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"Everyone Who Flies, Or Loves Someone Who Flies Should Read This" Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger, Miracle On The Hudson As with the Air France Flight 447 tragedy, much of the time air crashes are a confluence of events; a cascade of bad luck, bad decisions, inappropriate airline company policy, the failure of aviation regulators, and sometimes insufficient training, or various combinations of all five. But why? Seconds to Disaster will demonstrate that part of that bad luck is often aided by the airline industry's own endless...

In his second book Ronan Moore, author of Irishology, has created a humorous and irreverent guide to every county in Ireland: Galway, where rainfall is measured not in millimetres but in days; Limerick which is 'a little like the Keyser Soze of Irish counties with a name far more notorious than the place ever was'; and of course Fermanagh, which regularly tops the list of Irish counties that people forget when trying to name all 32.

With a keen eye and a sharp wit Ronan Moore takes us on a cheeky tour of Ireland, pointing out the finest features of our fair isle along...

In April of 2012 the Vatican issued a harsh "doctrinal assessment" of the largest organization of Catholic sisters in the U.S., the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. The "assessment" was the culmination of a three-year investigation. Simultaneously, the Vatican had been conducting a visitation of 340 active (non-cloistered) congregations of U.S sisters. What do these developments mean?

This is the question Catholic scholar and activist Marian Ronan sets out to answer in "Sister Trouble: The Vatican, the Bishops, and the Nuns," her galvanizing collection of articles about the...

Odzbrojující román kladoucí prostou otázku: Mohou dobří lidé změnit svět? Leonard a Hladový Paul je okouzlující příběh dvou milých svobodných třicátníků, kterých byste si na ulici ani nevšimli, natož aby se z nich stávali hrdinové románů. V jejich obyčejnosti se však skrývá neobyčejná síla. Leonard se živí psaním encyklopedií pro děti a touží po někom, s kým by mohl společně žasnout nad krásou všehomíra. Hladový Paul je naopak se svým životem spokojený beze zbytku — je chodícím ztělesněním bytí v přítomném okamžiku. Oba...