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Blending sage advice with personal experiences and anecdotes, this unconventional book is an unusually thoughtful account of long-distance trekking on the Appalachian Trail. Mueser draws upon interviews and questionnaire data gathered from over 100 long distance hikers hoofing it through the Applachian Mountains.

Michael Wolff is the author of this complexity to humanity. To be philosophical requires no degree from a university. Questioning various things within life and things theoretical is reason itself the reason to our being? Imagine a new lore, accept a gift, and journey into the questions you were not...

Interspersed between the author's at-times painful accounts of surviving a life-threatening stroke, readers will find useful practical advice for coping with adult onset disability and, more importantly, life outside of the hospital. This book offers sound, practical advice grounded in years...

‘You are all Invictus, you are now ambassadors for the spirit of these games. Never stop fighting and do all you can to lift up everyone around you…’ The Invictus Games change lives and save lives.Created and spearheaded by Prince Harry, for whom this is a very personal cause, the Games are...

Release Your Kinetic Chain with Exercises for the Shoulder to Hand - EBOOK All the tissues, muscles, and bones of your body are connected to each other within a complex web of fascia…and together, make up your kinetic chain. ‘Release Your Kinetic Chain with Exercises for the Shoulder to Hand’...

In February 2005, Edwyn Collins suffered two devastating brain haemorrhages. He should have died. Doctors advised that if he did survive, there would be little of him left. If that wasn't enough, he went on to contract MRSA as a result of an operation to his skull and spent six months in hospital....

If you grow up in a world where wrinkles are practically illegal, going bald is cause for a mental breakdown, and women over size zero are encouraged to shoot themselves (immediately), what the hell do you do if you’re, gasp … DISABLED? Whatever body you’re born into, the pressure to be normal...

An exceptionally riveting journey of a sciatica sufferer and how he discovered an astonishing sciatica cure after 7 years of failed drugs, surgery and therapy. U. Henis, born in the U.S., has lived on and off in the States London and Israel. He has worked as a record company executive, record producer,...

The heart of this book consists of thirteen, riveting, in-depth stories of people who fought back with courage, humor, and a positive attitude. In doing so, they have provided valuable guidance for you, the readers of this inspiring work. The seriously ill, their friends and family will gain...

This is the story of a new science. Beginning with an obscure discovery in 1896, radioactivity led researchers on a quest for understanding that ultimately confronted the intersection of knowledge and mystery. Mysterious from the start, radioactivity attracted researchers who struggled to understand...

From the primitive pine-torch to the paraffin candle, how wide an interval! between them how vast a contrast! The means adopted by man to illuminate his home at night, stamp at once his position in the scale of civilisation. The fluid bitumen of the far East, blazing in rude vessels of baked earth;...

Dans de nombreux domaines de la chimie, les réactions ont lieu en solution. Citons les grandes préparations de la chimie inorganique, l'hydrométallurgie où l'on met en œuvre l'attaque des minerais par des solutions acides ou basiques, la biochimie, le nucléaire avec le retraitement des combustibles...

Leçons sur la philosophie chimique est une œuvre écrite par le chimiste et homme politique français Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800 – 1884).   Extrait :   PREMIÈRE LEÇON. Définition de la Philosophie chimique. — Origines de la Chimie. — Chimie...

In 1866 William P. Blake, professor of mineralogy, geology and mining at the College of California, parent to the University of California, Berkeley, prepared as a report to the State Board of Agriculture an "Annotated Catalog of the Principal Mineral Species Hitherto Recognized in California...