Fatal Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fatal Words write by Steven Cushing. This book was released on 1994-03-04. Fatal Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Fatal Words and Friendly Faces
Fatal Words and Friendly Faces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fatal Words and Friendly Faces write by Larry G. Ehrlich. This book was released on 2000. Fatal Words and Friendly Faces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Fatal Words Fragile Hopes
Fatal Words Fragile Hopes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fatal Words Fragile Hopes write by . This book was released on 2009-11-01. Fatal Words Fragile Hopes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Fatal Last Words
Fatal Last Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fatal Last Words write by Quintin Jardine. This book was released on 2009. Fatal Last Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of Scotland's most successful crime writers is found dead in the author tent at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, and Bob Skinner is on the case.
Deadly Words
Deadly Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deadly Words write by Jeanne Favret-Saada. This book was released on 1980-12-04. Deadly Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
