Human Error

This is a down-to-earth practitioner's guide to managing maintenance error. It deals with human risks generally and the special human performance p...

This latest edition of The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error ' will help you understand how to move beyond 'human error'; how to understand...

Modern technology has now reached a point where improved safety can only be achieved through a better understanding of human error mechanisms. In i...

Reducere. DescriptionMost incidents and accidents are down to 'human error'. Unfortunately, 'human error' is normal and we can't get rid of it. However, we c...

Reducere. Everything in nature evolves by trial and error. We cannot avoid this fundamental method of natural evolution, but our human advantage is that we c...

This succinct but absorbing book covers the main way stations on James Reason's 40-year journey in pursuit of the nature and varieties of human err...

In Galileo's Error, he has taken the first step on a new path toward the final theory of human consciousness.'A must-read for anyone interested in ...

As a new generation of nuclear power stations and weapons develop, Pearce takes stock of the pitfalls and gains of the nuclear story to date, inter...

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Investigations into the causes of aircraft accidents have for decades focused on what happened and who did it - very rarely 'Why'? It is the questi...

Reducere. Our tendency is to blame workers and label their personal failings as the cause of safety errors. Labeling does not solve problems that cause error...

ACSM's Body Composition Assessment provides practicing fitness, health, and medical professionals with information about various body composition m...

DescriptionAccident investigation and risk assessment have for decades focused on the human factor, particularly 'human error'. Countless books and...

DescriptionOur experience of the world is driven by processes common to all animals: growth, survival, reproduction and death. Evolution and Human ...

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'Read this if you want to understand how to shape our technological future and reinvigorate democracy along the way.' - Reed Hastings, co-founder a...

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a ...

Reducere. The eye of the beholder...When Dr. Carson Beckett disturbs the rest of two longdead Ancients, he unleashes devastating consequences of global propo...

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An illustrated celebration of human error - covering 19 of the most significantly life-changing or random discoveries: from the invention of firewo...

Reducere. DescriptionConfidential data and our personal privacy are under threat as never before. With breaches and cyber attacks on the rise, political and ...

DescriptionDoes accepting the doctrine of biblical inspiration necessitate belief in biblical inerrancy? The Bible has always functioned authoritat...

Reducere. Even the best Wall Street investors make mistakes. No matter how savvy or experienced, all financial practitioners eventually let bias, overconfide...

Contributor(s): Author: Institute of MedicineAuthor: Committee on Quality of Health Care in AExperts estimate that as many as 98, 000 people die in...

Reducere. Immerse yourself in the history of medicine - a colourful story of skill, serendipity, trial and error, moments of genius, and dogged determination...

Human Thinking: The Basics provides an essential introduction into how we develop thoughts, the types of reasoning we engage in, and how our thinki...

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Reducere. Following natural history writings from Aristotle to Darwin, The Store-House of Wonder and Astonishment celebrates the combination of discovery and...

Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, h...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bs MR David Marx JdWe're going to hurt each other ... It's a fact of life, a cost of doing business. On the bright side, we...

Reducere. The U.S. healthcare system is now spending many millions of dollars to improve ``patient safety`` and ``inter-professional practice.`` Nevertheless...

Reveals the use of direct perception in understanding Nature, medicinal plants, and the healing of human disease - Explores the techniques used by ...

Since the early days of performance assessment, human ratings have been subject to various forms of error and bias. Expert raters often come up wit...

This important edition focuses on the human factor in training, cautionary tales of breaches that occurred through human error, while also identify...

Reducere. Technology scholars declare an emergency: attention must be paid to the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological system...

Reducere. In 1994, a wildfire on Colorado's Storm King Mountain was wrongly identified at the outset as occurring in South Canyon. This unintentional, seemin...

Your mind is not built to make you happy; it's built to help you survive. So far, it's done a great jobBut in the process, it may have developed so...

Reducere. The Greater Key of Solomon is arguably one of the most influential grimoires in modern magical practice; however, like so many of the older books o...

Reducere. A great philosopher once observed, Philosophers let theories get in the way of what they and everybody else know. A lot of ink has been spilt in or...

Reducere. Reviews of Allan Andrade's book, S.S. Leopoldville December 24, 1944 published in 1997 Thanks to the publication of this book and the publicity tha...

-We are part of Nature. -We need to interact with the natural world as living kin, not dead resource. -We can do it. These are the messages that th...

Classical stories and depictions of hungry ghosts not only tell us a great deal about Buddhism in the ancient world--they also speak to the modern ...

Reducere. Under the hot summer sun, vacationers stroll the Rehoboth Beach boardwalk, chewing saltwater taffy and listening to the gulls raucous cackle. Few r...

Reducere. Are you passionate about the potential of Design Thinking? The creative, collaborative and human centered approach you know your organization needs...

DescriptionBroken Child Mended Man is a remarkably compelling memoir touching on childhood neglect, years in foster care and overcoming the odds to...

DescriptionFor as long as we have been researching human memory, psychologists have been investigating how people remember and forget. This researc...

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Reducere. DescriptionMemory: A contribution to experimental psychologyBy Hermman Ebbinghaus -----------------------------------------------------------------...

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Reducere. Introducing computers into production engineering has drastically reduced the "artisan skill" content traditionally required in manufacturing proce...

Reducere. In this anthology, 40 poets offer poems inspired by protected lands in New England, and 11 land trusts tell the stories of how and why they do this...

SIDDHARTHA: EINE INDISCHE DICHTUNG von Hermann Hesse ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

DescriptionResilience engineering has consistently argued that safety is more than the absence of failures. Since the first book was published in 2...

Reducere. Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans--predictable, error-prone indi...

A just culture is a culture of trust, learning and accountability. It is particularly important when an incident has occurred; when something has g...

Reducere. Open this book and begin an epic human journey--the journey toward truth. Enjoy a delightful and imaginative allegory of timeless wisdom as you tra...

Reducere. DescriptionFor more than 28 years, Kaizen consultants from Shingijutsu USA Corporation have been helping manufacturing and service organizations im...

Reducere. DescriptionThe landmark five-book series--now in a beautifully designed, cloth-bound deluxe hardcover boxed set The Incerto is an investigation of ...

Written by renowned competitive body builder and Sports Nutritionist Phil Graham The Diabetic Muscle and Fitness Guide is the first ever evidence-b...

DescriptionHave aliens been coming to Earth for centuries? Read the accounts and decide for yourself, with this eye-opening illustrated catalog of ...

DescriptionManual de la Masoneria: El Tejador de los Ritos Antiguo Escoces, Frances y de Adopcion por Andres Cassard ------------------------------...

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The Life of General Ely S. Parker: Last grand sachem of the Iroquois and General Grant's military secretaryBy Arthur Parker -----------------------...

Reducere. DescriptionFor the first time, a historian and seasoned mariner looks beyond the specific circumstances of individual shipwrecks in an effort to re...

From a leading philosopher of the mind comes this lucid, provocative argument that offers a radically new picture of human consciousness--panpsychi...

Reducere. A synthesis of forty years' work by France's leading sociologist, this book pushes the critique of scholarly reason to a new level. It is a brillia...