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  • Standards Under Pressure

    de Peter H Tyson ...
    STANDARDS UNDER PRESSURE: Critical Thinking When Lives Depend On ItStandards Under Pressure examines 37 historical situations—from Tenerife to Three Mile Island, from the Challenger disaster to the sinking of the Titanic—through a single lens: which of the 15 intellectual standards of sound reasoning failed, how, and what it cost. Drawn from the domains of aviation, engineering, medicine, military ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • Normal Accidents

    Living with High Risk Technologies

    de Charles Perrow ...
    Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety--building in more warnings and safeguards--fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. He asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents. (At Chernobyl, tests of a new safety ... Leer más

    $30.29 USD

  • Streetlights and Shadows

    Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making

    de Gary A. Klein ...
    An expert explains how conventional wisdom about decision making can get us into trouble—and why experience can’t be replaced by rules, procedures, or analytical methods.In making decisions, when should we go with our gut and when should we try to analyze every option? When should we use our intuition and when should we rely on logic and statistics? Most of us would probably agree that for ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'

    de Sidney Dekker ...
    When faced with a ’human error’ problem, you may be tempted to ask 'Why didn’t these people watch out better?' Or, 'How can I get my people more engaged in safety?' You might think you can solve your safety problems by telling your people to be more careful, by reprimanding the miscreants, by issuing a new rule or procedure and demanding compliance. These are all expressions of 'The Bad Apple ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Redefining Airmanship

    de Anthony Kern ...
    Redefining Airmanship offers the first concrete model of the abstract ideal of "airmanship," and gives the reader step-by-step guidance for self-appraisal and improvement in the areas of flight proficiency, teamwork, and good judgment in crisis situations. The author, Major Anthony Kern, draws on his extensive flight and crew-training experience in the US Air Force, but his model is invaluable for ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Drift into Failure

    From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems

    de Sidney Dekker ...
    What does the collapse of sub-prime lending have in common with a broken jackscrew in an airliner’s tailplane? Or the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico with the burn-up of Space Shuttle Columbia? These were systems that drifted into failure. While pursuing success in a dynamic, complex environment with limited resources and multiple goal conflicts, a succession of small, everyday decisions ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Flight Discipline

    de Anthony Kern ...
    Flight Discipline is the complete tool kit for any aviator, whether military, commercial, or recreational, to develop the crack discipline needed to be a safe and effective aviator. Major Tony Kern analyses the causes of poor flight discipline, gives chilling case studies of the consequences, and lays out a plan for individual improvement. Key words are italicized and review questions included for ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Friendly Fire

    The Accidental Shootdown of U.S. Black Hawks over Northern Iraq

    de Scott A. Snook ...
    On April 14, 1994, two U.S. Air Force F-15 fighters accidentally shot down two U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopters over Northern Iraq, killing all twenty-six peacekeepers onboard. In response to this disaster the complete array of military and civilian investigative and judicial procedures ran their course. After almost two years of investigation with virtually unlimited resources, no culprit emerged ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Controlling Pilot Error : Culture, Environment, and CRM (Crew Resource Management)

    Culture, Environment, and CRM (Crew Resource Management)

    de Anthony T. Kern ...
    Expert authors demonstrate the topic using pilot drawn from an FAA/NASA sponsored database. A post-mortem of real-life, real-pilot accidents are examined to explain what went wrong and why. An action agenda is drawn of preventive techniques pilots can effect to avoid the same risks. ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Pinpoint

    How GPS is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds

    de Greg Milner ...
    "One of the most mesmerizing and exhilarating, yet alarming modern technology books…an extraordinary tale." —Gillian Tett, Financial TimesPinpoint tells the fascinating story of a hidden system that touches nearly every aspect of modern life. Tracking the development of GPS from its origins as a bomb guidance system to its present ubiquity, Greg Milner examines the technology’s double-edged effect ... Leer más

    $12.39 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Controlling Risk in a Dangerous World

    30 Techniques for Operating Excellence

    de Jim Wetherbee ...
    A five-time Space Shuttle commander reveals what astronauts know about improving performance and productivity under pressure.Jim Wetherbee, the only five-time Space Shuttle commander, presents thirty techniques that astronauts use—not only to stay alive in the unforgiving and deadly environment of space, but also to conduct high-quality operations and accomplish complex missions. These same ... Leer más

    $9.89 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Behind Human Error

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD