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Author : Lachlan Fleetwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009123112
An innovative global history of science, empire and geography explaining how the Himalaya became the highest mountains in the world.
Author : Lachlan Fleetwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1009124323
Author : John B. West
Publisher : Springer
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781493971220
This book is an informal autobiography by John West MD PhD. He obtained his medical degree in Adelaide, Australia and then spent 15 years mainly at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital in London where he, with others, used radioactive oxygen-15 to make the first description of the uneven regional distribution of blood flow in the lung. In 1960-1961, he was a member of the Himalayan Scientific and Mountaineering Expedition led by Sir Edmund Hillary who had made the first ascent of Mt Everest 7 years before. During the expedition about 6 scientists spent up to three months at an altitude of 5800 m studying the effects of this very high altitude on human physiology. Because of his interests in the effects of gravity on the lung, Dr. West spent a year at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California in 1967-1968. While there he submitted a proposal to NASA to measure pulmonary function of astronauts in space, and this was funded. Later, in 1981 he organized the American Medical Research Expedition to Everest during which the first measurements of human physiology on the summit, altitude 8848 m, were obtained. In the 1990’s, Dr. West’s team made the first comprehensive measurements of pulmonary function of astronauts in space using SpaceLab which was taken up in the Shuttle.
Author : Benjamin D. Koen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199798216
Beyond the Roof of the World is a benchmark in Medical Ethnomusicology and integrative, complementary/alternative medicine. Koen explores ancient practices of music, prayer, and healing among the Pamiri people of Tajikistan.
Author : Jess Butterworth
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781616208349
A story of adventure, survival, courage, and hope, set in the vivid Himalayan landscape of Tibet and India. Tash lives in Tibet, where as a practicing Buddhist she must follow many rules to avoid the wrath of the occupying Chinese soldiers. Life remains peaceful as long as Tash, her family, and their community hide their religion and don’t mention its leader, the Dalai Lama. The quiet is ruptured when a man publicly sets himself on fire to protest the occupation. In the crackdown that follows, soldiers break into Tash’s house and seize her parents. Tash barely escapes, and soon she and her best friend, Sam, along with two borrowed yaks, flee across the mountains, where they face blizzards, hunger, a treacherous landscape, and the constant threat of capture. It’s a long, dangerous trip to the Indian border and safety—and not all will make it there. This action-packed novel tells a story of courage, hope, and the powerful will to survive, even in the most desperate circumstances.
Author : Kathryn Lasky
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0152008977
From Newbery Honor author Kathryn Lasky comes a fascinating journey through the rainforest canopy that's perfect for budding environmentalists.
Author : Aubrey Mrs. Le Blond
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:8596547210276
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Adventures on the Roof of the World" by Aubrey Mrs. Le Blond. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Sydney Wignall
Publisher : Lyons and Burford Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Espionage, British
ISBN : 1558215581
A riveting adventure memoir chronicling Wignall's 1955 participation in an expedition to climb Tibet's highest mountain, Gurla Mandhata, and his not so incidental spy activities as part of a covert Indian intelligence operation. The author and his companions were subsequently captured by the Chinese, imprisoned, tortured, and finally released only to face a trek across a Himalayan pass while suffering from malnourishment and dysentry. It's the kind of story that a fiction writer would be hard pressed to invent and is told with great aplomb and even humor. Lacks an index and bibliography. Includes photographs and maps. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Dick Simpson,Robin Davies
Publisher : Ladybird Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0721411029
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : American literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433081647400
Author : Benjamin D. Koen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199710023
While Western medicine has conventionally separated music, science, and religion into distinct entities, traditional cultures throughout the world have always viewed music as a bridge that connects the physical with the spiritual. Now, as people in even the most technologically advanced nations across the globe struggle with obtaining affordable and reliable healthcare coverage, more and more people are turning to these ancient cultural practices of ICAM healing (integrative, complementary, and alternative medicine). With Beyond the Roof of the World, Dr. Benjamin D. Koen unearths the Western separation of healing from spiritual and musical practices as a culturally determined phenomenon, and proves the relevance of medical ethnomusicology in light of the globally spreading ICAM healing practices. Using the culture found within the towering Pamir Mountains of Badakhshan Tajikistan, in a place poetically known as the Roof of the World, as the paradigm of ICAM healing, Koen shows spirituality and musicality to be intimately intertwined with one's physical life, health and healing. For the first time, Koen bridges the widespread gap between ethnomusicology and music therapy. Koen's extensive research and emersion into the Badakhstan culture provides the reader with an "insider" perspective while maintaining an "observer's" view, as he infuses the text with relevant scholarship.
Author : Sydney Wignall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021550293
When Sydney Wignall set off on a climbing expedition to the Himalayas in the 1950s, he little imagined he would become embroiled in an extraordinary, life-threatening adventure that would involve both Indian and Chinese governments at the highest level.
Author : Yurii Khapachev,Arthur Dyshekov,Tatyana Oranova,Tatyana Shustova
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781527546882
Intended for a wide range of readers, this book shows the objective beauty of science. It highlights the features of the micro-, macro-, and microcosm, and discusses the role and importance of the fundamental constants of the observed universe. It examines the behavior of the human organism as an open non-equilibrium system, as well as ways to transition from a state of “illness” to a state of “health”.
Author : Stanley Rosen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300129526
The concept of the ordinary, along with such cognates as everyday life, ordinary language, and ordinary experience, has come into special prominence in late modern philosophy. Thinkers have employed two opposing yet related responses to the notion of the ordinary: scientific and phenomenological approaches on the one hand, and on the other, more informal or even anti-scientific procedures. Eminent philosopher Stanley Rosen here presents the first comprehensive study of the main approaches to theoretical mastery of ordinary experience. He evaluates the responses of a wide range of modern and contemporary thinkers and grapples with the peculiar problem of the ordinary—how to define it in its own terms without transforming it into a technical (and so, extraordinary) artifact. Rosen’s approach is both historical and philosophical. He offers Montesquieu and Husserl as examples of the scientific approach to ordinary experience; contrasts Kant and Heidegger with Aristotle to illustrate the transcendental approach and its main alternatives; discusses attempts by Wittgenstein and Strauss to return to the pre-theoretical domain; and analyzes the differences among such thinkers as Moore, Austin, Grice, and Russell with respect to the analytical response to ordinary language. Rosen concludes with a theoretical exploration of the central problem of how to capture the elusive ordinary intact.
Author : Mingtao Zhang
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Qinghai Sheng (China)
ISBN : UOM:49015000295676