Fatal Words

Author : Steven Cushing
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226132006
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fatal Words written by Steven Cushing and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-03-04 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0615234321
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fatal Words Fragile Hopes written by and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Larry G. Ehrlich
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761817208
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fatal Words and Friendly Faces written by Larry G. Ehrlich and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Quintin Jardine
Publisher : Headline Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780755329175
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fatal Last Words written by Quintin Jardine and published by Headline Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's no ordinary summer for DCC Bob Skinner, as murder mystery leaps from the page into reality in the nineteenth volume of Quintin Jardine's outstanding cop series. It's August and the Edinburgh International Book Festival is in full swing. So it's a considerable embarrassment when one of Scotland's most successful crime writers is found dead in the author tent. The victim's phone was tapped. Are the spooks involved? Or has mystery fiction become true crime? A second victim begs the question: have the authors become targets themselves?

Author : James Kapaló
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 6155225486
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Words written by James Kapaló and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-20 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: n medieval and early modern Europe, the use of charms was a living practice in all strata of society. The essays in this latest CEU Press publication explore the rich textual tradition of archives, monasteries, and literary sources. The author also discusses texts amassed in folklore archives and ones that are still accessible through field work in many rural areas of Europe.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1236 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Author : Anthony Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Author : Jeanne Favret-Saada
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521297875
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deadly Words written by Jeanne Favret-Saada and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980-12-04 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Total Pages : 862 pages
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