdpckung des Raman-Effektes wurde (‘rkannt, daß diesel’ auch zur Liisllng analytischer Probleme gt’ oignet ist. Heutc licg:m die Spektren einer großen Zahl von Suh st,anzen vor. Außerdem sind die Methoden der qualitativen und quantitativen Analyse wcitgehend untersucht, so daß es möglich ist. diesf’ Verfahren jetzt auch in der Industrie zur Untersuchung organischcr Gemü;chp, wie sip z. B. in den Bf’nzinen und Ölen YOI’ licgpn, anzuwendcn. Das vorliegendp Buch soll dcn Leser mit den theoretischeIl (irundlagen und der oxpcrimentcllen Tcchnik des Raman-Effekt!’s vertraut machen. soweit. das für dicAnwendung notwendig erschien. l
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Author: W. Otting Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg ISBN: 9783642945878 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: March 2013 167 pages
The Measurable Approach to Improved Health and Weight Loss
A revolutionary guide to Self-Health! Try the Data-Driven Diet designed to transform healthcare in America. Are you one of millions who fuel the billion dollar diet industry? Diet after diet…you’ve tried and yet have failed to achieve your long-term goals. You are not alone.The Pancreatic Oath is a revolutionary new book from registered nurse, licensed social worker and certified health counselor Candice Rosen that introduces the cutting-edge Pancreatic Nutritional Program (PNP). Simply, the PNP provides readers with an understanding of how their body processes the food they choose to eat, how it affects their pancreas, and the domino effect that poor choices have on their weight and their health. In this groundbreaking new book you will learn about: Pancreatic abuse—signs and causes * The relationship between the pancreas, diabetes and other chronic health issues * The ten essentials of the PNP™ * How to test blood glucose levels and what they mean * Sample meal choices and recipes * From weight gain to diabetes to heart disease, what you eat and how that food affects the pancreas has a direct effect on your health. It can cause or prevent future disease. It can cause you to gain or lose weight. The Pancreatic Oath peels away the mystery that surrounds the functioning of the often overlooked, but terribly important gland called the pancreas. Live and eat not just for today. Eat for all the tomorrows!
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This book critically analyzes the portrayals of Black women in current reality television. Audiences are presented with a multitude of images of Black women fighting, arguing, and cursing at one another in this manufactured world of reality television. This perpetuation of negative, insidious racial and gender stereotypes influences how the U.S. views Black women. This stereotyping disrupts the process in which people are able to appreciate cultural and gender difference. Instead of celebrating the diverse symbols and meaning making that accompanies Black women’s discourse and identities, reality television scripts an artificial or plastic image of Black women that reinforces extant stereotypes. This collection’s contributors seek to uncover examples in reality television shows where instantiations of Black women’s gendered, racial, and cultural difference is signified and made sinister.
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Author: Donnetrice C. Allison; Antwanisha Alameen-Shavers; Allison M. Alford; Patrick Bennett; Mia E. Briceño; Chetachi A. Egwu; Evene Estwick; Adria Y. Goldman; Rachel Alicia Griffin; Johnny Jones; Ryessia D. Jones; Madeline M. Maxwell; Angelica N. Morris; Donyale R. Griffin Padgett; Tracey Owens Patton; Shavonne R. Shorter; Siobhan E. Smith; Elizabeth Whittington Cooper; Julie Snyder-Yuly Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 9781498519335 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: January 2016 337 pages
