Eastern Pyrenees Footprint Focus Guide

Author : Mary-Ann Gallagher,Andy Symington,Dana Faracos
Publisher : Footprint Travel Guides
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-22
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781909268074

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Eastern Pyrenees Footprint Focus Guide by Mary-Ann Gallagher,Andy Symington,Dana Faracos Pdf

An amalgamation of many cultures, the Eastern Pyrenees is a fantastic region to visit. From towering mountainscapes in Aragón, to the exotic buzz of Perpignan, to the proud Catalan capital, Barcelona; the Eastern Pyrenees truly offer something for everyone. Footprint Focus provides invaluable information on transport, accommodation, eating and entertainment to ensure that your trip includes the best of this vibrant region of Europe. • Essentials section with useful advice on getting to and around the Eastern Pyrenees. • Comprehensive, up-to-date listings of where to eat, sleep and play. • Includes information on tour operators and activities, from hot-air balloon rides to astounding architecture. • Detailed maps for the key destinations in the Eastern Pyrenees. • Slim enough to fit in your pocket. With detailed information on all the main sights, plus many lesser-known attractions, Footprint Focus Eastern Pyrenees (includes Barcelona & Perpignan) provides concise and comprehensive coverage of one of Europe’s most dynamic regions.

Author : Mary-Ann Gallagher
Publisher : Footprint Travel Guides
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-22
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781909268005

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Catalunya Footprint Focus Guide by Mary-Ann Gallagher Pdf

Catalunya is fiercely independent, and packs a lot into a small space. From sampling a crisp, sparkling bottle of cava to exploring magnificent national parks, Catalunya will not fail to entertain. Footprint Focus provides invaluable information on transport, accommodation, eating and entertainment to ensure that your trip includes the best of this flamboyant region of Spain. • Essentials section with useful advice on getting to and around Catalunya. • Comprehensive, up-to-date listings of where to eat, sleep and play. • Includes information on tour operators and activities, from finding the best nightlife to the top places for winter sports. • Detailed maps for Catalunya’s key destinations. • Slim enough to fit in your pocket. With detailed information on all the main sights, plus many lesser-known attractions, Footprint Focus Catalunya provides concise and comprehensive coverage of one of Spain’s most fun-loving regions. The content of the Footprint Focus Catalunya guide has been extracted from Footprint’s Spain Guide.

Author : Andy Symington
Publisher : Footprint Travel Guides
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-22
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781909268029

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Zaragoza & Aragón Footprint Focus Guide by Andy Symington Pdf

The once-mighty region of Aragón is now one of the peninsula’s less known areas. From lively Zaragoza to the rugged extremes of the Pyrenees, Aragón remains sparsely populated yet there is much for visitors to enjoy. Footprint Focus provides invaluable information on transport, accommodation, eating and entertainment to ensure that your trip includes the best of this remote region of Spain. • Essentials section with useful advice on getting to and around Aragón. • Comprehensive, up-to-date listings of where to eat, sleep and play. • Includes information on tour operators and activities, from visiting Roman ruins in Zaragoza to hiking in the Pyrenees. • Detailed maps for Aragón’s key destinations. • Slim enough to fit in your pocket. With detailed information on all the main sights, plus many lesser-known attractions, Footprint Focus Zaragoza & Aragón provides concise and comprehensive coverage of one of Spain’s most far-flung regions. The content of the Footprint Focus Zaragoza & Aragón guide has been extracted from Footprint’s Spain Guide.

Author : Mary-Ann Gallagher
Publisher : Footprint Travel Guides
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-22
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781909268043

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Valencia & Murcia Footprint Focus Guide by Mary-Ann Gallagher Pdf

Valencia & Murcia have it all: gorgeous beaches, stylish cities and pretty, low-key towns. From the sun-drenched beaches of Valencia to Murcia’s delightful, flower-filled squares, Valencia & Murcia are great provinces from which to enjoy the Mediterranean coastline as well as indulge in authentic Spanish traditions. Footprint Focus provides invaluable information on transport, accommodation, eating and entertainment to ensure that your trip includes the best of this fascinating region of Spain. • Essentials section with useful advice on getting to and around the provinces of Valencia & Murcia. • Comprehensive, up-to-date listings of where to eat, sleep and play. • Includes information on tour operators and activities, from sampling great tapas to attending traditional fiestas. • Detailed maps for the provinces of Valencia & Murcia. • Slim enough to fit in your pocket. With detailed information on all the main sights, plus many lesser-known attractions, Footprint Focus Valencia & Murcia provides concise and comprehensive coverage of one of Spain’s most popular regions.

Author : Andy Symington
Publisher : Footprint Travel Guides
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781909268067

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Camino de Santiago Footprint Focus Guide by Andy Symington Pdf

The Camino de Santiago has experienced a striking revival. Cutting across Spain from the Pyrenees in the east, to Santiago de Compostela in the west, it leads you through the varied and beautiful ancient kingdoms of northern Spain. Footprint Focus provides invaluable information on transport, accommodation, eating and entertainment to ensure that your trip includes the best of this medieval pilgrim route. • Essentials section with useful advice on getting to and along the Camino de Santiago. • Comprehensive, up-to-date listings of where to eat, sleep and play. • Includes information on tour operators and activities, from sampling red wine in La Rioja to the magnificent cathedral at Santiago. • Detailed maps for the Camino de Santiago. • Slim enough to fit in your pocket. With detailed information on all the main sights, plus many lesser-known places of interest, Footprint Focus Camino de Santiago provides concise and comprehensive coverage of Spain’s most famous historical route. The content of the Footprint Focus Camino de Santiago guide has been extracted from Footprint’s Northern Spain Handbook.

Author : Andy Symington
Publisher : Footprint Travel Guides
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-22
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781909268036

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Galicia Footprint Focus Guide by Andy Symington Pdf

Galicia is a remote region of Spain, offering a variety of rural and urban landscapes that are just a bit different. From its wild Celtic heritage to its convivial towns serving superb seafood, modern life has brought relatively little change to Galicia’s traditional lifestyle. Footprint Focus provides invaluable information on transport, accommodation, eating and entertainment to ensure that your trip includes the best of this fascinating region of Spain. • Essentials section with useful advice on getting to and around Galicia. • Comprehensive, up-to-date listings of where to eat, sleep and play. • Includes information on tour operators and activities, from eating delicious seafood to following the footsteps of pilgrims. • Detailed maps for Galicia’s key destinations. • Slim enough to fit in your pocket. With detailed information on all the main sights, plus many lesser-known attractions, Footprint Focus Galicia provides concise and comprehensive coverage of one of Spain’s most far-flung regions. The content of the Footprint Focus Galicia guide has been extracted from Footprint’s Northern Spain Handbook.

Author : Arthur Battagel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Pyrenees
ISBN : 0901516988

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Pyrenees East by Arthur Battagel Pdf

Author : Dirk Hilbers,Kees Woutersen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9491648071

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Spanish Pyrenees by Dirk Hilbers,Kees Woutersen Pdf

Author : Rob Hopkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781907448706

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The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins Pdf

Move from feeling anxious about the oil crisis to developing a positive visions and taking traction action to create a more self-reliant existence with this ground-breaking book. We live in an oil-dependent world, and have become reliant in a very short space of time, using vast reserves of oil in the process – and without planning for when the supply is not so plentiful. Most of us avoid thinking about what happens when the oil runs out (or becomes prohibitively expensive), but the reality may not be as bad as we think. The Transition Handbook shows how the inevitable and profound changes ahead could have a positive effect. Written by permaculture expert Rob Hopkins, he discusses the possibility of a rebirth of local communities, which will generate their own fuel, food and housing. These will encourage the development of local currencies, to keep money in the local area, and unleash a local 'skilling-up', so that people have more control over their lives. The growth in interest in the Transition model continues to be exponential. There are now more than 35 formal Transition Initiatives in the UK, including towns, cities, islands, villages and peninsulas, with more joining as the idea takes off. With little proactivity at government level, communities are taking matters into their own hands and acting locally. If your community has not yet become a Transition Initiative, this upbeat guide, filled with beautiful black and white photographs, offers you the tools to get started. The Transition Handbook is the perfect manual to guide communities, as they begin this 'energy descent' journey.

Author : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher : Organization for Economic Co-Operation & Development
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electric power production
ISBN : MINN:31951D033127668

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Harnessing Variable Renewables by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Pdf

Power systems must be actively managed to maintain a steady balance between supply and demand. This is already a complex task as demand varies continually. But what happens when supply becomes more variable and less certain, as with some renewable sources of electricity like wind and solar PV that fluctuate with the weather? to what extent can the resources that help power systems cope with the challenge of variability in demand also be applied to variability of supply? How large are these resources? and what share of electricity supply from variable renewables can they make possible? There is no one-size-fits-all answer. the ways electricity is produced, transported and consumed around the world exhibit great diversity. Grids can cross borders, requiring co-ordinated international policy, or can be distinct within a single country or region. and whether found in dispatchable power plants, storage facilities, interconnections for trade or on the demand side, the flexible resource that ensures the provision of reliable power in the face of uncertainty likewise differs enormously. Written for decision makers, Harnessing Variable Renewables: a Guide to the Balancing Challenge sheds light on managing power systems with large shares of variable renewables. It presents a new, step-by-step approach developed by the IEA to assess the flexibility of power systems, which identifies the already present resources that could help meet the twin challenges of variability and uncertainty.

Author : Martin Aylward
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781614298045

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Awake Where You Are by Martin Aylward Pdf

The body is of course integral to meditation, but there are only a few books that focus this specifically on the body and the meditative experience. Awake Where You Are addresses that need, and additionally integrates psychological concepts, which provides a more familiar entry point for people less familiar with Buddhism. “Embodied awareness is the way back home—intimacy with where and how we are right now, with what is happening and how we are meeting it. My intention is to lead you into the heart of your life. Inside your body, where everything happens—within a quality of listening rather than knowledge, of feeling rather than reaction. This meditative practice is radically transformative.” —Martin Aylward Pulled around by desires and distractions, we’re so easily disconnected from ourselves. Life is happening right in front of us, and within us—but still, we manage to miss so much of it. Awake Where You Are provides the antidote, inviting us to go deep into our own bodies, to inhabit our sensory experience carefully; to learn the art of living from the inside out, and in the process to find ease, clarity, and an authentic, unshakeable freedom. The practices in the book literally bring us back into our skin, where we can reconnect with a more rich, meaningful, and peaceful life. Aylward writes with sophisticated subtlety, as well as the heart-opening simplicity and clarity born of deep experience. And this book is more than a meditation guide—it’s a guide to living an embodied life. You’ll learn about the following areas and practices: - Understanding and liberating our primal human drives. Aylward explains how the three primary drives—survival, sexual, and social—function within us, and how we can engage their energy to explore, understand, and liberate them. - Integrating psychological understanding with meditative practice. Awake Where You Are goes beyond the broad brushstrokes of Buddhist psychology, inviting the reader into an exploration of their own particular psychological history and conditioning. - Investigating the nuances of love. Readers will learn to see the classical Buddhist heart qualities, or brahmaviharas (loving-kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity) as distinct flavors of love, and as the natural resting places of a free heart. “Martin is a marvelous teacher and offers us the refreshing wisdom of an embodied life.” —Jack Kornfield, author of No Time Like the Present

Author : Marc Oliva,David Palacios,José M. Fernández-Fernández
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128219690

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Iberia, Land of Glaciers by Marc Oliva,David Palacios,José M. Fernández-Fernández Pdf

Iberia, Land of Glaciers: How The Mountains Were Shaped By Glaciers discusses the impact of past glaciers in the current landscape of Iberia. Currently, there are only small glaciers in the highest peaks of the Pyrenees that are the legacy of the last cold period that ended at the end of the 19th century: The Little Ice Age. However, an accurate observation of the landscape of the highest peaks and adjacent valleys of the Iberian Peninsula reveals a past shaped by the successive passage of glaciers with hundreds of meters of ice, similar to what happens today in the Alps or Patagonia. Iberian glaciation has resulted in ice expansion through valleys that are now used by the road network and where important populations settle; in addition, large accumulations of sediments deposited by those glaciers are still unstable today and can trigger risks for mountain populations. Iberia, Land of Glaciers presents the impact of the glaciers in the landscape of mountains following a more educational perspective with examples of 21 Iberian massifs written by specialists from each of the areas. Assesses present-day Iberian Peninsula landscape trends by understanding the past behavior of glaciers Includes the latest findings of all the major Iberian mountains in a single book Includes quality, color figures to enhance understanding of glacier formations Provides a more educational and pedagogical perspective on glacial processes to reach an audience beyond academia

Author : Paul Besley
Publisher : Cicerone Press Limited
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-27
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781783624645

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Dark Peak Walks by Paul Besley Pdf

This guidebook describes 35 circular walking routes in the Dark Peak - the wilder northern area of the Peak District distinguished by its dark gritstone. The walks range between 4 and 13.5 miles in length (6.5km to 22km), varying in terms of difficulty: some involve steep ascents and descents, uneven ground and pathless terrain, and demand a good level of navigational competence. The book also outlines 5 longer routes (3 linear; 2 circular) of 15 to 28 miles (25-45km) for those wishing to explore the area further, including a classic 'skyline' circuit of the Kinder Scout plateau. Detailed route description and 1:50,000 OS mapping are provided for each route, along with information on nearby points of interest and facilities. Icons of the Dark Peak - such as Kinder Scout, Stanage Edge, the Roaches and Mam Tor - are included, however, the focus is on exploring the lesser-known corners of the region. The routes take in striking gritstone edges, distinctive rock formations, open moorland, steep-sided valleys and hidden waterfalls. The Dark Peak features a wild landscape of sweeping moorland and big skies. Easily accessible from Sheffield, it boasts a wealth of natural, geological, historical and cultural interest - and some great walking.

Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262536165

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Energy and Civilization by Vaclav Smil Pdf

A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization. "I wait for new Smil books the way some people wait for the next 'Star Wars' movie. In his latest book, Energy and Civilization: A History, he goes deep and broad to explain how innovations in humans' ability to turn energy into heat, light, and motion have been a driving force behind our cultural and economic progress over the past 10,000 years. —Bill Gates, Gates Notes, Best Books of the Year Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy into plant biomass. Humans have come to rely on many more energy flows—ranging from fossil fuels to photovoltaic generation of electricity—for their civilized existence. In this monumental history, Vaclav Smil provides a comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization. Humans are the only species that can systematically harness energies outside their bodies, using the power of their intellect and an enormous variety of artifacts—from the simplest tools to internal combustion engines and nuclear reactors. The epochal transition to fossil fuels affected everything: agriculture, industry, transportation, weapons, communication, economics, urbanization, quality of life, politics, and the environment. Smil describes humanity's energy eras in panoramic and interdisciplinary fashion, offering readers a magisterial overview. This book is an extensively updated and expanded version of Smil's Energy in World History (1994). Smil has incorporated an enormous amount of new material, reflecting the dramatic developments in energy studies over the last two decades and his own research over that time.

Author : The Economist
Publisher : The Economist
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1610395387

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Style Guide by The Economist Pdf

This expanded eleventh edition of the bestselling guide to style is based on the Economist's own updated house style manual, and is an invaluable companion for everyone who wants to communicate with the clarity, style and precision for which the Economist is renowned. As the introduction says, 'clarity of writing usually follows clarity of thought.' The Economist Style Guide gives general advice on writing, points out common errors and clichés, offers guidance on consistent use of punctuation, abbreviations and capital letters, and contains an exhaustive range of reference material - covering everything from accountancy ratios and stock market indices to laws of nature and science. Some of the numerous useful rules and common mistakes pointed out in the guide include: *Which informs, that defines. This is the house that Jack built. But: This house, which Jack built, is now falling down. •Discreet means circumspect or prudent; discrete means separate or distinct. Remember that "Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are" (Oscar Wilde). •Flaunt means display, flout means disdain. If you flout this distinction you will flaunt your ignorance •Forgo means do without; forego means go before. •Fortuitous means accidental, not fortunate or well-timed. •Times: Take care. Three times more than X is four times as much as X. •Full stops: Use plenty. They keep sentences short. This helps the reader.