Staying Found


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-- Features many new charts and illustrations -- New contact information for purchasing maps in the U.S. and Canada This tried-and-true guide teaches practical skills for navigating in the wilderness: reading maps; determining "true" directions following




Compass and Map Navigator


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Wild


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'One of the best books I've read in the last five or ten years... Wild is angry, brave, sad, self-knowing, redemptive, raw, compelling, and brilliantly written, and I think it's destined to be loved by a lot of people, men and women, for a very long time.' Nick Hornby










Where Wizards Stay Up Late


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Twenty five years ago, it didn't exist. Today, twenty million people worldwide are surfing the Net. Where Wizards Stay Up Late is the exciting story of the pioneers responsible for creating the most talked about, most influential, and most far-reaching communications breakthrough since the invention of the telephone. In the 1960's, when computers where regarded as mere giant calculators, J.C.R. Licklider at MIT saw them as the ultimate communications devices. With Defense Department funds, he and a band of visionary computer whizzes began work on a nationwide, interlocking network of computers. Taking readers behind the scenes, Where Wizards Stay Up Late captures the hard work, genius, and happy accidents of their daring, stunningly successful venture.




Journal of Conchology


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Includes the Society's Proceedings, June 1879- .




Staying Found


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Unlike the needlessly complicated and confusing teaching methods found in other books, Staying Found's system for learning map and compass use makes it easy to understand what you're doing and why. Author June Fleming takes you through the same steps she teaches in her wilderness classes, showing you the latest and simplest ways to plan routes and find your way over the trickiest terrain. You'll pick up practical skills and solutions to problems you may encounter, such as route-finding in poor visibility and adjusting for declination. Skiers and snowshoers will even find guidance for navigating on snow. Whether you're a beginner or a veteran of wilderness travel, Staying Found will point you in the right direction.




CLEAN AND SOBER LIVING-staying clean and sober after the rehab center


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This was written for people who wish to remain clean and sober, long after the rehabilitation center, it gives you detailed information about the writer, and how he overcame his battle with drug addiction, and alcoholism for more than twenty-five years, this book gives you step by step info, on following the steps of recovery, what to do and what not do in tricky situations, as well as tell the none users what to watch out for.