Deep Survival

Author : Laurence Gonzales
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393354218

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Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales Pdf

“Unique among survival books . . . stunning . . . enthralling. Deep Survival makes compelling, and chilling, reading.”—Denver Post Over a decade since its original publication, Laurence Gonzales’s bestselling Deep Survival has helped save lives from the deepest wildernesses, just as it has improved readers’ everyday lives. Its mix of adventure narrative, survival science, and practical advice has inspired everyone from business leaders to military officers, educators, and psychiatric professionals on how to take control of stress, learn to assess risk, and make better decisions under pressure. Now with a new introduction on how this book can help readers overcome any of life’s obstacles, Gonzales’s gripping narrative is set to motivate and enlighten a new generation of readers.

Author : Laurence Gonzales
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393353716

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Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales Pdf

"Unique among survival books…stunning…enthralling. Deep Survival makes compelling, and chilling, reading." —Denver Post Laurence Gonzales’s bestselling Deep Survival has helped save lives from the deepest wildernesses, just as it has improved readers’ everyday lives. Its mix of adventure narrative, survival science, and practical advice has inspired everyone from business leaders to military officers, educators, and psychiatric professionals on how to take control of stress, learn to assess risk, and make better decisions under pressure.

Author : Laurence Gonzales
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780393089905

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Surviving Survival: The Art and Science of Resilience by Laurence Gonzales Pdf

You have survived the crisis—trauma, disease, accident, or war—now how do you get your life back? The shark attacked while she was snorkeling, tearing through Micki Glenn’s breast and shredding her right arm. Her husband, a surgeon, saved her life on the spot, but when she was safely home she couldn’t just go on with her life. She had entered an even more profound survival journey: the aftermath. The survival experience changes everything because it invalidates all your previous adaptations, and the old rules don’t apply. In some cases survivors suffer more in the aftermath than they did during the actual crisis. In all cases, they have to work hard to reinvent themselves. Drawing on gripping cases across a wide range of life-threatening experiences, Laurence Gonzales fashions a compelling argument about fear, courage, and the adaptability of the human spirit. Micki Glenn was later moved to say: “I don’t regret that this happened to me. [It] has been . . . probably the single most positive experience I’ve ever had.”

Author : Laurence Gonzales
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393069655

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Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things by Laurence Gonzales Pdf

“Well-written and fascinating . . . this is the kind of book you want everyone to read.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer “Curiosity, awareness, attention,” Laurence Gonzales writes. “Those are the tools of our everyday survival. . . . We all must be scientists at heart or be victims of forces that we don’t understand.” In this fascinating account, Gonzales turns his talent for gripping narrative, knowledge of the way our minds and bodies work, and bottomless curiosity about the world to the topic of how we can best use the blessings of evolution to overcome the hazards of everyday life. Everyday Survival will teach you to make the right choices for our complex, dangerous, and quickly changing world—whether you are climbing a mountain or the corporate ladder.

Author : Watt Key
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780374306564

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Deep Water by Watt Key Pdf

From Watt Key, the author of the acclaimed Alabama Moon, comes a thrilling middle grade survival story about a scuba dive gone wrong and two enemies who must unite to survive. It's the most important rule of scuba diving: If you don't feel right, don't go down. So after her father falls ill, twelve-year-old Julie Sims must take over and lead two of his clients on a dive miles off the coast of Alabama while her father stays behind in the boat. When the clients, a reckless boy Julie's age and his equally foolhardy father, disregard Julie's instructions during the dive, she quickly realizes she's in over her head. And once she surfaces, things only get worse: One of the clients is in serious condition, and their dive boat has vanished—along with Julie's father, the only person who knows their whereabouts. It's only a matter of time before they die of hypothermia, unless they become shark bait first. Though Julie may not like her clients, it's up to her to save them all.

Author : Polo Tate
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781250128539

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Deep Dark Blue by Polo Tate Pdf

A memoir of surviving sexual abuse in the Air Force academy. I want to be in the Air Force someday. These are the words Polo Tate engraved on her junior dog tags at age eleven. It was an unpopular dream for most young girls, but her hard work paid off and at age eighteen, Polo started basic training at the United States Air Force Academy. She does everything right, from academics to athletics. But no one prepared her for what came next: physical, sexual, and emotional abuse at the hands of her superiors. Harassment from peers who refused to believe her story. Deep Dark Blue is more than a memoir about sexual assault. It’s about breaking boundaries but also setting them. It's about learning to trust your instincts. It's a story of survival, resilience, and finally, finding your joy.

Author : Laurence Gonzales
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Aircraft accident victims
ISBN : 0393240029

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Flight 232 by Laurence Gonzales Pdf

Twenty-five years after the catastrophe, a dramatic and extraordinarily rare 360-degree view of the crash of a fully loaded jumbo jet.

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780393609875

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Limits of the Known by David Roberts Pdf

“If you’ve run out of Saint-Exupéry and miss the eloquent power of his work, then you are ready to read David Roberts.” —Laurence Gonzales, author of Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies and Why David Roberts has spent his career documenting voyages to the most extreme landscapes on earth. In Limits of the Known, he reflects on humanity’s—and his own—relationship to exploration and extreme risk. Part memoir and part history, this book tries to make sense of why so many have committed their lives to the desperate pursuit of adventure. What compelled Eric Shipton to return, five times, to the ridges of Mt. Everest, plotting the mountain’s most treacherous territory years before Hillary and Tenzing’s famous ascent? What drove Bill Stone to dive 3,000 feet underground into North America’s deepest cave? And what is the future of adventure in a world we have mapped and trodden from end to end? In the wake of his diagnosis with throat cancer, Roberts seeks answers with new urgency and “penetrating self-analysis” (Booklist).

Author : Laurence Gonzales
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780393076578

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Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales Pdf

"Unique among survival books... stunning... enthralling. Deep Survival makes compelling, and chilling, reading."—Penelope Purdy, Denver Post In ?Deep Survival?, Laurence Gonzalez combines hard science and powerful storytelling to illustrate the mysteries of survival, whether in the wilderness or in meeting any of life's great challenges. This gripping narrative, the first book to describe the art and science of survival, will change the way you see the world. Everyone has a mountain to climb. Everyone has a wilderness inside.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30T22:59:00Z
Category : Science
ISBN : 9798822540927

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Summary of Laurence Gonzales's Deep Survival by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The place where the landing gear of the plane is meant to touch down is only a few feet away from me. I can see the white foul line shining against the black nonskid deck. I am standing next to the arrival end of a very short runway built onto the deck of the boat. #2 The first lesson is to remain calm in a survival situation. Emotions are called hot cognitions and they go hand in hand with panic. Be cool, and focus on the task at hand. #3 The boundary between life and death is a place of extreme calmness and alertness. Not everyone can stay calm and alert in such a place, and some fail, while others die. #4 The first rule is to face reality. Good survivors aren’t immune to fear, and they know what’s happening. They can’t ignore it, so they must prepare for it. They must laugh at threats, playing and laughing go together.

Author : William Golding
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571290581

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Lord of the Flies by William Golding Pdf

A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance. First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern classics. Now fully revised and updated, this educational edition includes chapter summaries, comprehension questions, discussion points, classroom activities, a biographical profile of Golding, historical context relevant to the novel and an essay on Lord of the Flies by William Golding entitled 'Fable'. Aimed at Key Stage 3 and 4 students, it also includes a section on literary theory for advanced or A-level students. The educational edition encourages original and independent thinking while guiding the student through the text - ideal for use in the classroom and at home.

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393089646

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Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration by David Roberts Pdf

"Gripping and superb. This book will steal the night from you." —Laurence Gonzales, author of Deep Survival On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave him the will to haul himself back to the surface. Mawson was sometimes reduced to crawling, and one night he discovered that the soles of his feet had completely detached from the flesh beneath. On February 8, when he staggered back to base, his features unrecognizably skeletal, the first teammate to reach him blurted out, "Which one are you?" This thrilling and almost unbelievable account establishes Mawson in his rightful place as one of the greatest polar explorers and expedition leaders. It is illustrated by a trove of Frank Hurley’s famous Antarctic photographs, many never before published in the United States.

Author : Booton Herndon
Publisher : Remnant Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Redemption at Hacksaw Ridge by Booton Herndon Pdf

Author : Doug Cocks
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780773571754

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Deep Futures by Doug Cocks Pdf

Doug Cocks looks at the predictions of serious futurologists for what lies ahead of us all, looking as far into the future as the next glacial age. He reflects on ideas for thinking about the future, drawn from an array of disciplines, and on the broad questions that will continue to confront humanity. Finally, he identifies strategies that might be adopted to maximize humanity’s prospects into the near future and beyond.

Author : Joe Simpson
Publisher : Direct Authors
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780957519305

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Touching the Void by Joe Simpson Pdf

The 25th Anniversary ebook, now with more than 50 images. 'Touching the Void' is the tale of two mountaineer’s harrowing ordeal in the Peruvian Andes. In the summer of 1985, two young, headstrong mountaineers set off to conquer an unclimbed route. They had triumphantly reached the summit, when a horrific accident mid-descent forced one friend to leave another for dead. Ambition, morality, fear and camaraderie are explored in this electronic edition of the mountaineering classic, with never before seen colour photographs taken during the trip itself.