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  • Are We Ready for Mars?

    by Mark Shelhamer ...
    Series series Johns Hopkins Wavelengths
    What will it take to send astronauts to Mars—and bring them home safely?If humanity's future lies among the stars, a voyage to Mars is our next giant step. For the astronauts brave enough to venture so far from home and into such an extreme environment, the journey will be the ultimate test of endurance—of their bodies and minds, and the materials and technologies developed to protect them. Many ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Systems Medicine for Human Spaceflight

    by Mark Shelhamer, Erik Antonsen ...
    This edited volume makes the case that a systems approach is needed for long-term spaceflight missions. Due to distance from Earth and the impossibility of resupply or rapid return, these flights will entail unprecedented autonomy on the part of the crew. This autonomy includes the need for local clinical decision support and other assistance with urgent medical concerns. The advantage of a ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

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  • A City on Mars

    Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?

    by Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith ...
    *** THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the Hugo Award * Scientific American’s #1 Book for 2023 * Winner of Royal Society's Trivedi Prize * A Guardian Best Book of 2024 * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * A Times Best Science and Environment Book of 2023 * A Tor.com Best Book of 2023 *“Exceptional. . . Forceful, engaging and funny . . . This book will make you happy to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Human Factors in Aviation

    Edited by Eduardo Salas, Dan Maurino ...
    Fully updated and expanded, the second edition of Human Factors in Aviation serves the needs of the widespread aviation community - students, engineers, scientists, pilots, managers and government personnel. Offering a comprehensive overview the volume covers topics such as pilot performance, human factors in aircraft design, vehicles and systems and NextGen issues. The need for an up-to-date, ... Read more

    $96.29 USD

  • Think Like a Rocket Scientist

    Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life

    by Ozan Varol ...
    * Adam Grant's # 1 pick of his top 20 books of the yearThis is not just an engrossing read--it's bursting with practical insights. Ozan Varol's dazzling debut might change how you approach problems. Houston, this book has solutions."―Adam GrantRocket science is often celebrated as the ultimate triumph of technology. But it's not. Rather, it's the apex of a certain thought process -- a way to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Behind Human Error

    by Sidney Dekker, Richard Cook, Leila Johannesen, Nadine Sarter, David Woods ...
    Human error is cited over and over as a cause of incidents and accidents. The result is a widespread perception of a 'human error problem', and solutions are thought to lie in changing the people or their role in the system. For example, we should reduce the human role with more automation, or regiment human behavior by stricter monitoring, rules or procedures. But in practice, things have proved ... Read more

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  • Why Am I Taller?

    What Happens to an Astronaut's Body in Space

    by Dr. Dave Williams, Elizabeth Howell, PhD ...
    What happens in space that causes the body to change? Learn about life in space from astronautsIs the human body built for Mars? NASA’s studies on the International Space Station show we need to fix a few things before sending people to the Red Planet. Astronauts go into space with good vision and come back needing eyeglasses. Cognition and DNA expression could be affected for years. And then ... Read more

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  • Mars Direct

    Space Exploration, the Red Planet, and the Human Future: A Special from Tarcher/Penguin

    by Robert Zubrin ...
    “Bob Zubrin really, nearly alone, changed our thinking on this issue.”—Carl Sagan, The Denver PostIf you ever daydream about space travel and human space flight—or hope to one day rove the Red Planet alongside Curiosity—then MARS DIRECT will teach you how we can get thereThe human race is at a crossroads. In the coming decades, we will make decisions regarding our human spaceflight program that ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Aviation Psychology and Human Factors

    by Monica Martinussen, David R. Hunter ...
    This book covers the application of psychological principles and techniques to situations and problems of aviation. It offers an overview of the role psychology plays in aviation, system design, selection and training of pilots, characteristics of pilots, safety, and passenger behavior. It covers concepts of psychological research and data analysis and shows how these tools are used in the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Pressing On

    Unstable Approach Continuation Bias

    by Edwin V Odisho ...
    Pressing On is an exploration of an aviation safety problem that has plagued commercial airline operators for years. Recent airline accidents like Asiana 214 at the San Francisco International Airport (see cover image) provide examples of this phenomenon, when pilots continue an unstable approach to a landing attempt. The risk of collision with terrain and/or a runway excursion has been identified ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Multitasking Myth

    Handling Complexity in Real-World Operations

    by Loukia D. Loukopoulos, R. Key Dismukes, Immanuel Barshi ...
    Series series Ashgate Studies in Human Factors for Flight Operations
    Despite growing concern with the effects of concurrent task demands on human performance, and research demonstrating that these demands are associated with vulnerability to error, so far there has been only limited research into the nature and range of concurrent task demands in real-world settings. This book presents a set of NASA studies that characterize the nature of concurrent task demands ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • 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