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Author : Ann Urness Gesme
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781886627130
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (271 download)
Download or read book Between Rocks and Hard Places written by Ann Urness Gesme and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aron Ralston
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1849835098
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (498 download)
Download or read book 127 Hours written by Aron Ralston and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Sunday April 27, 2003, 27-year old Aron Ralston set off for a day's hiking in the Utah canyons. Dressed in a t-shirt and shorts, Ralston, a seasoned climber, figured he'd hike for a few hours and then head off to work. 40 miles from the nearest paved road, he found himself on top of an 800-pound boulder. As he slid down and off of the boulder it shifted, trapping his right hand against the canyon wall. No one knew where he was; he had little water; he wasn't dressed correctly; and the boulder wasn't going anywhere. He remained trapped for five days in the canyon: hypothermic at night, de-hydrated and hallucinating by day. Finally, he faced the most terrible decision of his life: braking the bones in his wrist by snapping them against the boulder, he hacked through the skin, and finally succeeded in amputating his right hand and wrist. The ordeal, however, was only beginning. He still faced a 60-foot rappell to freedom, and a walk of several hours back to his car - along the way, he miraculously met a family of hikers, and with his arms tourniqued, and blood-loss almost critical, they heard above them the whir of helicopter blades; just in time, Aron was rescued and rushed to hospital. Since that day, Aron has had a remarkable recovery. He is back out on the mountains, with an artificial limb; he speaks to select groups on his ordeal and rescue; and amazingly, he is upbeat, positive, and an inspiration to all who meet him. This is the account of those five days, of the years that led up to them, and where he goes from here. It is narrative non-fiction at its most compelling.
Author : Roger Moody
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848137753
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Rocks and Hard Places written by Roger Moody and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of international mining is changing rapidly. Mining corporations are encroaching on more and more greenfield sites in Africa, the Asia-Pacific and Latin America, to serve ever-expanding global industries. Moody shows that large-scale mining imposes a heavy toll on local communities, on their fragile economies and ways of life, as well as the environment. He challenges the mining corporations' recent public relations offensive extolling the virtues of largescale mining and its alleged compatibility with sustainable development, and reveals the unprecedented wave of community and trade union opposition to projects in both the South and the North. This important book concludes with urgent proposals to check the role of multinationals in a sector that has always been at the core of resource exploitation.
Author : Paul Lyle
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780337095870
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Between rocks and hard places written by Paul Lyle and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrating the variety of the Irish landscapes this book explores the landscapes that are linked to rocks and the rocks to history, past and present. For its size there is a great range of rock types and rock ages in the northern third of Ireland.Interspersed with the brief text are sections entitled Mythology and Geology. Here will be found stories of Finn McCool, who of course was a wellknown local giant, the Children of Lir, the tragedy of Finngheal, the speaking horse of Benlaughlin, Câlann's Hound, the sacred waters of the Shannon Pot and more. Then there is Ireland's World Tour which traces the origin of our rocks to distant places before they came together in the emerald isle. Sections headed - Did you know, explains some of the natural wonders like Sligo's coral reefs, the Marble Arch Caves and the equivalent of Death Valley in Co Down. Forces that changed the landscape describes the volcanic past with yet more facts and fiction/mythology. Then the story moves to times when humans arrived on these shores. The Axe Factor is about the Stone Age and how local axes transformed life and the landscape. Prominent Monuments follows the theme of the prehistoric peoples and their stone circles and dolmens. The Era of Buildings takes the reader through to the Middle Ages with castles, crosses and temples. Then it moves on to more modern times and the buildings of the last century. Finally, a chapter called Ancient Resources, Modern Dilemmas. Perhaps most surprising will be how much use has been made of the natural resources, yet the wounds to the landscape have mostly healed. Now another phase of mineral and gas exploration is upon us. New sorts of maps are being developed to meet modern needs, which will include coping with a growing population in a seemingly ever more wasteful and energy inefficient society.
Author : John Omwake
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595366422
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Rocks And Hard Places written by John Omwake and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four stories, four slices of life. Four people trapped between "Rocks and Hard Places": * A 'good old boy" watches his world crumble before him. * A has-been starlet seeks redemption in the mountains of Colorado. * A drifter struggles with memories of a lost friend. * A coal miner's daughter who has come up in the world faces a choices: worldly goods or her honor. Four stories, four people in crisis, facing life-or-death decisions. What will they do?
Author : Andrew Mueller
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1593763794
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)
Download or read book Rock and Hard Places written by Andrew Mueller and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2010-02-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Mueller is Australian by birth, a Londoner by choice, a wanderer by nature, and a journalist by profession. Unable to decide between being a rock critic, travel writer, or foreign correspondent, he hit upon the novel, if time-consuming, solution of trying to be all three at once. In Rock and Hard Places, published originally in the U.K. in 1999, now re-envisioned and updated and available for the first time in the United States, he travels to Lebanon with the Prodigy, comes to America with Radiohead, and goes all over the place with U2. He ventures to Bosnia Herzegovina with an aid convoy in the middle of the war, sees Def Leppard play in a cave in Morocco, and attempts to ask the Taliban not only what they think they’re up to, but who they fancy for the World Cup. He flings himself head first down the Cresta Run, sits in Stalin’s armchair, chases ambulances through Moscow, chases some kind of lost tribe in India, wakes up at least once in a park in Reykjavik, and strongly advises avoiding the seafood salad in Sapporo Airport. He’s funny. Occasionally he makes a point.
Author : Natalie M. Rosinsky
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9781404803343
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Rocks written by Natalie M. Rosinsky and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rocks you see everyday can be grouped into different types, like igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic. Some rocks are actually minerals, and you can even find fossils in some types of rocks. Complete with activities and experiments, this nonfiction science book is perfect for introducing children to geology.
Author : Ellen Wohl
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520257030
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Of Rock and Rivers written by Ellen Wohl and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This deeply personal collection of essays paints a progressive view of the American West as seen by a geologist. The author traces her twenty years of living and conducting research in the natural landscapes of the West as she investigates the conflict between environmental history and widely held romanticized views of the region.
Author : Ann Urness-Gesme
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578903880
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Norwegian Emigration written by Ann Urness-Gesme and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann Urness Gesme's new book, Norwegian Emigration: Between Rocks and Hard Places, shares her research detailing customs and conditions in the lives of rural Norwegians as they began to consider emigration in the 1800s. With this information, readers will gain logical and credible insight into the daily lives of our Norwegian ancestors.
Author : Peggy Christian
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152393397
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book If You Find a Rock written by Peggy Christian and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the joy of rock hunting.
Author : Brenda Peynado
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525507272
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book The Rock Eaters written by Brenda Peynado and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NPR Best Book of 2021 NYPL 10 Best Books for Adults, 2021 A story collection, in the vein of Carmen Maria Machado, Kelly Link, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, spanning worlds and dimensions, using strange and speculative elements to tackle issues ranging from class differences to immigration to first-generation experiences to xenophobia What does it mean to be other? What does it mean to love in a world determined to keep us apart? These questions murmur in the heart of each of Brenda Peynado’s strange and singular stories. Threaded with magic, transcending time and place, these stories explore what it means to cross borders and break down walls, personally and politically. In one story, suburban families perform oblations to cattlelike angels who live on their roofs, believing that their “thoughts and prayers” will protect them from the world’s violence. In another, inhabitants of an unnamed dictatorship slowly lose their own agency as pieces of their bodies go missing and, with them, the essential rights that those appendages serve. “The Great Escape” tells of an old woman who hides away in her apartment, reliving the past among beautiful objects she’s hoarded, refusing all visitors, until she disappears completely. In the title story, children begin to levitate, flying away from their parents and their home country, leading them to eat rocks in order to stay grounded. With elements of science fiction and fantasy, fabulism and magical realism, Brenda Peynado uses her stories to reflect our flawed world, and the incredible, terrifying, and marvelous nature of humanity.
Author : Bob Shepton
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472905865
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Addicted to Adventure written by Bob Shepton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Shepton is an ordained minister in the Church of England in his late 70s, but spends most of his time sailing into the Arctic and making first ascents of inaccessible mountains. No tea parties for this vicar. Opening with the disastrous fire that destroyed his yacht whilst he was ice-bound in Greenland, the book travels back to his childhood growing up on the rubber plantation his father managed in Malaysia, moving back to England after his father was shot by the Japanese during the war, boarding school, the Royal Marines, and the church. We then follow Bob as he sails around the world with a group of schoolboys, is dismasted off the Falklands, trapped in ice, and climbs mountains accessible only from iceberg-strewn water and with only sketchy maps available. Bob Shepton, winner of the 2013 Yachtsman of the Year Award, is an old-school adventurer, and this compelling book is in the spirit of sailing mountaineer HW Tilman, explorer Ranulph Fiennes, climber Chris Bonington and yachtsman Robin Knox-Johnston, all of whom have been either friends of Bob's or an inspiration for his own exploits. Derring do in a dog collar! Ranulph Fiennes: 'A wonderful true tale of adventure.' Bear Grylls: 'You are going to enjoy this...as a Commando, Bob is clearly made of the right stuff!'
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Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
ISBN 13 : 9780761455288
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (552 download)
Download or read book Rocks! Rocks! Rocks! written by and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2009 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddy bear learns about the rocks he collects
Author : Ellen Lawrence
Publisher : Bearport Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1627243534
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Famous Rocks written by Ellen Lawrence and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which mountain is more than 5 miles high? How was the mile-deep Grand Canyon formed? Where in the world can you visit a giant rock that’s taller than the Chrysler Building or an entire city carved into rock? Packed with fascinating facts and plenty of rock science, this book takes readers on a journey around the world to discover intriguing rock structures made by people as well as Earth’s most amazing natural rock formations. Filled with information perfectly suited to the abilities and interests of an early elementary audience, this colorful, fact-filled volume gives readers a chance not only to learn, but also to develop their powers of observation and critical thinking. From stunning photographs to high-interest text, this book makes learning about Earth’s most famous rocky places a lively, engaging experience.
Author : Greg Albrecht
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1418554715
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)
Download or read book Between Religious Rocks and Life's Hard Places written by Greg Albrecht and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2007-02-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This easy-to-use resource offers 101 meaty responses to tough questions you'll field from family, friends, and co-workers. Or even yourself. Greg Albrecht doesn't know it all or pretend to, but he never backs away from heartfelt dialogue on subjects as diverse as cremation, homosexuality, church-hopping, mental illness, and cohabitation. Beyond a firm defense of the faith, he presents answers to issues small and large, to dilemmas that have bedeviled believers for generations. At the heart, these 101 questions and answers provide fodder for thoughtful inquiry, and scriptural enlightenment minus mangled proof texts. Best of all, Albrecht doesn't condescend, doesn't assume, but just responds to authentic concerns with timely answers.
Author : Frederic Brewster Loomis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Field Book of Common Rocks and Minerals for Identifying the Rocks and Minerals of the United States and Interpreting Their Origins and Meanings written by Frederic Brewster Loomis and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clevroy 'Depo' DePradine
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (694 download)
Download or read book Between my Rock & some Hard Places written by Clevroy 'Depo' DePradine and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not intended to compete but to complement those who have persevered in preserving and providing the valuable memories and moments that positively molded us.
