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When Good Isn’t Good Enough: Jack J. Hersch on “The Dangers of Automation in Airliners”

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/BookTrib_JackJHersch.jpg In The Dangers of Automation in Airliners, instrument-rated commercial pilot Jack J. Hersch takes readers into the cockpit of nine flight incidents in which flight technology had a major effect. Hersch recognizes that the 300,000 commercial pilots employed around the world are all good at their jobs. "That's how…
BookTrib
November 11, 2020
Better SelfFacebook LiveNonfiction

You Can’t Overlook Red Flags! Meet Katie Beringer and Her Tough Love Approach to Finding Mr. Right

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Katie-Beringer.jpg When she lost her husband, Katie Beringer found herself alone for the first time in 30 years and thrust into a dating scene that looked radically different from the one she remembered before marriage. Several scamsters and her fair share of cringe-worthy stories later, Beringer has used her experience…
BookTrib
November 18, 2020
Author SpotlightNonfiction

Jack J. Hersch on the Human Hazards of Automation in Commercial Aviation Technology

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/booktrib_JackHersch_authorspotlight.jpg Advances in aviation technology have given pilots the ability to switch into “autopilot” and essentially let technology fly the plane. This opens the possibility that pilots will lose focus and not be prepared if they need to manage a crisis, which can easily happen. In The Dangers of Automation…
Jim Alkon
November 16, 2020
Children's BooksFacebook Live

Name Your Gifts and Use Them: Kitty O’Meara on Her Viral Poem “And the People Stayed Home”

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/booktrib_KittyOMeara_FBLive_Recap.jpg Dubbed the "poet laureate of the pandemic" by O Magazine, former teacher and chaplain Kitty O'Meara was, ironically, hiding from a virus when her prose poem went viral. After encouraging and inspiring millions around the world, her poem has become the beautifully illustrated children's book And the People Stayed Home.  Click here for…
BookTrib
November 10, 2020
Author Spotlight

Rosalind Wiseman on Distance Learning Challenges and Solutions

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/booktrib_rosalind-wiseman-author-spotlight.jpg “Distance learning is not going to harm your child’s education if there is a partnership between you, your child, and the teacher,” write the top-notch team of educators and child psychology experts behind The Distance Learning Playbook for Parents (Corwin).  The writing team includes Rosalind Wiseman, best known for…
BookTrib
November 9, 2020
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Old But Spry Texas Lawman Walks the Line of Right and Wrong, and Reavis Wortham Has Nothing But Respect

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/booktrib_ReavisWortham_FBLive.jpg Inspired by his own grandfather, a Lamar County constable, Reavis Z. Wortham wrote his historical mystery thriller, The Rock Hole, with Ned Parker, an old but spry Texas lawman, as its hero. In a recent interview for BookTrib, Wortham shared some of his memories of working with his grandfather…
BookTrib
October 30, 2020
Author Spotlight

Lisa Regan on Her Small-Town Detective and Growing Mystery Series

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Untitled-design-23.jpg Lisa Regan is the USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Detective Josie Quinn series, as well as several other crime fiction titles. While the series has already grown to nine books, the author recently shared some insights about her work and the second book in…
BookTrib
October 19, 2020
Author SpotlightNonfiction

Todd A. Weiler on Leveraging Equality for National Security

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/todd-a-weiler-author-spotlight.jpg Told from the perspective of a national security background, Untamed Equality by Todd A. Weiler seeks to address and provide solutions for the inequalities that we see every day but may look right past. The author’s debut book defines the elements that move us beyond the norm and into…
BookTrib
October 15, 2020