Fram is the story of Oscar, a minor bureaucrat in the US government's Bureau of Ice Prognostication, an agency created to compete with the Soviets during the heyday of the Cold War and still operating
This epic sweep of a play takes us from a contemporary Westminster Abbey to the Arctic ship Fram, specially built by the famous Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen, who, with his suicidal companion Joh
The sheer number of variables of complex dynamic systems do not allow their workings or failures to be understood by linear thinking or standard analytical methods. Hollnagel (U. of Southern Denmark)
Resilience engineering has consistently argued that safety is more than the absence of failures. Since the first book was published in 2006, several book chapters and papers have demonstrated the adva
In the golden age of polar exploration (from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s), many an expedition set out to answer the big question—was the Arctic a continent, an open ocean beyond a barrier of ice,
Stevenson presents this history The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee, which he and his partner joined in the early 1970s at the age of nineteen. The first chapter, “prelude to the sixties,” gives a very
Before Sir Ernest Shackleton's exploration of the Antarctic waters in 1914, Captain Roald Amundsen led a courageous team through ice-chocked waters to become the first expedition to reach the South Po
