Fatal Words

Author: Steven Cushing
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226132006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
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

Author: Louise Guy
Publisher: Louise Guy
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 23

Book Description
Jason's New Year's Eve plans reignite family heartbreak. The significance of the day has the potential to either heal or destroy his family. The clock is ticking.

Fatal Words and Friendly Faces

Author: Larry G. Ehrlich
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761817208
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
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

Author:
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615234321
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
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

Author: Quintin Jardine
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780755329168
Category : Celebrities
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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

Author: Jeanne Favret-Saada
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521297875
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
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.

The Word

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Occultism
Languages : en
Pages : 428

Book Description

The Rank and Talent of the Time. A Dictionary of Contemporary Biography, Containing One Thousand Interesting and Accurate Memoirs of Eminent Living Celebrities. [A Reissue of “A Dictionary of Contemporary Biography.” With Portraits.]

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486

Book Description

A Dictionary of the Underworld

Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131744552X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 2680

Book Description
First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal worlds. It includes entries from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, as well as from Britain and America and offers a fascinating and unique study of language. The book provides an invaluable insight into social history, with the British vocabulary dating back to the 16th century and the American to the late 18th century. Each entry comes complete with the approximate date of origin, the etymology for each word, and a note of the milieu in which the expression arose.

Magic Words

Author: Craig Conley
Publisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 1578634342
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
This is a one-of-a-kind resource for armchair linguists, pop-culture enthusiasts, Pagans, Wiccans, magicians, and trivia nuts alike.