The Human Contribution: Unsafe Acts, Accidents and Heroic Recoveries (Reason James)(Paperback)

The Human Contribution: Unsafe Acts, Accidents and Heroic Recoveries (Reason James)(Paperback)

This book explores the human contribution to the reliability and resilience of complex, well-defended systems. Usually the human is considered a hazard - a system component whose unsafe acts are implicated in the majority of catastrophic breakdowns. However there is another perspective that has

Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents (Reason James)(Paperback)

Major accidents are rare events due to the many barriers, safeguards and defences developed by modern technologies. But they continue to happen with saddening regularity and their human and financial consequences are all too often unacceptably catastrophic. One of the greatest challenges we face is

Organizational Accidents Revisited (Reason James)(Paperback)

Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents introduced the notion of an 'organizational accident'. These are rare but often calamitous events that occur in complex technological systems operating in hazardous circumstances. They stand in sharp contrast to 'individual accidents' whose damaging

Naked Pilot: The Human Factor in Aircraft Accidents (Beaty David)(Paperback)

Investigations into the causes of aircraft accidents have for decades focused on what happened and who did it - very rarely 'Why'? It is the question 'Why' that David Beaty has addressed here, fighting the misnomer of 'pilot error' and propounding that the cause should be sought deeper inside human

Managing Maintenance Error: A Practical Guide (Reason James)(Paperback)

Situations and systems are easier to change than the human condition - particularly when people are well-trained and well-motivated, as they usually are in maintenance organisations. This is a down-to-earth practitioner's guide to managing maintenance error, written in Dr. Reason's highly readable

Human Acts (Kang Han)(Paperback)

From the internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian, a 'rare and astonishing' (The Observer) portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice.'Compulsively readable, universally relevant, and deeply resonant . . . in equal parts beautiful and urgent.'--The New York

Treatise on Happiness - The Treatise on Human Acts (Aquinas Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

Under Pressure: Diving Deeper with Human Factors (Gareth Lock)(Paperback)

Most incidents and accidents are down to 'human error'. Unfortunately, 'human error' is normal and we can't get rid of it. However, we can reduce the likelihood of one of those, 'Oh s***t moments' if we have an understanding of human factors and develop our non-technical skills.This is a

Reason in Human Affairs (Simon Herbert A.)(Paperback)

What can reason (or more broadly, thinking) do for us and what can't it do? This is the question examined by Herbert A. Simon, who received the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his pioneering work on decision-making processes in economic organizations. The ability to apply reason to the

The Psychological Birth of the Human Infant Symbiosis and Individuation (Mahler Margaret S.)(Paperback)

The pioneering contribution to infant psychology that gave us separation and individuation documents with standard-setting care the intrapsychic process of a child's emergence from symbiotic fusion with the mother toward affirmation of his own psychological birth. Available for the first time in

The Equality of the Human Races (Firmin Joseph-Antenor)(Paperback)

An important contribution to contemporary scholarship in anthropology, pan-African studies, and colonial and postcolonial

The Sleep of Reason: The James Bulger Case (Smith David James)(Paperback)

For fans of Serial, Making a Murderer and The Keepers 'Dramatic and disturbing . . . his evidence, used judiciously and presented without comment but with an undertone of urgency, is a damning indictment.' - Anita Brookner, Observer Friday, 12th February, 1993. Two outwardly unremarkable

Wellington, Volume 1: The Path to Victory 1769-1814 (Muir Rory)(Paperback)

A landmark contribution to understanding the real man behind the heroic legend inspired by the triumph at Waterloo The Duke of Wellington was not just Britain's greatest soldier, although his seismic struggles as leader of the Allied forces against Napoleon in the Peninsular War deservedly became

Reason and Politics: The Nature of Political Phenomena (Blitz Mark)(Pevná vazba)

Reason and Politics explores the central phenomena of political life and, therefore, of human affairs in general.Amidst the seemingly endless books on more and more narrowly specialized topics within politics, Mark Blitz offers something very different in this book. Reason and Politics: The Nature

Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (Damasio Antonio)(Paperback)

'An ambitious and meticulous foray into the nature of being.' -- The Boston Globe A landmark exploration of the relationship between emotion and reason Since Descartes famously proclaimed, 'I think, therefore I am,' science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person's true being. Even

Human Error (Reason James)(Paperback)

Modern technology has now reached a point where improved safety can only be achieved through a better understanding of human error mechanisms. In its treatment of major accidents, the book spans the disciplinary gulf between psychological theory and those concerned with maintaining the reliabiblity

Mushrooms and Mankind: The Impact of Mushrooms on Human Consciousness and Religion (Arthur James)(Paperback)

Publishing Business in Eighteenth-Century England (Raven James)(Paperback)

Publishing Business assesses the contribution of the business press and the publication of print to the economic transformation of England in the long eighteenth century. A pivotal change in the book trades, apparent from the late seventeenth century, was the increased separation of printers from

Immaterial Bodies: Affect, Embodiment, Mediation (Blackman Lisa)(Paperback)

In this unique contribution, Lisa Blackman focuses upon the affective capacities of bodies, human and non-human as well as addressing the challenges of the affective turn within social sciences. Fresh and convincing, Immaterial Bodies uncovers the paradoxes and tensions in work in affect studies by

Descartes' Error - Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain (Damasio Antonio)(Paperback / softback)

In the centuries since Descartes famously proclaimed, 'I think, therefore I am,' science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person's true

Social Linguistics and Literacies: Ideology in Discourses (Gee James)(Paperback)

In its first edition, Social Linguistics and Literacies was a major contribution to the emerging interdisciplinary field of sociocultural approaches to language and literacy, and was one of the founding texts of the 'New Literacy Studies'.This book serves as a classic introduction to the study of

Bonnie and Clyde: A Twenty-First-Century Update (Knight James R.)(Paperback)

A new contribution to the growing body of historical research on the outlaw couple, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, whose story has taken on near-mythical status but often has been told with little regard for the facts. Bonnie and Clyde: A Twenty-First Century update includes eyewitness accounts

Making Sense of Human Rights (Nickel James)(Paperback)

This fully revised and extended edition of James Nickel's classic study explains and defends the contemporary conception of human rights. Combining philosophical, legal and political approaches, Nickel explains international human rights law and addresses questions of justification and feasibility

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Goffman Erving)(Paperback)

A notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves. This book explores the realm of human behavior in social situations and the way that we appear to others. Dr. Goffman uses the metaphor of theatrical performance as a framework. Each person in everyday social intercourse presents himself and