Author: Aron Ralston
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1849835098
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
A day-by-day account of Aron Ralston's unforgettable survival story. On Saturday, 26 April 2003, Aron Ralston, a 27-year-old outdoorsman and adventurer, set off for a day's hike in the Utah canyons. Eight miles from his truck, he found himself in the middle of a deep and remote canyon. Then the unthinkable happened: a boulder shifted and snared his right arm against the canyon wall. He was trapped, facing dehydration, starvation, hallucinations and hypothermia as night-time temperatures plummeted. Five and a half days later, Aron Ralston finally came to the agonising conclusion that his only hope was to amputate his own arm and get himself to safety. Miraculously, he survived. 127 Hours is more than just an adventure story. It is a brave, honest and above all inspiring account of one man's valiant effort to survive, and is destined to take its place among adventure classics such as Touching the Void.
127 Hours
Author: Aron Ralston
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1849835098
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
A day-by-day account of Aron Ralston's unforgettable survival story. On Saturday, 26 April 2003, Aron Ralston, a 27-year-old outdoorsman and adventurer, set off for a day's hike in the Utah canyons. Eight miles from his truck, he found himself in the middle of a deep and remote canyon. Then the unthinkable happened: a boulder shifted and snared his right arm against the canyon wall. He was trapped, facing dehydration, starvation, hallucinations and hypothermia as night-time temperatures plummeted. Five and a half days later, Aron Ralston finally came to the agonising conclusion that his only hope was to amputate his own arm and get himself to safety. Miraculously, he survived. 127 Hours is more than just an adventure story. It is a brave, honest and above all inspiring account of one man's valiant effort to survive, and is destined to take its place among adventure classics such as Touching the Void.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1849835098
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
A day-by-day account of Aron Ralston's unforgettable survival story. On Saturday, 26 April 2003, Aron Ralston, a 27-year-old outdoorsman and adventurer, set off for a day's hike in the Utah canyons. Eight miles from his truck, he found himself in the middle of a deep and remote canyon. Then the unthinkable happened: a boulder shifted and snared his right arm against the canyon wall. He was trapped, facing dehydration, starvation, hallucinations and hypothermia as night-time temperatures plummeted. Five and a half days later, Aron Ralston finally came to the agonising conclusion that his only hope was to amputate his own arm and get himself to safety. Miraculously, he survived. 127 Hours is more than just an adventure story. It is a brave, honest and above all inspiring account of one man's valiant effort to survive, and is destined to take its place among adventure classics such as Touching the Void.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Author: Tony Evans
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 1575675633
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
You know the story: God told Abraham he would become a great nation. Then he told him to sacrifice his own (and only) son, Isaac. Abraham obeyed God and was about to kill Isaac—when God intervened. This is a classic 'between a rock and a hard place' situation. So how was Abraham able to obey in the face of losing it all? Or to bring it closer to home—what would you have done? In this powerful book, Tony Evans reveals what to do when your love for God is tested. According to Evans, “When you don’t know God, or when you either forget or dismiss what is true about Him, then you don’t know how to respond…” Moving through passages in both the Old and New Testaments, Evans makes a powerful case for obedient living as the key to an abundant life.
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 1575675633
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
You know the story: God told Abraham he would become a great nation. Then he told him to sacrifice his own (and only) son, Isaac. Abraham obeyed God and was about to kill Isaac—when God intervened. This is a classic 'between a rock and a hard place' situation. So how was Abraham able to obey in the face of losing it all? Or to bring it closer to home—what would you have done? In this powerful book, Tony Evans reveals what to do when your love for God is tested. According to Evans, “When you don’t know God, or when you either forget or dismiss what is true about Him, then you don’t know how to respond…” Moving through passages in both the Old and New Testaments, Evans makes a powerful case for obedient living as the key to an abundant life.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Author: Alden R. Carter
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780590374866
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Just when fifteen-year-old Mark Severson and his diabetic cousin Randy start enjoying the canoe trip through Minnesota's lake country that is a family rite of passage, the trip turns into a fight for survival. Reprint.
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780590374866
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Just when fifteen-year-old Mark Severson and his diabetic cousin Randy start enjoying the canoe trip through Minnesota's lake country that is a family rite of passage, the trip turns into a fight for survival. Reprint.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Author: Mark O. Hatfield
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780876804278
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Autobiography of Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780876804278
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Autobiography of Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Author: Elaine Graham
Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN: 0334045983
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Public theology is an increasingly important area of theological discourse with strong global networks of institutions and academics involved in it. Elaine Graham is one of the UK's leading theologians and an established SCM author. In this book, Elaine Graham argues that Western society is entering an unprecedented political and cultural era, in which many of the assumptions of classic sociological theory and of mainstream public theology are being overturned. Whilst many of the features of the trajectory of religious decline, typical of Western modernity, are still apparent, there are compelling and vibrant signs of religious revival, not least in public life and politics - local, national and global. This requires a revision of the classic secularization thesis, as well as much Western liberal political theory, which set out separate or at least demarcated terms of engagement between religion and the public domain. Elaine Graham examines claims that Western societies are moving from 'secular' to 'post-secular' conditions and traces the contours of the 'post-secular': the revival of faith-based engagement in public sphere alongside the continuing - perhaps intensifying - questioning of the legi¬timacy of religion in public life. She argues that public theology must rethink its theological and strategic priorities in order to be convincing in this new 'post-secular' world and makes the case for the renewed prospects for public theology as a form of Christian apologetics, drawing from Biblical, classical and contemporary sources.
Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN: 0334045983
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Public theology is an increasingly important area of theological discourse with strong global networks of institutions and academics involved in it. Elaine Graham is one of the UK's leading theologians and an established SCM author. In this book, Elaine Graham argues that Western society is entering an unprecedented political and cultural era, in which many of the assumptions of classic sociological theory and of mainstream public theology are being overturned. Whilst many of the features of the trajectory of religious decline, typical of Western modernity, are still apparent, there are compelling and vibrant signs of religious revival, not least in public life and politics - local, national and global. This requires a revision of the classic secularization thesis, as well as much Western liberal political theory, which set out separate or at least demarcated terms of engagement between religion and the public domain. Elaine Graham examines claims that Western societies are moving from 'secular' to 'post-secular' conditions and traces the contours of the 'post-secular': the revival of faith-based engagement in public sphere alongside the continuing - perhaps intensifying - questioning of the legi¬timacy of religion in public life. She argues that public theology must rethink its theological and strategic priorities in order to be convincing in this new 'post-secular' world and makes the case for the renewed prospects for public theology as a form of Christian apologetics, drawing from Biblical, classical and contemporary sources.
A Rock and a Hard Place
Author: Peter David
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 074342090X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Under the best circumstances, terraforming is a tough, dangerous task that pits the hardiest of pioneers against an unforgiving environment. When the terraformers on the planet Paradise fall behind schedule, commander Riker is given temporary leave from the U.S.S. Enterprise™ and sent to assist. Riker's replacement on the Starship Enterprise is a volatile officer named Stone whose behavior soon raises questions about his ability and his judgment. Meanwhile, Commander Riker has become enmeshed in a life and struggle with Paradise's brutal landscape. However, he soon learns that not all of the planet's dangers are natural in origin -- as he comes face to face with Paradise's greatest danger and most hideous secret.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 074342090X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Under the best circumstances, terraforming is a tough, dangerous task that pits the hardiest of pioneers against an unforgiving environment. When the terraformers on the planet Paradise fall behind schedule, commander Riker is given temporary leave from the U.S.S. Enterprise™ and sent to assist. Riker's replacement on the Starship Enterprise is a volatile officer named Stone whose behavior soon raises questions about his ability and his judgment. Meanwhile, Commander Riker has become enmeshed in a life and struggle with Paradise's brutal landscape. However, he soon learns that not all of the planet's dangers are natural in origin -- as he comes face to face with Paradise's greatest danger and most hideous secret.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Author: Oiva W. Saarinen
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889203202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
This sociological/historical text chronicles the story of Finnish immigrants in the Sudbury area of Canada, from 1883 to the present. Saarinen (geography, Laurentian U., Sudbury) describes how Finnish society, culture, economics, and politics influenced the development of a small rail town toward its present role as regional capital of northeastern Ontario. The title refers to the physical reality of the area (rugged hills, mines, farms, forests) as well as the difficulties encountered by the immigrants. Statistical graphs, maps, and bandw photos support the text. Canadian card order number: C98-932487-7. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889203202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
This sociological/historical text chronicles the story of Finnish immigrants in the Sudbury area of Canada, from 1883 to the present. Saarinen (geography, Laurentian U., Sudbury) describes how Finnish society, culture, economics, and politics influenced the development of a small rail town toward its present role as regional capital of northeastern Ontario. The title refers to the physical reality of the area (rugged hills, mines, farms, forests) as well as the difficulties encountered by the immigrants. Statistical graphs, maps, and bandw photos support the text. Canadian card order number: C98-932487-7. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Roc and a Hard Place
Author: Piers Anthony
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 150405878X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
“Puns and playfulness reign supreme” as a demoness learns that big birds of a feather don’t flock together in the New York Times–bestselling Xanth series (The Toronto Star). Seeking a solution to a perplexing personal problem, the delectable Demoness Metria asks for help from the wise Magician Humfrey. But before he will help her, she must perform a perilous mission: Rove the length and breadth of Xanth in search of a suitable jury for the trial of Roxanne Roc, a notably noble and virtuous bird charged with a most improbable offense. Exciting, exhilarating, and brimming with hilarious high jinks, Roc and a Hard Place is Xanth at its most enchanting. “[A] lighthearted series . . . many outlandish characters, adventures, jokes and plays on words.” —Publishers Weekly
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 150405878X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
“Puns and playfulness reign supreme” as a demoness learns that big birds of a feather don’t flock together in the New York Times–bestselling Xanth series (The Toronto Star). Seeking a solution to a perplexing personal problem, the delectable Demoness Metria asks for help from the wise Magician Humfrey. But before he will help her, she must perform a perilous mission: Rove the length and breadth of Xanth in search of a suitable jury for the trial of Roxanne Roc, a notably noble and virtuous bird charged with a most improbable offense. Exciting, exhilarating, and brimming with hilarious high jinks, Roc and a Hard Place is Xanth at its most enchanting. “[A] lighthearted series . . . many outlandish characters, adventures, jokes and plays on words.” —Publishers Weekly
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Author: Johanna vanZanten
Publisher: Histria Books
ISBN: 1592112838
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
Between a Rock and a Hard Place is set in The Netherlands during World War II. Jacob van Noorden is a military policeman with a wife and two children, and a third on the way, just assigned his first job as chief of a crew in a rural town, close to the German border. When the German army invades and moves through his town, Jacob and his crew have no defense. They can only watch the tanks rumble by without stopping. Jacob is forced to deal with the increasingly disastrous events of the Nazi regime' s occupation. He learns that in the end that every action he takes, no matter how well-intentioned, has enormous, long-lasting consequences to those around him.
Publisher: Histria Books
ISBN: 1592112838
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
Between a Rock and a Hard Place is set in The Netherlands during World War II. Jacob van Noorden is a military policeman with a wife and two children, and a third on the way, just assigned his first job as chief of a crew in a rural town, close to the German border. When the German army invades and moves through his town, Jacob and his crew have no defense. They can only watch the tanks rumble by without stopping. Jacob is forced to deal with the increasingly disastrous events of the Nazi regime' s occupation. He learns that in the end that every action he takes, no matter how well-intentioned, has enormous, long-lasting consequences to those around him.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Author: John E. Roueche
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Examines elements of successful programs at 12 community colleges designed to aid the student handicapped by background or circumstance.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Examines elements of successful programs at 12 community colleges designed to aid the student handicapped by background or circumstance.