Overview
"Cape Safety, Inc. - Where Problems Perish continues the global adventures of the expert men and women of a fictitious top-notch safety consulting firm, internationally recognized as the ""go-to"" safety, industrial hygiene, and disaster specialists. Proud of your designer clothes? Look behind the scenes at the factory conditions in Pakistan who tire over your designer duds and rethink it. Read a layman's explanation of how religious extremism results in the long-term far-reaching effects of deforestation. See how the love of money is a sin, but not for the reasons you think. Eavesdrop on a conversation between experts about how and why the World Trade Center's construction exacerbated the quick fire spread on that fateful day of September 11, 2001. What are they really doing at New York state's Plum Island laboratory? Why the term ""spelunker"" is an insult. Explore the Japanese superstition of the Number 4. Backpacks for bees? It's so crazy it just might work. A serious warning about not being coy when giving your weight to the clerk at the airline counter. Where Problems Perish chronicles the continued workplace excitement experienced by the best and brightest, their canine acquaintances, political allies, celebrity friends, and many Cape Cod connections at their headquarters in Woods Hole, Massachusetts."
Full Product Details
Author: Richard Hughes
Publisher: Waquoit Wordsmith Press
Imprint: Waquoit Wordsmith Press
Volume: 3
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.318kg
ISBN: 9798201407230
Pages: 246
Publication Date: 27 December 2021
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
Richard Hughes closed his 24-seat safety training center on Cape Cod to become a retired student of modern worldwide shipping operations. He graduated from Massachusetts Maritime Academy with a B.S. in Marine Transportation, then obtained a Masters Degree in Business from Lesley University. While at MMA, he sailed on the Bay State, the CV Lightning, and the TS Mobil Lube. His books include Bringing Down the Safety Guy, Deep Sea Dominoes (a print version of SeaBlameworthiness), and the Cape Safety, Inc. - Danger Dogs Series--a collection of novels detailing the exciting lives of a top-notch safety consulting firm based out of Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He and his wife have written seven screenplays entitled Cape Car Blues, Freeport Fred's Valiant Summer, Golf Cart Ranger, Plimsoll, Training Ship, What We Can't Know, and Get Together. He is also the co-author, along with his wife Lavinia, of a novel entitled Newtucket - the Rising. He lives and writes in the seaside village of Waquoit, MA, with his wife Lavinia M. Hughes.
