Consultant Wensveen completely updates this edition with the latest on regulation, deregulation, practices and the effects of politics and current events and includes chapter summaries, key objectives
"Now in its eighth edition, Air Transportation: A Management Perspective by John Wensveen is a proven textbook that offers a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of air transportation
North Korea's testing of a nuclear bomb sent out a shock wave throughout the world and totally changed the strategic equation in the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia. This testing has far-reaching
The absence of a just culture in an organization, in a country, in an industry, hurts both justice and safety. Responses to incidents and accidents that are seen as unjust can impede safety investiga
What once were considered accidents due to human error by doctors, pilots, and organizations are now criminalized. Through examples, decision tree questions, and solution alternatives, Dekker (human f
The ten chapters presented here by Conill (U. of Valencia, Spain), Christoph Luetge (Technical U. of Braunschweig, Germany), and Schonwalder-Kuntze (U. of Munich, Germany) are broad in their conceptua
The second edition of this book on the development of the international aviation industry has been expanded to include new standards as a result of the events of 9/11, the rise of low cost carriers, c
Presented by Veltmeyer (St. Mary's U., Canada), this volume's 11 chapters provide critical perspectives on the dynamics of "globalization" and "antiglobalization." Opening chapters review theoretical
Despite airlines' tremendous efforts to streamline their operations to minimise controllable costs and improve flight punctuality, system inefficiencies are continuously on the increase. They inevitab
Edited by Ye (African Population and Health Research Center, Kenya), Sankoh (INDEPTH Network, Ghana), Kouyate (Centre National de Recherche et de Formation sur le Paludisme, Burkina Faso) and Sauerbor
In the years prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the leaders of the German Democratic Republic planned to construct a city center that was simultaneously modern and historical, consisting of both re
How do international organizations support local peacebuilding? Do they really understand conflict? Partners in Peace challenges the global perceptions and assumptions of the roles played by civil soc
This book focuses on the protection of human rights in Australia and includes international perspectives for the purpose of comparison and it provides an examination of how well Australian institutio
This volume brings together a selection of the most influential and informative English language refereed journal articles on children in out-of-home care, their birth relatives and carers. The articl
From his first readers to the present, Friedrich Nietzsche has found supporters and detractors on every point of the political spectrum. In the introduction to this volume, Tracy Strong analyzes the r
For scholars and students, Kelly (Harvard U.) collects 16 seminal writings on oral and written transmission in Gregorian chant. The writings first address early types of neumatic writing, the origins
As a sociologist Simon Frith takes the starting point that music is the result of the play of social forces, whether as an idea, an experience or an activity. The essays in this important collection a
