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Author : Walt Hampton
Publisher : Aloha Pub Llc
ISBN 13 : 9781612060149
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Journeys on the Edge written by Walt Hampton and published by Aloha Pub Llc. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joshua Keating
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300235054
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Invisible Countries written by Joshua Keating and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist explores how our world’s borders came to be and how self-proclaimed countries across the globe could change the map. What is a country? While certain basic criteria—borders, a government, and recognition from other countries—seem obvious, journalist Joshua Keating investigates what happens in areas of the world that exist as exceptions to these rules. Invisible Countries looks at semiautonomous countries such as Abkhazia, Kurdistan, and Somaliland, as well as a Mohawk reservation straddling the U.S.-Canada border, and an island nation whose very existence is threatened by climate change. Through stories about these would-be countries’ efforts at self-determination, Keating shows that there is no universal legal authority determining what a country is. He also argues that economic, cultural, and environmental forces could soon bring an end to our long period of cartographical stasis. Keating combines history with incisive observations drawn from his travels and interviews with residents, political leaders, and scholars in each of these “invisible countries.”
Author : Jill Fredston
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780865476554
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (765 download)
Download or read book Rowing to Latitude written by Jill Fredston and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-10-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jill Fredston chronicles the experiences she has had while traveling through the Arctic and sub-Arctic with her oceangoing rowing shell and her husband.
Author : Moody Video
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781575672526
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Journeys to the Edge of Creation written by Moody Video and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the marvels of creation as revealed by space probes and the Hubble space telescope.
Author : Andrea Petersen
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0553418580
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (534 download)
Download or read book On Edge written by Andrea Petersen and published by Crown. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebrated science and health reporter offers a wry, bracingly honest account of living with anxiety. A racing heart. Difficulty breathing. Overwhelming dread. Andrea Petersen was first diagnosed with an anxiety disorder at the age of twenty, but she later realized that she had been experiencing panic attacks since childhood. With time her symptoms multiplied. She agonized over every odd physical sensation. She developed fears of driving on highways, going to movie theaters, even licking envelopes. Although having a name for her condition was an enormous relief, it was only the beginning of a journey to understand and master it—one that took her from psychiatrists’ offices to yoga retreats to the Appalachian Trail. Woven into Petersen’s personal story is a fascinating look at the biology of anxiety and the groundbreaking research that might point the way to new treatments. She compares psychoactive drugs to non-drug treatments, including biofeedback and exposure therapy. And she explores the role that genetics and the environment play in mental illness, visiting top neuroscientists and tracing her family history—from her grandmother, who, plagued by paranoia, once tried to burn down her own house, to her young daughter, in whom Petersen sees shades of herself. Brave and empowering, this is essential reading for anyone who knows what it means to live on edge.
Author : Thomas O'Loughlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Journeys on the Edges written by Thomas O'Loughlin and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Back Cover.
Author : Gabriel Levin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226923673
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)
Download or read book The Dune's Twisted Edge written by Gabriel Levin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of previously published essays.
Author : Richard Preston
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 081297560X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Panic in Level 4 written by Richard Preston and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bizarre illnesses and plagues that kill people in the most unspeakable ways. Obsessive and inspired efforts by scientists to solve mysteries and save lives. From The Hot Zone to The Demon in the Freezer and beyond, Richard Preston’s bestselling works have mesmerized readers everywhere by showing them strange worlds of nature they never dreamed of. Panic in Level 4 is a grand tour through the eerie and unforgettable universe of Richard Preston, filled with incredible characters and mysteries that refuse to leave one’s mind. Here are dramatic true stories from this acclaimed and award-winning author, including: • The phenomenon of “self-cannibals,” who suffer from a rare genetic condition caused by one wrong letter in their DNA that forces them to compulsively chew their own flesh–and why everyone may have a touch of this disease. • The search for the unknown host of Ebola virus, an organism hidden somewhere in African rain forests, where the disease finds its way into the human species, causing outbreaks of unparalleled horror. • The brilliant Russian brothers–“one mathematician divided between two bodies”–who built a supercomputer in their apartment from mail-order parts in an attempt to find hidden order in the number pi (π). In fascinating, intimate, and exhilarating detail, Richard Preston portrays the frightening forces and constructive discoveries that are currently roiling and reordering our world, once again proving himself a master of the nonfiction narrative and, as noted in The Washington Post, “a science writer with an uncommon gift for turning complex biology into riveting page-turners.”
Author : Randall Peeters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944986216
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Journeys to the Edge written by Randall Peeters and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-25 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From climbing Everest to being arrested for BASE jumping El Capitan, Randall Peeters shares his successes and failures. He provides readers with guidelines on how to create a vision for their lives.
Author : Magda Biernat
Publisher : Kehrer Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783868289442
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (894 download)
Download or read book The Edge of Knowing written by Magda Biernat and published by Kehrer Verlag. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journey in photos and essays takes us beyond the boundaries of the Americas that traditionally define national identity.
Author : Deborah Cramer
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300185197
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Narrow Edge written by Deborah Cramer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of ravenous tiny shorebirds race along the water's edge of Delaware Bay, feasting on pin-sized horseshoe-crab eggs. Fueled by millions of eggs, the migrating red knots fly on. When they arrive at last in their arctic breeding grounds, they will have completed a near-miraculous 9,000-mile journey that began in Tierra del Fuego. Deborah Cramer followed these knots, whose numbers have declined by 75 percent, on their extraordinary odyssey from one end of the earth to the other—from an isolated beach at the tip of South America all the way to the icy tundra. In her firsthand account, she explores how diminishing a single stopover can compromise the birds' entire journey, and how the loss of horseshoe crabs—ancient animals that come ashore but once a year—threatens not only the survival of red knots but also human well-being: the unparalleled ability of horseshoe-crab blood to detect harmful bacteria in vaccines, medical devices, and intravenous drugs safeguards human health. Cramer offers unique insight into how, on an increasingly fragile and congested shore, the lives of red knots, horseshoe crabs, and humans are intertwined. She eloquently portrays the tenacity of small birds and the courage of many people who, bird by bird and beach by beach, keep red knots flying.
Author : David Gange
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008225125
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian’s Journey from Shetland to the Channel written by David Gange and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COLLECTIVE WINNER OF THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE ‘This is the book that has been wanting to be written for decades: the ragged fringe of Britain as a laboratory for the human spirit’ Adam Nicolson
Author : Paul D. Storrie
Publisher : Graphic Universe ™
ISBN 13 : 1467735965
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)
Download or read book Peril at Summerland Park written by Paul D. Storrie and published by Graphic Universe ™. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You and your friends had no trouble breaking into the abandoned Summerland Amusement Park. Getting out won't be as easy. Can you escape the sinister creatures that dwell among the rides? Every Twisted Journeys® graphic novel lets YOU control the action by choosing which path to follow. Which twists and turns will your journey take?
Author : Anil Ananthaswamy
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547394527
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)
Download or read book The Edge of Physics written by Anil Ananthaswamy and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of modern cosmology told through a tour of the most extraordinary detectors and telescopes in the world.
Author : Alan Lewis
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1633690164
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (336 download)
Download or read book Edge Strategy written by Alan Lewis and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you missing opportunities for growth that are right in front of you? In today’s volatile economic environment, filled with uncertainty and sudden change, the forces pushing you to stay focused on the core business are extremely powerful. Profiting from the core is crucial, but the danger is that overfocus on the core can blind companies. Scanning the horizon for new markets and new products can also be tempting, but risky. Fixating too much on either strategy can cause you to miss the substantial opportunities for growth that are often hidden in plain sight, at the edge of the core business. In this insightful yet practical book, strategy experts Alan Lewis and Dan McKone articulate a mindset that helps leaders recognize and capitalize on these opportunities. The Edge Strategy framework challenges how the boundaries of your existing products and services map to your customers’ views of the world and then provides three different lenses through which you can see and leverage value: • Product edge. How to capture incremental profits and other benefits by slightly altering the elements and composition of a core offering • Journey edge. How to create and capture extra value by adjusting your role in supporting the customer’s journey to and through your offering • Enterprise edge. How to unlock additional value from resources and capabilities that support your core offering by applying them in a different context, for a different offering or different set of customers With engaging examples across many industries, Lewis and McKone coach you on how to identify and assess each of the different “edges” and then provide concrete insights and advice on applying edge strategy and tactics to use in specific business contexts. The book concludes with a ten-step process to help executives and managers find and leverage the edges in their own companies. Edge Strategy is the concise, hands-on guide for growing your business by getting more yield from assets already in place, relationships already established, and investments already made.
Author : Jules Pretty
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801455030
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Edge of Extinction written by Jules Pretty and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Edge of Extinction, Jules Pretty explores life and change in a dozen environments and cultures across the world, taking us on a series of remarkable journeys through deserts, coasts, mountains, steppes, snowscapes, marshes, and farms to show that there are many different ways to live in cooperation with nature. From these accounts of people living close to the land and close to the edge emerge a larger story about sustainability and the future of the planet. Pretty addresses not only current threats to natural and cultural diversity but also the unsustainability of modern lifestyles typical of industrialized countries. In a very real sense, Pretty discovers, what we manage to preserve now may well save us later.Jules Pretty's travels take him among the Maori people along the coasts of the Pacific, into the mountains of China, and across petroglyph-rich deserts of Australia. He treks with nomads over the continent-wide steppes of Tuva in southern Siberia, walks and boats in the wildlife-rich inland swamps of southern Africa, and experiences the Arctic with ice fishermen in Finland. He explores the coasts and inland marshes of eastern England and Northern Ireland and accompanies Innu people across the taiga’s snowy forests and the lakes of the Labrador interior. Pretty concludes his global journey immersed in the discrete cultures and landscapes embedded within the American landscape: the small farms of the Amish, the swamps of the Cajuns in the deep South, and the deserts of California.The diverse people Pretty meets in The Edge of Extinction display deep pride in their relationships with the land and are only willing to join with the modern world on their own terms. By the examples they set, they offer valuable lessons for anyone seeking to find harmony in a world cracking under the pressures of apparently insatiable consumption patterns of the affluent.
Author : Peter M. Gardner
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826265227
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Journeys to the Edge written by Peter M. Gardner and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating and vivid account, Peter M. Gardner takes us along with him on his anthropological field research trips. Usually, the author’s family is there, too, either with him in the field or somewhere nearby. Family adventures are part of it all. Travel into the unknown can be terrifying yet stimulating, and Gardner describes his own adventures, sharing medical and travel emergencies, magical fights, natural dangers, playful friends, and satisfying scientific discoveries. Along the way, we also learn how Gardner adapted to the isolation he sometimes faced and how he coped with the numerous crises that arose during his travels, including his tiny son’s bout with cholera. Because Gardner’s primary research since 1962 has been with hunter-gatherers, much of his story transpires either in the equatorial jungle of south India or more than one hundred miles beyond the end of the road in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Other ventures transport readers to Japan and back to India, allowing them to savor ancient sights and sounds. Gardner closes the book with a journey of quite another sort, as he takes us into the world of nature, Taoist philosophy, and the experimental treatment of advanced cancer. Throughout this fast-moving book, Gardner deftly describes the goals and techniques of his research, as well as his growing understanding of the cultures to which he was exposed. Few personal accounts of fieldwork describe enough of the research to give a complete sense of the experience in the way this book does. Anyone with an interest in travel and adventure, including the student of anthropology as well as the general reader, will be totally intrigued by Gardner’s story, one of a daily existence so very different from our own.
