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Called "the greatest angling explorer of his generation"
("Independent on Sunday"), Jeremy Wade takes viewers where no
wildlife program has gone before. Now Wade goes truly beneath the
surface, disclosing full details of how he catches each species and
recounting the off-camera highlights of his extraordinary life.
From his arrest as a suspected spy in Southeast Asia to a plane
crash in the rainforest, every page of the "Wall Street Journal"
bestseller "River Monsters" is packed with adventure. From the
heart of the Congo to the depths of the Amazon, Wade reels in fish
of staggering proportions and terrifying demeanor for an
unforgettable read.
Discover the astonishing truth about our aquatic cousins: how they
think and what they know, their experiences and unique behaviours,
and the many things we have in common. There are 33,000 species of
fish on our planet, and that number is constantly increasing. In
context, that is more than all the species of mammals, birds,
amphibians and reptiles added together, making fish the most
numerous vertebrates on our planet. Waters worldwide are teeming
with these elusive creatures, but how much do we really know about
them? Grouped into thematic chapters - including the Dangerous and
Deadly,Unusual Giants and Mini Marvels - in this comprehensive book
biologist Doug Mackay-Hope profiles the secret lives of 50 of our
most interesting underwater cousins in an insightful and
myth-busting study, complete with charming watercolour diagrams and
expert insights. Learn about the White-Spotted Pufferfish, whose
spines hide a deadly toxin, or the Ocellate River Stingray, who
lurks in the rivers of South America and who can kill with just one
touch of it's barbed stinger. Meet Bargibant's Pygmy Seahorse, who
measures just 2cm in length, as well as the enourmous Whale Shark,
which grows to around 13m in length. Be fascinated by the wierd
creatures of the deep ocean, such as the Peter's Elephantnosed Fish
or the kaleidescopic Picasso's Triggerfish. With a foreword by
Jeremy Wade, presenter of River Monsters and Mighty Rivers, and
official fish aficionado, this book is a complete compendium of
fascinating fish facts, with maps showing where in the globe they
can be found, plus facts on how they live, hunt and escape
predators. Beautiful illustrations and photographs accompany each
entry, as well as interesting facts on how they evolved to adapt
tochanging environments, making this book the perfect guide to all
things aquatic.
All seven episodes of the Animal Planet series following extreme
angler Jeremy Wade as he goes on the hunt for freshwater fish with
a taste for human flesh. Episodes are: 'Piranha', 'Killer Catfish',
'Alligator Gar', 'European Maneater', 'Amazon Assassins', 'Amazon
Flesheaters' and 'Freshwater Shark'.
Jeremy Wade has caught an unparalleled array of outsize and
outlandish fish from challenging locations all over the world -
goliath tigerfish from the Congo, arapaima from the Amazon, 'giant
devil catfish' from the Himalayan foothills . . . As his catches
attract increasing public attention, many people ask him how they
can improve their own fishing results. This book is his reply.
Sparse on the details of technique, it's about the simple,
fundamental principles - a mindset for success. Part science, part
art, and part elusive something else, this, he says, is within
every angler's ability to develop. How to Think Like a Fish is the
distillation of a life spent fishing. Along the way readers will
learn when to let instinct override logic. Why less time can bring
better results than more. Which details are vital and which may be
irrelevant. And how a 'non-result' can be a result. Thoughtful and
funny, brimming with wisdom and adventure, here is the book for any
angler - novice or old hand - who wants to catch the fish that have
so far eluded them.
A tale of obsession and very big fish from Jeremy Wade, the
presenter of ITV's RIVER MONSTERS. Over ten feet long, it weighs in
at nearly a quarter of a ton. Covering its back are armoured plates
made of bone. Five hundred stiletto-sharp teeth line its long
crocodilian jaws. It's a prehistoric beast of staggering
proportions; a fearsome creature from the time of the dinosaurs.
But the Alligator Gar, an air-breathing survivor from the
Cretaceous period is still with us today, patrolling inland rivers,
hunting in murky waters shared by human communities. And for Jeremy
Wade, described as the 'greatest angling explorer of his
generation', the Gar and other outlandish freshwater predators have
been an obsession for all his adult life. With names like Arapaima,
Snakehead, Goonch, Goliath Tigerfish and Electric Eel, many of them
have acquired an almost mythical status. In a quest that has taken
him from the Amazon to the Congo, and from North America to the
mountains of India, Wade has pursued the truth about these little
known, often misunderstood animals. Along the way he's survived a
plane crash, malaria and a fish-inflicted blow to the chest that,
according to a later scan, caused permanent scarring to his heart.
In RIVER MONSTERS, Wade delivers a sometimes jaw-dropping blend of
adventure, natural history, legend and detective work. It reads
like a hunt for the Loch Ness Monster. But it's all true. These are
fisherman's tales like you've never heard before. The stories of
the ones that didn't get away ...
Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture documents the transition
of recorded music on CDs to music as digital files on computers.
More than two decades after the first digital music files began
circulating in online archives and playing through new software
media players, we have yet to fully internalize the cultural and
aesthetic consequences of these shifts. Tracing the emergence of
what Jeremy Wade Morris calls the "digital music commodity,"
Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture considers how a
conflicted assemblage of technologies, users, and industries helped
reformat popular music's meanings and uses. Through case studies of
five key technologies - Winamp, metadata, Napster, iTunes, and
cloud computing - this book explores how music listeners gradually
came to understand computers and digital files as suitable
replacements for their stereos and CD. Morris connects industrial
production, popular culture, technology, and commerce in a
narrative involving the aesthetics of music and computers, and the
labor of producers and everyday users, as well as the value that
listeners make and take from digital objects and cultural goods.
Above all, Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture is a sounding
out of music's encounters with the interfaces, metadata, and
algorithms of digital culture and of why the shifting form of the
music commodity matters for the music and other media we love.
Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture documents the transition
of recorded music on CDs to music as digital files on computers.
More than two decades after the first digital music files began
circulating in online archives and playing through new software
media players, we have yet to fully internalize the cultural and
aesthetic consequences of these shifts. Tracing the emergence of
what Jeremy Wade Morris calls the "digital music commodity,"
Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture considers how a
conflicted assemblage of technologies, users, and industries helped
reformat popular music's meanings and uses. Through case studies of
five key technologies - Winamp, metadata, Napster, iTunes, and
cloud computing - this book explores how music listeners gradually
came to understand computers and digital files as suitable
replacements for their stereos and CD. Morris connects industrial
production, popular culture, technology, and commerce in a
narrative involving the aesthetics of music and computers, and the
labor of producers and everyday users, as well as the value that
listeners make and take from digital objects and cultural goods.
Above all, Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture is a sounding
out of music's encounters with the interfaces, metadata, and
algorithms of digital culture and of why the shifting form of the
music commodity matters for the music and other media we love.
Snapchat. WhatsApp. Ashley Madison. Fitbit. Tinder. Periscope. How
do we make sense of how apps like these-and thousands of
others-have embedded themselves into our daily routines, permeating
the background of ordinary life and standing at-the-ready to be
used on our smartphones and tablets? When we look at any single
app, it's hard to imagine how such a small piece of software could
be particularly notable. But if we look at a collection of them, we
see a bigger picture that reveals how the quotidian activities apps
encompass are far from banal: connecting with friends (and
strangers and enemies), sharing memories (and personally
identifying information), making art (and trash), navigating spaces
(and reshaping places in the process). While the sheer number of
apps is overwhelming, as are the range of activities they address,
each one offers an opportunity for us to seek out meaning in the
mundane. Appified is the first scholarly volume to examine
individual apps within the wider historical and cultural context of
media and cultural studies scholarship, attuned to issues of
politics and power, identity and the everyday.
Approximately 2,000 years ago, some Jewish communities of Galatia
in central Asia Minor believed they had fallen under a curse,
argues Jeremy Wade Barrier. A fellow Jew named Paul wrote the
letter we call Galatians to help them escape its effects. In the
letter, Barrier argues, Paul called for the Jews in Galatia to stop
practicing circumcision. The rite had fallen into disuse within
many Jewish communities in the Roman Empire, but Barrier argues the
Galatian Jews believed it was a talisman that would protect them
from harm. As a further precaution, they needed to deal with the
person who had brought this evil to their community. A witch hunt
was underway, and some had concluded that the witch was none other
than Paul. Barrier provides a reconstruction of the original
occasion of Paul's letter to the Galatians and shows how Paul
defended himself from accusations of witchcraft by countering that
the ritual that would protect them from the "Evil Eye" was not
circumcision, but rather baptism. Through the ritual of baptism,
they could receive healing from a material, yet divine, "breath" of
God. Barrier also reconstructs an earlier understanding of this
pneuma that was lost to subsequent Christianity under the influence
of Neoplatonism.
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