Offers a collection of real-life accounts of both well-known and less well-known air disasters and near misses, while covering scientific factors and the political backgrounds to terrorist and military in-air incidents, focuses on the human element. This book covers the ingenious, painstaking work done by air-accident investigators.
Nineteen thrilling stories from the murky world of major international drug dealing, detailing the lavish lifestyles of larger-than-life characters like Curtis Warren, Howard Marks, Pablo Escobar, George Jung, and many others: from the jungles of South America to the pot farms of Canada; from China, Thailand, and Afghanistan to Spain, London and Liverpool.
"You talkin' to me?" If you're a diehard film buff -or just a Diehard buff- this hilarious little book is indeed talkin' to you. Taking a completely wacky approach to the game of movie trivia, author Paul Copperwaite has devised scores of graphs-pie charts, bar charts, flowcharts, diagrams, and tables-that tickle you while testing your knowledge of the most memorable and most embarrassing moments in cinematic history. Copperwaite's charts measure and quantify the strangest stuff: Bruce Willis's baldness, Al Pacino's loudness, Keanu Reeves' expressiveness (or lack thereof), King Kong's irritability level, property values in Amityville, the coincidence between John Travolta's dancing in a film and that film's box office success (Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction hit it big; Battlefield Earth flops).If you love movies and pride yourself on how much you know about them, you'll relish being in on the jokes.