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(0)Laurence Gonzales
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
As hundreds of rescue workers waited on the ground, United Airlines Flight 232 wallowed drunkenly over the bluffs northwest of Sioux City. The plane slammed onto the runway and burst into a vast fireball. The rescuers didn't move at first: nobody could possibly survive that crash. And then people began emerging from the summer corn that lined the runways. Miraculously, 184 of 296 passengers lived. No one has ever attempted the complete reconstruction...
4) Deep survival: who lives, who dies, and why : true stories of miraculous endurance and sudden death
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Compares the thought processes and actions of survivors and nonsurvivors in deadly situations, presenting case studies and discussing neurological and psychological research and ancient texts on survival; and lists twelve steps most survivors take in life-and-death situations as well as trying situations in everyday life.
