Careful

Author : Steve Casner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780399574115

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Careful by Steve Casner Pdf

“Gripping, page-turning material . . . a new way of thinking about survival in a world filled with hazards and distractions.” —Charles Duhigg, author of Smarter Faster Better and The Power of Habit A safety expert reveals why few of us are as careful as we think we are, and what we can do about it. As doctors and medical researchers work busily to extend our lives, more people each year are figuring out ways to cut them short. In fact, after a hundred years of steady decline, the rate at which people are being injured (or worse) in everyday accidents is increasing. Blame car crashes, pedestrian fatalities, home-improvement projects gone wrong, medical mistakes, home fires—not to mention all the crazy things that kids are into these days. And the problem seems to be spinning out of control. Steve Casner has devoted his career to studying the psychology of safety, and he knows there’s not a safety warning we won’t ignore or a foolproof device we can’t turn into an implement of disaster. Casner details the psychological traps that prevent us from being more careful. They’re the same whether you’re a pilot, a Hollywood stuntwoman, a parent, or the owner of a clogged dishwasher you’re trying to fix with a screwdriver. Then he shows us gripping real examples of how and when injuries happen, so we know exactly what we should really be worrying about. Careful arms readers with the latest science on how our sometimes fallible minds work, with countless takeaways to incorporate at home, at work, and everywhere in between. This book will help us keep our fingers attached in the kitchen, our kids afloat at the pool, and our teens safe behind the wheel, and demonstrates the many other ways we can maximize our chances of getting through the day in one piece.

Author : Shannon Holmes
Publisher : Teri Woods Publishing, LLC
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780977323470

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B-More Careful by Shannon Holmes Pdf

Growing up on the cold, mean, inner city streets of Baltimore is Netta, leader of an all-girl clique called the Pussy Pound. With no father and a dope fiend for a mother, Netta learns at an early age how to use beauty and her body to get the things she wants, money, cars, and jewelry. Chasing the almighty dollar, Netta meets Black, a local drug dealer with a deep-seated hatred for new Yorkers, who falls head over heals in love with her. With a broken heart, Black discovers that Netta is only after his money, and he seeks the ultimate revenge against her life.

Author : Martin Shain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Work environment
ISBN : 077987238X

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The Careful Workplace by Martin Shain Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Archer
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250034472

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Be Careful What You Wish For by Jeffrey Archer Pdf

Bestselling author Jeffrey Archer's Be Careful What You Wish For opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to hospital to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has been involved in a fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend Bruno? When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company, Emma Clifton wants to replace him. But Don Pedro Martinez intends to install his puppet, the egregious Major Alex Fisher, in order to destroy the Barrington family firm just as the company plans to build its new luxury liner, the MV Buckingham. Back in London, Harry and Emma's adopted daughter wins a scholarship to the Slade Academy of Art where she falls in love with a fellow student, Clive Bingham, who asks her to marry him. Both families are delighted until Priscilla Bingham, Jessica's future mother-in-law, has a visit from an old friend, Lady Virginia Fenwick, who drops her particular brand of poison into the wedding chalice. Then, without warning, Cedric Hardcastle, a bluff Yorkshireman who no one has come across before, takes his place on the board of Barringtons. This causes an upheaval that none of them could have anticipated, and will change the lives of every member of the Clifton and Barrington families. Hardcastle's first decision is who to support to become the next chairman of the board: Emma Clifton or Major Alex Fisher? And with that decision, the story takes yet another twist that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Be Careful What You Wish For showcases the master storyteller's talent as never before – when the Clifton and Barrington families march forward into the sixties, in this epic tale of love, revenge, ambition and betrayal.

Author : Simon Jordan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448113132

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Be Careful What You Wish For by Simon Jordan Pdf

Ever dreamed of owning your boyhood football club? Be careful what you wish for... Simon Jordan grew up a stone's throw from Crystal Palace Football Club. As a boy he used to break into the Palace ground for a kick-about on the hallowed turf. On leaving school he entered the mobile phone business. By the age of thirty-two, he'd built a company from nothing, sold it for £75 million and bought his childhood club. By the age of forty-two Palace was in administration and Jordan had lost nigh on everything. Be Careful What You Wish For lifts the lid on the owner's story and reveals for the first time how the national game really works. Jordan spares no one, least of all himself, as he takes us inside a world where hopes and aspirations sit alongside greed, self-interest, overpriced players, dodgy transfers and top-level incompetence. He doesn't hold back. Breathtakingly honest, highly controversial, humorous and full of jaw-dropping anecdotes, Be Careful What You Wish For is far more than a football book. It is a social commentary on the culture of great wealth and ambition; a Shakespearean tragedy that exposes the dark side of chasing a dream. The perfect Christmas gift for all football fans. 'One of the best football books you will ever read' Birmingham Post

Author : Amelia Sharman,Maria Bargh,Kya Raina Lal,Sylvia Nissen,Sam Huggard,Matt Whineray,Richard Kaipo Lum,Judy Lawrence,Anne Gibbon,David Frame,Jonathan Boston
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781988545653

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A Careful Revolution by Amelia Sharman,Maria Bargh,Kya Raina Lal,Sylvia Nissen,Sam Huggard,Matt Whineray,Richard Kaipo Lum,Judy Lawrence,Anne Gibbon,David Frame,Jonathan Boston Pdf

‘I am 29 years old. I was born just before the Kyoto Protocol was signed, and since then global mean temperatures have risen by an estimated 0.2°C per decade . . . in my lifetime I am likely to experience a world that is 2°C warmer, perhaps as much as 4°C, and has more droughts, fires and floods.’ Sylvia Nissen Climate crisis is upon us. By choice or necessity, New Zealand will transition to a low-emissions future. But can this revolution be careful? Can it be attentive to the disruptions it inevitably creates? Or will carefulness simply delay and dilute the changes that future people require of us? This timely collection brings together eleven authors to explore the politics and practicalities of the low-emissions transition, touching on issues of justice, tikanga, trade-offs, finance, futurism, adaptation, and more.

Author : David Pryce-Jones
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1563051567

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You Can't Be Too Careful by David Pryce-Jones Pdf

You can't be too careful, not in a universe that began with a random Big Bang and whose only certainty is accident. A collection of cautionary tales of all the unexpected ways people die, these are succinct items whose very matter-of-factness seems to reinforce the utterly bewildering nature of life and death. Illustrations throughout.

Author : Theodore M. Bernstein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780684826325

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The Careful Writer by Theodore M. Bernstein Pdf

A handbook of alphabetized entries which provide answers to questions of use, meaning, grammar, punctuation, precision, logical structure, and color.

Author : Cheri J. Meiners
Publisher : Free Spirit Publishing
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781575428055

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Be Careful and Stay Safe by Cheri J. Meiners Pdf

The world can seem so perilous, especially where our children are concerned. But even very young children can learn basic skills for staying safe in ordinary situations and preparing for emergencies. Without scaring kids (or alarming adults), this book teaches little ones how to avoid potentially dangerous situations, ask for help, follow directions, use things carefully, and plan ahead. Includes questions, activities, and safety games that reinforce the ideas being taught.

Author : Diane Dimond
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743270922

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Be Careful Who You Love by Diane Dimond Pdf

Chronicles the music superstar's battles against child molestation charges from 1993 to 2005, in an account that examines the complicated aspects of the case and provides insight into Jackson's self-transformation and the events at the Neverland Ranch.

Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307371713

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The Careful Use of Compliments by Alexander McCall Smith Pdf

Full-time philosopher and occasional sleuth Isabel Dalhousie, now the mother of a baby boy, is getting used to the new rhythms of her life, caring for little Charlie with the sometimes unsettling aid of her forthright housekeeper, Grace, having dinners with Charlie’s father, Jamie, and tending as usual to submissions to the Review of Applied Ethics. But Isabel is deeply unsettled when she receives a letter telling her that she is soon to be replaced as editor of the Review by Christopher Dove, an ambitious academic at a London university, and she considers a variety of ways of dealing with this unwelcome news. And her niece, Cat, who a couple of years before had rejected Jamie and broken his heart, is now furious at Isabel for having stolen him away. Isabel’s insatiable curiosity—or what Jamie sees as her tendency toward meddling—is peaked when she learns some odd details regarding two paintings by a Scottish artist that have come onto the auction market, and she begins to think that the paintings might be forgeries. Her investigation takes her to the beautiful Isle of Jura, where she finds some recent traces of the painter and learns of his apparent suicide in the fabled whirlpool called the Corryvreckan. A visit to the painter’s widow brings a surprising realization, one that contributes to her musings throughout the story on mothers, fathers, and sons.

Author : Ye Guaiguai
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 913 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781648571541

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Prince Be Careful: Concubine is Prickly by Ye Guaiguai Pdf

If love could be betrayed, then it was only because the love was not deep enough! When revenge comes, do you have to change your original plan? His former lover was now his enemy! How can you talk about our country under heaven when you're bathing in blood ... Inside and outside the palace walls, my heart leaves you a blank space. [If you are familiar with the art, I will do it myself ...]

Author : Sumner Locke Elliott
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781921921841

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Careful, He Might Hear You by Sumner Locke Elliott Pdf

It’s the Great Depression. Six-year-old PS is an orphan. He lives in Sydney with his Aunt Lila. But all that is about to change. Now his Aunt Vanessa has decided to take proper care of him. Careful, He Might Hear You is one of the most extraordinary portraits of childhood in Australian fiction.

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783849641573

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You Can't Be Too Careful (Annotated Edition) by H. G. Wells Pdf

This is the annotated edition including the rare biographical essay by Edwin E. Slosson called "H. G. Wells - A Major Prophet Of His Time". You Can't Be Too Careful is a brief and deliberately grimy account of a dreary human called Edward Albert Tewler, a lower-middle-class Englishman whom Mr. Wells has provided with an independent income. The honesty and the anger of this book make themselves felt and will make the reader think. Wells has left upon his time what very few writers leave: an impression. It is the impression of a fist ...

Author : Linda Reilly
Publisher : Beyond The Page
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781960511614

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Brie Careful What You Wish For by Linda Reilly Pdf

When a mean and quarrelsome woman is found murdered in her own home, most of the residents of Balsam Dell can only say feta late than never . . . With the summer heat sizzling, grilled cheese restaurant owner Carly Hale is thrilled to have Ross Baxter delivering her sandwiches to local seniors. She’s never met a more polite or hardworking young man, and she brushes it off when one of her more difficult customers complains about him. But then Ross returns to the woman’s home to make another delivery—and finds her dead body. The police and half the town immediately suspect he killed her, so Carly steps in to investigate, determined to prove them wrong. Carly soon learns that the victim had an estranged stepson and stepdaughter, both of whom needed her money to get their lives back on track. Worse still, in her younger days the dead woman had a reputation for preying on other women’s husbands, leaving broken marriages in her wake—and a list of suspects a mile long. But Ross’s fingerprints were found on the murder weapon, leaving Carly hungry for any clue she can find. Until she comes face-to-face with the killer, and realizes this time she may have bitten off more than she can chew . . . Includes melt-in-your-mouth sandwich recipes! Praise for the Grilled Cheese Mysteries: “A complex mystery and yummy grilled cheese recipes. What’s not to like?” —Kirkus Reviews “A delightful and determined heroine, idyllic small town, and buffet of worthy suspects make this hearty whodunnit an enticing start to a decidedly delectable new series!” —Bree Baker, author of the Seaside Café Mysteries “Masterful misdirection coupled with a pace that can’t be beat, Linda Reilly has grilled up a winner for sure!” —J. C. Eaton, author of the Sophie Kimball Mysteries, the Wine Trail Mysteries, and the Marcie Rayner Mysteries “A well-crafted and fun start to a new series! Carly and her crew serve mouth-watering grilled cheese sandwiches while solving crime in a quaint Vermont town. Plenty of twists and turns to keep you turning the pages and guessing the killer to the very end.” —Tina Kashian, author of the Kebab Kitchen Mysteries