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  • Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents

    by James Reason ...
    Major accidents are rare events due to the many barriers, safeguards and defences developed by modern technologies. But they continue to happen with saddening regularity and their human and financial consequences are all too often unacceptably catastrophic. One of the greatest challenges we face is to develop more effective ways of both understanding and limiting their occurrence. This lucid book ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Organizational Accidents Revisited

    by James Reason ...
    Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents introduced the notion of an ’organizational accident’. These are rare but often calamitous events that occur in complex technological systems operating in hazardous circumstances. They stand in sharp contrast to ’individual accidents’ whose damaging consequences are limited to relatively few people or assets. Although they share some common causal ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • A Life in Error

    From Little Slips to Big Disasters

    by James Reason ...
    This succinct but absorbing book covers the main way stations on James Reason’s 40-year journey in pursuit of the nature and varieties of human error. In it he presents an engrossing and very personal perspective, offering the reader exceptional insights, wisdom and wit as only James Reason can. The journey begins with a bizarre absent-minded action slip committed by Professor Reason in the early ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Human Error

    by James Reason ...
    Human Error, published in 1991, is a major theoretical integration of several previously isolated literatures. Particularly important is the identification of cognitive processes common to a wide variety of error types. Technology has now reached a point where improved safety can only be achieved on the basis of a better understanding of human error mechanisms. In its treatment of major accidents, ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Silverado Press Presents: Western Stories by Today's Top Writers

    by Jeffrey J. Mariotte, Rod Miller, Nik James, Mary Fan, Steve Hockensmith, Vonn McKee, Sharon Frame Gay, Del Howison, Cheryl Pierson, Paul Kupperberg, Lisa Majewski, Richard Prosch, Kelli Fitzpatrick, Aaron Rosenberg, James Reasoner, L.J. Washburn, Gord Rollo ...
    Saddle up and ride down the trails of western history with this outstanding new short-story anthology from Silverado Press! Our all-star posse of acclaimed western writers and fresh new voices have each taken a real historical event and built a story around it. From the 1812 earthquake in southern California to the 1856 sinking of the steamboat Arabia to the 1877 Texas Salt War, these tales are ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Human Contribution

    Unsafe Acts, Accidents and Heroic Recoveries

    by James Reason ...
    This book explores the human contribution to the reliability and resilience of complex, well-defended systems. Usually the human is considered a hazard - a system component whose unsafe acts are implicated in the majority of catastrophic breakdowns. However there is another perspective that has been relatively little studied in its own right - the human as hero, whose adaptations and compensations ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Managing Maintenance Error

    A Practical Guide

    by James Reason, Alan Hobbs ...
    Situations and systems are easier to change than the human condition - particularly when people are well-trained and well-motivated, as they usually are in maintenance organisations. This is a down-to-earth practitioner’s guide to managing maintenance error, written in Dr. Reason’s highly readable style. It deals with human risks generally and the special human performance problems arising in ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Death Head Crossing

    by James Reasoner ...
    The Texas Two Step. . .Death-Head Crossing is just the name of a little town in Texas--until the population starts shrinking one body at a time. But the deaths are as mysterious as the face of the murderer, and only gunslinger Hell Jackson has what it takes to ride through the reign of terror and put an end to the killings.... . .Takes A Deadly TurnJackson also gets an unwanted partner: Everett ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Untamed West

    by Western Fictioneers, L. J. Washburn, Jeffrey J. Mariotte, S. D. Parker, Nik Morton, James Reasoner, Clay More, McKendree Long, J.E.S. Hays, Michael R. Ritt, Jesse J. Elliot, Matthew P. Mayo, Big Jim Williams, Easy Jackson, J. L. Guin, James J Griffin, Cheryl Pierson, Tom Rizzo, Dorothy A. Bell, James Clay, Ben Goheen, Barbara Shepherd, Gordon Rottman, Charlie Steel, Angela Raines, Douglas Hirt, Dennis Doty, S. L. Matthews ...
    A collection of twenty-nine tales of the Old West featuring previously unpublished stories by such classic Western writers as James Reasoner, Douglas Hirt, McKendree Long, and Michael R. Ritt. Edited by award winning author, L. J. Washburn. Western Fictioneers is the only writers' organization devoted solely to traditional Western fiction, and this huge collection will take readers from the dusty ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • At Home in the Dark

    by Joe Hill, Nancy Pickard, Duane Swierczynski, Hilary Davidson, James Reasoner, Thomas Pluck, Wallace Stroby, Jill D. Block, Richard Chizmar, Elaine Kagan, Jim Fusilli, Warren Moore, Laura Benedict, N. J. Ayres, Joyce Carol Oates, Joe R. Lansdale, Ed Park ...
    The crime fiction canopy's a broad one, with room to give shelter to writing of all sorts, as editor Lawrence Block shows with At Home in the Dark: "Some of these stories have one or both feet planted in another genre. James Reasoner's story is a period western, Joe Lansdale's is bleakly dystopian, and Joe Hill's novelette slithers through a little doorway into another world. "And now that I've ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Protectors: Stories to Benefit PROTECT

    Protectors Anthologies, #1

    by Les Edgerton, Chet Williamson, Ken Bruen, Josh Stallings, Andrew Vachss, Todd Robinson, Charlie Stella, Ray Banks, Tony Black, Steve Weddle, James Reasoner, George Pelecanos, Johnny Shaw, Joe R. Lansdale, Patti Abbott, Wayne D. Dundee, Dave White, Charles de Lint, Roxane Gay, Bill Cameron ...
    Series Book 1 - Protectors Anthologies
    41 writers. One cause.We've rallied a platoon of crime, western, thriller, fantasy, noir, horror and transgressive authors to support PROTECT's important work: lobbying for legislation that protects children from physical, sexual, and emotional abuse.Powerful stories from George Pelecanos, Andrew Vachss, Joe R. Lansdale, Charles de Lint, Ken Bruen, Chet Williamson, James Reasoner, Charlie Stella, ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Draw

    The Greatest Gunfights of the American West

    by James Reasoner ...
    Known for his ability to make history come vividly to life, Reasoner strips away the dime novel legends and Hollywood myths to show us how the gunfighters of the Old West really lived, killed, and were killed.Praised for his “well-researched” (Booklist) and “lively, suspenseful” (Publishers Weekly) novels, James Reasoner now proves that truth can be even more exciting than fiction.Among the true ... Read more

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $12.99 CAD