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If you are a private pilot and you want to know how an automated plane works, this book can be useful for you. Otherwise, you are going to find better things to invest time and money.

The author seems to be impressed by his new toy (a Boeing 777) and devotes the whole book to tell us the wonders of automation. He writes about some accidents where the problem, of course, was never the design of automation but the behaviour of crewmembers (hindsight bias and bad apple theory). All of the accidents could have been avoided if the crew....easy to say after the accident happened. We all are wonderful prophets of the past.

The moment when I decided to stop reading was when I arrived to the description of an accident in a B-737. The crew, mistakenly, stopped the engine that was working properly instead of the bad one. The author cites Beaty as the source but the conclusions cannot be more different: For this author, the problem was, of course, the crew but Beaty describes an interesting point that, susprisingly, is forgotten by Risukhin: The cockpit design in the initial B-737s put the indicators of one of the engines above the indicators of the other. In that way, it was impossible to know automatically which engine was failing or, in other words, it was a bad design. Risukhin "forgets" this detail in his interest to sell the goodness of automation.

The obvious starting point to any accident research is the supposition that crewmembers are not dumb or crazy and their training is right. If not, we will discover during the research process. Once we accept this starting point, we have to try to know why experienced people commit bad mistakes. I hope Risukhin won't have to learn this at his own cost.

Hindsight -as Risukhin does- is very easy but it is not the right approach and, of course, the automation design, its complexity, unforeseen interactions between systems and lack of adequate training in the depths (not only the operating) of the systems can be under many accidents.

Beaty says another thing: Modern airplanes have converted pilots into supervisors and they can be very easily out of the "loop-of-control" since people are better performing than supervising. That is forgotten quite frequently in the automation design and, of course, you won't find a single word about this issue in the work by Risukhin.

An analysis of automation issues should have been a good idea. A praise trying to hide the bad parts and always pointing to the crew is not.

I opened this text, and found the examples and exercises disappointing and inadequate. This text is completely lacking.

Erik Erikson made a HUGE contribution to various areas of the Social Sciences. His work, however, was theoretical. Since it was theoretical, it is open to interpretation, application, etc. Otherwise, his work would be fact! Any basic Human Development course or text would reveal a more accurate critique of Erikson's work. Dewart provides a critique based on her religious beliefs--which is fine, except that you will note that all of her writings are pointing out which theorists, philosophers, ideologies do not match her religious beliefs.You would think that someone writing a book about the errors of a major psychological theory would have a more appropriate background than Dewart's--she is a ventriloquist doing bible puppet shows! Don't waste your time with this one. Fabricant's book does a much better job of showing how Erikson's theory aligns with most religious doctrine, instead of running counter to it.

OK plot, but I was appalled by the shallow characters and weak, repetitive writing style. At a certain point I started counting the number of paragraphs that started with the words "Carmella shrugged", but I lost count.

Some authors improve with each new book, others just crank them out. In this case, the author and publisher are clearly on auto-pilot.

Since this book undoubtedly felt compelled to utilize the TJ/Hemings' myth and regurgitated the usual diatribes for that dubious resurrection, repeat after me: There is not a scintilla of proof that TJ fathered Sally's brood.Nature magazine timidly posted a "correction" in 1999.
Ponder this scenario instead:Imagine that your good name/character is libelled/besmirched by a malicious or mentally-ill individual,and the majority of your acquaintences believe it to be true, such as hypothetically(take your pick):
1)You are a pimp/prostitute/etc
2)You have unbridled sexual mores,and predatory behavior
3)you are two-faced and so forth
If you, the reader, were assaulted with this garbage you would certainly opt for a lawyer,or totally ignore the nutcase. So, pray tell,cease and desist this garbage!

I have to admit that I read only the first 14 pages of the book,
until I ran into a wrong proof of a wrong result - I am a beginner in the field and that was enough of the book for me. Purser proves that over all codewords any bit position has an equal number of 0's and 1's, for a linear code. However, consider a linear code: (000), (100), (010), (110). The last bit is always zero! If there are additional assumptions that are made - they are not stated, and
the proof is also wrong. The mistake in the proof - c2+e1 doesn't
have to be in the original subgroup - see the example above.

This is a great book for anyone who would love a totally POWERLESS "Christian" lifestyle.

This is not the 2210 word article advertised in the item description. It is a 342 word abstract of the article described.

This booklet is really unorganized. The disassembly opening of Xbox should be in the beginning of the book. Also, the author does not show how an Xbox 360 looks like inside with the name of the most important parts. If you never have opened a PC and don't know what is a CPU or a heat sink, you are going to be lost. In other words, if you don't know anything about hardware this book is not for you. No technical information about fixing the three rings of dead problem. No graphical draw to help you understand how it is going to look whatever you are doing when the author explains the way to fix the three rings of dead. It does not tell you what tools you will need in the beginning either. The booklet itself shows poor quality. 36 pages with "supposedly" information. 18 blank pages. Total 56 pages...Don't waste your money