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The Incredible Voyage

A Personal Odyssey

By: Tristan Jones

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In a salty, slashing style, Tristan Jones unfolds his extraordinary saga—a six-year voyage during which he covered a distance equal to twice the circumference of the world—revealing both a rich sense of history and an insuppressible Welsh wit. With a singleness of purpose as ferocious as any hazard he encountered, Tristan Jones would not give up—even after dodging snipers on the Red Sea, capsizing off the Cape of Good Hope, starving in the Amazon, struggling for 3,000 miles against the mightiest sea current in the world, and hauling his boat over the rugged Andes three miles above sea level to find at last the legendary Island of the Sun. And beyond lay the most awesome challenge of all: the tortuous trek through 6,000 miles of uncharted rivers to find his way back to the ocean.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493076302

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Ice!

By: Tristan Jones

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Ice!

By: Tristan Jones

The author of The Incredible Voyage sets out on a “simply tremendous” and death-defying adventure sailing through the Arctic Ocean (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Retiring on a pension after being torpedoed in WWII, Tristan Jones embarks on a test of endurance that will last over two years, nearly killing him more than once. Attempting to sail farther North than anyone ever has, he embarks from Iceland on the Cresswell in the summer of 1959. His only companion? A three-legged, one-eyed Labrador named Nelson. He spends his first winter holed up near an Eskimo village in a Greenland fjord. After a violent snowstorm and without an adequate supply of food, he spends a full week digging himself out of enormous snow drifts until he is able to be seen and rescued. This incident kicks off a series of impossible adventures as he voyages to the treacherous waters of the North Pole. His second winter at sea finds him trapped in an enormous ice pack in the Arctic Ocean. For 366 days he is marooned on the craft. As he faces his loneliness and the possibility of his own death under the dazzling Northern lights, Tristan Jones's incomparable sailing adventure reaches an unimaginable climax. ICE! is a classic tale of adventure, its author acclaimed by Time magazine as "someone Lindbergh would have understood".

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Open Road Media

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1497603579

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9781497603578

Hamas, Jihad and Popular Legitimacy

Reinterpreting Resistance in Palestine

By: Tristan Dunning

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Hamas, Jihad and Popular Legitimacy

Reinterpreting Resistance in Palestine

By: Tristan Dunning

This book investigates the many faces of Hamas and examines its ongoing evolution as a resistance organisation in the context of the Israel/Palestine conflict. Specifically, the work interrogates Hamas’ interpretation, reinterpretation and application of the twin concepts of muqawama (resistance) and jihad (striving in the name of God). The text frames the movement’s capacity to accrue popular legitimacy through its evolving resistance discourses, centred on the notion of jihad, and the practical applications thereof. Moving beyond the dominant security-orientated approaches to Hamas, the book investigates the malleable nature of both resistance and jihad including their social, symbolic, political and ideational applications. The diverse interpretations of these concepts allow Hamas to function as a comprehensive social movement. Where possible, this volume attempts to privilege first-order or experiential knowledge emanating from the movement itself, its political representatives, and the Palestinian population in general. Many of these accounts were collected by the author during fieldwork in the Middle East. Not only does this work present new primary data, but it also investigates a variety of contemporary empirical events related to Palestine and the Middle East. This book offers an alternative way of viewing the movement’s popular legitimacy grounded in theoretical, empirical and ethnographic terms. This book will be of much interest to students of Hamas, political violence, critical terrorism studies, Middle Eastern politics, security studies and IR in general.

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Routledge

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1317384946

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The Shepherd

A Bronze Age Tale

By: Tristan Nettles

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The Shepherd

A Bronze Age Tale

By: Tristan Nettles

A historical fiction like no other A young shepherd boy living between the no mans land of civilization and beyond is taken and made slave by an invading army enroute to his homeland. Led by an undefeated general with a penchant for cruelty, this unassuming adolescent careens his way into the commander's good graces through a witless charm. Finding out only all too late that the little shepherd boy was not at all what he had seemed, the unconquerable general and his army are led to their doom.

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Histria Books

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1592114059

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Lya's Quest, Book 1: The Sanctuary.

By: Tristan Valure

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Lya's Quest, Book 1: The Sanctuary.

By: Tristan Valure

Impetuous and free-spirited, Lya cannot be tamed by the peace and tranquility of Salinar. After discovering traces of a community called "The Travelers", she will not rest until she learns more about her people: "the people of the stars". While meeting new people and traveling through the provinces, her quest will lead her to find the unexpected in the world around her. Setting out to learn more about her people's history, she could solve one of the greatest mysteries her people have ever known...

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Babelcube Inc.

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1667463136

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9781667463131

National Geographic Traveler: Istanbul and Western Turkey

By: Tristan Rutherford,Kathryn Tomasetti

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National Geographic Traveler: Istanbul and Western Turkey

By: Tristan Rutherford,Kathryn Tomasetti

The relaunched National Geographic Traveler guidebooks are in tune with the growing trend toward experiential travel, providing more insider tips and expert advice for a more authentic, cultural experience of each destination. These books serve discerning, curious travelers and supply information and interpretation not available on the Internet. In response to the interests of today's traveler, the acclaimed National Geographic Traveler series includes exciting new editorial features, a contemporary redesign, and inviting new covers.

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1426207085

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Yarns

By: Tristan Jones

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Yarns

By: Tristan Jones

“A pleasure . . . a brilliant collection of yarns about [a British mariner’s] life, his sailing adventures, and his thoughts about man and the sea.” —Lloyd's List In Yarns, legendary sailor and adventurer Tristan Jones tells stories of his remarkable life at sea. Along with tales of the beautiful cruises he has made around the world and the memorable people he has met along the way, Jones has advice for his readers on everything from captaining a boat to engaging with locals in remote locations. He proposes his own theory for the mystery of the ghost ship Mary Celeste. Other yarns include a story of a troubled steamship, his accounts of an unlikely salvage operation in Ibiza, a strange rendezvous on the coast of Africa, and his chance encounter with a renowned American sailor. Jones even shares what prompted him to begin writing in the first place—a turn of fortune that sailing and reading fans have lauded him for ever since. “The characters and capers, including a Sherlock Holmes-style mystery, pour deliciously from the pen of this legendary adventurer.” —Cruising World

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Open Road Media

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149760351X

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Dante in Oxford

The Paget Toynbee Lectures 1995-2003

By: Tristan Kay

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Dante in Oxford

The Paget Toynbee Lectures 1995-2003

By: Tristan Kay

The Paget Toynbee lectures on Dante have taken place in Oxford since the mid-1990s. Named after the great medieval scholar of the first half of the twentieth century, they have been delivered by the major Dante experts of our time. This volume gathers together twelve of the most significant lectures, given by internationally renowned scholars such as Zygmunt Baranski, John Barnes, Lino Leonardi, Emilio Pasquini, Michelangelo Picone, Jonathan Usher and the late Peter Armour. The topics range from key questions such as Dante, Ovid and the poetry of exile, to ground-breaking work on obscenity in the Divine Comedy .

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1351570226

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Architecture of the Possible

By: Tristan Garcia,Jean-Marie Durand

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Architecture of the Possible

By: Tristan Garcia,Jean-Marie Durand

As a philosopher and a novelist, Tristan Garcia inhabits two worlds, metaphysics and literary fiction, like an amphibious creature moving between the land and the sea, breathing in both air and water. He is drawn to metaphysics because, as he puts it, metaphysics is the edge of the abyss of thought, the unstable frontier of indeterminacy where thinking is no longer constrained by the principles of logic or the law of non-contradiction. Metaphysics seeks to describe the world from outside one’s own point of view. It aims at an ecstatic reconstruction of what keeps us locked up in our conditions, in our time and place, here among the living, with our subjectivities and within our situations. It gives us an idea of all constraints from a point of view that posits the possible absence of the constraint of having a point of view. The ambition of this slender book – which is at the same time a concise introduction to Garcia’s work and thought – is to help us grasp and transform the conditions of our existence by paying equal attention to what is ending and what is just beginning, to the dusk and to the dawn. Until we cannot hold our breath any longer.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509552251

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9781509552252

The Vikings

Facts and Fictions

By: Kirsten Wolf,Tristan Mueller-Vollmer

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The Vikings

Facts and Fictions

By: Kirsten Wolf,Tristan Mueller-Vollmer

This book explores 11 popular misconceptions about the Vikings. Each chapter looks at a particular misconception, examines how it became popular, discusses what we now believe to be the truth, and provides excerpts from primary source documents. When people think of the Vikings, they often envision marauding barbarians who lived violent lives. While a number of mistaken beliefs about the Vikings have become engrained in popular culture, they are not grounded in historical facts. This book examines popular misconceptions related to the Vikings and the historical truths that contradict the fictions. The book discusses 11 mistaken notions about the Vikings, with each fiction treated in its own chapter. Topics include whether the Vikings wore horned helmets, whether they were unhygienic, whether they had primitive weapons, whether they drank out of skull cups, and more. Each chapter examines how the misconception proliferated and discusses what we now believe to be the facts contradicting the fictions. Excerpts from primary source documents help readers to understand how the misconceptions came to be throughout history and provide evidence for the historical truths.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440862990

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Marvel Novels Sampler 2020

A Marvel Prose Chapter Sampler

By: Tristan Palmgren,Richard Lee Byers,Carrie Harris,David Annandale,C L Werner

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Marvel Novels Sampler 2020

A Marvel Prose Chapter Sampler

By: Tristan Palmgren,Richard Lee Byers,Carrie Harris,David Annandale,C L Werner

Start reading Aconyte’s extraordinary Marvel prose novels of Super Hero adventures now, including Dr Doom, Domino, the champions of Asgard, and the mutants of Xavier’s Institute Five astounding tales of action and adventure featuring some of Marvel’s most remarkable heroes and villains. Read the opening chapters for free from the following novels: Domino: Strays by Tristan Palmgren Sharp-witted, luck-wrangling mercenary Domino takes on both a dangerous cult and her own dark past. The Head of Mimir by Richard Lee Byers The young Heimdall must undertake a mighty quest to save Odin, and all of Asgard. Liberty & Justice for All by Carrie Harris Two exceptional mutant students face their ultimate test when they answer a call for help. The Harrowing of Doom by David Annandale The infamous Doctor Doom risks all to steal his heart’s desire from the very depths of Hell. The Sword of Surtur by C L Werner The God of War must explore a terrifying realm of eternal fire to reclaim his glory.

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Simon and Schuster

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1839080930

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9781839080937

Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries

By: Tristan Tzara

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Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries

By: Tristan Tzara

This volume contains Tristan Tzara's famous manifestos, which first appeared between 1916 and 1921 and became essential texts of the modern movement and models for Breton's Surrealist manifestos. Art for Tzara was both deadly serious and a game, and the playfulness of his character is apparent not only in his polemic, which often uses dadaist typography, but in the delightful drawings contributed by Francis Picabia.In addition, this volume also contains Tzara's Lampisteries - articles that throw light on various art forms contemporary with his own work, at a time when art, weary of the old certainties, turned into subjective and often abstract forms, favouring the reality of the mind over that of the senses.

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Alma Books

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0714545686

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Form and Object

By: Tristan Garcia

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Form and Object

By: Tristan Garcia

What is a thing? What is an object? Tristan Garcia decisively overturns 100 years of Heideggerian orthodoxy about the supposedly derivative nature of objects to put forward a new theory of ontology that gives us deep insights into the world and our place

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748681523

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Theatre and empire

Great Britain on the London stages under James VI and I

By: Tristan Marshall

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Theatre and empire

Great Britain on the London stages under James VI and I

By: Tristan Marshall

Theatre and empire looks at the genesis of British national identity in the reign of King James VI and I. While devolution is currently decentralising Britain, this book examines how the idea of a united kingdom was created in the first place. It does this by studying two things: the political language of the King's project to replace England, Scotland and Wales with a single kingdom of Great Britain; and cultural representations of empire on the public and private stages. The book argues that between 1603 and 1625 a group of playwrights celebrated a new national consciousness in works as diverse as Middleton’s Hengist, King of Kent, Rowley’s The Birth of Merlin and Shakespeare’s Cymbeline. Specifically Jacobean interdisciplinary studies are few compared with Elizabethan and Caroline works, but the book attempts to redress the balance by offering a fresh appraisal of James Stuart’s reign. Looking at both established and little-known plays and playwrights, Theatre and empire rewrites our understanding of the political and cultural context of the Jacobean stage.

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Manchester University Press

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1526134748

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9781526134745

Wolf's Paw

By: Tristan de Chalain

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Wolf's Paw

By: Tristan de Chalain

Rogue intelligence agent Aaron Ryan is a loner and borderline sociopath who has been working in covert operations for a governmental intelligence agency. As such, he is accustomed to using violence and terror as a means to achieving an end.

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Strategic Book Publishing

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1609765370

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Feral Cities

Adventures with Animals in the Urban Jungle

By: Tristan Donovan

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Feral Cities

Adventures with Animals in the Urban Jungle

By: Tristan Donovan

We tend to think of cities as a realm apart, somehow separate from nature, but nothing could be further from the truth. In Feral Cities, Tristan Donovan digs below the urban gloss to uncover the wild creatures that we share our streets and homes with, and profiles the brave and fascinating people who try to manage them. Along the way readers will meet the wall-eating snails that are invading Miami, the boars that roam Berlin, and the monkey gangs of Cape Town. From feral chickens and carpet-roaming bugs to coyotes hanging out in sandwich shops and birds crashing into skyscrapers, Feral Cities takes readers on a journey through streets and neighborhoods that are far more alive than we often realize, shows how animals are adjusting to urban living, and asks what messages the wildlife in our metropolises have for us.

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Chicago Review Press

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1569761035

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The Nature Instinct

Learn to Find Direction, Sense Danger, and Even Guess Natures Next MoveFaster Than Thought

By: Tristan Gooley

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The Nature Instinct

Learn to Find Direction, Sense Danger, and Even Guess Natures Next MoveFaster Than Thought

By: Tristan Gooley

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Secret World of Weather and The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs, learn to notice nature’s hidden clues all around you “A captivating guide to finding one’s way in the wild.”—The Wall Street Journal Publisher's note: The Nature Instinct was published in the UK under the title Wild Signs and Star Paths. Master outdoorsman Tristan Gooley was just about to make camp when he sensed danger—but couldn’t say why. After sheltering elsewhere, Gooley returned to investigate: What had set off his subconscious alarm? Suddenly, he understood: All of the tree trunks were slightly bent. The ground had already shifted once and could easily become treacherous in a storm. The Nature Instinct shows how we, too, can unlock this intuitive understanding of our surroundings. Learn to sense the forest’s edge from deep in the woods, or whether a wild animal might pose danger—before you even know how you know.

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The Experiment

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1615195912

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9781615195916

Orstralia

A Punk History 1974–1989

By: Tristan Clark

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Orstralia

A Punk History 1974–1989

By: Tristan Clark

With appeal to more than just punk history obsessives, Orstralia offers an unprecedented snapshot of an underacknowledged segment of Australian life and history. Far from punk’s more modish North Atlantic core in the late 1970s, discontented youth in Australia were enacting similar musical and cultural reckonings. Yet in spite of the Australia's purported “laid-back” national demeanour, punks there were routinely met with insult, fist, or the police baton. More subterranean than the national scandal that was punk back in “homeland” Britain, Australia’s own bands nonetheless came to be heralded internationally. Orstralia represents the first definitive account of the country’s initial years, from progenitors the Saints and Radio Birdman in the mid-70s, through the emergence of hardcore in the 1980s, to the stylistic diffusion that accompanied transition to the 1990s. Based on over 130 interviews, Orstralia documents the most renowned to the most fleeting and obscure acts the nation produced. Included are equally engrossing and shocking personal narratives befitting such a passionate and intemperate cultural form, as well as punk’s placement within broader Australian society at the time.

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PM Press

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Bipartite Graphs and Their Applications

By: Armen S. Asratian,Tristan M. J. Denley,Roland Häggkvist

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Bipartite Graphs and Their Applications

By: Armen S. Asratian,Tristan M. J. Denley,Roland Häggkvist

This is the first book which deals solely with bipartite graphs. Together with traditional material, the reader will also find many new and unusual results. Essentially all proofs are given in full; many of these have been streamlined specifically for this text. Numerous exercises of all standards have also been included. The theory is illustrated with many applications especially to problems in timetabling, Chemistry, Communication Networks and Computer Science. For the most part the material is accessible to any reader with a graduate understanding of mathematics. However, the book contains advanced sections requiring much more specialized knowledge, which will be of interest to specialists in combinatorics and graph theory.

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Cambridge University Press

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052159345X

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9780521593458

The Improbable Voyage

By: Tristan Jones

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The Improbable Voyage

By: Tristan Jones

The sailor-author navigates his famous yacht, Outward Leg, across the rivers of Europe in this travel memoir that’s “vintage Tristan Jones” (Publishers Weekly). The Improbable Voyage is the account of master sailor and storyteller Tristan Jones' 2,307-mile voyage across Europe in an oceangoing trimaran, Outward Leg. Continuing his round-the-world journey, Jones traveled from the North Sea to the Black Sea via the rivers Rhine and Danube. Battling ice and cold, life-threatening rapids and narrow defiles, German bureaucrats and Romanian frontier police, the indomitable Jones made his way through eight countries and emerged triumphant, if battered, bruised and penniless, at the Black Sea.Tristan Jones is one of the best-known authors of sailing stories. A Welshman, he left school at age 14 to work on sailing barges and spent the rest of his life at sea.

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Open Road Media

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1497630703

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The Secret World of Weather: How to Read Signs in Every Cloud, Breeze, Hill, Street, Plant, Animal, and Dewdrop (Natural Navigation)

By: Tristan Gooley

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The Secret World of Weather: How to Read Signs in Every Cloud, Breeze, Hill, Street, Plant, Animal, and Dewdrop (Natural Navigation)

By: Tristan Gooley

Learn to “see” the forecast in the hidden weather signs all around you—from the New York Times–bestselling author of How to Read a Tree and The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs In The Secret World of Weather, bestselling author Tristan Gooley turns his gaze up to the sky, bringing his signature brand of close observation and eye-opening deduction to the fascinating world of weather. Every cloud, every change in temperature, every raindrop, every sunbeam, every breeze reveals something about our weather—if you know what to look for. Before you know it, you’ll be able to forecast impending storms, sunny days, and everything in between, all without needing to consult your smartphone. But The Secret World of Weather goes far beyond mere weather prediction, changing the very way we think about weather itself. Weather is not something that blankets an area; rather, it changes constantly as you walk through woods or turn down a street. The weather is never identical on two sides of a tree—or even beneath it. Take, for example, Gooley’s remarkable discovery that breezes accelerate beneath a tree. To Gooley, this is “weather,” a tiny microclimate that explains why people sit beneath a tree to cool down—not only for the shade but, subconsciously, for cooler breeze. And so Gooley shows us not only what the weather will be like five days from now, but also what to expect about the weather around every corner. By carefully observing the subtle interplay of wind, cloud, fog, temperature, rain and many other phenomena, we not only form a deeper understanding of weather patterns, but also unlock secrets about our environment. Weather forms our landscape, and landscape forms our weather. Everything we see in the sky reflects where we are. When we learn to read weather’s signs, Gooley shows us, the weather becomes our map, revealing to us how it has made our towns, cities, woods, and hills what they are. You’ll never see your surroundings the same way again.

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The Experiment, LLC

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1615197559

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9781615197552

One Big Misunderstanding

By: Tristan Scarbrough

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One Big Misunderstanding

By: Tristan Scarbrough

A brief journey through the last five years of my written life. Read on for works on love, nature, life, death, and more.

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1387400940

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9781387400942

The Authority of Virtue

Institutions and Character in the Good Society

By: Tristan J. Rogers

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The Authority of Virtue

Institutions and Character in the Good Society

By: Tristan J. Rogers

This book provides a unified account of the connection between justice and the good life. It argues that the virtues of character require institutions, while good institutions enable persons to live together virtuously. Although virtue ethics and political philosophy are rich and sophisticated philosophical traditions, there has been an unfortunate divergence, in theory and practice, between the virtues of character and the virtues of institutions. This book has two primary purposes. First, it reorients political philosophy around the concept of the good life. To do so, the author addresses the problem of political authority from a virtue ethics perspective. He also considers whether a political theory oriented around the good life is compatible with Rawls’s notion of reasonable pluralism. Second, the book explains the relationship between the virtues of institutions and the virtues of character. The author shows how institutions support the development and exercise of the virtues of character, while examining specific other-regarding virtues such as justice and friendship. The Authority of Virtue will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in virtue ethics, social and political philosophy, ancient philosophy, and political theory.

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1000222640

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9781000222647

A Critical Ethnography of an Outdoor School

Reimagining the Relationship between Science Education and Climate Change Politics

By: Tristan Gleason

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A Critical Ethnography of an Outdoor School

Reimagining the Relationship between Science Education and Climate Change Politics

By: Tristan Gleason

By using critical ethnographic research to explore the practices and policies that sustain a residential outdoor school in the United States, this book problematizes the relationship between science education and climate change politics in the United States. Weaving together empirical data from fieldwork with theoretical resources spanning the sciences and humanities, this book demonstrates how community activism, political alliances, and policy changes have guaranteed the survival of an outdoor school in Oregon. This example enables artful reexamination of the relationship between science education, politics, and policy more broadly, as well as the relation of science education to climate change politics in particular. Gleason ultimately reconstructs science education towards epistemic and ontological pluralism, and illustrates how critical ethnographic research can instigate a reimagining of the relationship between curriculum and how we relate to the world. This book will benefit researchers, academics, and educators in higher education with an interest in the philosophical underpinnings and implications of science education, environmental education, and educational policy more broadly. Those specifically interested in critical ethnographic research will also benefit from this book.

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1000471349

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9781000471342

Diamond of Darkness

By: Paul Tristan Fergus

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Diamond of Darkness

By: Paul Tristan Fergus

Where is their life headed? The world seems to be shifting on its axis! Young Rordan is compelled to leave home and pursue his education as an alchemist. His rambling brother Fikna decides to tag along on the journey. Kea and her strange posse menace the brothers every step of the way. Mysterious monsters follow in her wake. Every adventurer needs a helper and Rordan finds it in Borus, a strange creature he befriends as the brothers travel through Selta, to a region where alchemy still flourishes. En route through Selta Rordan acquires a cryptic map which like a crystal ball changes each time you look at it. Glenys, an apprentice in alchemy joins the brothers adding her skills in and knowledge of the supernatural. When Rordan gets assigned to Master Beag, perilous connections to the powers of darkness emerge. Join the adventurers as they confront a hostile world where in a matrix of magic the brothers and their friends struggle to bring consciousness to a world cast in darkness.

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130073034X

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9781300730347

The Lycanthrope Club: Book II

By: Tristan Eifler

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The Lycanthrope Club: Book II

By: Tristan Eifler

Up until a year ago Melinda Cooper was something of an outcast - a skinny, shy, introverted teenage girl with few interests and even fewer friends. Now she's the star player of her school's lacrosse team and counts the most popular girls in school as her allies. What's her secret? She's a werewolf. So are most of her friends. It's a long story. However, balancing a life of pep rallies and practice SATs with secret pack meetings and hunting trips has proven to be anything but easy. Things were complicated enough when she was the only lycanthrope in town. Now Melinda has to worry not only about her own welfare but that of her pack mates, some of whom resent her self-appointed leadership. Add a new romantic interest who has no idea his girlfriend grows fangs every full moon and an unwilling convert to lycanthropy with secrets of her own and you have a recipe for disaster. Adolescence has never been this wild.

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0988368951

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How to Read Nature

Awaken Your Senses to the Outdoors You've Never Noticed

By: Tristan Gooley

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How to Read Nature

Awaken Your Senses to the Outdoors You've Never Noticed

By: Tristan Gooley

“Equal parts alfresco inspiration, interesting factoids, how-to instructions and self-help advice.”—The Wall Street Journal When most of us go for a walk, a single sense—sight—tends to dominate our experience. But when New York Times–bestselling author and expert navigator Tristan Gooley goes for a walk, he uses all five senses to “read” everything nature has to offer. A single lowly weed can serve as his compass, calendar, clock, and even pharmacist. In How to Read Nature, Gooley introduces readers to his world—where the sky, sea, and land teem with marvels. Plus, he shares 15 exercises to sharpen all of your senses. Soon you’ll be making your own discoveries, every time you step outside!

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The Experiment

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1615194290

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9781615194292

Centenary Corbière

By: Tristan Corbière

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Centenary Corbière

By: Tristan Corbière

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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0415969395

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9780415969390

A Steady Trade

A Boyhood at Sea

By: Tristan Jones

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A Steady Trade

A Boyhood at Sea

By: Tristan Jones

A memoir of growing up in pre-World War II Wales and developing a love of sailing and adventure, by the author of The Incredible Voyage. Tristan Jones vividly and colorfully describes his childhood as a Welsh boy growing up by the sea. The story of his boyhood in pre-World War II England is strikingly charming and nostalgic. The challenges and adventures he encounters will have you seeing, smelling, feeling, hearing, and tasting the sea as you travel with him through this coming-of-age story.

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Open Road Media

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1497603668

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9781497603660

Life Intense

A Modern Obsession

By: Tristan Garcia

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Life Intense

A Modern Obsession

By: Tristan Garcia

Our lives today are oppressed by the demand that we live, feel and experience with ever greater intensity. We are enticed to try exotic flavors and smells; urged to enjoy a wide range of sexual experiences; pushed to engage in extreme sports and recreational drugs - all in the pursuit of some new, unheard-of intensity.Tristan Garcia argues that such intensity rarely lives up to its promise. It always comes at a price: one that defines the ethical predicament of contemporary life.The notion of intensity was the hidden key to Garcia's landmark book Form and Object. In The Life Intense, the first part of his ambitious Letting Be trilogy, he begins to develop it in detail. This first book focuses on ethics; the forthcoming volumes will be devoted to politics and then metaphysics.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474437133

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9781474437134

Pieminister

A Pie for All Seasons: the ultimate comfort food recipe book full of new and exciting versions of the humble pie from the award-winning Pieminister

By: Jon Simon,Tristan Hogg

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Pieminister

A Pie for All Seasons: the ultimate comfort food recipe book full of new and exciting versions of the humble pie from the award-winning Pieminister

By: Jon Simon,Tristan Hogg

A stunning recipe book with easy-to-follow recipes, beautiful photography, charming good-humour and a wealth of information around the history of the pie from award-winning Pieminister - the creation of Tristan Hogg and Jon Simon - who have led the way in reinventing this great British classic for a new generation of food lovers. Guiding us through pie recipes for all seasons, and including sweet and savoury pies, this is the perfect choice for any foodie! 'It is the honest good flavour of these pies I like so much' -- Daily Telegraph 'A book of delicious recipes for pies of all seasons' -- Sun 'A whole lot of pie love. Delicious' -- Fork Magazine 'You won't believe that there are so many pies to be made: it's great' -- Choice Magazine 'A beautiful book full of scrumptious recipes' -- ***** Reader review 'Yum yum!' -- ***** Reader review 'THE KING OF PIE BOOKS!' -- ***** Reader review 'This is easily my most used recipe book' -- ***** Reader review 'Just buy it. You won't regret it' -- ***** Reader review ************************************************************ Everyone loves a pie. Pies are part of our food culture and heritage, as British as ... pork pie. And they are more than a comforting plate-full for the winter months. Throughout the year, the team at the award-winning Pieminister search out the best fresh, natural ingredients, creating an ever-changing, wonderfully varied menu. And in Pieminister - A Pie for All Seasons, you will find recipes that are filled with seasonal ingredients, great for spring suppers, summer parties and autumn lunches. Small pies, big pies, breakfast pies, fruit pies, family pies and pies that make you go oooooh! Recipes include: pork, chorizo and prawn pie asparagus, pea and ricotta pie chili con carne pie smoked haddock and cider pie smoked aubergine and olive strudel pulled pork, sage and apple pie pheasant and Bath chaps pie paneer, spinach and pea pie rhubarb and custard pie chocolate 'hedonist' pie Fantastic ingredients and the best pastry you've ever tasted. Into the oven, be patient and then enjoy. Live and eat pie!

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Random House

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1446464733

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9781446464731

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