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Mustang Flying
Legend
by John M. Dibbs
North American P-51
Mustang
 by Frederick A. Johnsen		 amazon.com

Roaring Glory
Warbirds, Vol. 5
 Republic Thunderbolt P-47
DVD

 

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 The Logic of Failure  Why do trains crash when the signals are working? Why does a nuclear reactor melt down with all operators alert at their posts? Why do so many of our best laid professional and personal plans so often go awry?
           Paperback!

     Dietrich Dörner, winner of Germany's highest science prize, considers why -- given all our intelligence, experience, and information -- we make mistakes, sometimes with catastrophic consequences. Surprisingly, he finds the answer not in negligence or carelessness, but in what he calls "the logic of failure": certain tendencies in out patterns of thought -- such as taking one thing at a time, cause and effect, and linear thinking-that, while appropriate in an older, simpler world, prove disastrous for the complex world we live in now.

     Dörner finds no lack of examples. Why did the Aswan Dam planners who brought the blessings of cheap electricity to Egypt not realize that they would also interrupt the annual floods that for millennia had kept the Nile Valley rich and fertile? Why do planners of Third World health programs not realize that increased life expectancy requires increased food and thereby inadvertently end up contributing to starvation? Working with intriguing computer simulations of his own invention, Dörner exposes the flaws in our thinking. His examples -- sometimes hilarious, sometimes horrifying -- and brain-teasing thought experiments teach us how to solve complex problems. Together they make The Logic of Failure a corrective tool, a guideline for intelligent planning and decision making.
          -from Metropolitan Books

Well, this is Flying-related:

Monty Python's
Flying Circus:

Set 1,
Episodes 1-6
(1970)

 Monty Python's
Flying Circus:

Set 2,
Episodes 7-13
(1970)

 

 

 

Are you interested...?

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  Scott Adams
(of Dilbert Comics)

God's Debris
by Scott Adams

This Month's Treasure!

 
~ Pick up a copy for a friend! ~

 

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  Featured: Pulitzer Prize Winner! 

Guns, Germs, and Steel:
The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
Hardcover

also
Paperback or  Cassette

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  Hold on to your hats!
 Lee Smolin,  a professor at the
  Center for Gravitational
  Physics and Geometry at
  Pennsylvania State University,
  is about to take you on
     The ride of your life!


The Life of the Cosmos
by Lee Smolin

~ Pick up a copy for a friend! ~

 

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Prejudices : A Selection		 amazon.com

Treatise on the Gods 		amazon.com

The Vintage Mencken 		 amazon.com

Mencken Chrestomathy		 amazon.com

American Language 
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Encyclopedia of Gods : Over 2,500 Deities of the World 

 

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Best of Robert Ingersoll 		amazon.com

The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy		 amazon.com

Carlin
on Campus
( LINK )		 amazon.com

Carlin - Doin'
It Again
(LINK )

And since September 2001, this, too, is flight-related:

 

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The Holy Qur'an: Text,
Translation & Commentary

Abdullah Yusuf Ali (Editor)

LINK:  ISLAMIC TERRORISM

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