Can You Drill A Hole Through Your Head And Survive

Author : Simon Rogers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781626368644

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Can You Drill a Hole Through Your Head and Survive? by Simon Rogers Pdf

Have you ever wondered why people sleepwalk? Why LSD makes you hallucinate? If it is possible to cut through your arm with a pocket knife? Whether animals can be homosexual? Can You Drill a Hole Through Your Head and Survive? tackles questions such as why giant pandas are so bad at mating, how many people the Earth can support, and how to make a nuclear bomb. Whether you’re interested in little-known facts about the human body and the natural world or just looking for a quick laugh, this book will leave you surprised and amused.

Author : Jill S. Jarrell,Tara C. Cannon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780786461837

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Cooler Than Fiction by Jill S. Jarrell,Tara C. Cannon Pdf

Designed for public librarians, school media specialists, teachers, and anyone with an interest in supporting teen literacy, this book features 133 nonfiction booktalks to use with both voracious and reluctant teen readers. These booktalks cover a wide and varied range of nonfiction genres, including science, nature, history, biography, graphic novels, true crime, art, and much more. Each includes a set of discussion questions and sample project ideas which could be easily expanded into a classroom lesson plan or full library program. Also included are several guidelines for classroom integration, tips for making booktalks more interactive and interesting, and selections for further reading.

Author : Guardian News and Media Ltd
Publisher : Random House
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781409066170

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How Slow Can you Waterski? by Guardian News and Media Ltd Pdf

When the powers that be reduced the speed limit on Lake Windermere to 10 knots, waterskiers complained that their sport was now completely scuppered. So just how slow can you waterski before you start to sink beneath the waves? And, while we're about it, how long can you survive in a freezer? What are the chances of being struck by lightning in bed? And why is it so esay to raed wrods eevn wehn the lteetrs are mdduled up? Everyday life can pose some mind-boggling questions - but where do you find the answers? The Guardian's popular 'This Week' column has been looking into the science behind the news for three years, and How Slow Can You Waterski? draws together a selection of the most imaginative questions and the most surprising answers. If you've ever wondered what makes a planet a planet, why submarines keep bumping into things or even if it's safe to eat mud, How Slow Can You Waterski? will prove irresistible - and enlightening - reading.

Author : Joe Queenan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781101601198

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One for the Books by Joe Queenan Pdf

One of America’s leading humorists and author of the bestseller Closing Time examines his own obsession with books Joe Queenan became a voracious reader as a means of escape from a joyless childhood in a Philadelphia housing project. In the years since then he has dedicated himself to an assortment of idiosyncratic reading challenges: spending a year reading only short books, spending a year reading books he always suspected he would hate, spending a year reading books he picked with his eyes closed. In One for the Books, Queenan tries to come to terms with his own eccentric reading style—how many more books will he have time to read in his lifetime? Why does he refuse to read books hailed by reviewers as “astonishing”? Why does he refuse to lend out books? Will he ever buy an e-book? Why does he habitually read thirty to forty books simultaneously? Why are there so many people to whom the above questions do not even matter—and what do they read? Acerbically funny yet passionate and oddly affectionate, One for the Books is a reading experience that true book lovers will find unforgettable.

Author : Charles G. Gross
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780262291590

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A Hole in the Head by Charles G. Gross Pdf

Essays on great figures and important issues, advances and blind alleys—from trepanation to the discovery of grandmother cells—in the history of brain sciences. Neuroscientist Charles Gross has been interested in the history of his field since his days as an undergraduate. A Hole in the Head is the second collection of essays in which he illuminates the study of the brain with fascinating episodes from the past. This volume's tales range from the history of trepanation (drilling a hole in the skull) to neurosurgery as painted by Hieronymus Bosch to the discovery that bats navigate using echolocation. The emphasis is on blind alleys and errors as well as triumphs and discoveries, with ancient practices connected to recent developments and controversies. Gross first reaches back into the beginnings of neuroscience, then takes up the interaction of art and neuroscience, exploring, among other things, Rembrandt's “Anatomy Lesson” paintings, and finally, examines discoveries by scientists whose work was scorned in their own time but proven correct in later eras.

Author : Joe Mellen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781907222399

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Bore Hole by Joe Mellen Pdf

A heavily expanded edition of Joe Mellen's legendary, long out-of-print auto-trepanation memoir. A heavily expanded edition of Joe Mellen's legendary, long out-of-print auto-trepanation memoir, Bore Hole takes us deep into the dawning of the UK's psychedelic counter culture, and into a mind breaking free from the confines of a traditional English upbringing. Travelling to Morocco and Ibiza, then back to the first spring of swinging London, Joe Mellen discovers the pleasures of hashish, is captivated by the visionary intensity of LSD and, after meeting the Dutch psychedelic guru Bart Huges, attempts the ultimate head trip, the bore hole. As well as a selection of unseen archive photographs, this edition includes a new postscript, essays, appendices and a 1967 interview with Bart Huges.

Author : Bob Holtzman
Publisher : Chartwell Books
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780785833857

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Knife and Axe Skills for Wilderness Survival by Bob Holtzman Pdf

Be ready for anything. This invaluable guide will each you everything from sharpening your survival axe to crafting watercraft with just a knife.

Author : Weldon Owen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781681886657

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Outdoor Life: The Complete Survival Book Collection by Weldon Owen Pdf

New for 2020, The Complete Survival Book Collection combines the best in emergency readiness and disaster survival with sustainable living and survival practices. This collection pairs up two of the best books in surviving and thriving, whether facing a natural disaster or creating your own home away from it all. Writer Tim MacWelch brings us the know-how in survival and homesteading from the editors of Outdoor Life. How to Survive Anything, a comprehensive guide to surviving anything from the normal to the rare, brings us everything from confronting wild animals to living through a meteor impact. How to Survive Off the Grid gives the reader the know-how to engage in sustainable living and housing off the grid, ranging from backyard chicken coops to building and living in your own distant cabin retreat.

Author : Wilfred R. Bion
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429910357

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A Memoir of the Future by Wilfred R. Bion Pdf

A Memoir of the Future, Bion's unorthodox attempt to cast psychoanalytic speculation in fictional form, is composed of three semi-autobiographical novels: The Dream (1975), The Past Presented (1977), and The Dawn of Oblivion (1979). Presented here for the first time in one volume, they appear together with the Key to A Memoir of the Future, a glossary of terms and concepts compiled by Wilfred and Francesca Bion.

Author : W. R. Bion
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 4306 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429906107

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The Complete Works of W.R. Bion by W. R. Bion Pdf

The Complete Works of W. R. Bion is now available in a coherent and corrected format. Comprising sixteen volumes bound in green cloth, this edition has been brought together and edited by Chris Mawson with the assistance of Francesca Bion. Incorporating many corrections to previously published works, it also features previously unpublished papers. Including a general index and editorial introductions to all the works, these volumes will be a useful and valuable aid to psychoanalytic scholars and clinicians, and all those interested in studying and making use of Bion's thinking.Bion's writings, including the previously unpublished papers and additions to his Cogitations, collected together in the Complete Works, show that the clinical thrust of Bion's work has clear lines of continuity with that of Melanie Klein, just as her work has an essential continuity with the later work of Freud. In Bion's clinical work and supervision the goal remains insightful understanding of psychic reality through a disciplined experiencing of the transference and countertransference; the setting and the method - however much Bion's terminology might suggest otherwise - remains rigorously psychoanalytic.

Author : Ollie Ollerton
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781788705004

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How To Survive (Almost) Anything by Ollie Ollerton Pdf

THE MODERN-DAY SURVIVAL BIBLE FROM EX-SPECIAL FORCES SOLDIER AND NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OLLIE OLLERTON Do you know how to thrive, not just survive? Can you build a fire? Administer critical first aid? Could you stay alive out in the wilderness? Fend off a wild animal? What about societal collapse, extreme weather or urban warfare? In How to Survive (Almost) Anything, former Special Forces soldier Ollie Ollerton passes on all the specialist skills, knowledge and mindset learnt over the course of a life that has experienced some of the world's toughest conditions and most hostile situations: whether that's fending off a wild animal at 10 years-old, serving in the elite Special Forces, or mountaineering in the ice-capped Himalayas. This essential guide meticulously teaches you how to prepare your instincts, ready your mentality and hone your survival skills so that you have the tools and know-how to survive whatever comes next.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSD:31822036963536

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The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781605520209

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Knowledge Of The Ancestors: Survival Skills by Anonim Pdf

Author : T. Edward Nickens
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781681882413

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The Best of The Total Outdoorsman by T. Edward Nickens Pdf

"Be a total outdoorsman. T. Edward Nickens and the experts at Field & Stream share their collective wisdom to demystify the natural world around us, revealing the essential outdoor skills handed down from generation to generation. The Best of the Total Outdoorsman provides tried-and-true techniques and tactics that will inspire new adventures and expand the proficiency of the most grizzled experts."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Dave Goulson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781473562943

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The Garden Jungle by Dave Goulson Pdf

**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'Exquisite...should be read by every gardener in the country' Observer The Garden Jungle is a wonderful introduction to the hundreds of small creatures with whom we live cheek-by-jowl and of the myriad ways that we can encourage them to thrive. The Garden Jungle is about the wildlife that lives right under our noses, in our gardens and parks, between the gaps in the pavement, and in the soil beneath our feet. Dave Goulson gives us an insight into the fascinating and sometimes weird lives of these creatures, taking us burrowing into the compost heap, digging under the lawn and diving into the garden pond. He explains how our lives and ultimately the fate of humankind are inextricably intertwined with that of earwigs, bees, lacewings and hoverflies, unappreciated heroes of the natural world. A poingnant New Year's read for anyone who has a garden or cares about our planet.