In this work, these two National Outdoor Leadership School instructors offer lots of tried-and-true tricks and useful tips drawn from years of experience. The material is easy to understand and accompanied by hundreds of entertaining illustrations by renowned illustrator Mike Clelland![...]
Following up on the phenomenal success of their debut backcountry ski book, Allen and Mike's "Really Cool Telemark Tips" is the perfect book for anybody who's ever yearned to master the subtleties of the telemark turn. 123 clear, concise telemark tips are complemented by hilarious and helpful illust[...]
Hilaious and practical information about the art of backpacking from two NOLS instructors.
Profiling the fifteen exceptional men and women who have been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, an unprecedented volume, by the renowned 60 Minutes reporter, delves into the lives of these amazing heroes who went above and beyond the call of duty, and contemplates the true meaning of courage[...]
The dynamic duo has done it again! Following up on the incredible success of their two previous bestsellers, Allen and Mike's Really Cool Backcountry Ski Book and Really Cool Telemark Tips, these two National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) instructors and hardcore backcountry fanatics once again c[...]
Practical advice from two NOLS instructors on all aspects of backcountry skiing and winter camping. As skiers venture farther from lift-served front country, they need to understand and avoid hazards such as avalanches and extreme cold. This book teaches skiers how to choose the right equipment, bui[...]
Following up on the phenomenal success of their backcountry ski and backpacking books, Allen O'Bannon and Mike Clelland here provide a thoroughly revised and updated edition of their likewise popular Allen & Mike's Really Cool Telemark Tips, which first appeared in 1998. For anyone who's ever yearne[...]
With more and morepeople heading into the winter backcountry on skis, snowshoes, and snowmobiles, avalanche safety is of paramount importance.Allen & Mike's Really Cool Avalanche Safety Book distills the sometimes overly technical informationof snow scienceinto a user-friendly format with helpful il[...]
Artist Norm Breyfogle has been a fixture of DC Comics from 1987 to 1995, collaborating with writer Alan Grant on Batman, Detective Comics, and Shadow of the Bat.[...]
Outside of the world of enterprise computing, there is one database that enables a huge range of software and hardware to flex relational database capabilities, without the baggage and cost of traditional database management systems. That database is SQLite--an embeddable database with an amazingly [...]
Our eye movements in response to visual stimuli reveal much about how we experience the world. Focusing on the latest developments in the multidisciplinary field of eye tracking research, this volume ranges across a wide spectrum of research applications, with four sections covering the plethora of [...]