Written by experts who are familiar with each trail, this guide highlights a mix of day hikes and overnight backpacking trips and provides in-depth information on outings in Northern California. 80 color photos. 101 maps.
Compellingly told and impressively researched to include original interviews with family, coworkers and former lovers, as well as the two men convicted of murdering him, "Beyond Paradise" provides unique insight into the life, career and truth behind a seminal Hollywood figure. Two 16-page photo inserts.
Carefully avoiding and particular religious or spiritual point of view, this book offers a practical step-by-step guide to meditation for beginners. It explains what meditation is and details its many benefits, including inner peace, stress reduction, relaxation, and joy. Illustrated.
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle is a favorite middle-grade novel. This companion gives background on the author, including an interview, questions to guide reading, clues to themes, plot, characters, and setting of the book, a glossary, writing and other activities, and more. If you loved A Wrinkle in Time, you need this reading companion.
Political liberalization and economic reform, the weakening of the state, and increased global interconnections have all had profound effects on Muslim societies and the practice of Islam in Africa. The contributors to this volume investigate and illuminate the changes they have brought, through detailed case studies of Muslim youth activists, ...
Small-scale gas turbines, known as Microturbines, represent an exciting new development in gas turbine technology. They can run in size from small, human-scale machines down to micro-sized mini-machines that can barely be seen by the naked eye. They also run a great diversity of fuel types, from various types of commercial gases to waste-generated ...
Join Hello Kitty as she travels . . . everywhere! This collection of candid photographs chronicles the adventurous and imaginative Hello Kitty as she journeys from the jungle to the moon and from reality to the world of dreams. Hello Kitty surfs the waves in Hawaii, reflects in a Japanese garden, strolls along Hollywood Boulevard, and shops the ...
This full-color guidebook offers the most dynamic hikes in the Yosemite area, including surrounding Hoover and Ansel Adams Wilderness Areas, Mammoth Lakes and Sonora Pass. 110 photos. 102 maps.
No other current publication offers the professional engineer or technician the wealth of useful guidance on nearly every aspect of gas turbine design, installation, operation, maintenance and repair as this book does. "Gas Turbines" makes the job of any engineer involved in the design, selection, operation and maintenance of most nearly any type ...
Sherlock Holmes is summoned from London to Rio in 1886 to investigate the theft of a Stradivarius violin--a gift from the Emperor of Brazil to his favorite lady friend. A bestseller in Brazil, and published to wide acclaim in Europe, this brilliant literary thriller is now poised to capture the imagination of American readers.
The "Book of Disquietude" is the "factless autobiography" of "Bernardo Soares, " one of the 72 literary personae with which Portugal's greatest poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) created the theater of himself. Conceived in 1916, Soares is, Pessoa declared, "amutilation" of his own personality.
The Ocean: Our Future is the official report of the Independent World Commission on the Oceans, chaired by Mario Soares. This book is the first to deal holistically in a single volume with the full range of problems confronting our oceans on the eve of the twenty-first century. In the space of only a few decades, our traditional perception of the ...
When is a tiger not a tiger? When is a mountain more than a mountain? What is the sound of one hand clapping? The stories of this collection come from the Zen Buddhist tradition-- from tales told by the Buddha himself to anecdotes from the lives of the Zen masters of China and Japan who helped pass on the Buddha's teachings. These stories reflect ...
Hikes to various sites in Humboldt, Del Norte, Mendocino, Sonoma, and Marin counties, including Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, Miner's Ridge Trail, Bodega Dunes, Russian Gulch Falls, Tomales Point, Point Reyes National Seashore, and Big Sur River, with information on birdwatching, wildflowers, horseback trails, wheelchair-accessible hikes, ...
A burlesque smorgasbord of the international high-jinks follows a hapless, 12-fingered, would-be assassin who lurches from Sarajevo to Paris to Hollywood to Chicago to Rio, leaving high-stakes chaos in his wake. Illustrations throughout.
From his musical beginnings as a piano player in gambling houses and society cafes, Louis Horst (1884-1964) became one of the chief architects of modern dance in the twentieth century. How a musician untrained in dance came to make such a mark is told here for the first time in rich detail. At the center of this story is Horst's relationship with ...
Many companies buy software suites for their employees and expect them to gain at least a working knowledge of all the applications bundled into the package. Microsoft Office 2001 for Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide is the most effective, relevant solution for these new users. The four main applications included with Office 2001 are Word 2001, ...
Carefully avoiding any particular religious or spiritual point of view, this book offers a practical, step-by-step guide to meditation for beginners. It explains what meditation is and details its many benefits, including inner peace, stress reduction, relaxation and joy. Then, through specific exercises, the book shows readers how to develop ...
Knowledge management has become an important topic for the theory and practice of organization management. "Knowledge Coordination" argues that coordination is a key factor for managing knowledge within organizations. By offering a clearcut conceptualization of knowledge, it fills an important gap in the literature on knowledge management. Based ...
From a world of drugs, violence, and corruption, the electric novel that sparked controversy throughout Brazil is published in English for the first time to coincide with the Weinstein Company's release of the international award-winning film.
This work studies Oxford University's transformation - and the political hazards for academics that ensued - when, after World War II, it changed from a private liberal-arts club with aristocratic pretensions into a state university committed to the natural sciences, and with a middle-class constituency and meritocratic ethos. Despite these ...
Computational mechanics in solids, structures and coupled problems in engineering is today a mature science with applications to major industrial designs. This book reflects the state of art and it is written by some of the world leading authorities in this field, addressing such topics as: design and topology optimization, inverse engineering, ...
Once the center of a powerful empire stretching from Asia and Africa to South America, Portugal today is one of the most geographically and culturally rich countries in Europe. This superb volume celebrates the brilliant colors, lush perfumes, and traditional lifestyle of Portugal in a fascinating voyage from north to south. Both a style book and ...
There are many theoretical approaches to modelling forest systems, but not all of them have valid practical applications. This book reviews current thinking on various models and presents applications in different contexts. Papers have been selected and developed from those presented at a workshop held in Portugal in June 2002. The book includes ...
This volume contains ca. 40 selected full-text contributions from the Sixth European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications, geoENV IV, held in Rhodes, Greece. October 25-26, 2006. The objective of the editors was to compile a set of papers from which the reader could perceive how geostatistics is applied within the ...
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