For generations of resolute adventurers, from George Mallory to Sir Edmund Hillary to Jon Krakauer, Mount Everest and the world's other greatest peaks have provided the ultimate testing ground. But the question remains: Why climb? In High Exposure, elite mountaineer and acclaimed Everest filmmaker
On 14 May 1804, one Captain Meriwether Lewis and his companion William Clark led a thirty-three-man expedition to the new lands of Louisiana. 8,000 miles and two years later, after rafting up the Missouri and crossing the Rocky Mountains, they reached the far side of the world, the Pacific Ocean.
Jednym z najważniejszych dzieł Bella jest "End of Ideology" (Koniec Ideologii), w którym na prawie 30 lat przed upadkiem komunizmu w Europie dostrzegł oznaki erozji ideologii będących w XX wieku motorem światowej historii.
Welcome to a magical world where animals talk and play - just like you and me!! Mean witch Grizelda has used her horrid magic on poor Chloe Slipperslide. Now the little otter can't help being naughty - and starts hiding all the shiny things in Friendship Forest! Can Lily and Jess find all Chloe's
This is the 10-year anniversary edition! For those of you familiar with the original version, you will find all sorts of new chunks of gold hidden within; we've added new stories, deeper truths, and a greater wealth of application. And while many of the embarrassingly outmoded phrases and
As a slave in the Kipchak Khanate, Jinghua has lost everything: her home, her family, her freedom … until she finds herself an unlikely conspirator in the escape of Prince Khalaf and his irascible father as they flee from their enemies across the vast Mongol Empire. On the run, with adversaries on
The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. Private Investigator Philip Marlowe – now in his seventy-second year – has been living out his retirement in the terrace bar of the La Fonda hotel. Sipping margaritas, playing cards, his silver-tipped cane at the ready. When in saunter two men dressed
Spiritual Ceremonies to Enrich Daily LifePractice Sacred Living. Rituals are often performed to acknowledge special, sacred moments of life. When we align ourselves with the rhythms of the earth, we see that every day is sacred. Sacred living is the art of acknowledging the abundance of life and
Spin is Robert Charles Wilson's Hugo Award-winning masterpiece—a stunning combination of a galactic "what if" and a small-scale, very human story. One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at
