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China Survival Guide: How to Avoid Travel Troubles and Mortifying Mishaps
This first-ever humorous travel guide on China both dishes the dirt on the myriad travel mishaps that may befall any unsuspecting tourist and explains how to avoid them! Possible danger zones debunked include airports, hotels, hospitals, taxis, and bathrooms. Readers will learn essential skills like how to haggle, exchange currencies, cross the street, decipher menus, say useful phrases in Chinese, and more. The guide comes complete with survival tips on etiquette, a map, and resource lists. Don't leave home for China without it! Veteran travelers Qin and Larry Herzberg are Chinese language and culture professors at Calvin College in Michigan. .
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I Learned About Flying From That: First-Hand Accounts of Mishaps to Avoid from Real-Life Pilots (I Learned about Flying from That)
“I Learned About Flying From That” has consistently been one of the most popular features in FLYING magazine since the column began running in 1939. These first-hand accounts of flying disasters, from the pilots who lived to tell their tales, re-create some of the most exciting moments of flying. The fascinating stories are at times harrowing, humorous, embarrassing, and thrilling, but always informative. Every pilot will appreciate the lessons learned, and the adventures make fascinating reading for even non-pilots..
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Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog (Magic Carpet Books)
Flora knows better than to take shortcuts in her family home, Crackpot Hall--the house has eleven thousand rooms, and ever since her mother banished the magickal butler, those rooms move around at random. But Flora is late for school, so she takes the unpredictable elevator anyway. Huge mistake. Lost in her own house, she stumbles upon the long-banished butler--and into a mind-blowing muddle of intrigue and betrayal that changes her world forever. Includes an interview with the author. .
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Mishap in Kaiserslautern: A Miss Mallard Mystery (A Miss Mallard Mystery Series)
Miss Mallard Joins the U.S.Army! While on a speaking tour at military bases in Kaiserslautern district of Southern Germany, Miss Mallard the world-famous ducktective, and her nephew, Willard Widgeon of the Swiss Police, become involved in a new mystery. The Central Supply of the largest U.S. Army hospital for ducks in Europe - the Landsduck Regional Medical Center - is being robbed. It is left up to Miss Mallard to solve the case. She is assigned to "active duty" and goes undercover as one of the staff at the Center. At the same time Willard falls and fractures a leg. This is a "lucky break" for Miss Mallard because Willard becomes a patient at the Center and gives her an insiders view that helps her to nab the crooks. This is the 18th book and second chapter book in Robert Quackenbush's popular Miss Mallard Mysteries. Books and stories from the series have been made into half-hour films for children's worldwide television programming by Cinar Corporation in co-production with Shanghai Animation Film Studio..
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Surviving PC Disasters, Mishaps, and Blunders
Most self-help computer books speak in technobabble as if they were written for rocket scientist or computer geeks who live and breathe technology. Surviving PC Disasters, Mishaps, and Blunders takes a different approach. This engaging and very accessible guide covers the types of problems all PC users will likely face at one time or another-so don't be caught off guard without it. The authors calm the fearful with easy to follow solutions and a humorous style. (Let's fact it-at some point all disasters, mishaps, and blunders appear humorous once you've gotten past them!) For a PC that is smashed, hacked, in flames, has come down with a nasty virus, or just isn't working as it should, this book covers it all with helpful tips to prevent problems from occurring in the first place. Nothing strikers horror into the heart of a PC user faster than the words "Permanent Fatal Error" or seeing a PC that was working perfectly well seconds before melt down and send bizarre error messages. Surviving PC Disasters, Mishaps, and Blunders covers a wide range of problems including security issues and theft, blunders arising from general clumsiness, disasters such as fire and floods, techniques for protecting important data from scammers and hackers, disasters that can be caused by nasty viruses, tips on buying devices without getting ripped off, techniques for avoiding hard drive crashes and recovering lost data, mishaps and potential disasters that can be caused by identity theft, and much more. You'll learn simple and practical ways to use and protect you PC and other support devices (like printers and scanners), and how to cope if disaster does strike. The book is cleverly organized by disasters, mishaps, and stupid blunders that can occur as you use your PC..
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Haps & Mishaps
Collected here for the first time are the best of Carol Burdick's "Haps & Mishaps" column, a favorite feature in the Alfred SUN newspaper in Western New York. Rob Price, Editor of the Bath Courier, writes, "These finely chiseled essays offer vivid representations of Carol Burdick's natural world, ranging from a reedy beagle in search of a free lunch to an antique bed loaded with memories; from a doomed road trip through Naples to the ups and downs of operating a wood-burning stove. But they are also much more: each piece is grounded in the rueful, ironic, sensitive perspective of Carol Burdick. To read them is to enter a uniquely wonderful world." And Sharon Hoover, Professor Emerita of English at Alfred University, observes, "Carol Burdick's column helps us to remain sane in the midst of the world's madness. More importantly, it reminds us what we desire for every person in our world: a home place, an appreciation of the local, rich life experiences, friends and family.".
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21st Century Secret Military Documents: NBC Warfare (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical), Declassified Pentagon Reports, Nuclear Weapons, Mishaps, Cold War Studies (CD-ROM)
This up-to-date and informative CD-ROM provides a unique and complete collection of newly declassified documents, reports, and histories from the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Joint Staff about NBC topics (nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare). This treasure-trove of over 7,000 pages covers many vital topics; there are nearly 70 unique documents reproduced in this collection. Some of the titles include: Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Matters * Actions and Results Under Conditions of "Strategic Surprise" * AEC and DoD Development, Production and Standardization of Atomic Weapons * Analysis of Radiation Exposure * Marine Corps Provisional Atomic Exercise Brigade 15 Jun 1981 * AFRRI Research FY 1992 * Assessing Capabilities of Strategic Nuclear Forces * Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb * DOD Narrative Summaries of Accidents Involving U.S. Nuclear Weapons 1950-1980 * Emergency Action Procedures of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-Nuclear Control Orders EAP-JCS Volume V * History of JSTPS SIOP 4 HI Jul 70 thru Jun 71 * History of JSTPS SIOP 4 JK Jul 71 thru Jun 72 * McNamara Papers Strategic Retaliatory Forces * Shots Easy Fox, George, and the Final Tests of the TUMBLER-SNAPPER Series 7 May - 5 June 1952 * Sugar Shots and Uncle: The Final Tests of the BUSTER-JANGLE Series 19 November-29 November 1951 * US Air Force Nuclear Weapons Accident/Incident Report Ammunitions Letter No. 136-11-56A USAF Nuclear Safety Volume 52 * Verification Technology * Joint Nuclear Accident Coordinating Center Record of Events * U.S. Army Nuclear Weapons Accident/Incident * The Theater Nuclear Posture in Europe, A Report to the United States Congress in Compliance with Public Law 93-365 * Aggregate Nuclear Damage Assessment Techniques Applied to Western Europe * History of the Custody and Deployment of Nuclear Weapons July 1945 to September 1977 * Re-examination of the Current and Long-Range Department of Defense Requirements for Production of Nuclear Weapons * and Fissionable Material * Doctrine on Thermonuclear Attack * Recommended Long Range Nuclear Delivery Force 1963-1967 * Emergency Action Procedures of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Nuclear Control Orders * Requirements for Tactical Nuclear Weapons * DOD Nuclear Weapons Technical Inspection System * Nuclear Posture of NATO * Report on Effects of a Nuclear Test Ban which allows Tests Underground * Standards for Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Radiation Exposure * Summary of JCS Positions and Statements on Nuclear Testing, Proliferation, Weapons and Materials January 1961 to January * 1977 * The Effects of Nuclear War and Bottom-up Review, National Atomic Museum * Final Report of the Federal Advisory Committee on Nuclear Failsafe and Risk Reduction (FARR) * Relationship to Public Morale of Information about the Effects of Nuclear Warfare * DoD Nuclear Mishaps * DoD Narrative Summaries of Accidents Involving US Nuclear Weapons 1950-1980 * Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations * The DoD's Nuclear Posture Review * Nuclear Posture Review * A Soviet Paramilitary Attack on US Nuclear Forces - A Concept * The Indian Nuclear Weapons Program; Some Preliminary Observations, RM-5313-ISA * Joint Pub 3-11 Joint Doctrine for Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical (NBC) Defense * Reactions to a Nuclear-Armed China * Joint Reporting Structure Nuclear Weapon Reports * SECDEF Report on Nuclear Attack Submarine Procurement and Technology * Shots Easy Fox, George, and How: the Final Tests of the TUMBLER-SNAPPER Series 7 May - 5 June 1952 * Shots Sugar and Uncle: Final Tests of BUSTER-JANGLE Series November 1951 * NBC Warfare Defense-Report to Congress '96 * Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons * Report on Investigation Concerning the Missing Central Command Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Desk Logs * Narrative Summaries of Accidents Involving Nuclear Weapons 1950-1980 * Custody of Atomic Weapons * ATRP-R Project -.
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