Author: Rob Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992638481
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
"Fabulously funny. A real must for lovers of all things Greek" The story so far of a not particularly plucky couple's often bewildering experiences of life in a foreign country. After thirteen years in Greece, writer Rob Johnson has got used to most of the things that he found so bizarre at the beginning. Most, but not all.
Underwater Eden
Author: Gregory S. Stone
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226922677
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
“It was the first time I’d seen what the ocean may have looked like thousands of years ago.” That’s conservation scientist Gregory S. Stone talking about his initial dive among the corals and sea life surrounding the Phoenix Islands in the South Pacific. Worldwide, the oceans are suffering. Corals are dying off at an alarming rate, victims of ocean warming and acidification—and their loss threatens more than 25 percent of all fish species, who depend on the food and shelter found in coral habitats. Yet in the waters off the Phoenix Islands, the corals were healthy, the fish populations pristine and abundant—and Stone and his companion on the dive, coral expert David Obura, determined that they were going to try their best to keep it that way. Underwater Eden tells the story of how they succeeded, against great odds, in making that dream come true, with the establishment in 2008 of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA). It’s a story of cutting-edge science, fierce commitment, and innovative partnerships rooted in a determination to find common ground among conservationists, business interests, and governments—all backed up by hard-headed economic analysis. Creating the world’s largest (and deepest) UNESCO World Heritage Site was by no means easy or straightforward. Underwater Eden takes us from the initial dive, through four major scientific expeditions and planning meetings over the course of a decade, to high-level negotiations with the government of Kiribati—a small island nation dependent on the revenue from the surrounding fisheries. How could the people of Kiribati, and the fishing industry its waters supported, be compensated for the substantial income they would be giving up in favor of posterity? And how could this previously little-known wilderness be transformed into one of the highest-profile international conservation priorities? Step by step, conservation and its priorities won over the doubters, and Underwater Eden is the stunningly illustrated record of what was saved. Each chapter reveals—with eye-popping photographs—a different aspect of the science and conservation of the underwater and terrestrial life found in and around the Phoenix Islands’ coral reefs. Written by scientists, politicians, and journalists who have been involved in the conservation efforts since the beginning, the chapters brim with excitement, wonder, and confidence—tempered with realism and full of lessons that the success of PIPA offers for other ambitious conservation projects worldwide. Simultaneously a valentine to the diversity, resilience, and importance of the oceans and a riveting account of how conservation really can succeed against the toughest obstacles, Underwater Eden is sure to enchant any ocean lover, whether ecotourist or armchair scuba diver.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226922677
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
“It was the first time I’d seen what the ocean may have looked like thousands of years ago.” That’s conservation scientist Gregory S. Stone talking about his initial dive among the corals and sea life surrounding the Phoenix Islands in the South Pacific. Worldwide, the oceans are suffering. Corals are dying off at an alarming rate, victims of ocean warming and acidification—and their loss threatens more than 25 percent of all fish species, who depend on the food and shelter found in coral habitats. Yet in the waters off the Phoenix Islands, the corals were healthy, the fish populations pristine and abundant—and Stone and his companion on the dive, coral expert David Obura, determined that they were going to try their best to keep it that way. Underwater Eden tells the story of how they succeeded, against great odds, in making that dream come true, with the establishment in 2008 of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA). It’s a story of cutting-edge science, fierce commitment, and innovative partnerships rooted in a determination to find common ground among conservationists, business interests, and governments—all backed up by hard-headed economic analysis. Creating the world’s largest (and deepest) UNESCO World Heritage Site was by no means easy or straightforward. Underwater Eden takes us from the initial dive, through four major scientific expeditions and planning meetings over the course of a decade, to high-level negotiations with the government of Kiribati—a small island nation dependent on the revenue from the surrounding fisheries. How could the people of Kiribati, and the fishing industry its waters supported, be compensated for the substantial income they would be giving up in favor of posterity? And how could this previously little-known wilderness be transformed into one of the highest-profile international conservation priorities? Step by step, conservation and its priorities won over the doubters, and Underwater Eden is the stunningly illustrated record of what was saved. Each chapter reveals—with eye-popping photographs—a different aspect of the science and conservation of the underwater and terrestrial life found in and around the Phoenix Islands’ coral reefs. Written by scientists, politicians, and journalists who have been involved in the conservation efforts since the beginning, the chapters brim with excitement, wonder, and confidence—tempered with realism and full of lessons that the success of PIPA offers for other ambitious conservation projects worldwide. Simultaneously a valentine to the diversity, resilience, and importance of the oceans and a riveting account of how conservation really can succeed against the toughest obstacles, Underwater Eden is sure to enchant any ocean lover, whether ecotourist or armchair scuba diver.
Behind the Bell
Author: Dustin Diamond
Publisher: Transit Publishing
ISBN: 9780981239699
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The teen stars of Saved by the Bell entertained global audiences for over a decade. On TV, the actors in this ground-breaking show portrayed characters of model behavior, though often indulging in a little innocent adolescent fun. But what was it like behind the scenes? What were these kids really like, and what was it like to live one's teenage years in front of the camera? Dustin Diamond, Saved by the Bell's Samuel Screech Powers, pulls back the curtains to reveal the truth about being a child star in Hollywood. Diamond shows what happens when kids grow up too fast, too rich, and too famous. Book jacket.
Publisher: Transit Publishing
ISBN: 9780981239699
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The teen stars of Saved by the Bell entertained global audiences for over a decade. On TV, the actors in this ground-breaking show portrayed characters of model behavior, though often indulging in a little innocent adolescent fun. But what was it like behind the scenes? What were these kids really like, and what was it like to live one's teenage years in front of the camera? Dustin Diamond, Saved by the Bell's Samuel Screech Powers, pulls back the curtains to reveal the truth about being a child star in Hollywood. Diamond shows what happens when kids grow up too fast, too rich, and too famous. Book jacket.
Quest for the Holey Snail
Author: Rob Johnson, M.D
Publisher: Xerika Publishing
ISBN: 9780992638467
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
WANTED: Gainful employment of an adventurous nature but without risk of personal physical harm. (Can supply own time travel machine if required.) When Horace Tweed places an advertisement in a national magazine, the last thing he expects is to be commissioned to travel back through time in search of the long extinct Holey Snail. But this isn't just any old snail. The "helix pertusa" is possessed of an extraordinary and highly desirable property, and Horace's quest leads him and his co-adventurers to Ancient Greece and a variety of near-death encounters with beings both mythological and not so mythological. Meanwhile, Detective Chief Inspector Harper Collins has her hands full trying to track down a secret order of fundamentalist monks whom she suspects of committing a series of murders - the same monks who are determined to thwart Horace in his... ."..Quest for the Holey Snail." "Not just another book about serial-killing monks who travel through time and wear Union Jack flip-flops." - "Unusual Footwear Monthly"
Publisher: Xerika Publishing
ISBN: 9780992638467
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
WANTED: Gainful employment of an adventurous nature but without risk of personal physical harm. (Can supply own time travel machine if required.) When Horace Tweed places an advertisement in a national magazine, the last thing he expects is to be commissioned to travel back through time in search of the long extinct Holey Snail. But this isn't just any old snail. The "helix pertusa" is possessed of an extraordinary and highly desirable property, and Horace's quest leads him and his co-adventurers to Ancient Greece and a variety of near-death encounters with beings both mythological and not so mythological. Meanwhile, Detective Chief Inspector Harper Collins has her hands full trying to track down a secret order of fundamentalist monks whom she suspects of committing a series of murders - the same monks who are determined to thwart Horace in his... ."..Quest for the Holey Snail." "Not just another book about serial-killing monks who travel through time and wear Union Jack flip-flops." - "Unusual Footwear Monthly"
Out Of Control
Author: Kevin Kelly
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 078674703X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 078674703X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things.
Lifting the Lid
Author: Rob Johnson
Publisher: S & H Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781633200135
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
PEOPLE SEE THINGS IN TOILETS THAT THEY WISH THEY HADN'T. WHAT TREVOR HAWKINS SEES MIGHT EVEN COST HIM HIS LIFE... When Trevor hits the open road in his beat-up old camper van with his incorrigible dog, Milly, his quest for adventure soon spirals dangerously out of control. The simple act of flushing a hotel toilet transforms his life from redundant sales assistant to fugitive from a gang of psychopathic villains, the police and MI5. Then there's private detective Sandra Gray, who could cheerfully throttle him for turning a well paid, piece-of-cake job into a total nightmare. Or could she? With more twists and turns than an Escher-designed bobsleigh run, Lifting the Lid is a comic thriller about how a single, split-second decision can change someone's life forever.
Publisher: S & H Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781633200135
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
PEOPLE SEE THINGS IN TOILETS THAT THEY WISH THEY HADN'T. WHAT TREVOR HAWKINS SEES MIGHT EVEN COST HIM HIS LIFE... When Trevor hits the open road in his beat-up old camper van with his incorrigible dog, Milly, his quest for adventure soon spirals dangerously out of control. The simple act of flushing a hotel toilet transforms his life from redundant sales assistant to fugitive from a gang of psychopathic villains, the police and MI5. Then there's private detective Sandra Gray, who could cheerfully throttle him for turning a well paid, piece-of-cake job into a total nightmare. Or could she? With more twists and turns than an Escher-designed bobsleigh run, Lifting the Lid is a comic thriller about how a single, split-second decision can change someone's life forever.
Easy & Elegant
Author: Mindy Ginsberg
Publisher: Gefen Publishing House Ltd
ISBN: 9789652293527
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Here is an extraordinary collection of today's most popular gourmet dishes - "American style with Israeli influences". Readers will be able to relax knowing that their next dinner or party will be easy to prepare while elegant in presentation. With color photographs and simple directions, you will create wonderful dishes that explore the gamut of delicacies. So the next time you feel like cooking, take along the author's experiences with exotic spices and sauces, advancing your recipes with a new ethnic flavor of Israel. Mindy Ginsberg is an imaginative cooking expert, who has lovingly assembled and shared over 30 years of proven recipes. She is based in New York and Tel Aviv and has had two previous cookbooks published in Israel in collaboration with Ruth Sirkus, Israel's best selling author of cookbooks.
Publisher: Gefen Publishing House Ltd
ISBN: 9789652293527
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Here is an extraordinary collection of today's most popular gourmet dishes - "American style with Israeli influences". Readers will be able to relax knowing that their next dinner or party will be easy to prepare while elegant in presentation. With color photographs and simple directions, you will create wonderful dishes that explore the gamut of delicacies. So the next time you feel like cooking, take along the author's experiences with exotic spices and sauces, advancing your recipes with a new ethnic flavor of Israel. Mindy Ginsberg is an imaginative cooking expert, who has lovingly assembled and shared over 30 years of proven recipes. She is based in New York and Tel Aviv and has had two previous cookbooks published in Israel in collaboration with Ruth Sirkus, Israel's best selling author of cookbooks.
Book of Clouds
Author: Chloe Aridjis
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 144811344X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Tatiana, a young Mexican woman, is adrift in Berlin. Choosing a life of solitude, she takes a job transcribing notes for the reclusive Doktor Weiss. Through him she meets 'ant illustrator turned meteorologist' Jonas, a Berliner who has used clouds and the sky's constant shape-shifting as his escape from reality. As their three paths intersect and merge, the contours of all their worlds begins to change...
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 144811344X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Tatiana, a young Mexican woman, is adrift in Berlin. Choosing a life of solitude, she takes a job transcribing notes for the reclusive Doktor Weiss. Through him she meets 'ant illustrator turned meteorologist' Jonas, a Berliner who has used clouds and the sky's constant shape-shifting as his escape from reality. As their three paths intersect and merge, the contours of all their worlds begins to change...