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Adventure and Society

Author : Simon Beames
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319960628
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Adventure and Society written by Simon Beames and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This undergraduate textbook provides a broad overview of the ways in which ‘adventurous practices’ influence, and are influenced by, the world around them. The concept of adventure is one that is too often tackled within subject silos of philosophy, education, tourism, or leisure. While much of the analysis is strong, there is little cross-pollination between disciplines. Adventure & Society pulls together the threads of these discourses into one coherent treatment of the term ‘adventure’ and the role that it plays in human social life of the 21st century. It explores how these practices can be considered more deeply through theoretical discourses of capitalism, identity construction, technology and social media, risk-taking, personal development, equalities, and sustainability. As such, the book speaks to a broad audience of undergraduate and postgraduate students across diverse subject areas, and aims to be an accessible starting point for deeper inquiry.

The Last Great Adventure of the PB & J Society

Author : Janet Sumner Johnson
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 162370636X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book The Last Great Adventure of the PB & J Society written by Janet Sumner Johnson and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her best friend's house is threatened with foreclosure, young Annie Jenkins is full of ideas to save the home. But when Annie tracks a lost treasure to Jason's backyard, she's sure the booty will be enough to save Jason's family.

Wu Guanzhong

Author : Guanzhong Wu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780810981355
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Wu Guanzhong written by Guanzhong Wu and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Outdoor Adventure and Social Theory

Author : Elizabeth C.J. Pike
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136292403
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Outdoor Adventure and Social Theory written by Elizabeth C.J. Pike and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventure and outdoor sports - from rock climbing to freestyle kayaking – are a modern social phenomenon that can tell us much about the relationship between sport, culture and contemporary society. In this engaging new introductory text, adventure sports are used to illustrate key concepts in social theory and to demonstrate why an understanding of social theory is essential for any student taking a course in sport, adventure, or outdoor education. Each chapter in the book introduces a key ‘classical’ or modern social theorist, including Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Elias, or a universal topic or issue in social theory, such as sustainability, commodification or identity. Within each of those chapters the theorist or topic is brought to life through case studies of adventurous activities and lived experiences, helping the reader to connect their own sporting and adventurous interests with the frameworks we use to understand wider culture and society. Concise and full of cutting-edge contemporary examples, Outdoor Adventure and Social Theory is the perfect companion for any module on the sociology of sport, adventure or outdoor recreation.

Logs of the Dead Pirates Society

Author : Randall S. Peffer
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781574090956
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Logs of the Dead Pirates Society written by Randall S. Peffer and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tale of exploration and adventure is a warm account of the people and places around the waters of Southern Massachusetts.

The Adventures of Lily Huckleberry Around the World

Author : Audrey Smit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732696150
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (961 download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Lily Huckleberry Around the World written by Audrey Smit and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a member of a Worldwide Adventure Society, Lily has a magic globe that takes her on whimsical journeys around the world.From the streets of Paris to the mountains of Peru, Lily finds adventure around every corner and discovers that the world is bigger and more beautiful than she ever imagined. Come explore with Lily in this fun collection of stories filled with laughter as she meets new friends, follows her curiosity and learns that a little imagination often goes a long way!

Camping Adventure

Author : William R. Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870441967
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Camping Adventure written by William R. Gray and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family backpacks into the mountains and enjoys several days of camping.

The Medieval Risk-Reward Society

Author : Will Hasty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814252659
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book The Medieval Risk-Reward Society written by Will Hasty and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Medieval Risk-Reward Society" offers a study of adventure and love in the European Middle Ages focused on the poetry of authors such as Marie de France, Chretien de Troyes, Wolfram von Eschenbach, and Gottfried von Strassburg-showing how a society based on sacrifice becomes one of wagers and investments. Will Hasty's sociological approach to medieval courtly literature, informed by the analytic tools of game theory, reveals the blossoming of a worldview in which outcomes are uncertain, such that the very self (of a character or an authorial persona) is contingent on success or failure in possessing the things it desires-and upon which its social identity and personal happiness depend. Drawing on a diverse selection of contrasting canonical works ranging from the "Iliad" to the biblical book of Joshua to High Medieval German political texts to the writings of Leibniz and Mark Twain, Hasty enables an appreciation of the distinctive contributions made in antiquity and the Middle Ages to the medieval emergence of a European society based on risks and rewards. "The Medieval Risk-Reward Society: Courts, Adventure, and Love in the European Middle Ages" takes a descriptive approach to the competitions in religion, politics, and poetry that are constitutive of medieval culture. Culture is considered always to be "happening, " and to be happening on the cultural cutting edge as competitions for rewards involving the element of chance. This study finds adventure and love--the principal concerns of medieval European romance poetry--to be cultural game changers, and thereby endeavors to make a humanist contribution to the development of a cultural game theory. Will Hasty is Professor of German and Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida, Gainesville."

Exploring Your World

Author :
Publisher : National Geographic Society
ISBN 13 : 9780870447266
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Your World written by and published by National Geographic Society. This book was released on 1989 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family reference work containing alphabetically arranged articles, with charts, maps, and photographs, covering physical and human geography.

Ghost Hunters Adventure Club and the Secret of the Grande Chateau

Author : Dr. Cecil H.H. Mills
Publisher : Permuted Press
ISBN 13 : 1682618935
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Ghost Hunters Adventure Club and the Secret of the Grande Chateau written by Dr. Cecil H.H. Mills and published by Permuted Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listen up, kid. My name is Dr. Cecil H.H. Mills. I’m the author of this book and many other ones that you might not have heard of. This book is about two idiot wannabe detective-types. Their names are J.J. and Valentine Watts, but I’m not sure if they’re actually brothers or not. They make a friend; her name is Trudi de la Rosa. She’s a wannabe detective-type too, but honestly, she’s less of an idiot than the brothers. The three of them team up to solve a mystery that takes place in a snowy chateau up in the mountains. It gets more complicated around chapter 11, but now you’ve got the main gist of it. The story’s full of intrigue and adventure and puzzles and light violence and some swear words. It’s really entertaining. Just buy the book and start reading. You’ll understand everything about the Ghost Hunters Adventure Club very soon.

Movies and the Moral Adventure of Life

Author : Alan A. Stone
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262261189
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Movies and the Moral Adventure of Life written by Alan A. Stone and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2007-08-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on small art films and big-budget blockbusters, including Antonia's Line, American Beauty, Schindler's List, and The Passion of the Christ, that view films as life lessons, enlarging our sense of human possibilities. For Alan Stone, a one-time Freudian analyst and former president of the American Psychiatric Society, movies are the great modern, democratic medium for exploring our individual and collective lives. They provide occasions for reflecting on what he calls “the moral adventure of life”: the choices people make—beyond the limits of their character and circumstances—in response to life's challenges. The quality of these choices is, for him, the measure of a life well lived. In this collection of his film essays, Stone reads films as life texts. He is engaged more by their ideas than their visual presentation, more by their power to move us than by their commercial success. Stone writes about both art films and big-budget Hollywood blockbusters. And he commands an extraordinary range of historical, literary, cultural, and scientific reference that reflects his impressive personal history: professor of law and medicine, football player at Harvard in the late 1940s, director of medical training at McLean Hospital, and advisor to Attorney General Janet Reno on behavioral science. In the end, Stone's enthusiasms run particularly to films that embrace the sheer complexity of life, and in doing so enlarge our sense of human possibilities: in Antonia's Line, he sees an emotionally vivid picture of a world beyond patriarchy; in Thirteen Conversations about One Thing, the power of sheer contingency in human life; and in American Beauty, how beauty in ordinary experience draws us outside ourselves, and how beauty and justice are distinct goods, with no intrinsic connection. Other films discussed in these essays (written between 1993 and 2006 for Boston Review) include Un Coeur en Hiver, Schindler's List, Pulp Fiction, Thirteen Days, the 1997 version of Lolita, The Battle of Algiers, The Passion of the Christ, Persuasion, and Water.

Limits of the Known

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393609871
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Limits of the Known written by David Roberts and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If you’ve run out of Saint-Exupéry and miss the eloquent power of his work, then you are ready to read David Roberts.” —Laurence Gonzales, author of Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies and Why David Roberts has spent his career documenting voyages to the most extreme landscapes on earth. In Limits of the Known, he reflects on humanity’s—and his own—relationship to exploration and extreme risk. Part memoir and part history, this book tries to make sense of why so many have committed their lives to the desperate pursuit of adventure. What compelled Eric Shipton to return, five times, to the ridges of Mt. Everest, plotting the mountain’s most treacherous territory years before Hillary and Tenzing’s famous ascent? What drove Bill Stone to dive 3,000 feet underground into North America’s deepest cave? And what is the future of adventure in a world we have mapped and trodden from end to end? In the wake of his diagnosis with throat cancer, Roberts seeks answers with new urgency and “penetrating self-analysis” (Booklist).

From the Dust

Author : A. R. Colbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book From the Dust written by A. R. Colbert and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN A WORLD WHERE EVERYTHING IS DONE "FOR THE GREATER GOOD," EXPOSING THE TRUTH IS A DEATH WISH. Strap in for the first book in the highly addictive dystopian world of the Ember Society Series. Life isn't easy for Claren Greenwood. Her mother was killed by rebels, her father was exiled, and her brother is walking dangerously close to a similar fate. But Claren has a rare skill, and once the government identifies her as an Empath her world is flipped on its head. Now Claren finds herself straddling two worlds--one begging her to work for "The Greater Good," and the other threatening to tear it all apart. With the help of a tall, handsome Outsider and a house full of other Empaths training for government work, Claren must discover the truth in order to save her brother and countless other lives. And she must do it without losing the trust of either side. From the Dust is full of action, suspense, love, and espionage. Fans of Divergent and The Hunger Games should prepare to get hooked!

Sibley's Christmas Adventure

Author : Don Alhart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578755670
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Sibley's Christmas Adventure written by Don Alhart and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Outdoor Adventure and Social Theory

Author : Elizabeth C.J. Pike
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136292411
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Outdoor Adventure and Social Theory written by Elizabeth C.J. Pike and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventure and outdoor sports - from rock climbing to freestyle kayaking – are a modern social phenomenon that can tell us much about the relationship between sport, culture and contemporary society. In this engaging new introductory text, adventure sports are used to illustrate key concepts in social theory and to demonstrate why an understanding of social theory is essential for any student taking a course in sport, adventure, or outdoor education. Each chapter in the book introduces a key ‘classical’ or modern social theorist, including Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Elias, or a universal topic or issue in social theory, such as sustainability, commodification or identity. Within each of those chapters the theorist or topic is brought to life through case studies of adventurous activities and lived experiences, helping the reader to connect their own sporting and adventurous interests with the frameworks we use to understand wider culture and society. Concise and full of cutting-edge contemporary examples, Outdoor Adventure and Social Theory is the perfect companion for any module on the sociology of sport, adventure or outdoor recreation.

A Jr. Sherlock Holmes Society of a Rainbow Country Adventure

Author : B.T. Clabby
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1665596341
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book A Jr. Sherlock Holmes Society of a Rainbow Country Adventure written by B.T. Clabby and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss champion’s sixth-grade class is being introduced to the works of Sir Arthur C Doyle and cognitive reasoning. Living in North Bay, Ontario, six of her class form a group called the Sherlock Holmes Society of Rainbow Country and as school lets out for the Canadian Thanksgiving long weekend the group finds a man hurt coming through the woods. They must deal with getting help for this man and deal with a police detective that believes the children are behind the shooting of the man. To clear their names, they must find the true shooter. And the adventure begins.

Life, here and there: or Sketches of society and adventure at far-apart times and places

Author : Nathaniel Parker Willis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608394435
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (944 download)

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Download or read book Life, here and there: or Sketches of society and adventure at far-apart times and places written by Nathaniel Parker Willis and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: