Dr Rip S Essential Beach Book

Author : Rob Brander
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231217415

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Dr. Rip's Essential Beach Book by Rob Brander Pdf

How do waves break, and what makes good surf? What are dangerous rip currents, and how do you spot one? What should you do if you get caught in one? Australia’s best-known surf scientist, Rob “Dr. Rip” Brander, takes readers on a fascinating and entertaining journey to uncover how beaches form and behave, the science of waves and currents, and how beaches respond to storms and climate change. He explains where the sand we lay our towels on came from, how the tides that wash up new treasures each day work, why no two beaches are exactly the same, and why some of them are disappearing. He also explores some of the hazards to watch out for, from rip currents to tsunamis to the (unlikely) event you find yourself swimming with a shark. Whether you’re a surfer looking for the perfect wave or you just enjoy hitting the beach with friends and family, this book is a must-read for all ocean lovers.

Author : Rob Brander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Beaches
ISBN : 1742230989

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Dr. Rip's Essential Beach Book by Rob Brander Pdf

Many of us live near the beach, and many more visit the beach on holidays.

Author : Rob Brander
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781742238876

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Dr Rip’s Essential Beach Book by Rob Brander Pdf

How do waves break and what makes good surf? What are dangerous rip currents and how do you spot one? What would you do if you got caught in one? Australia’s best-known surf scientist, Rob ‘Dr Rip’ Brander, takes you on a fascinating and entertaining journey to uncover how our beaches form and behave, the science of waves and currents, how beaches respond to storms and climate change, as well as some of the hazards to watch out for, from tsunamis to the (unlikely) event you find yourself swimming with a shark. Whether you’re a surfer looking for the perfect wave or enjoying the beach with friends and family, this book is a must-read for all ocean lovers. ‘So good, it should be compulsory reading at school, and in planes flying to Australia.’ — Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki ‘Dr Rip is well-respected by Bondi Lifeguards. His knowledge of how beaches work has helped save many lives.’ — Bruce Hopkins, Chief Lifeguard at Bondi, Bronte and Tamarama beaches and star of Bondi Rescue ‘The beach is a fun but dangerous place. Everyone who loves the surf should read this fantastic book.’ — Mick Fanning, three-time surfing world champion

Author : Mike Tipton,Adam Wooler
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781315360171

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The Science of Beach Lifeguarding by Mike Tipton,Adam Wooler Pdf

The World Health Organization’s recently published Global Report on Drowning found that drowning is the third leading cause of unintentional injury death worldwide—making the information presented in this new book an important part of the global effort to reduce this health risk. Written by leading researchers and academics from around the world, The Science of Beach Lifeguarding focuses on the scientific evidence that underpins what is taught to and practised by beach lifeguards. It is the first book to pull together all the different areas involved in beach lifeguarding and evaluate their evidence base. An accessible and informative reference underpinned by the best current research, the book’s key themes cover the context of beach lifeguarding, the physical environment in which lifeguards work, medical aspects, practical lifeguarding techniques, physiological standards for lifeguards, safety education, and future developments in beach lifeguarding. The book presents groundbreaking work quantifying the scientific rationale behind a universally accepted fitness standard. It supplies an in-depth examination of the risks and hazards associated with the beach environment, including rip currents and cold water immersion. The book includes a state-of-the-art review of drowning and a comprehensive chapter on first aid. Detailing the recently announced 2015 European Resuscitation Council Guidelines, this book is a must-have for beach lifeguards, beach lifeguard managers, search and rescue personnel, paramedics, sports scientists, health and safety practitioners, and occupational health practitioners.

Author : Douglas Booth
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811638992

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Bondi Beach by Douglas Booth Pdf

Bondi Beach is a history of an iconic place. It is a big history of geological origins, management by Aboriginal people, environmental despoliation by white Australians, and the formation of beach cultures. It is also a local history of the name Bondi, the origins of the Big Rock at Ben Buckler, the motives of early land holders, the tragedy known as Black Sunday, the hostilities between lifesavers and surfers, and the hullabaloos around the Pavilion. Pointing to a myriad of representations, author Douglas Booth shows that there is little agreement about the meaning of Bondi. Booth resolves these representations with a fresh narrative that presents the beach’s perspective of a place under siege. Booth’s creative narrative conveys important lessons about our engagement with the physical world.

Author : Tony Butt
Publisher : Alison Hodge Publishers
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN : 0906720583

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The Surfer's Guide to Waves, Coasts and Climates by Tony Butt Pdf

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Author : Charles W. Finkl
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789400752344

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Coastal Hazards by Charles W. Finkl Pdf

This book covers the gamut of coastal hazards that result from short-term low-frequency events and have high-magnitude and far-reaching impacts on coastal zones the world over. Much of the world’s population now lives in low-lying coastal zones that are inherently vulnerable to natural hazards such as flooding from hurricanes, tropical storms and northeastern storm surges; shoreline (beach and dune) erosion; cliff and bluff failures; and saltwater intrusion in coastal aquifers used for drinking water supplies. In addition to the usual range of hydrometeorological disasters in coastal zones, this book covers tsunami impacts and warning systems as well as global perspectives of sea-level rise impacts and human perceptions of potential vulnerabilities resulting from rip currents that cause many drownings each year on beaches. Today, the use of numerical models that help predict vulnerabilities and provide a basis for shore protection measures is important in modern scientific and engineering systems. Final considerations focus on human actions in the form of the urbanization and industrialization of the coast, shore protection measures, and indicate how environmental degradation around coastal conurbations exacerbates the potential for unwanted impacts. Strategies for environmental management in coastal zones, from low-lying wetlands to high cliffs and rocky promontories, are highlighted as a means of living in harmony with Nature and not trying to conquer it.

Author : Tim Baker
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781864712131

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Surfari by Tim Baker Pdf

On the Road meets Endless Summer as Tim Baker, bestselling author of Occy, High Surf and Bustin' Down the Door, embarks on the classic surfing road trip around Australia. All surfers dream of shedding responsibilities and answering the siren's call of ocean swells. For most, it is an ideal that recedes as age advances - as family, career and provider fatigue threatens to overwhelm the wanderlust of youth. But what if you could defy the slow march of age? Shelve all your worldly pressures, pack up the family and a few trusty surfboards and hit the open road for the Great Australian surfing road trip? Inspired by the dreams of his youth, surf writer Tim Baker embarks on the Big Lap in search of the perfect wave and domestic bliss. Surfari documents the state of surf culture and our coastline, and the array of colourful characters who inhabit these parts, evoking all the magic, charm and challenges such a lifestyle entails. It is a story for anyone who has ever dreamed of an alternative to the busy, micro-scheduled existence of work, school, shopping and the daily drudge. The result is a lively, colourful account of what happens when you trade your life for another variety, and the delights and dangers that lay in wait when you dare to chase your dreams and follow another path.

Author : Richard Roxburgh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-24
Category : Australian fiction
ISBN : 1760632945

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Artie and the Grime Wave by Richard Roxburgh Pdf

A fabulously funny madcap adventure from the multi-talented actor, director and writer Richard Roxburgh, now writing and illustrating books for children.

Author : Joshua I. Newman,Holly Thorpe,David Andrews
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813591810

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Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body by Joshua I. Newman,Holly Thorpe,David Andrews Pdf

Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body explores the extent to which the body, when moving about active body spaces (the gymnasium, the ball field, the lab, the running track, the beach, or the stadium) and those places less often connected to physical activity (the home, the street, the classroom, the automobile), is bounded to technologies of life and living, as well as to the political arrangements that seek to capitalize upon such frames of biological vitality. To do so, the authors problematize the rise of active body science (kinesiology, sport and exercise sciences, performance biotechnology) and the effects these scientific interventions have on embodied, lived experience. Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body offers a groundbreaking departure from representationalist tendencies and orthodoxies brought about by the cultural turn in sport and physical cultural studies. It brings the moving body and its physics back into focus: re-centering moving flesh as the locus of social order, environmental change, and the global political economy.

Author : Anthony Pancia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Surfer photography
ISBN : 1760790680

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Surfing-Water Is Freedom by Anthony Pancia Pdf

Russell Ord's spectacular images have won him worldwide recognition, and deservedly so. Based in Western Australia, Russell is renowned for his awesome images of super thick empty peaks and heavy sessions at reefs like The Box and The Right. You can pick up any surf magazine in the country and find Russell's work on the front and back covers, and filling out entire spreads and the pages in between. In 'Surfing: Water is Freedom', Russell teams with noted local writer Anthony Pancia to tell the story 'behind the waves', the people who surf them, those who make their livelihoods from them, and who follow the culture with a passion. It is an extraordinary book for the new millennium. And Anthony Pancia's words bring the images to life with wonderful stories of passion and adventure. Russell Ord's photography stands alone. Nobody else in the world swims in the heaviest slab waves in the world, putting life, limb on the line to capture such dramatic & fantastically composed photos

Author : Indyana Schneider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : Lesbians
ISBN : 1398501093

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28 Questions by Indyana Schneider Pdf

They say it takes 28 Questions to fall in love. Then what? 'If it's an addictive read you're after, consider this your next stop.' Stylist A queer When Harry Met Sally for the Sally Rooney Generation 'Reader, imagine yielding to someone with a power so strong she has the ability to slice time. Before. Her. After.' When first-year music student Amalia stumbles into her Oxford college bar, she has no idea that everything is about to change. Seated across from her is Alex, a velvety-voiced fellow Australian with eyes the colour of her native sky. They strike up a friendship that is immediate - its intensity both thrilling and terrifying. As the days and weeks go by, they spend more and more time together: philosophising, hypothesising, questioning everything. There is nothing they cannot talk about, except the one thing that matters most. Dare they risk a romantic entanglement if it threatens this most perfect of friendships? Set across four years and five cities, and suffused with music, literature, art, dance, sex, and the exquisite pain and pleasure of first love, 28 Questions is a passionate and unforgettable first novel about love in all its guises, growing up, and figuring out who you are along the way.

Author : Stephen P. Leatherman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780300128970

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Dr. Beach's Survival Guide by Stephen P. Leatherman Pdf

Here, from the nation’s most renowned beach expert, is the first complete guide to beach safety. Stephen P. Leatherman (a.k.a. Dr. Beach) introduces the gamut of beach hazards—from sharks to rip currents to jellyfish—revealing which dangers should be of greatest concern and how best to minimize their risks. His scientifically sound advice, interspersed with fascinating facts and anecdotes, makes this book a perfect reference for the millions of travelers and vacationers who visit the ocean shore every year. Practical answers to these intriguing questions and more: • Which U.S. beach records the most shark attacks each year? • Which species of shark is the most dangerous to people? • Why are rip currents the most deadly beach threat? • How can rips be avoided? • What should you do if caught in a rip? • Can lightning strikes at the beach be predicted? • Is a stingray dangerous? • When is ocean water pollution likely to be worst? • What types of waves are threatening and how can they be detected? • What is the danger of a red tide? • How can swimmers avoid contact with jellyfish?

Author : Miriam Stoppard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0345319087

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Dr. Miriam Stoppard's Pregnancy and Birth Book by Miriam Stoppard Pdf

It's a step by step, stage-by-stage compendium of facts, figures charts, drawings, diagrams, lists, and photographs on every single aspect of pregnancy and childbirth and beyond.

Author : Edgar Harvey Defebaugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Barrels
ISBN : UOM:39015080133336

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Barrel and Box and Packages by Edgar Harvey Defebaugh Pdf