Adventure Unlimited: A Life on the Edge

Adventure Unlimited: A Life on the Edge

Author: Helmut Linzbichler

Publisher: Sportwelt Verlag

Published: 2022-11-30

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 3941297546

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Extreme Sport distinguishes the life of Helmut Linzbichler. For decades he’s pursued ultrarunning, mountain climbing, climbing and skiing with a passion. He is the oldest European to stand on top of Everest, climbed all Seven Summits, ran 135 miles through Death Valley in the Badwater Ultramarathon, and 2,600 miles across the USA in the Transamerica run. Exploring his own limits physical as well as mental - is this Austrian’s lifeblood. To what extent is his childhood responsible for his longing for extremes? Was sport just a way for him to be noticed, a replacement for the father’s love he never experienced? Is his adventurous lifestyle more than anything else an escape after the death of his pregnant wife? How did Helmut’s life change as a result of his cancer diagnosis and nearly losing his life on Everest? “Adventure Unlimited” tells of intense passions and of striving toward seemingly unreachable goals. It’s a story of powerful successes, but also of dealing with defeat and calamity. True to the motto “Life is way too short for someday,” Helmut Linzbichler knows from his own experience: It is never too late to live your dreams - no matter how old you are.


Life on the Edge

Life on the Edge

Author: Jennifer Comeaux

Publisher:

Published: 2016-09-26

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780990434245

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Nineteen-year-old Emily is new to pairs skating, but she and her partner Chris have a big dream-to be the first American team to win Olympic gold. Their young coach Sergei, who left Russia after a mysterious end to his skating career, believes they can break through and make history. Emily and Chris are on track to be top contenders at the Winter Games. But when forbidden feelings spark between Emily and Sergei, broken trust and an unexpected enemy threaten to derail Emily's dreams of gold.


Incidents

Incidents

Author: John Joss

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-01-06

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781541248465

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This extraordinary new book by the British author, John Joss, will amaze, entertain and educate readers of all ages. Its 300 pages contain fifty remarkable 'incidents, ' each a riveting story in itself. INCIDENTS is a sweeping biographical chronicle of a venturesome, joyful and successful life. It moves, with never a dull page, from amusing and poignant childhood anecdotes to risking his life- flying military aircraft and gliders, racing on two and four wheels, and sailing the oceans. The breadth and depth of experience and the sheer audacity of this multi-faceted and enterprising man would be hard to equal by many men, combined. John Joss entered the Royal Navy in England at 16, took initial pilot training, but was near-fatally injured in a motorcycle accident while returning to his ship. Invalided from the Service, he went to work, writing initially for a motorcycle magazine, then for industry. He emigrated to America, working first for corporations, then freelance, writing about business, technology and military aviation and participating in the world technology business center, Silicon Valley. He has raced cars, motorcycles, dinghies and yachts, trodden London's West End stages, explored Mexico, worked in the Gulf of Mexico oil patch, flown the Space Shuttle Simulator, evaded a Soviet military spy in Washington, helped find the sunken nuclear submarine Thresher, flown with the Blue Angels, the Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force and written business plans for Silicon Valley startups. He became the first journalist-pilot to fly and write about the U-2 spy plane, dodged a minefield at Fort Irwin, California, wrote for major media, did radio commercials and documentary voice-overs, soared gliders in the Sierra Nevada, created a high-tech series for network radio, commentated at car and motorcycle racetracks, sailed around the world, penned twenty novels, nonfiction books, screenplays and plays, and fathered three daughters. Not boring. Just as he wished.


The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition

The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition

Author: Steven J. Spear

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2010-05-07

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0071741402

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Generate faster, better results—using less capital and fewer resources! Toyota, Alcoa, Pratt & Whitney, and the U.S. Navy's Nuclear Power Program operate in vastly different worlds, but they have one thing in common. Each of these organizations generates constant, almost automatic operational self-improvements at rates faster, durations longer, and breadths wider than any of its competitors. Excellence in operational management is the single element separating industry leaders from all others. The High-Velocity Edge is a blueprint for fueling innovation and improvement at both the management and process level in your own company. It’s not magic, it’s not luck. It’s something that that can be taught, cultivated, practiced, and effectively applied to an organization. Spears explains how to: Build a system of “dynamic discovery” that reveals operational problems and weaknesses Attack and solve problems at the time and in the place where they occur, converting weaknesses into strengths Disseminate knowledge gained from solving local problems throughout the company as a whole Create managers invested in the process of continual innovation Apply the lessons of The High-Velocity Edge, and you will enjoy profitability, quality, efficiency, reliability, and agility unmatched by any of your rivals.


The Hours of the Universe

The Hours of the Universe

Author: Delio, Ilia

Publisher: Orbis Books

Published: 2021-01-20

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1608338673

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"Drawing on work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and modern science, author offers meditations pointing toward a new understanding of Christianity in terms of evolution"--


Heart of Flesh Literary Journal

Heart of Flesh Literary Journal

Author: Veronica McDonald editor

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11-05

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781715765453

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It's so easy to get bogged down in this world -- to feel the weight of ugliness, hate, destruction, emptiness, and depression pushing down on us. If you're not careful, life will try its best to crush you. But something gentle exists outside of it, under the coarse fabric of things. There is a soft voice waiting for you to listen and hear. And it's so easy to drown it out, to overlook it, to pretend it doesn't exist, or simply not hear it through the noise.Jesus is the whisper in the chaos. Our contributors see Him in the peripheral, call out to Him from the dark places and wait for His voice, feel the peace in His gentle light, or recognize the weight of His absence in an absurd, seemingly meaningless world.In this issue, you'll find laughter and despair, the everyday moments and the sublime, brokenness and healing, pain and joy, and in everything, bubbling underneath the surface, Jesus -- waiting, whispering, and placing His finger on everything.


TOTALLY SURRENDERED and Completely His

TOTALLY SURRENDERED and Completely His

Author: Dianna DeYoung

Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.

Published: 2021-11-12

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 1638140618

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God is not a distant dead God. He is the opposite. He is an alive, all-knowing, seeing, omnipresent, loving God. He never leaves us. You can have a daily walk and talk with Him, but you have to want it and choose it. Come along with me on a daily exciting adventure filled with miracles of my past, present, and hope for the future. You will see and hear who God is and what He does when you choose a totally surrendered life to Him. When you choose to listen, you will hear Him. When you choose to speak to Him, He will communicate back. When you choose to obey by faith what He is guiding you to do, miracles follow. You will begin to experience the abundant life He came to give us. God did not write a book and then lose His voice.