The classic backpacker's handbook -- revised and updated -- providing expert guidelines for anyone who loves the outdoors. The "Wilderness Guide" brings the savvy of the world's most famous and respected outdoor organization to everyone -- from the 16 million backpacking Americans to the more than 265 million people, tenderfeet and trail-hardened ...
What's a Gigabook? A collection of just about everything you need to know on a topic, all in one convenient place! "Windows XP Gigabook For Dummies" takes the best from five other "For Dummies" books and squeezes out everything but the most important stuff. This single super-sized reference - more than 800 pages' worth - gives you a go-to guide on ...
Mark Saunders and Glenn Harvey are celebrated paparazzi photographers, only photographing members of the royal family, especially Princess Diana. In this book they publish the most controversial photographs of their careers. Starting with the night Princess Diana retired from public life in December 1993, they reveal the background to some of the ...
Writing is hard work. Teaching it can be even harder. As most teachers know, writer's workshop doesn't always go as planned, and many find there are obstacles that they consistently struggle with. In his role as a literacy coordinator and teacher, Mark Overmeyer has heard the same issues raised again and again by both new and experienced ...
Harvey details the first major clash between conservationists and developers after World War II, the successful fight to prevent the building of Echo Park Dam. The dam on the Green River was intended to create a recreational lake in northwest Colorado and generate hydroelectric power, but would have flooded picturesque Echo Park Valley and ...
This new comprehensive handbook presents the most up-to-date scholarship on the causes and predictors, processes, consequences, and policy implications of divorce and relationship dissolution. Featuring contributions from leading scholars in multiple disciplines, this Handbook reviews relationship termination, including variations depending on ...
In this compelling and highly personal book, Mark Matousek interviews modern mystic Andrew Harvey on such topics as love, adoration, silence, and death. The result is a spiritual quest that goes into the art of seeing--ultimately becoming a discourse of mystical depth and beauty. New York Times Magazine feature interview. Documentary specials with ...
This book presents discourses of divorce and will report and comment on scholarly arguments about divorce in the 21st century. Book is intended for students, practitioners, and scholars interested in divorce in the disciplines of family studies; social, clinical, and developmental psychology; counseling; and family and interpersonal communications.
Diana, Princess of Wales was the most photographed woman in the world: her beautiful face adorned everything from charity campaigns to style magazines, from royal family memorabilia to tabloid newspapers. Glenn Harvey and Mark Saunders are Britain's most celebrated paparazzi photographers - long-serving professionals in a tough industry where you ...
Little, red-haired Harlan takes a lot of teasing from his classmates, so when a talking elephant escapes from the circus and takes refuge in his garage, Harlan is thrilled to make his first real friend. But a fugitive elephant is hard to keep secret, and Harlan knows that discovery will mean the loss of his pachyderm pal.
The 'great divide' between public and private knowledge in capitalism is an unstable frontier at the core of contemporary economic transformations. Based on research in the USA, Europe and Brazil into the cutting-edge of biological science and technology, this book presents a novel framework for understanding this historically shifting fault-line. ...
This text engages with an apparently simple fruit in order to reveal the major changes to society and economy. It treats the tomato as an object of fascination and as a probe into major historical changes in 20th-century capitalism. From first domestication to genetic modification, from Aztec salsa to supermarket pizza, the tomato has been ...
As a central figure in the American wilderness preservation movement in the mid-twentieth century, Howard Zahniser (1906-1964) was the person most responsible for the landmark Wilderness Act of 1964. While the rugged outdoorsmen of the early environmental movement, such as John Muir and Bob Marshall, gave the cause a charismatic face, Zahniser ...
Scandals in food, growth of supermarket power, new technologies and crises in obesity have shaken popular trust in food across Europe. The BSE epidemic, concern over GM foods, dioxin scares and avian flu have placed consumer trust and how to restore it at the top of government agendas. Uncovering surprising differences between countries, "Trust in ...
The work of Karl Polanyi has gained in influence in recent years to become a point of reference to a wide range of leading authors in the fields of economics, politics, sociology, and social policy. The volume is a combination of reflections on, and assessment of, the nature of Polanyi's contribution and new strands of work, both theoretical and ...
From Darwin onward, it has been second nature for evolutionary biologists to think comparatively because comparisons establish the generality of evolutionary phenomena. Do large genomes slow down development? What lifestyles select for large brains? Are extinction rates related to body size? These are all questions for the comparative method, and ...
Since the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 was enacted, policy makers, agency administrators, community activists, and academics from a broad range of disciplines have debated and researched the implications of welfare reform in the United States. Most of the attention, however, has focused on urban rather ...
What makes an ordinary man become an extraordinary artist? This is memoir tells of a surgical resident in New Orleans at the time of Hurricane Katrina who discover a hidden talent in oil painting. The author's message is clear: everyone has hidden talents and it is never too late to pursue them.
The archaeology of London is the central theme of these essays dedicated to Hugh Chapman, curator of the Museum of London and secretary of the London Society of Antiquaries. Reviews of current knowledge as well as more specialist studies should make this text useful in research as well as a fitting tribute to a respected scholar.
Boldly live where others have fled, and make some money while you're at it. This book is for the visionaries who are truly willing to live their dreams, and to help make communities and neighborhoods safer and stronger in the process. Discover the rewards and learn to handle the challenges of living and owning property in America's undervalued ...
A study, by two of the major contributors to the theory, of the inverse scattering transform and its application to problems of nonlinear dispersive waves that arise in fluid dynamics, plasma physics, nonlinear optics, particle physics, crystal lattice theory, nonlinear circuit theory and other areas. A soliton is a localised pulse-like nonlinear ...
Introduction - Mark Harvey, Andrew McMeekin & Alan Warde; 1. Discovering quality or performing taste? A sociology of the amateur - Genevieve Teil & Antoine Hennion; 2. Standards of taste and varieties of goodness: the (un)predictability of modern consumption - Jukka Gronow; 3.
Taxonomic catalogues are indispensable volumes for taxonomists and many biodiversity researchers. These compendia allow researchers to access accurate compilations of the literature and of valid named taxa that are currently recognised. This landmark catalogue treats in detail six arachnid orders found throughout the world, providing full ...
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