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A Short History of Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to Wittgenstein
[Buy it!] | Scruton, Roger | USD 14.95
(Thu May 23 05:08:22 2024) | Alibris | Book Culture Inc. via Alibris | Oxford Routledge 2001 Trade paperback Fair. Obviously well-worn, but no text pages missing. May have highlighting and marginalia, but markings do not interfere with readability. Textbooks do not have accompanying CDs or access codes. Ships from an indie bookstore in NYC. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 328 p. Contains: Unspecified, Tables, black & white. Routledge Classics. |
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Destination Disaster
[Buy it!] | Andrew J. Brookes | USD 11.11
(Thu May 23 05:08:33 2024) | Abebooks | Book Express (NZ) | ISBN10: 0711028621, ISBN13: 9780711028623, [publisher: Ian Allan] Hardcover 160 pages. On any given day, more than four million people ar ound the world take to the air on one of 38,000 flights operated daily by the airlines. The reassuring news is that the fatal acci dent rate per million flights for large aircraft operations is no w about half what is was 10 years ago. It is therefore 20 times s afer to get airborne In a commercial airliner than it is to drive to the airport in the first place. More people die annually from falling down the stairs than they do from fatal air crashes. Non e the less, aircraft accidents do occur, and in the sheer scale o f the horror and devastation wrought, it is sometimes hard to bri ng these statistics into focus. Destination Disaster is Andrew Br ookes' latest investigation into the causes and effects of aircra ft disasters. It is a responsible and detailed analysis of some o f the most noteworthy of recent aircraft accidents. The past few years have been overshadowed by a number of major disasters - som e accidental, others deliberate - and the book examines in detail the factors behind these various events.Among significant disast ers covered are the loss of the Air France Concorde In Paris in 2 000, the crash of golfer Payne Stewart's Learjet In 1999 and the momentous events of 11 September 2001. Deliberately examined in a non-controversial and objective way, the accidents and disasters recorded in Destination Disaster paradoxically emphasise just ho w safe contemporary flight is. However, as in all things, there r emains an element of risk, and the book is a fascinating examinat ion of the issues of safety raised in contemporary aviation.
[Wellington, New Zealand] [Publication Year: 2002] |
