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A Life in Error

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

A Life in Error

By James Reason

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About the book

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 1970s - putting cat food into the teapot - and continues up to the present day, conveying his unique...Show more

Engineering: general

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ISBN

9781138430860

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published year

2017

Language

Edition

1

Original title

A Life in Error

Format

Hardcover

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