Deep Survival Who Lives Who Dies And Why

Author : Laurence Gonzales
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393076571
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why written by Laurence Gonzales and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-10-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Unique among survival books... stunning... enthralling. Deep Survival makes compelling, and chilling, reading."—Penelope Purdy, Denver Post In ?Deep Survival?, Laurence Gonzalez combines hard science and powerful storytelling to illustrate the mysteries of survival, whether in the wilderness or in meeting any of life's great challenges. This gripping narrative, the first book to describe the art and science of survival, will change the way you see the world. Everyone has a mountain to climb. Everyone has a wilderness inside.

Author : Laurence Gonzales
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393083187
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Surviving Survival: The Art and Science of Resilience written by Laurence Gonzales and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on cases across a range of life-threatening experiences, Laurence Gonzales makes a compelling argument about fear, courage and the adaptability of the human spirit.

Author : Laurence Gonzales
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393069656
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things written by Laurence Gonzales and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-10-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Well-written and fascinating . . . this is the kind of book you want everyone to read.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer “Curiosity, awareness, attention,” Laurence Gonzales writes. “Those are the tools of our everyday survival. . . . We all must be scientists at heart or be victims of forces that we don’t understand.” In this fascinating account, Gonzales turns his talent for gripping narrative, knowledge of the way our minds and bodies work, and bottomless curiosity about the world to the topic of how we can best use the blessings of evolution to overcome the hazards of everyday life. Everyday Survival will teach you to make the right choices for our complex, dangerous, and quickly changing world—whether you are climbing a mountain or the corporate ladder.

Author : Laurence Gonzales
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393240023
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight 232 written by Laurence Gonzales and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five years after the catastrophe, a dramatic and extraordinarily rare 360-degree view of the crash of a fully loaded jumbo jet.

Author : Watt Key
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
ISBN 13 : 0374306540
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deep Water written by Watt Key and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr). This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a dive off the coast of Alabama goes horribly wrong, 12-year-old Julie and one of her father's scuba clients struggle to survive after reaching an abandoned oil rig.

Author : J. Leach
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230372716
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Survival Psychology written by J. Leach and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994-09-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '...it should be made standard reading for those dealing with disaster/survival situations, it is also very informative in helping the general reader understand the psychology of survivors...The text makes compulsive reading and the book is hard to put down. It is worth examining, no matter where your professional interest lies.'- Duncan MacPaul, Nursing Times. Why do so many people die without need? How can an exceptional few survive extraordinarily harsh conditions sometimes after months or years of deprivation? Recent years have seen remarkable improvements in survival training and technology, yet most people still perish quickly in the face of adversity. In this book John Leach seeks to answer these questions by considering the psychology of human survival; how groups and individuals behave before, during and after life threatening events. Both short and long-term survival are addressed as well as the psychological consequences of hunger, thirst, cold, heat, crowding, isolation, fatigue and sleep deprivation. The essence of this work is distilled into a set of principles for psychological first-aid for use in the field.

Author : Laurence Gonzales
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393326152
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deep Survival written by Laurence Gonzales and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [This book] combines hard science and storytelling to illuminate the mysteries of survival, whether in the wilderness or in meeting any of life's great challenges. [It] describe[s] the art and science of survival, will change the way you see your world.-Back cover.

Author : Laurence Gonzales
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393244148
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival written by Laurence Gonzales and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A richly detailed story that is equal parts heartbreaking, inspiring…and full of fascinating science…masterful." —San Francisco Chronicle As hundreds of rescue workers waited on the ground, United Airlines Flight 232 wallowed drunkenly over the bluffs northwest of Sioux City. The plane slammed onto the runway and burst into a vast fireball. The rescuers didn't move at first: nobody could possibly survive that crash. And then people began emerging from the summer corn that lined the runways. Miraculously, 184 of 296 passengers lived. No one has ever attempted the complete reconstruction of a crash of this magnitude. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of survivors, crew, and airport and rescue personnel, Laurence Gonzales, a commercial pilot himself, captures, minute by minute, the harrowing journey of pilots flying a plane with no controls and flight attendants keeping their calm in the face of certain death. He plumbs the hearts and minds of passengers as they pray, bargain with God, plot their strategies for survival, and sacrifice themselves to save others. Ultimately he takes us, step by step, through the gripping scientific detective work in super-secret labs to dive into the heart of a flaw smaller than a grain of rice that shows what brought the aircraft down. An unforgettable drama of the triumph of heroism over tragedy and human ingenuity over technological breakdown, Flight 232 is a masterpiece in the tradition of the greatest aviation stories ever told.

Author : Laurence Gonzales
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307473902
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lucy written by Laurence Gonzales and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primatologist Jenny Lowe is studying bonobo chimpanzees deep in the Congo when she is caught in a deadly civil war that leaves a fellow researcher dead and his daughter, Lucy, orphaned. Realizing that the child has no living relatives, Jenny begins to care for Lucy as her own. But as she reads the late scientist’s notebooks, she discovers that Lucy is the result of a shocking experiment, and that the adorable, magical, wonderful girl she has come to love is an entirely new hybrid species—half human, half bonobo.

Author : Polo Tate
Publisher : Feiwel and Friends
ISBN 13 : 1250128528
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deep Dark Blue written by Polo Tate and published by Feiwel and Friends. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A YA memoir of sexual abuse in the Air Force academy, and the author's survival and healing."--Provided by publisher.