Tag: Accidental

Free Download Surprised at Being Alive: An Accidental Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam and Beyond by Robert F. Curtis, David Colacci, Tantor Audio
English | 2019 | ISBN: B07VGLGRJ7 | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 12 hours and 29 minutes | 344 Mb
Sometimes you do everything right, but it just isn’t your day. A part fails and your helicopter comes apart in flight, or, another aircraft runs into you and the pieces of both fall to the ground below, or the enemy gunner pulls the trigger at just the right moment and his rounds find your aircraft in exactly the right spot to take it out of the sky. Whichever way it happens, it wasn’t your day.
Which is why, after 24 years and over 5,000 flight hours with four armed services, Major Robert Curtis was so surprised at being alive when he passed his retirement physical. Starting with enlisting in the Army to fly helicopters during Vietnam, and continuing on through service with the National Guard, Marine Corps, and Royal Navy, he flew eight different helicopters – from the wooden-bladed OH-13E, through the Chinook, SeaKnight, and SeaKing, in war and peace around the world. During that time over 50 of his friends died in crashes, both in combat and in accidents, but somehow his skill, and not an inconsiderable amount of luck and superstition, saw him through.

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Free Download Jessi Streib, "The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay after College"
English | ISBN: 0226829316 | 2023 | 256 pages | PDF | 1413 KB
A startling discovery-that job market success after college is largely random-forces a reappraisal of education, opportunity, and the American dream.

Free Download Accidental: Rebuilding a Life after Taking One by David W. Peters
English | November 7th, 2023 | ISBN: 1506487165 | 191 pages | True PDF | 0.89 MB
How do we rebuild after causing accidental death or injury?

Free Download The Accidental Superpower: Ten Years On (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQ2ZZJTL | 2023 | 13 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 402 MB
Author: Mr. Peter Zeihan
Narrator: Mr. Peter Zeihan
With a new "10 years later" epilogue for every chapter, comes an eye-opening assessment of American power and deglobalization in the bestselling tradition of The World is Flat and The Next 100 Years. Near the end of the Second World War, the United States made a bold strategic gambit that rewired the international system. Empires were abolished and replaced by a global arrangement enforced by the U.S. Navy. With all the world’s oceans safe for the first time in history, markets and resources were made available for everyone. Enemies became partners. We think of this system as normal-it is not. We live in an artificial world on borrowed time.

Free Download Jagdish N. Sheth, "The Accidental Scholar"
English | ISBN: 935150039X | 2014 | 262 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
"Jagdish’s autobiography tells a fascinating life story in a few hundred pages of what it is to be, in one person, a scholar, change agent, advisor, and entrepreneur, in other words, a Renaissance Man." Philip Kotler

Free Download The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew by Alan Lightman, Bronson Pinchot, Blackstone Audio, Inc.
English | 2017 | ISBN: B00HULB5MO | M4b@64 kbps | 3h 51m + EPUB | 106 Mb
From the acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams and Mr. g comes a meditation on the unexpected ways in which recent scientific findings have shaped our understanding of ourselves and our place in the cosmos.
With all the passion, curiosity, and precise yet lyrical prose that have marked his previous books, Alan Lightman here explores the emotional and philosophical questions raised by discoveries in science, focusing most intently on the human condition and the needs of humankind. He looks at the difficult dialogue between science and religion, the conflict between our human desire for permanence and the impermanence of nature, the possibility that our universe is simply an accident, the manner in which modern technology has separated us from direct experience of the world, and our resistance to the view that our bodies and minds can be explained by scientific logic and laws. And behind all of these considerations is the suggestion – at once haunting and exhilarating – that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the extraordinary, perhaps unfathomable whole.

Free Download The Accidental Homesteader: What I’ve Learned About Chickens, Compost, and Creating Home (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C31HDVRF | 2023 | 3 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 276 MB
Author: Kathi Lipp
Narrator: Kathi Lipp
For Kathi Lipp and her husband, Roger, buying a house in one of the most remote parts of Northern California was never part of the plan; many of life’s biggest, most rewarding adventures rarely are. Kathi shares the hard-won wisdom she’s gained on her homestead journey to help you accomplish more at home, gain fresh perspective, and give yourself grace in the process. Here’s a handful of the lessons Kathi shares: Prepare before the need arises; Everything is always in process, including us; Your best household solution is time and patience; You don’t have to do everything the hard way; Be open to new and better ways of doing things; A lot of small changes make a huge difference. Highly practical, humorous, and inspirational, The Accidental Homesteader will encourage you to live with more peace, joy, and contentment.