Down from the Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear (Andrews Bryce)(Paperback)

Down from the Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear (Andrews Bryce)(Paperback)

The story of a grizzly bear named Millie: her life, death, and cubs, and what they reveal about the changing character of the American West. An ode to wildness and wilderness (Outside Magazine), Down from the Mountain tells the story of one grizzly in the changing Montana landscape. Millie was

Down from the Mountain - The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear (Bryce Andrews Andrews)(Pevná vazba)

'Andrews' wonderful Down from the Mountain is deeply informed by personal experience and made all the stronger by his compassion and measured thoughts... Welcome and impressive work.' --Barry Lopez Winner of the Banff Mountain Book Competition's Mountain Environment & Natural History Award The

The Quick and the Dead: True Stories of Life and Death from a New Zealand Pathologist (Temple-Camp Cynric)(Paperback)

True stories of life and death from a New Zealand pathologist From the number-one bestselling author of The Cause of Death comes a book about the unlikely, extraordinary, obscure and often tragic ways humans meet their end.A dead body without a trace of trauma; alien parasites; worms of the brain;

No Way Down - Life and Death on K2 (Bowley Graham)(Paperback / softback)

K2, August 1st, 2008. Thirty climbers are attempting the summit of the most savage mountain on Earth. They make it. But before they start their descent an ice shelf collapses, sweeping away their ropes. It is dark. Their lines are gone. They are low on oxygen. And it is getting very, very cold. How

Matter of Life and Death - Courage, compassion and the fight against coronavirus - a palliative care nurse's story (Critcher Kelly)(Paperback / softback)

The powerful memoir of a palliative care nurse's life spent facing down death - and the frontline battle against the

Bear Island (MacLean Alistair)(Paperback)

Reissue of the classic tale of adventure and death on a mysterious Arctic island, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.A converted fishing trawler, Morning Rose carries a movie-making crew across the Barents Sea to isolated Bear Island, well above the Arctic Circle, for some on-location

Home - A Memoir of My Early Years (Andrews Julie)(Paperback / softback)

The heroine of MARY POPPINS and THE SOUND OF MUSIC tells her life story from the music halls of London to Broadway

From Bagels to Curry - Life, Death, Family, and Triumph (Devi Lila (Lila Devi))(Paperback / softback)

This offbeat heartful account takes the reader on a journey of life, death, and freedom through the eyes of a devoted yet independent daughter, showing how an alternative spiritual path can affect families immersed in traditional religion. From his birth in the slums of Chicago to his passing in

The Life and Death of Sophie Stark - North Anna

Who is the real Sophie Stark? The Life and Death of Sophie Stark is the story of an enigmatic film director, told by the six people who loved her most. Brilliant, infuriating, all-seeing and unknowable, Sophie Stark makes films said to be 'more like life than life itself'. But her genius comes at a

Mother's Love - A compelling family saga of life's ups and downs (Andrews Lyn)(Paperback / softback)

A moving 1930s Liverpool saga from bestselling author Lyn Andrews, following the trials and tribulations of one family in their busy Liverpool

Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death (Everitt Anthony)(Paperback)

What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world's greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial revisionist portrait. ' An] infectious sense of narrative momentum . . . Its energy is unflagging,

Savage Summit: The Life and Death of the First Women of K2 (Jordan Jennifer)(Paperback)

Though not as tall as Everest, the 'Savage Mountain' is far more dangerous. Located on the border of China and Pakistan, K2 has some of the harshest climbing conditions in the world. Ninety women have scaled Everest but of the six women who reached the summit of K2, three lost their lives on the

Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig (Eig Jonathan)(Paperback)

The definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig. Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend--the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that now bears his name

Death on the Riviera (Bude John)(Paperback / softback)

This classic crime novel from 1952 evokes all the sunlit glamour of life on the Riviera, and combines deft plotting with a dash of

Kabbalah and the Power of Dreaming: Awakening the Visionary Life (Shainberg Catherine)(Paperback)

A dynamic exposition of the powerful, ancient Sephardic tradition of dreaming passed down from the renowned 13th-century kabbalist Isaac the Blind - Includes exercises and practices to access the dream state at will in order to engage with life in a state of enhanced awareness - Written by the

The Near-Death Experience: In the Light of Scientific Research and Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Science (Roszell Calvert)(Paperback)

This book is about the riddle of life asked from the perspective of near-death experiences. It begins with knowledge that recent developments in science afford us, leading to the question of the role direct experience can play in answering our questions about the nature of the human soul and spirit

The Great Spring: Writing, Zen, and This Zigzag Life (Goldberg Natalie)(Paperback)

From beloved writing teacher and author of the best-selling Writing Down the Bones a treasury of personal stories reflecting a life filled with journeys--inner and outer--zigzagging around the world and home again. Here, Natalie Goldberg, a writer both energized and enlightened (Julia Cameron),

End of Life Communication: Stories from the Dead Zone (Davis Christine S.)(Paperback)

This book examines the dialectic between fictional death as depicted in the media and real death as it is experienced in a hospital setting. Using a Terror Management theoretical lens, Davis and Crane explore the intersections of life and death, experience and fiction, to understand the

Life, Death and Immortality: The Journey of the Soul (Hayes Terrill)(Paperback)

Perfect Heresy - The Life and Death of the Cathars (O'Shea Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

The Cathars, a group of heretical Christians from all walks of society, high and low, flourished in what is now the Languedoc in Southern France. Their subversive beliefs brought down on them the wrath of Popes and monarchs and provoked a brutal 'Crusade' against

Sherpa: Stories of Life and Death from the Guardians of Everest - Ankit Babu Adhikari, Pradeep Bashyal

The untold stories of mountaineering achievements and tragedies - an oral history of the Sherpas. Changing the narrative of mountaineering books, Sherpa focuses on the people who live and work on the roof of the world.Amid all the foreign adventurers that throng to Nepal to scale the world's

The Denial of Death (Becker Ernest)(Paperback)

Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the why of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie -- man's

Facts of Life and Death - From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Snap (Bauer Belinda)(Paperback / softback)

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNAP'Belinda Bauer is one of the best British crime writers out there right now' Simon KernickEvery killer has to start somewhere

Bear Grylls Adventure 10: The Mountain Challenge (Grylls Bear)(Paperback / softback)

The tenth in the fun new 12-book collectible series for young readers from survival expert and Chief Scout BEAR GRYLLS. A mysterious compass with a fifth direction transports a young girl to a mountain top high above sea level, where the air is thin, the steep drops are treacherous and the