Stay Alive - Emergency Food to Sustain Energy eShort

Stay Alive - Emergency Food to Sustain Energy eShort

Author: John McCann

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-09-01

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 1440235406

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In this excerpt from Stay Alive! Survival Skills You Need, John D. McCann tells you the best foods to bring into the field. If you have no food, he teaches you techniques to catch and cook food.


Stay Alive - The Survivor Mentality eShort

Stay Alive - The Survivor Mentality eShort

Author: John McCann

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-09-01

Total Pages: 18

ISBN-13: 1440235325

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In this excerpt from Stay Alive! Survival Skills You Need, John D. McCann tells you what types of fears you may feel in a survival situation and how to control those fears.


The Socially Intelligent Project Manager

The Socially Intelligent Project Manager

Author: Kim Wasson

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Published: 2020-02-18

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1523087110

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This no-nonsense guide to social intelligence for project managers gives you a step-by-step process for building a bulletproof project team—no matter what gaps exist in personality, geography, culture, or communication style. High-performing teams don't happen by magic. You need processes that are designed in a socially intelligent way if your team is going to overcome the modern world's tough challenges with coordination. To be a star project manager, you have to communicate with people in their individual learning styles, provide accountability in ways that won't be demotivating, and run meetings and minutes that people won't tune out. Your processes must be constructed in ways that respect the complex realities of social dynamics step by step. You have to know your team before you can motivate them, and you have to motivate them before you can manage them. In this book are foolproof techniques to make sure your team connects with you, each other, and everyone they need to get the job done. After all, a team should be more than the sum of its parts—and it's up to the project manager to provide the glue that holds it all together.


The Death of Expertise

The Death of Expertise

Author: Tom Nichols

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0197763839

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"In the early 1990s, a small group of "AIDS denialists," including a University of California professor named Peter Duesberg, argued against virtually the entire medical establishment's consensus that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was the cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Science thrives on such counterintuitive challenges, but there was no evidence for Duesberg's beliefs, which turned out to be baseless. Once researchers found HIV, doctors and public health officials were able to save countless lives through measures aimed at preventing its transmission"--


Let's Go to the Arctic

Let's Go to the Arctic

Author: Charlotte Ford Mateer

Publisher: Roberts Rinehart Publishers

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13:

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This tale, set in a turn-of-the-century Inuit community in Northern Canada, focuses on a young boy, Natuk, and his sister Quertilik. Through the adventures of the brother and sister, young people learn about the Arctic world and the traditional Inuit way of life. A program of activities based on the story serves to reinforce general concepts of natural history.


Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples

Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples

Author: Harriet Kuhnlein

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-10-28

Total Pages: 745

ISBN-13: 1000092321

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First published in 1991, Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples details the nutritional properties, botanical characteristics and ethnic uses of a wide variety of traditional plant foods used by the Indigenous Peoples of Canada. Comprehensive and detailed, this volume explores both the technical use of plants and their cultural connections. It will be of interest to scholars from a variety of backgrounds, including Indigenous Peoples with their specific cultural worldviews; nutritionists and other health professionals who work with Indigenous Peoples and other rural people; other biologists, ethnologists, and organizations that address understanding of the resources of the natural world; and academic audiences from a variety of disciplines.


Introduction to Probability

Introduction to Probability

Author: Joseph K. Blitzstein

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2014-07-24

Total Pages: 599

ISBN-13: 1466575573

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Developed from celebrated Harvard statistics lectures, Introduction to Probability provides essential language and tools for understanding statistics, randomness, and uncertainty. The book explores a wide variety of applications and examples, ranging from coincidences and paradoxes to Google PageRank and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Additional application areas explored include genetics, medicine, computer science, and information theory. The print book version includes a code that provides free access to an eBook version. The authors present the material in an accessible style and motivate concepts using real-world examples. Throughout, they use stories to uncover connections between the fundamental distributions in statistics and conditioning to reduce complicated problems to manageable pieces. The book includes many intuitive explanations, diagrams, and practice problems. Each chapter ends with a section showing how to perform relevant simulations and calculations in R, a free statistical software environment.


World Atlas of Seagrasses

World Atlas of Seagrasses

Author: Frederick T. Short

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780520240476

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Seagrasses are a vital and widespread but often overlooked coastal marine habitat. This volume provides a global survey of their distribution and conservation status.


Swami and Friends

Swami and Friends

Author: R. K. Narayan

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2012-07-25

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0345803795

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R. K. Narayan (1906—2001) witnessed nearly a century of change in his native India and captured it in fiction of uncommon warmth and vibrancy. Swami and Friends introduces us to Narayan’s beloved fictional town of Malgudi, where ten-year-old Swaminathan’s excitement about his country’s initial stirrings for independence competes with his ardor for cricket and all other things British. Written during British rule, this novel brings colonial India into intimate focus through the narrative gifts of this master of literary realism.


On Your Own in the Wilderness

On Your Own in the Wilderness

Author: Bradford Angier

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 2017-09-15

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0811766330

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What Thoreau proved a century ago about returning to nature will still work today. There is an inexpressible thrill in the intimate study of primitive country, the workshop of nature, the appreciation of wilderness technique. Unspoiled regions possess a quiet beauty and peace—no artificiality, no crowds, all woods uncut. There is unbounded satisfaction and pleasure in successfully meeting the challenge of the wilderness. The two requirements for man in the North Country are knowledge and equipment. Colonel Townsend Whelen and Bradford Angier have combined their vast experiences camping and bivouacking to produce the perfect guide to peace and utter freedom. If the wilderness calls you, they invite you to join them and talk together about how to live in it. They explain what from their experience they found to be the best ways of entering wild and unspoiled country, of finding their way through it, and living there in comfort and safety. On Your Own in the Wilderness is their explicit direction on how to escape to an earthly Paradise.