Mental - The Toughest, Bloodiest And Hardest Challenges In The World

Mental - The Toughest, Bloodiest And Hardest Challenges In The World

Author: Helen Summer

Publisher: Kings Road Publishing

Published: 2014-07-03

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1784181498

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Each year, thousands of competitors pit themselves against the elements, extremes of geography and their own psyches to take part in the world's hardest physical challenges. From the cold of the highest peaks to the unforgiving heat of the desert, by sea, bike or foot seemingly ordinary people are undertaking extraordinary feats. Whether seeking to prove themselves as athletes, or attempting to escape the humdrum, one thing they all have in common is an unbreakable drive to test the very limits of their endurance. Mental! looks at over 60 of the most extreme marathons, triathlons, bike rides and other iconic endurance events from around the globe, taking in the hottest, coldest, highest, and most remote locations in the world. With a detailed description of each event, featuring personal stories from the competitors, this book offers massive highs and excruciating lows, and shows just what we can achieve in pushing the boundaries o human endeavour.


Are You Tough Enough? The Toughest, Bloodiest and Hardest Challenges in the World

Are You Tough Enough? The Toughest, Bloodiest and Hardest Challenges in the World

Author: Helen Summer

Publisher: Kings Road Publishing

Published: 2016-01-07

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1784189219

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Each year, thousands of competitors pit themselves against the elements, extremes of geography and their own psyches to take part in the world’s hardest physical challenges. From the cold of the highest peaks to the unforgiving heat of the desert, by water, bike or foot seemingly ordinary people are undertaking extraordinary feats. Whether seeking to prove themselves as athletes, or attempting to escape the humdrum, one thing they all have in common is an unbreakable drive to test the very limits of their endurance. Are You Tough Enough? looks at over 60 of the most extreme marathons, triathlons, bike rides and other iconic endurance events from around the globe, taking in the hottest, coldest, highest and most remote locations, and the toughest, cruellest and wackiest challenges. With a detailed description of each event, featuring personal stories from competitors, this book offers massive highs and excruciating lows, shows just what we can achieve in pushing the bounds of human endeavour. A licensed UK Athletics endurance coach, Helen Summer has been involved in running for many years, both as a club and county runner. She has written for various publications including running magazines, women’s publications and the Food & Drink Guide.


Surviving the Toughest Race on Earth

Surviving the Toughest Race on Earth

Author: Martin Dugard

Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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The author, a freelance journalist, describes his experiences as a reporter and participant in the Raid Gauloises, an annual eight- to twelve-day race designed to test the limits of human endurance.


Sophie's World

Sophie's World

Author: Jostein Gaarder

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2007-03-20

Total Pages: 735

ISBN-13: 1466804270

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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.


Can't Hurt Me

Can't Hurt Me

Author: David Goggins

Publisher: David Goggins

Published: 2021-03-03

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1544512260

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New York Times Bestseller Over 2.5 million copies sold For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare -- poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes. The only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force Tactical Air Controller, he went on to set records in numerous endurance events, inspiring Outside magazine to name him "The Fittest (Real) Man in America." In Can't Hurt Me, he shares his astonishing life story and reveals that most of us tap into only 40% of our capabilities. Goggins calls this The 40% Rule, and his story illuminates a path that anyone can follow to push past pain, demolish fear, and reach their full potential.


Secret to Modern Woman's Heart (I and II)

Secret to Modern Woman's Heart (I and II)

Author: Hemant Pandey

Publisher:

Published: 2017-08-27

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9781549516672

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This gentlemen is so underrated ! I have purchased the book written by him and oh boy, it was pure gold. You have changed my entire notion of thinking about the girls. Bless you sir. Keep writing." (Via Quora Comments)Ever wondered what women really want and why? Why your girlfriend behaves irrationally ? Author writes on Quora (2500 followers, 3 million views) and runs his own blog (Hemantpandeyblog.com). Book Rated 4.33 on Good Reads. Hemant was a typical die hard romantic, writing love sonnets and letters to women he loved. Even after pouring his heart out he faced countless problems with women in his life. Changing mood of girls, suddenly going cold, neglecting etc. He started by classic psychology textbooks and was utterly disappointed. d104books teach nothing about women psychology or seduction (May be due to its controversial nature), similar to reproductive systems being treated in biology textbooks.Author started his quest in other seduction books. (Just like we learn sex through porn). The problem was immense again. Many of these books are fake and the methods simply don't work. Out of 1000s of pick up artist books and seduction material on 100s of websites, only a handful worked. It took 10 years for author to try and test almost all books on the subject. Second problem was that although these methods really work (No doubt about it), these books never teach you why they work. All methods are basically trial and error. In this book author solved these two problems. All material reinvented (10 years research) and rewritten (modified) by avoiding those which never work. Author devised 100s of entirely new methods which really work in any given scenario with any girl for any man (irrespective of his looks or personality). Every method discussed is supported by logic. Why the method works? This book will definitely save 1000s of hours in researching every book available on the planet, testing all of them and selecting best from the rest. You will learn Avoid FRIEND (PET) ZONE, Nice Guys Test, 'Dump Test' and 'Bitching Test'. Rules of TEXTING, how much, how long, what things to avoid? Get your GIRLFRIEND BACK after silence zone built after a fight or break up (entirely new 'ice breaker text method'.) 10 Most Important points in Modern Dating (Things to avoid). Secret Art of deep seduction (Fractionation) Making a girl fall in trance like love with you FOREVER. DOMINATE GIRLS to be subservient by using entirely new emotional Vaccination and Soft Dumping method. GIRLS BIGGEST TURN OFF and only ONE THING WOMEN LOVE the most in any MAN. Excerpt from the book: Fractionation and Rules of d104ing "You created a fractionation pattern by successively creating pain and pleasure response. Further you are the cause of both.This is the basic of all techniques of dealing with women. You create both pain and pleasure in quick succession and some times in one sentence like ' You look good but your hair could have been better'. Most guys there focus only on pleasure and fail to deliver emotional ups and downs, which women crave". "vii. Never be too available. This is again a test by girl to know your status. If you are always free for her, your value goes down. viii. Never chat with her for longer duration, especially when she is free. She will use you for time pass and dump you! "


One Man's Climb

One Man's Climb

Author: Adrian Hayes

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 2018-11-05

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1526745380

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A deeply moving story of the beauty and brutality of life, and death, on the world’s most unpredictable and perilous mountain. Sitting just lower than Everest at 8,611 meeres above sea level on the China–Pakistan border, the Savage Mountain claims the lives of even the most experienced climbers. Alongside severe altitude, the weather is notoriously volatile and the climb relentlessly steep. A staggering one in four attempts result in death on the mountain. In One Man’s Climb, Adrian Hayes details an intensely personal account of his attempts to climb K2 – first in 2013 and again in 2014. Absorbing and self-reflective, his journey is as much a story of climbing a mountain as it is a testament to the human spirit’s ability to endure.


Red Ocean Traps (Harvard Business Review Classics)

Red Ocean Traps (Harvard Business Review Classics)

Author: W. Chan Kim

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

Published: 2017-05-30

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 1633692671

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As established markets become less profitable, companies increasingly need to find ways to create and capture new markets. Despite much investment and commitment, most firms struggle to do this. What, exactly, is getting in their way? World-renowned professors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne, the authors of the best-selling book Blue Ocean Strategy have spent over a decade exploring that question. They have seen that the trouble lies in managers' mental models--ingrained assumptions and theories about the way the world works. Though these models may work perfectly well in mature markets, they undermine executives' attempts to discover uncontested new spaces with ample potential (blue oceans) and keep companies firmly anchored in existing spaces where competition is bloody (red oceans). In this bound version of their bestselling Harvard Business Review classic article, they describe how to break free of these red ocean traps. To do that, managers need to: (1) Focus on attracting new customers, not pleasing current customers; (2) Worry less about segmentation and more about what different segments have in common; (3) Understand that market creation is not synonymous with either technological innovation or creative destruction; and (3) Stop focusing on premium versus low-cost strategies. The Harvard Business Review Classics series offers you the opportunity to make seminal Harvard Business Review articles a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world--and will have a direct impact on you today and for years to come.


Busting the Bocage

Busting the Bocage

Author: Michael Dale Doubler

Publisher: Fort Leavenworth, Kan. : U.S. Army Command and General Staff College

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13:

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The 48 Laws of Power

The 48 Laws of Power

Author: Robert Greene

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2023-10-31

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 0670881465

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Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum. Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness”), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.