In The Crash Detectives, veteran aviation journalist & air safety investigator Christine Negroni takes the reader inside crash investigations from the early days of the jet age to the present, including the search for answers about what happened to the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. As Negroni dissects each accident, she explores the common themes &, most importantly, what has been learned from them to make planes safer. Indeed, as Negroni shows, virtually every aspect of modern pilot training, airline operation & aircraft design has been shaped by lessons learned from disaster. Along the way, she also details some miraculous saves, when quick-thinking pilots averted catastrophe & kept hundreds of people alive. Tying in aviation science, performance psychology & extensive interviews with pilots, engineers, human factors specialists, crash survivors & others involved in accidents all over the world, The Crash Detectives is an alternately terrifying & inspiring book that might just cure your fear of flying, & will definitely make you a more informed passenger. ...

What happened to MH370? How did Amelia Earhart disappear? When have quick-thinking pilots averted catastrophe & kept hundreds of people alive? & what, if any, are the lessons we have learned from these accidents? Aviation journalist & air safety investigator Christine Negroni uses science, performance psychology, extensive interviews with pilots, & the accounts of crash survivors to answer these questions, & more. Alternately terrifying & inspiring
- Negroni might just cure your fear of flying, & will definitely make you a more informed passenger.
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Learning colours is fun in this entertaining book from the creators of the 1 New York Times Bestsellers, The Day the Crayons Quit & The Day the Crayons Came Home. It`s Duncan`s birthday, & the crayons all want to make him a card! With their fun & quirky illustrations of fire engines, dragons, even wheat, the creative crayons each have something special to contribute. But when they come together, they can create a truly spectactular celebration! From the creative minds behind the The Day the Crayons Quit & The Day the Crayons Came Home comes a colourful board book introducing young readers to numbers. ...

Learning to count is fun in this entertaining book of numbers from the creators of the 1 New York Times Bestsellers, The Day the Crayons Quit & The Day the Crayons Came Home. Poor Duncan! His favourite colours have gone missing. Can you help find them for him & count along the way? From the creative minds behind the The Day the Crayons Quit & The Day the Crayons Came Home comes a colourful board book introducing young readers to numbers. ...

Professor Yang, a respected teacher of literature, has had a stroke & it falls to Jian Wan
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Part biography, part cultural history, The Creation of Anne Boleyn is a fascinating reconstruction of Anne`s life & an illuminating look at her afterlife in the popular imagination. Why is Anne so compelling? Why does she inspire such extreme reactions? & what really was the colour of her hair? & perhaps the most provocative question concerns Anne`s death, more than her life: how could Henry order the execution of his once beloved wife? Drawing on scholarship & popular culture, Bordo probes the complexities of one of history`s most infamous relationships & teases out the woman behind the myths. ...

The story of a rustic boyhood, first love & eventual exile from a harsh homel&, by one of the giants of modern Portuguese & European fiction. Miguel Torga`s celebrated Tales & More Tales from the Mountain, published by Carcanet in 1995, are set in the remote & barren Tras-os-Montes -- `over the mountains` -- in north-east Portugal. There the writer was born among illiterate country people. In The Creation of the World, his most important book, he recreates his childhood & evokes the men & women living there
- complex in emotion & thought, elusive & thrifty with words, direct in action, forced by circumstance to deal with matters of love & hate, life & death, without the illusions & expectations that protect most people, even the urban poor. This autobiography, exactly observed, touches & haunts the reader in the ways that myth & epic do.
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The Creatan Runner is a blistering account of George Psychoundakis` activities across mountainous terrain, come blazing summer or freezing winter. Psychoundakis was a young shepherd boy who knew the island of Crete intimately when the Nazis invaded by air in 1941. He immediately joined the resistance & took on the crucial job of war-time runner. It was not only the toughest but the most dangerous job of all. It involved immense journeys carrying vital messages, smuggling arms & explosives & guiding Allied soldiers, agents & commandos through heavily garrisoned territory. & George did not escape capture & torture on his many forays.A gripping story of bravery against impossible odds. ...

The Cretan Way is a 500km walking route which takes you from east to west across the varied & spectacular landscapes of Crete. It is the ideal way to discover the rural, mountainous & costal regions of this incredible isl&. This guide is based on a 28-day walk. This guide

Includes:: practical information, maps at a scale of 1:25.000 of Zakros-Vai, Mt Dikti, Psiloritis, Lefka Ori/ Sfakia, Frangokastello & Samaria-Sougia-Paleochora.

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The crew of a French reconnaissance plane during the First World War consisted of just two men: a pilot & an observer. Two such men are Jean Herbillon & Claude Maury. Herbillon`s dreams of glory as an air ace have been dashed after only a few months at the front; Maury suffers from a broken heart
- his only hope is that his exploits as a pilot will win back his lost love. Together the two form one of the best crews in the air, fighting in the first aerial conflict in history
- one in which a combatant can count his life expectancy in weeks. The pressure of war forges a strong bond between the two flyers, but can it survive the discovery that they are both in love with the same woman? Joseph Kessel`s autobiographical novel is a staggering tale of courage, brotherhood & loss.

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