The past & future of airline safety--a memoir of successes, crashes, & near misses--by a former FAA accident inspector. Boarding an airplane strikes at least a small sense of fear into most people. Even though we all have heard that the odds of being struck by lightning are greater than the odds of perishing in a plane crash, it still doesn`t feel that way. Airplane crashes might be rare, but they do happen, & they`re usually fatal. David Soucie insists that most of these deaths could be prevented. He`s worked in the cockpit, on the hangar floor, within the aviation boardroom, & inside the Washington, DC, beltway. He`s seen death up close & personal--deaths of colleagues & friends that might have been prevented if he had approved certain safety measures in the aircraft they were handling. Years of experience have led Dave to become an impassioned consultant on the topic of airline safety. This

Includes:: not only advising the Obama administration, but also the Department of Transportation, the Department of Defense, Homeland Security, NASA, & the Office of National Intelligence. Soucie was also a lead consultant & analyst for coverage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which went missing in March 2014. Find out the truth about airplane safety & discover what the future holds for air travel in ” Safer Skies.”

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The Safety of Navigation, implementing SOLAS
- Chapter V has been prepared to help ship-owners, masters, crews & industry to
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For new & experienced hill walkers, ” Safety on Mountains” is full of advice for hill walkers. Whether planning a short summer walk or a multi-day winter trip, ” Safety on Mountains” highlights the essential skills & techniques. Topics covered include: clothing & equipment, hazards, mountain weather, navigation, walking in winter
- including axe & crampon use, camping in the hills, access & conservation, emergency procedures & first aid. Published by the British Mountaineering Council, ” Safety on Mountains” has been in print for over thirty years. This concise new edition is excellent value & packed with up to date information, making it the perfect hill walker`s handbook.
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Saffron Walden in 1919 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The town centre is included & the map extends eastward to Millfield, the cemetery & the workhouse. Features include the GER railway & station, The Common, Friends School, part of Audley Park, High Street, Market Place, St Mary`s church. Farmadine House, The Maze, castle remains. On the reverse are directories of private residents in 1895 & 1914, plus a railway timetable from 1915. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Safiental
- Lenzerheide area at 1:33, 333 on light, waterproof & tear-resistant map No. 3310T published by Swisstopo in cooperation
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Safiental area, map No. 257T, at 1:50, 000 in a special hiking edition of the country’s topographic survey, published by Swisstopo in cooperation with the Swiss Hiking Federation. Cartography, identical to the standard version of the survey, is highly regarded for its superb use of graphic relief & hill shading to provide an almost 3-D picture of Switzerland`s mountainous terrain. Contours are at 20m intervals. An overprint highlights routes maintained by the SHF, distinguishing between hiking routes, mountain routes requiring proper footwear, & alpine routes where equipment is needed. Paths which are part of the national or regional network of long-distance hiking routes are specially marked & in the more recent editions are annotated with their official numbers. The maps show mountain huts, refuges & in remote areas also inns, plus roads with bus service & the positions of bus stops. All the maps have a 1-km grid of the Swiss national coordinates. For a list of all the titles in this series, please click on the series link. ...

Detailed ski map at 1:50, 000 from Swisstopo, the country’s national survey organization, showing routes for skiing and/or snowboarding, access by public transport, recommended itineraries, lists of mountain huts, etc. The series uses the cartography of Switzerland’s topographic survey, with additional colouring to show slopes steeper than 30°. An overprint highlights ski routes, indicating suggested direction, difficult passages & sections which must be covered on foot. Also marked are areas where it is forbidden to leave the routes shown on the map. The maps also highlight roads with bus routes, indicating individual bus stops, show ski lifts & funiculars, plus mark locations of refuges or other mountain accommodation. Each title has the Swiss national grid at intervals of 1km, plus latitude & longitude margin ticks at 1’. Some titles cover a larger area, with a part of an adjoining sheet printed on the reverse of the main map as indicated on our series grid. Where appropriate, ski information extends across the border to France & Italy. On the reverse are itineraries of routes recommended by the Swiss Alpine Club, indicating the degree of difficulty, plus lists of alpine huts with contact details. Map legend for the overprint

Includes:: English. The text about the routes & accommodation is in the main language of the area covered by the map. To see the list of all the titles in this series please click on the series link.

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Before Francoise Sagan the literary icon there was Francoise Queiroz, an eighteen-year-old Parisian girl, who wrote a novel & needed a publisher for it. This intimate narrative charts the months in 1954 leading up to the publication of the legendary Bonjour Tristesse. We encounter Francoise, her family & friends close-up, in a post-war world that is changing radically; & Mlle Queiroz, in her new guise of Francoise Sagan, will be at the heart of that social change. Sagan was always focused on her writing, though at times the fame of her books was to be eclipsed by her wild-child reputation. Yet, as Anne Berest herself testifies, Sagan`s fearless approach to life lived on her own terms remains an inspiration even now. ...

The extraordinary debut of a classical pianist turned novelist, ” The Sage of Waterloo” is a playful retelling of a key turning point in human history-and a slyly profound reflection on our place in the world. William is a white rabbit living at Hougoumont, the historic farm on the site of the Battle of Waterloo. Under the tutelage of his grandmother Old Lavender, William attunes himself to the echoes & ghosts of the battle, & through a series of adventures he comes to recognize how deeply what happened at Waterloo two hundred years before continues to reverberate. ” Nature, ” as Old Lavender says, ”never truly recovers from human cataclysms.” Brimming with the wonder & narrative power of Andrea Barrett or Anthony Doerr & full of vivid insights about Napoleon, Wellington, & the battle itself, The Sage of Waterloo is a beguiling tale of fate, human folly, & the wisdom of the natural world. ...

Map No. 10134, Sagfjorden, in the new topographic survey of Norway at 1:50, 000 covering the country on 195 double-sided sheets & first published by Nordeca in 2011
- 2012; fully GPS compatible, indicating waymarked footpaths, campsites, tourist huts, illuminated ski runs, etc. The maps, now published by Nordeca, the successors to Statens Kartverk & its subsequent owners the Ugland Group, are printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. Each map covers an area of 62x 45 kilometres (39 x 28 miles approx.), with a 2-km overlap between the sheets. The maps have contours at 20m intervals (10m glacier contours), plus colouring & graphics to show cultivated areas, bogs, forests, etc. In addition to all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale the maps distinguish between waymarked & unmarked footpaths & show campsites, tourist huts (serviced/self service/no supplies), country hotels & restaurants, & illuminated ski trails. The series uses EUREF89 (WGS84) datum & the maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend is in Norwegian & English. Each title comes in a sturdy protective card envelope.
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