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  • SHOCKED

    Life and Death at 35,000 Feet

    What happens if I or someone I love has a life-threatening medical event on an airplane?Part historical narrative and part memoir, SHOCKED answers this perplexing question in the true but yet-untold story of how in 1998, life-saving defibrillators, now commonplace on the ground, were placed not into the hands of medical professionals, but flight attendants.SHOCKED also tells of the very first ... Leer más

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  • American Airlines, US Airways and the Creation of the World's Largest Airline

    de Ted Reed, Dan Reed ...
    The 2013 merger of American Airlines and US Airways marked a major step in the consolidation of the U.S. airline industry. A young management team that began plotting mergers a decade earlier designed a brilliant strategy to seize an industry prize. In doing so, it enlisted the help of unions who engineered one of the labor movement's biggest corporate victories. The airlines' histories and the ... Leer más

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  • Sully

    The Untold Story Behind the Miracle on the Hudson

    The inspirational autobiography of the heroic pilot who miraculously landed a crippled commercial flight in the Hudson River.Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom HanksOn January 15, 2009, the world witnessed a remarkable emergency landing when Captain "Sully" Sullenberger skillfully glided US Airways Flight 1549 onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 passengers ... Leer más

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  • SEAL Survival Guide: Active Shooter and Survival Medicine Excerpt

    de Cade Courtley ...
    From Cade Courtley’s SEAL Survival Guide, an excerpt of his sections on active shooter scenarios and basic survival medicine.Think and act like a Navy SEAL, and you can survive anything. The world is a dangerous place. You can live scared—or be prepared.“We never thought it would happen to us.” It's difficult to imagine encountering an active shooter situation, but the reality is that modern life ... Leer más

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  • Why Hospitals Should Fly

    The Ultimate Flight Plan to Patient Safety and Quality Care

    “How can it be that in 2008, a checked bag on an airline flight is still exponentially safer than a patient in an American hospital?  Simply put, one industry has learned the realities of what it takes to make a human system safe, and the other has not.  So what does it take to dramatically improve patient safety and service quality?  It takes a host of new and different (and sometimes radical) ... Leer más

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  • Full Upright and Locked Position: Not-So-Comfortable Truths about Air Travel Today

    The Insider's Guide to Air Travel

    de Mark Gerchick ...
    "Sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight," our pilots still intone. But who are they kidding?In Full Upright and Locked Position, former FAA chief counsel and senior aviation policy official Mark Gerchick unravels the unseen forces and little-known facts that have reshaped our air travel experience since September 11, 2001.With wry humor and unique insight, Gerchick takes us past the jargon, ... Leer más

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  • Challenger: An American Tragedy

    The Inside Story from Launch Control

    de Hugh Harris ...
    The former launch commentator "offers a personal—and sometimes painful—look back at one of the darkest chapters in US human spaceflight" (Space.com).On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Seventy-three seconds after launch, the fiery breach of a solid motor joint caused a rupture of the propellant tanks, and a stunned nation watched as ... Leer más

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  • Seconds To Disaster. Europe Edition

    de Ray Ronan ...
    As with the Air France Flight 447 tragedy, much of the time air crashes are a confluence of events; a cascade of bad luck, bad decisions, inappropriate airline company policy, the failure of aviation regulators, and sometimes insufficient training, or various combinations of all five.But why?Seconds to Disaster will demonstrate that part of that bad luck is often aided by the airline industry's ... Leer más

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  • Flying without Fear: Effective Strategies to Get You Where You Need to Go

    Effective Strategies to Get You Where You Need to Go

    de Duane Brown ...
    It starts with an innocent, altogether reasonable worry: What if the plane has a mechanical defect? What if I have a panic attack? Then the anxious thoughts multiply. You may know that these fears are irrational, but that doesn't slow them down. And before you know it, the risks of flying seem so great, you can't even think about getting on a plane.It's easy to keep aerophobia at bay for years by ... Leer más

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  • Confessions of an Air Ambulance Doctor

    Note to customers: This book is also available under the title "You Can't Park There!: The Highs and Lows of an Air Ambulance Doctor".'People get into this work for "the juice", meaning the adrenaline rush, but they don't tell you about the other juices - the mud, blood, snot and grot.'Confessions of an Air Ambulance Doctor is the first ever behind-the-scenes account of life onboard an air ... Leer más

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  • A Piece of My Heart

    The Stories of 26 American Women Who Served in Vietnam

    de Keith Walker ...
    “Records the memories of a war in the words of those women courageous enough to walk into hell.”—San Francisco ChronicleA decade after America pulled out of Vietnam, the seeds of the often heart- wrenching oral history, A Piece of My Heart, were sown when writer and filmmaker Keith Walker met a woman who had been an emergency room nurse in Cu Chi and Da Nang. She and 25 others recount the time ... Leer más

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  • A Fighter Pilot's Story: An Inspirational Journey from Failure to Success

    Read One Man's Success Story and Let It Inspire You to Create Your Own!Mark LaVerdiere always had a goal. From his first trip into the air with his father as a young boy, he followed his dream of becoming a Fighter Pilot. Some dream of being a Fighter Pilot; a select few strive to become one. Battling with self-confidence and coming up against unforeseen physical obstacles, Mark continued on, ... Leer más

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