About the AuthorStephen McGinty is the author of Churchill's Cigar and This Turbulent Priest: The Life of Cardinal Thomas Winning.Stephen McGinty is the author of Churchill's Cigar and This Turbulent Priest: The Life of Cardinal Thomas Winning.Like the Beatles it will remain timeless.. I grew
- Title : Fire in the Night: The Piper Alpha Disaster
- Author : Stephen McGinty
- Rating : 4.56 (242 Vote)
- Publish : 2016-10-21
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 304 Pages
- Asin : 0330471937
- Language : English
About the AuthorStephen McGinty is the author of Churchill's Cigar and This Turbulent Priest: The Life of Cardinal Thomas Winning.Stephen McGinty is the author of Churchill's Cigar and This Turbulent Priest: The Life of Cardinal Thomas Winning.Like the Beatles it will remain timeless.. I grew up in Oak Ridge in the 60's and 70's and my father worked on the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment. Chicago Outfit boss Al Capone, Murder Inc. I was working on the Shell - Mars platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Those guys write ecstatically and are often overly verbose, often unfocused. A funny and insightful read!. It provides great insight into the motivation of a group of physicists who discovered a seductive new technology and thought it could solve all of the world's problems.. After so many years in the APS, AAAS, NAS, NAE, RNAS, etc., he offers exciting perspectives into these topics that are not so commonly discussed since the Cold War ended.Weinberg's incredible life is well documented in this book, and his optimism that nuclear technology will rise again is inspiring on a very personal level for me (a reactor designer). Great book, but I am biased. Super interesting panorama about museology panorama that reflects and social statements for the world today. Full of great photos with concise explanations. FWIW, Kinloch's "Thought and Art of JJ" is detailed academic criticism of Joubert's thinking with historical framework, however all the aphorisms and passages from letters detailed in the book are inIn the water surrounding the inferno, men's heads could be seen bobbing like apples as their yellow hard hats melted with the heat. Only sixty-one would survive. The fire was visible seventy miles away as a distant, flickering flame on the horizon. Fire in the Night tells, for the first time and in gripping detail, the devastating story of that summer evening. On July 6, 1988, its final day, it was ablaze with 226 men onboard. Flying at a height of 200 feet, the air crew saw that the tongues of flame extended high above the rotor blades. Combining interviews with survivors, witness statements, and transcripts from the official enquiry into the disaster, this is the moving and vivid tale of what happened on that fateful night inside an oil rig inferno.. At the center stood, at least for now, the Piper Alpha oil platform, 110 miles northeast of Aberdeen, once the world's single largest oil producer. On the surface a converted fishing tr
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar