epub | 23.69 MB | English| Isbn:9780762782734 | Author: Bay, Hayley | Year: 2013

Quote:In David Black's Canyoneering: A Guide to Techniques for Wet and Dry Canyons, readers learn the hazards and risks of canyoneering, the skills required to gain mastery of canyoneering style and technique, and simple, effective ways to negotiate hazardous terrain. This completed updated, thorough, and to-the-point guide will provide easily understood descriptions of skills used by leading-edge canyoneers and promote simple techniques for solving complex problems. The purpose of this book is to equip canyoneers at all levels with the technical skills they need to enjoy a clean canyoneering experience and avoid dangerous mistakes. This full-color book is the only guide endorsed by the American Canyoneering Association.
Includes information on:
[*]The right way to apply climbing, caving, and whitewater skills to technical canyoneering
[*]An explanation of technical canyon ratings
[*]Simple, effective ways to negotiate hazardous terrain
[*]Twelve classic canyons in North America and their ratings
[*]ACA-certified instructors, guides, and guide service

epub | 20.11 MB | English| Isbn:9780306833465 | Author: Adi Jaffe | Year: 2025

Quote:Learn to identify the "hooks" that trigger your addictive behavior and replace compulsive habits with constructive ones using this helpful guide from a mental health expert.
As a young man, Dr. Adi Jaffe's own battle with addiction nearly landed him a decades-long prison sentence. Now, his revelatory addiction treatment protocol has helped thousands to free themselves from the addictive habits that cause negative consequences. Dr. Jaffe's shame-free, step-by-step program helps you address what's driving your addiction by:
·Identifying the "hooks" that drive your behavior
·Building awareness of when these hooks are activated
·Unpacking your go-to habitual responses
·Creating new, healthier patterns and ways of reacting
The Unhooked Method destigmatizes addiction and uses habit change knowledge and tools to help you to unhook for an addiction-free life.

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epub | 21.52 MB | English| Isbn:9780711287372 | Author: Raskin, Ben; | Year: 2024

Quote:Start and nurture your own thriving community garden with this seasoned guide to cultivating your local outdoor space.

Community gardening is a growing movement that is taking root in towns and cities all over the world. Groups of likeminded people are transforming neglected plots of land into green, flourishing spaces for everyone to enjoy.

In Let's Plant & Grow Together, conservationist and community gardener Ben Raskin shares his keen expertise in his introduction to collective self-sufficiency, encouraging a community audience to grow food and garden together. With a thoughtful foreword by Hélèna Dove, Head of Kitchen at the admired Kew Gardens, London, UK, this guide is uniquely placed to teach you how to make urban spaces bloom.

A look into the background of community gardening and its benefits is followed by a practical guide: planning advice is laid out, alongside essential etiquette tips for running a successful site. Learn about these and other practical considerations, including:

[*] Soil fertility
[*] Fundraising
[*] Business plans
[*] Guerrilla gardening
[*] Access rights
[*] Marketing
[*] Leases

Add a community-minded directory of the top vegetables, flowers, fruit, and herbs to plant, with key tips on growing in containers to maximize your space, and you can get ready to dig for a community garden that will blossom and thrive for everyone.
With clear instructions for all ages and backgrounds, your collective will learn to grow and harvest:

[*] Kale
[*] Pears
[*] Beetroot
[*] Asparagus
[*] Gooseberries
[*] Oregano
[*] Currants
[*] Melons
[*] Figs

This book contains everything you need to start gardening in a group. Whether that's with family, neighbors, or allotment co-owners, you'll find practical steps to promote harmony, grow more successfully, and make space for everybody. Written by an expert in the field, this insightful and comprehensive guide leaves no stone unturned when it comes to building and maintaining your dream co-gardening space.
If you like this book, you may also like Plant a Tree and Retree the World, by the same author.

epub | 13.63 MB | English| Isbn:9781647826314 | Author: Sandra Matz | Year: 2025

Quote:A fascinating exploration of how algorithms penetrate the most intimate aspects of our psychology-from the pioneering expert on psychological targeting.
There are more pieces of digital data than there are stars in the universe. This data helps us monitor our planet, decipher our genetic code, and take a deep dive into our psychology.
As algorithms become increasingly adept at accessing the human mind, they also become more and more powerful at controlling it, enticing us to buy a certain product or vote for a certain political candidate. Some of us say this technological trend is no big deal. Others consider it one of the greatest threats to humanity. But what if the truth is more nuanced and mind-bending than that?
In Mindmasters, Columbia Business School professor Sandra Matz reveals in fascinating detail how big data offers insights into the most intimate aspects of our psyches and how these insights empower an external influence over the choices we make. This can be creepy, manipulative, and downright harmful, with scandals like that of British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica being merely the tip of the iceberg. Yet big data also holds enormous potential to help us live healthier, happier lives-for example, by improving our mental health, encouraging better financial decisions, or enabling us to break out of our echo chambers.
With passion and clear-eyed precision, Matz shows us how to manage psychological targeting and redesign the data game.
Mindmasters is a riveting look at what our digital footprints reveal about us, how they're being used-for good and for ill-and how we can gain power over the data that defines us.

epub | 13.38 MB | English| Isbn:9781036122676 | Author: Andrew Sangster | Year: 2025

Quote:An exploration of German resistance to the Nazi regime, examining both active opposition and passive resistance during World War II.
After the Second World War the Allies in referring to the German people used the term 'collective guilt', which, after minimal research, appeared unfair. There was active opposition to Hitler from the moment he led Germany into war, which ranged from young teenagers, to undergraduates, to top-level civil servants, diplomats, and to the highest ranks in the military. As the moral depravity of the Nazi regime became apparent many Germans turned against the regime, although there was always the dedicated fanatic. They had become a repressed society, watched by Himmler's SD and above all feared interrogation by the Gestapo, what one German described as the 'silence of the graveyard'. This did not stop what may be called passive resistance which this book also explores, using the work of German diarists who wrote their accounts not postwar with the benefit of hindsight, but with genuine integrity at the time as events were unfolding. This book explores not just the resistance culminating in the 20 July Plot, and the divisions of opinions amongst the various resistance groups, but also the reaction of the German public, a question which the reader may feel obliged to ask where he or she may have stood under the circumstance of the day and under such a regime.

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epub | 14.87 MB | English| Isbn:9780593727072 | Author: Jenny Anderson, Rebecca Winthrop | Year: 2025

Quote:"Our education systems are shortchanging far too many teenagers. This book is brimming with insights on how to change that. It's an engaging, evidence-based, and practical read about how to develop a generation of lifelong learners."[b]-Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential and Think Again, and host of the podcast Re:Thinking
A powerful toolkit for parents of both checked-out and stressed-out teens that shows exactly what to do (and stop doing) to support their academic and emotional flourishing.[/b]

Adolescents are hardwired to explore and grow, and learning is mainly how they do this. But a shocking majority of teens are disengaged from school, simultaneously bored and overwhelmed. This is feeding an alarming teen mental health crisis. As kids get older and more independent, parents often feel powerless to help. But fear not, there are evidence-backed strategies to guide them from disengagement to drive, in and out of school.
For the past five years, award-winning journalist Jenny Anderson and the Brookings Institution's global education expert Rebecca Winthrop have been investigating why so many children lose their love of learning in adolescence. Now, weaving extensive original research with real-world stories of kids who transformed their relationships with learning, they identify four modes of learning that students use to navigate through the shifting academic demands and social dynamics of middle and high school, shaping the internal narratives about their skills, potential, and identity:
• Resister. When kids resist, they struggle silently with profound feelings of inadequacy or invisibility, which they communicate by ignoring homework, playing sick, skipping class, or acting out.
• Passenger. When kids coast along, consistently doing the bare minimum and complaining that classes are pointless. They need help connecting school to their skills, interests, or learning needs.
• Achiever. When kids show up, do the work, and get consistently high grades, their self-worth can become tied to high performance. Their disengagement is invisible, fueling a fear of failure and putting them at risk for mental health challenges.
• Explorer. When kids are driven by internal curiosity rather than just external expectations, they investigate the questions they care about and persist to achieve their goals.

Understanding your child's learning modes is vital for nurturing their ability to become Explorers. Anderson and Winthrop outline simple yet counterintuitive parenting strategies for connecting with your child, tailoring your listening and communication styles to their needs, igniting their curiosity, and building self-awareness and emotional regulation.

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epub | 17.58 MB | English| Isbn:9781394295692 | Author: Faithe Wempen | Year: 2025

Quote:Get up to speed on Microsoft's world-famous emailing, scheduling, collaborating, and organizing super-app Microsoft Outlook can do pretty much anything for you-short of cooking you a steak dinner. It can deliver and sort your email, filter out the junk, help you organize your life, send data to the cloud, sync up your various devices, and even integrate with iOS and Android. And in the latest edition of Microsoft Outlook For Dummies you'll learn how to do all of that, and more!
Discover how to create automated mail-handling rules, translate messages into English or other languages, and share your calendar with other people. This latest edition even walks you through each of the four different versions of Outlook and their ideal use cases. You'll also find:

[*]Straightforward content that shows you how to draft and send emails, organize your calendars, and set up to-do lists, tasks, and reminders
[*]Easy explanations of hidden and advanced features that very few people know about or use, setting you up to impress your coworkers!
[*]Navigation tips for the Microsoft Outlook interface

Perfect for novices who are brand-new to Outlook, Microsoft Outlook For Dummies is also a must-buy resource for email veterans looking to pick up the latest tips for the newest versions of Microsoft's world-famous email software.