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The Most Dangerous Place on Earth

Author : Lindsey Lee Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0812997271
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Most Dangerous Place on Earth written by Lindsey Lee Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an idyllic community of wealthy California families, new teacher Molly Nicoll becomes intrigued by the hidden lives of her privileged students. Unknown to Molly, a middle school tragedy in which they were all complicit continues to reverberate for her students. Theirs is a world in which every action may become public: postable, shareable, viral.

Choose Adventure

Author : Greg Ellifritz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Choose Adventure written by Greg Ellifritz and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-02 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you get anxiety when you think about traveling to a foreign country? Do you want to see the world and have epic adventures while simultaneously avoiding the risk of death or dismemberment? If you want to do dangerous things in a safe manner, this book is for you.Career police officer and veteran traveler Greg Ellifritz has written the definitive guide to safe travel in dangerous places. No matter whether you are traveling internationally or to one of the more dangerous cities in the USA, this book will provide you with quality tips that will make your travel adventure much safer and more enjoyable. The book covers topics like: -Hotel room safety-Assessing neighborhood risk factors and local security issues-Navigating public transportation in foreign cities-Avoiding common travel scams -Pickpocket prevention strategies-Foreign money and banking Issues-Safe eating and drinking guidelines for foreign countries-Minimizing language translation issuesIn addition to providing solutions for some of the common daily struggles international travelers face, this book also discusses less common but more hazardous situations such as: -Preparing for third-world natural disasters-Escape from terrorist attacks and bombing incidents-Hostage survival-Medical issues and treatments in the developing world-Identifying indicators of criminal behavior-Discreet travel weapons-Dealing with bribes and corrupt police officers-Abduction attempts, "Express kidnappings," and "Virtual kidnappings"The book contains useful travel guidelines, valuable checklists and a massive number of additional travel resource suggestions.Many books of this genre are written for either professional business travelers with unlimited corporate budgets or for international espionage agents. I realize that most of my readers won't have the resources to hire a bodyguards or a protection detail for their family vacations. I also know that adventure travelers don't need to understand counter surveillance operations or how to communicate in a clandestine manner. Other travel books cover those topics.Choose Adventure provides simple and practical tips for the everyday traveler who wants to have fun in the developing world while reducing the chances of being victimized, injured, or killed. The book supplies all the information you need to safely navigate the complex issues of international travel while enjoying yourself in the process.

A Dangerous Place

Author : Marc Reisner
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780142003831
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book A Dangerous Place written by Marc Reisner and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2004-07-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing with a signature command of his subject and with compelling resonance, Marc Reisner leads us through California’s improbable rise from a largely desert land to the most populated state in the nation, fueled by an economic engine more productive than all of Africa. Reisner believes that the success of this last great desert civilization hinges on California’s denial of its own inescapable fate: Both the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas sit astride two of the most violently seismic zones on the planet. The earthquakes that have already rocked California were, according to Reisner, a mere prologue to a future cataclysm that will result in immense destruction. Concluding with a hypothetical but chillingly realistic description of what such a disaster would look like, A Dangerous Place mixes science, history, and cultural commentary in a haunting work of profound importance.

A Dangerous Place

Author : Chelsea B. DesAutels
Publisher : Sarabande Books
ISBN 13 : 1946448877
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book A Dangerous Place written by Chelsea B. DesAutels and published by Sarabande Books. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in her powerful, affecting debut, Desautels writes: “I always mention gratitude because/people like that ending.” Unflinching in its candor, this is the story of a woman with two swellings in her belly: a nascent baby, and a cancerous tumor. The poet could focus on the particulars of the medical case, using language from a traditional illness narrative. Instead she gives us the basics, then gathers up surprising and expansive material from various landscapes—the Black Hills, the prairies of Texas, the mountains, switchgrass, and, especially, the neighboring buffalo, to which she feels a profound connection. Desautels’ metaphors strike home, they are counterpoints, balm to the uncertainty and grief that make us uncomfortable. The book moves elegantly from its dark beginnings to a transcendent thankfulness. With healing lyricism, she writes: “And I imagine the white sheets as heron wings./And the whirring machines are white eggs./And the worried voices are sunlight on water.”

Why God Calls Us to Dangerous Places

Author : Kate McCord
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0802493475
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Why God Calls Us to Dangerous Places written by Kate McCord and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Perhaps that’s the greatest reason why He calls us to dangerous places: so that we will know His astonishing, sacrificial, life-restoring love.” Why God Calls Us to Dangerous Places is about what is lost and what is gained when we follow God at any cost. Soon after 9/11, Kate McCord left the corporate world and followed God to Afghanistan—sometimes into the reach of death. Alive but not unscathed, she has suffered the loss of many things: comfort, safety, even dear friends and fellow sojourners. But Kate realizes that those who go are not the only ones who suffer. Those who love those who go also suffer. This book is for them, too. Weaving together Scripture, her story, and stories of both those who go and those who send, Kate considers why God calls us to dangerous places and what it means for all involved. It means dependence. It means loss. It means a firmer hold on hope. It can mean death, trauma, and heavy sorrow. But it can also mean joy unimaginable. Through suffering, we come closer to the heart of God. Written with the weight of glory in the shadow of loss, Why God Calls Us to Dangerous Places will inspire Christians to count the cost—and pay it.

Risk and Substance Use

Author : Susanne MacGregor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351033484
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Risk and Substance Use written by Susanne MacGregor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary collection examines the role that alcohol, tobacco and other drugs have played in framing certain groups and spaces as ‘dangerous’ and in influencing the nature of formal responses to the perceived threat. Taking a historical and cross-national perspective, it explores how such groups and spaces are defined and bounded as well as the processes by which they come to be seen as ‘risky’. It discusses how issues of perceived danger highlight questions of control and the management of behaviours, people and environments, and it pays attention to the way in which sanctions and regulations have been implemented in a variety of often inconsistent ways that frequently impact differently on different sections of the population. Bringing together a range of case studies drawn from different countries and across different periods of time, the chapters collected here illustrate issues of marginalisation, stigmatisation, human rights and social expectations. It is of interest to a diverse audience of historians, philosophers, human geographers, anthropologists, sociologists and criminologists interested in substance use and misuse, deviance, risk and power among other topics.

The World's Most Dangerous Place

Author : James Fergusson
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306821583
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The World's Most Dangerous Place written by James Fergusson and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the war in Afghanistan is now in its endgame, the West’s struggle to eliminate the threat from Al Qaeda is far from over. A decade after 9/11, the war on terror has entered a new phase and, it would seem, a new territory. In early 2010, Al Qaeda operatives were reportedly “streaming” out of central Asia toward Somalia and the surrounding region. Somalia, now home to some of the world’s most dangerous terrorists, was already the world’s most failed state. Two decades of anarchy have spawned not just Islamic extremism but piracy, famine, and a seemingly endless clan-based civil war that has killed an estimated 500,000, turned millions into refugees, and caused hundreds of thousands more to flee and settle in Europe and North America. What is now happening in Somalia directly threatens the security of the world, possibly more than any other region on earth. James Fergusson’s book is the first accessible account of how Somalia became the world’s most dangerous place and what we can—and should—do about it.

Fielding's the World's Most Dangerous Places

Author : Robert Young Pelton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781569521403
Total Pages : 996 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Fielding's the World's Most Dangerous Places written by Robert Young Pelton and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Absolutely Fabulous" (Wired). "The single best source for unclassified intelligence information" (U.S. military deployment officer). "A real lifesaver" (Time). The critics rave and here's why: Robert Young Pelton goes where the timid fear to tread -- straight into the heart of the world's forbidden, lethal, even criminal places, and gives readers all they need to know to survive. Pelton reveals the hidden dangers, including disease, land mines, kidnapping, terrorists, mercenaries, mujahedin, and militias of more than 30 dangerous countries. With firsthand accounts of adventures in these places, Pelton provides indispensable information on contacts for rescue organizations, environmental groups, political activists (including rebel groups), training schools in outdoor survival, ice climbing, commando techniques, motorcycle racing, and other white-knuckle pursuits. The World's Most Dangerous Places is everything you didn't want to know about drugs, guns, crime, war, accidents, and uprisings, but should, in one engrossing book.

How to Avoid Being Killed in a War Zone

Author : Rosie Garthwaite
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608195856
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book How to Avoid Being Killed in a War Zone written by Rosie Garthwaite and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers advice on surviving the extreme conditions of war zones, covering topics ranging from how to avoid land mines and amputate a limb to handling hostage situations and foraging for safe food.

A Man's Life

Author : Mark Jenkins
Publisher : Rodale
ISBN 13 : 9781594867071
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book A Man's Life written by Mark Jenkins and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an all-new compendium of travel tales, the Outside magazine columnist, explorer, and author of The Hard Way presents accounts of his true-life adventures and experiences in the farthest corners of the globe.

Most Dangerous Place

Author : James Grippando
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062440578
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Most Dangerous Place written by James Grippando and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defending a woman accused of murdering the man who sexually assaulted her, Miami lawyer Jack Swyteck must uncover where the truth lies between innocence, vengeance, and justice in this spellbinding tale of suspense—based on shocking true-life events—from the New York Times bestselling author of Gone Again. According to the FBI, the most dangerous place for a woman between the ages of twenty and thirty is in a relationship with a man. Those statistics become all too personal when Jack Swyteck takes on a new client tied to his past. It begins at the airport, where Jack is waiting to meet his old high school buddy, Keith Ingraham, a high-powered banker based in Hong Kong, coming to Miami for his young daughter’s surgery. But their long-awaited reunion is abruptly derailed when the police arrest Keith’s wife, Isabelle, in the terminal, accusing her of conspiring to kill the man who raped her in college. Jack quickly agrees to represent Isa, but soon discovers that to see justice done, he must separate truth from lies—an undertaking that proves more complicated than the seasoned attorney expects. Inspired by an actual case involving a victim of sexual assault sent to prison for the death of her attacker, James Grippando’s twisty thriller brilliantly explores the fine line between victim and perpetrator, innocence and guilt, and cold-blooded revenge and rightful retribution.

Schools as Dangerous Places

Author : Tom A. O'Donoghue
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1934043761
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Schools as Dangerous Places written by Tom A. O'Donoghue and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lack of serious study on how dangerous schools as institutions can be is a little surprising given that the matter was put squarely on the research agenda in persuasive fashion by Waller back in 1932. The lack of response to the possibilities opened up means that a vibrant research agenda still awaits construction. This book will stimulate debate on the matter from the historical perspective. It consists of fifteen chapters drawing on historical case studies from the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, and Australia written by international scholars in the field. These chapters are helpfully grouped into three sections. The first section focuses on certain dangers to which pupils were exposed in the past and on certain dangerous practices which they promoted. The second section examines dangers to which teachers were exposed in the past along with dangerous practices which they themselves promoted. In the final and third section, the chapters explore the dangers to which teachers and students were exposed in the past at the university level. Throughout the book, the emphases range from dangers emanating from the institutions themselves and the patterns of relationships that developed in them, to what occurred due to particular ideologies and practices connected with sport, sex, religion, and science. Schools as Dangerous Places delivers a historical perspective of schools in a manner that is most unusual. This unique study helps us examine education through a very different lens.

The Dangerous Places

Author : Louis Golding
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Dangerous Places written by Louis Golding and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Dangerous Places" by Louis Golding. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The World's Most Dangerous Places

Author : Paul Mason
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
ISBN 13 : 9781410925138
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book The World's Most Dangerous Places written by Paul Mason and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2006-09-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores world's most dangerous places.

Wild

Author : Clint Willis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781840183160
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Wild written by Clint Willis and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild brings together writings about men and women fighting for their lives in the wilderness, from Jon Krakauer's article on which he based his best-seller Into the Wild, to Carl R. Raswan's account of surviving raids, droughts, and sandstorms in the desert with the Bedouins. Other accounts include: Philipe Descola telling of life with an isolated tribe of headhunters; Edward Abbey on the hazards of trying to navigate the Southwest canyons; Bill Bryson describing his life-threatening adventures along the Appalachian Trail; and Sheila Nickerson on the survivors of family and friends lost to the wilderness.

The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Arabia

Author : John Keay
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472100042
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Arabia written by John Keay and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escape from Riyadh - William Gifford Palgrave A scholar and a solider, a Jesuit and a Jew, a French spy and a British ambassador- Palgrave was a man of contradictions, all of them highly compromised when in 1862-3, fortified by Pius IX's blessing and Napoleon III's cash, he attempted the first west- east crossing of the Arabian peninsular. To steely nerves and a genius for disguise he owed his eventual success; but not before both were sorely tested when, as a Syrian doctor, he became the first European to enter Riyadh. The desert capital of the fanatical Wahabis, dangerous for an infidel at the best of times, was then doubly so as the sons of the ageing King Feisal intrigued for power. Desert Days - Charles Montagu Doughty During two years (1875-7) wandering in Central Arabia Doughty broke little new ground; dependant on desert charity, his achievement was simply to have survived. Yet his book, Arabia Deserta, was instantly recognized as a classic. Its eccentric prose proves well suited to that minute observation and experience of Bedouin life which was Doughty's main contribution to exploration. T.E. Lawrence called it "a bible of a kind"; both syntax and subject matter have biblical resonances, as in this description of a day's march, or rahla.

The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: South America

Author : John Keay
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472100093
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: South America written by John Keay and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eating Dirt in Venezuela - Alexander von Humboldt Geographer, geologist, naturalist, anthropologist, physician and philosopher, Baron von Humboldt brought to exploration a greater range of enquiry than any contemporary. Also an indomitable traveller, particularly in the Orinoco/Amazon basin (1799-1804), he often invited danger but always in the cause of scientific observation. The interest of his narratives therefore lies primarily in the author's insatiable curiosity and in the erudition that allowed him to generalize from his observations. A classic example is his ever deadpan disquisition on earth-eating. It occurs in the middle of a hair-raising account of descending the Orinoco in Venezuela. Iron Rations in Amazonia - Henry Savage Landor Bar Antarctica, Everest and the Empty Quarter, twentieth-century explorers have largely had to contrive their challenges. Landor went one better and contrived the hazards. From Japan, Korea, Central Asia, Tibet, and Africa he returned, always alone, with ever more improbable claims and ever more extravagant tales. The climax came in 1911 with Across Unknown South America, the sort of book that gave exploration a bad name. His route, irrelevant and seldom "unknown", nevertheless demanded superhuman powers of endurance as when the expedition marched without food for fifteen days. The Discovery of Machu Picchu - Hiram Bingham Just when it seemed as if all the "forbidden cities" had been entered and the "lost civilisations" found, there occurred one of the most sensational discoveries in the history of travel. Hiram Bingham, the son of missionary parents in Hawaii, was a lecturer in Latin American history at Yale and Berkeley who devoted his vocations to retracing the routes of Spanish conquest and trade in Columbia and Peru. He was drawn to the high Andes near Cuzco and to the awesome gorges of the Urubamba River by rumours about the existence there of the lost capital and last retreat of the Incas. Machu Picchu was neither; but it richly rewarded his heroic endeavour in reaching it. After excavation by Bingham in 1912 and 1915, it was revealed as the best preserved of the Inca cities and South America's most impressive site.