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| Author | : Steven Cushing |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 188 |
| Release | : 1994-03-04 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780226132006 |
On March 27, 1977, 583 people died when KLM and Pan Am 747s collided on a crowded, foggy runway in Tenerife, the Canary Islands. The cause, a miscommunication between the pilot and the air traffic controller. The pilot radioed, "We are now at takeoff," meaning that the plane was lifting off, but the tower controller misunderstood and thought the plane was waiting on the runway. In Fatal Words, Steven Cushing explains how miscommunication has led to dozens of aircraft disasters, and he proposes innovative solutions for preventing them. He examines ambiguities in language when aviation jargon and colloquial English are mixed, when a word is used that has different meanings, and when different words are used that sound alike. To remedy these problems, Cushing proposes a visual communication system and a computerized voice mechanism to help clear up confusing language. Fatal Words is an accessible explanation of some of the most notorious aircraft tragedies of our time, and it will appeal to scholars in communications, linguistics, and cognitive science, to aviation experts, and to general readers.
| Author | : Louise Guy |
| Publisher | : Louise Guy |
| Total Pages | : 23 |
| Release | : 2022-09-05 |
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Jason's New Year's Eve plans reignite family heartbreak. The significance of the day has the potential to either heal or destroy his family. The clock is ticking.
| Author | : Larry G. Ehrlich |
| Publisher | : University Press of America |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780761817208 |
On February 19, 1998, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety reported that more than 12,000 people had been injured in incidents of 'road rage.' In light of modernity's rapid strides forward in electronic communication and lagging efforts to explore human nature Larry G. Ehrlich's book focuses on the architecture of human communication behavior. It is divided into three sections, which deal with intrapersonal, interpersonal, and public communication. This readable book not only offers a discussion on the most recent research in information technology, and on relationships in a global community, but it is a truly inter-disciplinary approach to communication behavior.
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| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2009-11-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0615234321 |
Fatal Words Fragile Hope opens the door into the traumatic world surrounding the misuse and abuse of psychotropic drugs, daily prescribed to millions of children with mental and behavior disorders in America. These facts are revealed in the memoirs of Marina Sharfman. Fatal Words Fragile Hopes, features contributing chapters by authors, Seaon Ducote, Constantine Kotsanis MD, Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD,Ph.D, MPhil, Barbara Mainguy, MFA, Larry Dossey MD, and Rhonda Majalca, D.H.,Chom
| Author | : Quintin Jardine |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Celebrities |
| ISBN | : 9780755329168 |
One of Scotland's most successful crime writers is found dead in the author tent at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, and Bob Skinner is on the case.
| Author | : Jeanne Favret-Saada |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 1980-12-04 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521297875 |
This 1980 book examines witchcraft beliefs and experiences in the Bocage, a rural area of western France. It also introduced a powerful theoretical attitude towards the progress of the ethnographer's enquiries, suggesting that a full knowledge of witchcraft involves being 'caught up' in it oneself. In the Bocage, being bewitched is to be 'caught' in a sequence of misfortunes. According to those who are bewitched, the culprit is someone in the neighbourhood: the witch, who can cast a spell with a word, a touch or a look, and whose 'power' comes from a book of spells inherited from an ancestor. Only a professional magician, an 'unwitcher', has any chance of breaking the succession of misfortunes which befall those who have been bewitched. He undertakes a battle of magic with the suspected witch, a battle which is eventually fatal.
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| Total Pages | : 428 |
| Release | : 1913 |
| Genre | : Occultism |
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| Author | : John Lescroart |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 432 |
| Release | : 2017-09-26 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1501174940 |
Kate loves her life. At forty-four, she's happily married to her kind husband, Ron, blessed with two wonderful children, and has a beautiful home in San Francisco. Everything changes, however, when she and Ron attend a dinner party and meet another couple, Peter and Jill. Kate and Peter only exchange a few pleasant words but that night, in bed with her husband, Kate is suddenly overcome with a burning desire for Peter. What begins as an innocent crush soon develops into a dangerous obsession and Kate's fixation on Peter results in one intense, passionate encounter between the two. Confident that her life can now go back to normal, Kate never considers that Peter may not be so willing to move on. Not long after their affair, a masked man barges into the cafe Kate is sitting in with her best friend, firing an assault weapon indiscriminately into the crowd. This tragedy is the first in a series of horrifying events that will show Kate just how grave the consequences of one mistake can be.
| Author | : Eric Partridge |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 2680 |
| Release | : 2015-06-12 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 131744552X |
First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal worlds. It includes entries from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, as well as from Britain and America and offers a fascinating and unique study of language. The book provides an invaluable insight into social history, with the British vocabulary dating back to the 16th century and the American to the late 18th century. Each entry comes complete with the approximate date of origin, the etymology for each word, and a note of the milieu in which the expression arose.
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| Total Pages | : 486 |
| Release | : 1861 |
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