ERRORNOMICS by Joseph T Hallinan ( 9780091932633 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

ERRORNOMICS
WHY WE MAKE MISTAKES AND WHAT WE CAN DO TO AVOID THEM

By:

Joseph T Hallinan

Format:

Paperback

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£15.99

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£11.67

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ISBN 10:

0091932637

ISBN 13:

9780091932633

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Publisher:

EBURY PUBLISHING

Pub. date:

1 August, 2009

Pages:

288

Description:

From minor lapses (why we're so likely to forget passwords) to life-threatening blunders (why anaesthetists used to maim their patients), this title explains the everyday mistakes that shape our lives, and what we can do to prevent them happening.

Synopsis:

How did security staff at LA International Airport miss 75 per cent of bomb-making materials that went through screening? Which way should you turn before joining a supermarket queue? Why should a woman hope it was a man who witnessed her bag being snatched? And what possessed Burt Reynolds to punch a guy with no legs? Human beings can be stubbornly irrational and wilfully blind ...but at least we're predictably wrong. From minor lapses (why we're so likely to forget passwords) to life-threatening blunders (why anaesthetists used to maim their patients), Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Joseph T. Hallinan explains the everyday mistakes that shape our lives, and what we can do to prevent them happening.

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Ebury Press

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