Magician's Glass. Character and Fate: Eight Essays on Climbing and the Mountain Life, Paperback - Ed Douglas

The Magician's Glass by award-winning writer Ed Douglas is a collection of eight recent essays on some of the biggest stories and best-known person...

Publisher: Nilgiri PressAuthor(s): Eknath EaswaranNumber of pages: 196Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 213 x 12Cover type: Paperback / softb...

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Publisher: Rocky Mountain BooksAuthor(s): Jim McLennanIllustration(s): colour photographsNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 ...

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Publisher: Nightboat BooksAuthor(s): Douglas CraseNumber of pages: 344Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 222 x 36Cover type: Paperback / softb...

The true story of the 1957 climbing expedition on Mount Haramosh in Pakistan. Four young climbers are swept hundreds of feet down the mountain by a...

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Some of the most exciting writers in and from Wales consider the future of Wales and the UK and their place in it.Publisher: Watkins MediaNumber of...

Reducere. New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo mountains are a place where two cultures -- Hispanic and Anglo -- meet. They're also the place where three men meet: ...

This translation of Rita Segato's seminal book La critica de la colonialidad en ocho ensayos offers an anthropological and critical perspective on ...

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Reducere. In national bestseller The Mountain, world-renowned climber and bestselling author Ed Viesturs and cowriter David Roberts paint a vivid portrait of...

Reducere. A masterly exposition of the pre-eminent Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita. It was after reading these essays, in particular, that in the 1930's P...

Reducere. DescriptionGary Falk loved working as a mountain guide. It combined two of his biggest passions: recreating in the mountains and education. In this...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: C. Ren PadillaRenPadilla is one of the premier representatives of orthodox evangelicalism in Latin America. He has consiste...

Volume 1 of Scottish Rock covers a proliferation of Scottish crags up to the natural demarcation of the Great Glen. There are selected climbs in Ar...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Adam PhillipsIn a style that is writerly and audacious, Adam Phillips takes up a variety of seemingly ordinary subjects und...

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Reducere. In the twenty years since this book was first published, our nation's communities - from urban centers to rural and small communities dotting our l...

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Reducere. If we want to understand culture wars on the contemporary American scene, we must first come to grips with the American culture wars of the ninetee...

Reducere. In the late 1950s, Glen Allan, Mississippi, was a poor cotton community. For many, it was a time and place where opportunities were limited by soci...

Off Headset is a collection of essays by a richly diverse group of stage management professionals and educators covering the challenges stage manag...

Reducere. Illus. in full color. Here is the gripping story of Hillary and Norgay's perilous ascent of Mount Everest as they battled snow and ice slides, whip...

Reducere. When the Rewards Can Be So Great is a selection of craft talks delivered by faculty at the Pacific University MFA in Writing program. The essays in...

Christian author Warren Smith's book Deceived on Purpose warns about the serious implications of Pastor Rick Warren's book, The Purpose Driven Life...

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Under the auspices of neoliberalism, technical systems of compliance and efficiency have come to underwrite the relations among the state, the econ...

In 1997, at the age of 24, Sarah lost her mother to breast cancer. Alone and adrift in the world, she very nearly gave up hope - but she'd made a p...

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Reducere. Beloved for his Narnian tales and books of Christian apologetics, bestselling British writer C. S. Lewis also was a perceptive critic of the growin...

Fo Guang Shan, "Buddha's Light Mountain", is a Buddhist movement which stands in the Chinese tradition of Mahayana Buddhism and more specifically i...

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In a world dominated by stress, worry, depression, and fear, what does it take to generate joy and reclaim the life you were created to live?In thi...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...