This work tells the stories of actual air incidents and near-misses, recounted by those who experienced them firsthand.

Skylar Kingman is a senior pilot This is his last flight as he must retire tomorrow. He has spent his life accruing anecdotes about flying he’s gathered from personal experience and from other pilots. He spends the hours of his last flight telling these stories to his two young female crewmembers. Stories include: A student pilot who bails out after creating havoc over L.A. Combat veterans from Vietnam on a R&R (Rest and Recuperation) flight to Sydney. My most frightening time in an airplane. A Military student who goofs and lands gear up and manages to become a hero. A heroic stewardess named “Ding-a-ling“. Three training planes crash in a field. All the stories have an element of truth in them...how much? That varies.

SAGE has unparalleled depth in journal back lists in the field of organization studies, and publishes several of the top journals in the field, including Organization, Human Relations and Organization Studies. This four-volume set brings together over sixty of the key papers published in SAGE books and journals since the turn of the millennium, many of which are not easily available in traditional library holdings. Professor Stewart Clegg is widely recognised as a preeminent scholar of organization studies, and together with an international editorial board of ten renowned scholars in the field.

“[A] sharply observed study . . . richly detailed portraits.”—Economist Somini Sengupta emigrated from Calcutta to California as a young child in 1975. Returning thirty years later as the bureau chief for The New York Times, she found a vastly different country: one defined as much by aspiration and possibility—at least by the illusion of possibility—as it is by the structures of sex and caste. The End of Karma is an exploration of this new India through the lens of young people from different worlds: a woman who becomes a Maoist rebel; a brother charged for the murder of his sister, who had married the “wrong” man; a woman who opposes her family and hopes to become a police officer. Driven by aspiration—and thwarted at every step by state and society—they are making new demands on India’s democracy for equality of opportunity, dignity for girls, and civil liberties. Sengupta spotlights these stories of ordinary men and women, weaving together a groundbreaking portrait of a country in turmoil.

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