French Dive
French Dive

Author: Eric Freeze

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11-23

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1725266156

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In the fall of 2014, educators Eric and Rixa Freeze moved with their young family to Old Nice, a medieval town-within-a-city on the famed Côte d'Azur. They'd bought a 700-square-foot dive, an apartment in need of renovation just a couple blocks from the Mediterranean. They were a family with a plan: to live differently. No home in the suburbs with a two-car garage, no bedroom for every child, no 24-hour Walmart. Carefully researched and vividly written, French Dive chronicles the Freeze family's integration into a culture where large families aren't all treated alike. What they find--spearfishing for food, renting their car to strangers, fixing and selling old furniture from the garbage depot--is that a city gives back the more you give to it. Morally complex and unflinching in its analysis of contemporary life and the things that keep human beings apart, Freeze tackles racism, homelessness, art, reality TV, social media, and parenting with wit and humor. Along the way he and his family learn what it means to be a neighbor, a member of a community, and a global citizen, how to treat others with empathy and understanding as they try to carve out a place in this world.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Author: Jean-Dominique Bauby

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2008-03-06

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0307454835

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A triumphant memoir by the former editor-in-chief of French Elle that reveals an indomitable spirit and celebrates the liberating power of consciousness. In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young children, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem. After 20 days in a coma, Bauby awoke into a body which had all but stopped working: only his left eye functioned, allowing him to see and, by blinking it, to make clear that his mind was unimpaired. Almost miraculously, he was soon able to express himself in the richest detail: dictating a word at a time, blinking to select each letter as the alphabet was recited to him slowly, over and over again. In the same way, he was able eventually to compose this extraordinary book. By turns wistful, mischievous, angry, and witty, Bauby bears witness to his determination to live as fully in his mind as he had been able to do in his body. He explains the joy, and deep sadness, of seeing his children and of hearing his aged father's voice on the phone. In magical sequences, he imagines traveling to other places and times and of lying next to the woman he loves. Fed only intravenously, he imagines preparing and tasting the full flavor of delectable dishes. Again and again he returns to an "inexhaustible reservoir of sensations," keeping in touch with himself and the life around him. Jean-Dominique Bauby died two days after the French publication of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. This book is a lasting testament to his life.

The Dive
The Dive

Author: Francisco Ferreras

Publisher:

Published: 2005-03

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780007191826

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A world-champion competitor in the deadly sport of freediving tells the heart-wrenching story of his life with and without his beloved wife, Audrey, who died trying to break his own record. Francisco 'Pipin' Ferreras, a native of Cuba, is a world champion in the dangerous and controversial sport of freediving, in which athletes test the limits of their minds and bodies by diving to unthinkable depths without oxygen tanks. Audrey Mestre was a beautiful French marine biology student researching the physiology of freediving. When she decided to base her studies on the legendary Pipin, a passionate romance was born. Pipin and Audrey soon married and moved to Miami, where she took up the sport herself and proceeded to break the female world record (115 metres). They became freediving's power couple, constantly training together and encouraging one another. of the Dominican Republic while attempting to break the world record -- which was currently held by her husband. Now, for the first time, Pipin tells his own story. He addresses the controversy that has followed him throughout his career and defends his sport and his own records against criticism from peers. And Pipin opens up as never before, providing what no interviewer has been able to capture: a glimpse into the heart of a complex and haunted man. In his own words, he relates the tragic story of his relationship with Audrey -- a unique and complicated tale of love and competition taken to the extreme.

NOAA.
NOAA.

Author: United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Publisher:

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 964

ISBN-13:

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MTV France
MTV France

Author: Anna E. Brooke

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2007-06-05

Total Pages: 802

ISBN-13: 0764587706

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Get the inside scoop on France. From trolling Parisian nightclubs to skiing the French Alps, MTV France shows you what you want to do and where you want to be, with choices for every budget. Alternative accommodations. Bed down anywhere from a hauntedcastle to buzzing beachfront youth hostels or alpine ski chalets. Cheap eats. Fuel up on the world's best cheeses, cr?pes, and cassoulets. Chow down in an old Parisian workers' canteen, or try affordable cutting- edge dishes by France's hottest young chefs. Great clubs & bars. Party everywhere from Paris's grungy rue Oberkampf to the velvet rope scene at Cannes' Le Baol, or tour Champagne's best bubbly cellars and the vineyards of Burgundy and Bordeaux. World-class museums & offbeat attractions. From the Mona Lisa at the Louvre and Van Gogh's house in Arles to Paris's catacombs and Lascaux's cave paintings, you'll discover France's finest and freakiest sites.

Hormonal Regulation of Fluid and Electrolytes
Hormonal Regulation of Fluid and Electrolytes

Author: John R. Claybaugh

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1461305853

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The concept of this book has developed over the past fi fteen years as interest in the water and electrolyte disturbances associated with most environmental settings moved from a research area of descriptive discovery to one dealing with the mechanisms responsible for the previously observed disturbances. Most of the contributing authors have been involved in both aspects of this evolution of research, focusing on those problems associated with body fluid and electrolyte balance and searching for hormonal explanations. What did not accompany this transition, however, was a source of information encompassing the area of interest. Instead, the previous format of environmentally focused symposia, reviews, and books continued to be the only sources available. For instance, various books deal with the physiology of high altitude, space, or exercise but do not necessarily provide adequate coverage of water and electrolyte disturbances. To our knowledge, the format of this book is unique. We have made the central focus water and electrolyte physiology with an emphasis on endocrinology and tried to comprehensively cover this area of physiology in some of the more heavily studied environments. This book too, then, will have its limitations in coverage. For instance, in-depth coverage of the respiratory and cardiovascular responses to the high altitude en vironment will not be found, but since these areas are so integrally associated with water and electrolyte regulation they are not ignored.

They Lived to Tell the Tale
They Lived to Tell the Tale

Author: The Explorers Club

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2007-11-01

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1599216396

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Living dangerously with the members of the world-renowned Explorers Club.

Underwater Medicine and Related Sciences
Underwater Medicine and Related Sciences

Author: Charles Wesley Shilling

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 704

ISBN-13: 1468485008

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This volume follows and updates AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON DIVING AND SUBMARINE MEDICINE published by Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers, Inc., in 1971. The time period covered is primarily the calendar years 1970 and 1971. Also included, however, is much material from the calendar years 1968 and 1969 not in the previous publication. A brief analysis of the sources of material precedes the citations and abstracts, which comprise the main section of the volume. The bibliography is followed by a permuted subject index and an author index. Also included, following the indexes, is a micro thesaurus. Although no attempt has been made to do a critical subject analysis, such an analysis could be accomplished through selecting a particular subject, looking up the appropriate key works in the rotated index, identifying the abstracts, analyzing them, obtaining complete copy as desired, and completing the critical review. David C. Weeks, Ph.D. Director, BSCP Washington, D.C.

Cleared for Takeoff
Cleared for Takeoff

Author: Peter Hafkus

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2021-06-09

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1662437722

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An executive expat writes memoirs of his studies and work abroad: childhood in postwar Germany; student life in Berlin, Paris, and the USA; and when he was a true pioneer in the early globalization of manufacturing in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In a series of short stories, he recounts his funny foreign adventures and invites you to listen to the music of those days. He tells daring flying stories as a small airplane pilot traveling around the world. Presently, he lives retired in Mexico.

Deep
Deep

Author: James Nestor

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0547985525

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Our species is more profoundly connected to the sea than we ever realized, as an intrepid cadre of scientists, athletes, and explorers is now discovering. Deep follows these adventurers into the ocean to report on the latest findings about its wondrous biology -- and unimagined human abilities.