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  • THE WONDER STICK
    STANTON A. COBLENTZ
    Excerpt: "A hundred thousand years have passed since a certain memorable twilight in the forest of Umbaddu. Beyond a long ragged ridge of spruce, the sun went down in forlorn crimson precisely like the suns of a later day; across the winding valley, with its shaggy woods and age-battered buttes and cliffs, an enchanted calm had settled, as though time had ended and there were n...

    $39.70

  • HUMAN FACTORS ON THE FLIGHT DECK
    KATIE J. PARNELL / VICTORIA A. BANKS / RACHAEL A. WYNNE / NEVILLE A. STANTON / KATHERINE L. PLANT
    This book presents the Human Factors methodologies and applications thereof that can be utilised across the design, modelling and evaluation stages of the design lifecycle of new technologies entering future commercial aircraft. As advances are made to the architecture of commercial aircraft cockpits, Human Factors on the Flight Deck argues that it is vitally important that the...

    $2,400.00

  • LAW, LOCALISM, AND THE CONSTITUTION
    JOHN STANTON
    Local government affects us all. Wherever we live, in towns, cities, villages, or the smallest of communities, there are locally elected councils tasked with representing people’s interests in the running of the local area. This involves, inter alia, providing public services, maintaining local spaces, and acting as a level of democratic governance within the broader constituti...

    $1,099.00

  • DRIVING AUTOMATION
    MARK S. YOUNG / NEVILLE A. STANTON
    The technology behind self-driving cars is being heavily promulgated as the solution to a variety of transport problems including safety, congestion, and impact on the environment. This text examines the key role that human factors plays in driving forward future vehicle automation in a way that realizes the benefits while avoiding the pitfalls. Driving Automation: A Human Fact...

    $1,339.00

  • IN CAVERNS BELOW
    STANTON A. COBLENTZ
    Mining engineer Frank Comstock takes a job checking out the integrity of a shut-down mine in Nevada. He gets his answer when the mine caves in, plunging him far underground into a network of tunnels occupied by two warring races of unknown chalk-skinned humans! Frank finds himself in a world of trouble as he gets caught in a battle, captured by one side, taken under the protect...

    $39.70

  • HANDBOOK OF SYSTEMS THINKING METHODS
    PAUL M. SALMON / NEVILLE A. STANTON / GUY H. WALKER / ADAM HULME / NATASSIA GOODE / JASON THOMPSON / GEMMA
    The systems thinking philosophy has become popular in human factors and ergonomics and safety science. These methods are being used to understand and resolve complex societal problems in areas such as transport safety, workplace safety, medication error, disaster management, child abuse, financial crises, terrorism, climate change and public health and wellbeing. This handbook ...

    $1,339.00

  • THE EXPERIENCE OF ILLNESS
    RAY FITZPATRICK / JOHN HINTON / STANTON NEWMAN / GRAHAM SCAMBLER / JAMES THOMPSON
    Originally published in 1984, this book focuses, firstly, on how patients interpret and act in response to symptoms of illness; secondly on how social and psychological factors influence the treatment process; and thirdly, on certain kinds of illness where the psychosocial perspective is of particular importance to the providers of health care – for example, chronic or particul...

    $799.00

  • ASSISTED ECO-DRIVING
    CRAIG K. ALLISON / JAMES M. FLEMING / XINGDA YAN / ROBERTO LOT / NEVILLE A. STANTON
    This book discusses an integrative approach combining Human Factors expertise with Automotive Engineering. It develops an in-depth case study of designing a fuel-efficient driving intervention and offers an examination of an innovative study of feed-forward eco-driving advice. Assisted Eco-Driving: A Practical Guide to the Design and Testing of an Eco-Driving Assistance System ...

    $1,339.00

  • HUMAN-AUTOMATION INTERACTION DESIGN
    JEDIAH R. CLARK / NEVILLE A. STANTON / KIRSTEN REVELL
    This text presents a four-step approach for applying communicative concepts to driving automation, including: scoping, piloting, designing, and testing. It further provides experimental data on how practical human-human communication strategies can be applied to interaction in automated vehicles. The book explores the role of communication and the nature of situation awareness ...

    $2,800.00

  • THEORISING CIVIL SOCIETY PEACEBUILDING
    EMILY E. STANTON
    Using empirical qualitative research, this book conceptualises and demonstrates the value of local practical knowledge for peacebuilding in the context of Northern Ireland. There are increasing calls to involve local people to ensure legitimacy, relevance, and sustainability when seeking to build peace and transform violent conflict. However, as peacebuilding becomes increasing...

    $1,039.00

  • C. G. JUNG AND THE ALCHEMICAL IMAGINATION
    STANTON MARLAN
    Winner of the 2021 American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Annual Book Prize for Best Theoretical Book in Psychoanalysis! Stanton Marlan brings together writings which span the course of his career, examining Jungian psychology and the alchemical imagination as an opening to the mysteries of psyche and soul. Several chapters describe a telos that aims at the mysterious goal ...

    $899.00

  • TOLLEY'S RISK ASSESSMENT WORKBOOK SERIES: UTILITIES
    PETER ELLIS / JAAN STANTON
    Risk assessment is the key to successful management of health and safety at work. Risk assessments are carried out in order to quantify and evaluate the significance of workplace hazards so that appropriate control measures can be put in place. Usually, a written record of the assessment is required, detailing the following information: * The hazards – and how much risk is asso...

    $2,800.00

  • DISCOURSE ANALYSIS BEYOND THE SPEECH EVENT
    STANTON WORTHAM / ANGELA REYES
    In its first edition, winner of the 2016 Edward Sapir Book Prize from the Society for Linguistic Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association Discourse Analysis Beyond the Speech Event introduces a new approach to discourse analysis. In this innovative work, Wortham and Reyes argue that discourse analysts should look beyond fixed speech events and consider the devel...

    $1,039.00

  • HANDBOOK OF HUMAN FACTORS AND ERGONOMICS IN CONSUMER PRODUCT DESIGN, 2 VOLUME SET
    WALDEMAR KARWOWSKI / ‎MARCELO SOARES / ‎NEVILLE A. STANTON
    A comprehensive resource, this handbook covers consumer product research, case study, and application. It discusses the unique perspective a human factors approach lends to product design and how this perspective can be critical to success in the market place. Divided into two volumes, the handbook includes introductory and summary chapters on case study design, design methods ...

    $1,159.00

  • NEW PARADIGMS IN ERGONOMICS
    NEVILLE A. STANTON / PAUL M. SALMON / GUY H. WALKER
    The systems in which we work continue to evolve, creating emergent problems and often strengthening intractable issues. In order to remain relevant and impactful, the discipline of ergonomics needs its paradigms to evolve too. The aim of this book is to provide researchers and practitioners with new paradigms in the form of ideas, concepts, theories, methods, practices and valu...

    $1,239.00

  • AMERICAN RACE RELATIONS AND THE LEGACY OF BRITISH COLONIALISM
    THOMAS H. STANTON
    Colonial rule distorts a colony’s economy and its society, and British rule was no exception. British policies led to a stratified American colonial society with slaves on the bottom and white settlers on top. The divided society functioned through laws that imposed rules and defined roles of the respective races. This occurred in other colonies too, often leading to strife tha...

    $499.00

  • ON RECORD
    STANTON WHEELER
    On Record provides descriptive accounts of record-keeping in a variety of important organizations: schools and universities; consumer credit agencies, general business organizations, and life insurance companies; military and security agencies; the Census Bureau and the Social Security Administration; public welfare agencies, juvenile courts, and mental hospitals. It also exami...

    $1,199.00

  • ETHNIC MARKETING
    GUILHERME PIRES / JOHN STANTON
    Together with the development of transformative technologies that epitomize globalization, the ongoing movements of people across borders and other socio-economic pressures are creating a fast-changing business environment that is difficult for business to understand, let alone control. Dominant social expectations that immigrants should seek to adopt an assimilationist sociali...

    $1,099.00

  • INDIVIDUAL LATENT ERROR DETECTION (I-LED)
    JUSTIN R.E. SAWARD / NEVILLE A. STANTON
    Undetected human error in aircraft maintenance creates a latent error condition that can contribute to undesirable outcomes. Individual Latent Error Detection (I-LED) acts as an additional system safety control that helps an engineer recall past errors through environmental cues. This book addresses a gap in the human factors research and current safety strategies by exploring ...

    $1,199.00

  • DISTRIBUTED SITUATION AWARENESS IN ROAD TRANSPORT
    PAUL M. SALMON / GEMMA JENNIE MEGAN READ / GUY H. WALKER / MICHAEL G. LENNÉ / NEVILLE A. STANTON
    How can we design transport environments that cater to the situation awareness needs of different end-users? This book answers this question by showcasing how state-of-the-art human factors theory and methods can be used to understand how situation awareness differs across drivers, cyclists, motorcyclists, and pedestrians and creates new designs that cater to these diverse situ...

    $1,339.00

  • SYSTEMS THINKING IN PRACTICE
    NEVILLE A. STANTON / PAUL SALMON / GUY H. WALKER
    This book presents the latest developments of Systems Thinking in Practice to the analysis and design of complex sociotechnical systems. The Event Analysis of Systemic Teamwork (EAST) method is applied to micro, meso and macro systems. Written by experts in the field, this text covers a diverse range of domains, including: automation, aviation, energy grid distribution, militar...

    $1,339.00

  • DRIVER REACTIONS TO AUTOMATED VEHICLES
    ALEXANDER ERIKSSON / NEVILLE A. STANTON
    Driver Reactions to Automated Vehicles focuses on the design and evaluation of the handover to and from driver and the automobile. The authors present evidence from studies in driving simulators and on the open roads to show that handover times are much longer than anticipated by previous research. In the course of the studies, Eriksson and Stanton develop compelling evidence t...

    $2,300.00

  • PRIMARY HEALTHCARE PREMISES
    SEAMUS KEHOE / TONY STANTON
    Primary healthcare premises are increasingly becoming more sophisticated offering health promotion minor surgery and specialist services. The acquisition of new premises expansion or investment in traditional surgeries can be the greatest financial commitment and also one of the most daunting. This book is specifically written to enable development with minimal disruption to th...

    $659.00

  • VEHICLE FEEDBACK AND DRIVER SITUATION AWARENESS
    GUY H. WALKER / NEVILLE A. STANTON / PAUL M. SALMON
    A potentially troubling aspect of modern vehicle design – some would argue - is a trend for isolating the driver and reducing vehicle feedback, usually in the name of comfort and refinement but increasingly because of automation. There is little doubt cars have become more civilised over the years, yet despite this, the consequences of driver behaviour remain to a large extent ...

    $3,600.00

  • TRUST IN MILITARY TEAMS
    NEVILLE A. STANTON
    The objective of this book is to report on contemporary trends in the defence research community on trust in teams, including inter- and intra-team trust, multi-agency trust and coalition trust. The book also considers trust in information and automation, taking a systems view of humans as agents in a multi-agent, socio-technical, community. The different types of trust are usu...

    $1,399.00

  • BERNE Y LEVY. FISIOLOGÍA
    BRUCE M. KOEPPEN / BRUCE A. STANTON
    Nueva edición de uno de los textos clásicos en Fisiología, con un abordaje por sistemas en el que en cada uno de los capítulos se incluye información a nivel celular y molecular, en respuesta a la creciente importancia de la correlación básica-clínica. El principal objetivo del texto es explicar cómo se produce el correcto funcionamiento y regulación de los procesos fisiológ...

    $918.64

  • HUMAN FACTORS IN LAND USE PLANNING AND URBAN DESIGN
    NICHOLAS J. STEVENS / PAUL M. SALMON / GUY H. WALKER / NEVILLE A. STANTON
    The integration of Human Factors in Land Use Planning and Urban Design (LUP & UD) is an exciting and emerging interdisciplinary field. This book offers practical guidance on a range of Human Factors methods that can be used to rigorously and reliably explore LUP & UD. It provides new ways to interpret urban space and detail context sensitive analysis for the interpretation and ...

    $1,239.00

  • THE HUMAN FACTORS OF FRATRICIDE
    LAURA A. RAFFERTY / NEVILLE A. STANTON
    Fratricide has been defined as firing on your own forces, when mistaking them for enemy forces, which results in injury or death. Rates of fratricide incidence have been steadily increasing and the complexity of the contemporary operating environment may lead to a continuation of this trend. Although the majority of research into fratricide has focused on the development of tec...

    $1,399.00

  • MODELLING COMMAND AND CONTROL
    NEVILLE A. STANTON / CHRIS BABER
    Since its inception, just after the Second World War, Human Factors research has paid special attention to the issues surrounding human control of systems. Command and control environments continue to represent a challenging domain for human factors research. Modelling Command and Control takes a broad view of command and control research, to include C2 (command and control), C...

    $1,399.00

  • ECO-DRIVING
    RICH C. MCLLROY / NEVILLE A. STANTON
    Eco-driving has the potential to save fuel and reduce emissions without having to make any changes to vehicles or road infrastructure. This book provides an in-depth understanding of the contemporary issues in the human factors aspects of eco-driving strategies and interfaces and the effects on driver behaviour. A review of the literature concerning design, behaviour, and energ...

    $2,800.00


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