Galt Airport serves as a vibrant hub for grassroots aviation, where camaraderie among pilots thrives amidst the aroma of coffee and fresh doughnuts. Laurence Gonzales shares his personal experiences at One Zero Charlie, capturing the exhilarating and sometimes tragic realities of flying. The narrative delves into the unique culture of aviation, revealing the fine line between science and superstition. With humor and intimacy, Gonzales challenges common perceptions, portraying the aviation world as both welcoming and perilous for those daring enough to enter.
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Laurence Gonzales approfondisce le profonde questioni della resilienza e della sopravvivenza umana. Attraverso una ricerca meticolosa e osservazioni acute, esplora i fattori psicologici e ambientali che determinano chi vive e chi muore in situazioni estreme. La sua scrittura spinge i lettori a considerare la propria capacità di gestire le crisi e gli istinti fondamentali che ci guidano. Il lavoro di Gonzales è un esame affascinante della mente umana di fronte al pericolo.







Surviving Survival
- 272pagine
- 10 ore di lettura
You have survived the crisis-trauma, disease, accident, or war-now how do you get your life back?
Flight 232
- 432pagine
- 16 ore di lettura
A dramatic and extraordinarily rare survivors' view of a major air crash, twenty-five years after the tragedy.
Surviving Survival: The Art and Science of Resilience
- 257pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
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.
Deep Survival
- 320pagine
- 12 ore di lettura
Now with a new introduction on how this book can help readers overcome any of life's obstacles, Deep Survival motivates and enlightens.
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
- 318pagine
- 12 ore di lettura
"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.
Everyday survival
- 288pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
The author of the bestselling "Deep Survival" once again turns to the cutting edge of science to illustrate how people can best use the lessons of evolutionary history to overcomes the hazards of everyday life.
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.
Umění přežít. Kdo přežije, kdo zemře a proč.
- 328pagine
- 12 ore di lettura
Za dekádu od svého prvního vydání přispěl bestseller Laurence Gonzalese jak k záchraně lidských životů v těch nejodlehlejších pustinách, tak ke zlepšení životů obyčejných čtenářů. Kombinace dobrodružného vyprávění, vědeckých poznatků o přežití a praktických rad pomohla lidem – od nejvýznačnějších byznysmenů přes armádní důstojníky a pedagogy až po profesionální psychiatry – pochopit, jak lépe zvládat stres, vyhodnocovat rizika a rozhodovat se pod tlakem. V novém vydání Laurence Gonzales přibližuje v předmluvě, jak může kniha čtenářům pomoct překonávat i ty nejtěžší životní překážky. Jeho poutavé vyprávění jistě osloví, poučí a motivuje celou novou generaci čtenářů. Příběhy o přežití propojené s výzkumy o lidském vnímání, včetně výtečného popisu, co se v nás děje, když cítíme strach.

