#1 New York Times Bestseller
“No one will come away unmoved by the book, and no one will be able to put it down…. There is no way of reading Alive without a heightened sense of one’s own life and its value.” — New Republic
Sixteen Men, Seventy-Two Days, and Insurmountable Odds—the Classic Adventure of Survival in the Andes
On October 12, 1972, an Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying a team of rugby players crashed in the remote snowy peaks of the Andes. Ten weeks later, only sixteen of the forty-five passengers were found alive. This is the story of those ten weeks spent in the shelter of the plane's fuselage without food and with scarcely any hope of a rescue. The survivors protected and helped one another, and came to the difficult conclusion that to live meant doing the unimaginable. Confronting nature at its most furious, two brave young men risked their lives to hike through the mountains looking for help. A tale of astonishing bravery and adventure, Alive is much more than a survival story, it is a breathtaking saga of human courage The P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including interviews, recommended reading, and more.

Alive

Biographies & Memoirs

Read, Piers Paul

Historical

Harper Perennial

The boatowner's foremost troubleshooting guide, now better than ever 
If it's on a boat and it has screws, wires, or moving parts, it's covered in Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual. When you leave the dock with this book aboard, you have at your fingertips the best and most comprehensive advice on: 
<ul>
<li>Battery technologies </li>
<li>12- and 24-volt DC systems </li>
<li>Corrosion, bonding, and lightning protection </li>
<li>Generators, inverters, and battery chargers </li>
<li>Electric motors and electric lights </li>
<li>Marine electronics, antennas, and RFI </li>
<li>Diesel engines </li>
<li>Transmissions, shaft brakes, and propellers </li>
<li>Refrigeration and air-conditioning </li>
<li>Tanks, plumbing, and through-hulls </li>
<li>Pumps and watermakers </li>
<li>Steering, autopilots, and wind vanes </li>
<li>Stoves and heaters </li>
<li>Winches, windlasses, and bow thrusters </li>
<li>Spars, rigging, and roller reefing </li>
</ul>
"If you had to choose a single book to help you assess and maintain your boat gear, this would be it."―Practical Sailor 
"A truly remarkable bible. . . . This book is the best of its kind."―WoodenBoat 
"A major achievement. . . . It would be hard to imagine anything going wrong on a boat that couldn't be figured out with this book."―Sailing World 
"The world's best technical reference and troubleshooting book."―Sailing Inland and Offshore 
"This manual will be of lasting interest to anyone who wants to know how their boat works, what has gone wrong when it doesn't, and how it could be fixed."―Classic Boat 
"Without becoming too complex, the book covers almost every imaginable mechanical or electrical matter in the marine environment."―Work Boat World 
"Calder lives what he writes, . . . [and] what he offers . . . is practical solutions to problems associated with increasingly complex marine systems. . . . [A] bargain for anyone in the construction and repair side of the boat business."―Professional Boatbuilder

Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual: How to Maintain, Repair, and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems

Engineering & Transportation

Calder, Nigel

Transportation

International Marine Publishing

Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students, Sixth Edition, is the leading self contained aircraft structures course text. It covers all fundamental subjects, including elasticity, structural analysis, airworthiness and aeroelasticity. Now in its sixth edition, the author has expanded the book’s coverage of analysis and design of composite materials for use in aircraft, and has added new, real world and design based examples, along with new end of chapter problems of varying complexity.
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<li>Expanded coverage of composite materials and structures </li>
<li>New practical and design based examples and problems throughout the text aid understanding and relate concepts to real world applications </li>
<li>Updated and additional Matlab examples and exercises support use of computational tools in analysis and design </li>
<li>Available online teaching and learning tools include downloadable Matlab code, solutions manual, and image bank of figures from the book</li>
</ul>

Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students (Aerospace Engineering)

Business & Money

Megson, T.H.G.

Industries

Butterworth-Heinemann

Cockpit Resource Management (CRM) has gained increased attention from the airline industry in recent years due to the growing number of accidents and near misses in airline traffic. This book, authored by the first generation of CRM experts, is the first comprehensive work on CRM. Cockpit Resource Management is a far-reaching discussion of crew coordination, communication, and resources from both within and without the cockpit. A valuable resource for commercialand military airline training curriculum, the book is also a valuable reference for business professionals who are interested in effective communication among interactive personnel.

Crew Resource Management

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Academic Press

The new edition of Crew Resource Management reflects advancements made in the conceptual foundation as well as the methods and approaches of applying CRM in the aviation industry. Because CRM training has the practical goal of enhancing flight safety through more effective flight crew performance, this new edition adapts itself to fit the users, the task, and operational and regulatory environments--all of which continually evolve. Each contributor examines techniques and presents cases that best illustrate CRM concepts and training. This book discusses the history and research foundation of CRM and also stresses the importance of making adaptive changes and advancements. New chapters include: CRM and Individual Resilience; Flight and Cabin Crew Teamwork: Improving Safety in Aviation: CRM and Risk Management/Safety Management Systems; and MRM for Technical Operations. This book provides a deep understanding of CRM--what it is, how it works, and how to practically implement an effective program.

Psychology & Counseling

Automotive Steering, Suspension, and Alignment, Third Edition

James D. Halderman

Prentice-Hall

This text combines brakes with steering, suspension, and alignment in one comprehensive book. Each chapter combines principles, purpose, function, operation, and diagnosis. This makes learning easier because the operation and service procedures are closely linked. This up-to-date ASE-certification oriented text has these key features: Tech Tips, Diagnostic Stories, Sample Tests, Glossary, Comprehensive Appendix, and Hundreds of Photographs and Line Drawings.

Automotive Chassis Systems

Halderman, James D.

Pearson College Div

This text reflects Halderman's experience. It offers coverage of the parts, operation, design and troubleshooting of brake systems, and answers the why's along with the how's.

Automotive Brake Systems

Automotive

Focuses on satisfying the need for problem diagnosis of automotive break systems problems. Illustrates how real problems are solved. Softcover. Spiral workbook included.

Automotive Brake Systems Reprint Package (2nd Edition)

Mitchell, Chase D. Jr.

Mitchell, Chase

Automotive Chassis System, 5e is organized around the ASE automobile test content area for Brakes (A5) and Suspension and Steering (A4). Featuring complete coverage of parts, operation, design, and troubleshooting techniques, it correlates material to task lists specified by ASE and NATEF and emphasizes a diagnostic approach throughout. Chapter features include Tech Tips, Diagnostic Stories, High-Performance Tips, Frequently Asked Questions and more.

Mitchell, Chase D.

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Alive

Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual: How to Maintain, Repair, and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems

Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students (Aerospace Engineering)

Crew Resource Management

Crew Resource Management

Automotive Steering, Suspension, and Alignment, Third Edition

Automotive Chassis Systems

Automotive Brake Systems

Automotive Brake Systems Reprint Package (2nd Edition)

Automotive Chassis Systems