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This completely revised and updated edition with all new color
photos brings together in a single volume the anchoring systems
most popular among climbers. Most climbers today learn their craft
on artificial climbing walls and on sport routes with fixed
protection. Their first efforts to lead on trad routes often come
as a rude shock--they find that they haven't the skills and
training to safeguard the climb or to set up solid belays. This new
edition of Climbing Anchors is the climber's complete and
authoritative source of information on protection, from fundamental
knots to sophisticated rigging and equalizing skills.
Designed for quick use by climbers on site, this book shows how to
properly place and configure natural anchors, passive chocks,
mechanical chocks, fixed gear, knots, belay anchors, toprope
anchors and rappel anchors. This field guide is up to date with the
essential knowledge every climber can depend on.
How to Rock Climb!, now in its fifth edition, is the most thorough
instructional rock climbing book in the world. All the
fundamentals-from ethics to getting up the rock-are presented in
John Long's classic style. Thoroughly revised and updated to
reflect the modern standards of equipment, technique, and training
methods, this guide includes sections on face climbing; crack
climbing; ropes, anchors, and belays; getting off the rock; sport
climbing; and much more. It is the essential how-to book for rock
climbers everywhere. Now with more than 300 color photographs and
illustrations, this is the most thorough and complete upgrade this
best-selling title has seen since first publishing more than a
decade ago.
Written by world renowned rock climbers and veteran Falcon authors
John Long and Bob Gaines, this slim volume will be the go-to
resource for the necessities of rock climbing safety. By getting
back to basics, it will be a great resource for both beginners and
experienced climbers looking to brush up on their skills.
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"How to Rock Climb , " now in its fifth edition, is the most
thorough instructional rock climbing book in the world. All the
fundamentals--from ethics to getting up the rock--are presented in
John Long's classic style. Thoroughly revised and updated to
reflect the modern standards of equipment, technique, and training
methods, this guide includes sections on face climbing; crack
climbing; ropes, anchors, and belays; getting off the rock; sport
climbing; and much more. It is the essential how-to book for rock
climbers everywhere. Now with more than 300 color photographs and
illustrations, this is the most thorough and complete upgrade this
best-selling title has seen since first publishing more than a
decade ago.
This completely revised and updated edition with all new color
photos brings together in a single volume the anchoring systems
most popular among climbers. Most climbers today learn their craft
on artificial climbing walls and on sport routes with fixed
protection. Their first efforts to lead on trad routes often come
as a rude shock--they find that they haven't the skills and
training to safeguard the climb or to set up solid belays. This new
edition of "Climbing Anchors" is the climber's complete and
authoritative source of information on protection, from fundamental
knots to sophisticated rigging and equalizing skills.
This is the second of two books by the authors about engineering
design principles for human-computer interaction (HCI-EDPs). The
books report research that takes an HCI engineering discipline
approach to acquiring initial such principles. Together, they
identify best-practice HCI design knowledge for acquiring HCI-EDPs.
This book specifically reports two case studies of the acquisition
of initial such principles in the domains of domestic energy
planning and control and business-to-consumer electronic commerce.
The book begins by summarising the earlier volume, sufficient for
readers to understand the case studies reported in full here. The
themes, concepts, and ideas developed in both books concern HCI
design knowledge, a critique thereof, and the related challenge.
The latter is expressed as the need for HCI design knowledge to
increase its fitness-for-purpose to support HCI design practice
more effectively. HCI-EDPs are proposed here as one response to
that challenge, and the book presents case studies of the
acquisition of initial HCI-EDPs, including an introduction; two
development cycles; and presentation and assessment for each. Carry
forward of the HCI-EDP progress is also identified. The book adopts
a discipline approach framework for HCI and an HCI engineering
discipline framework for HCI-EDPs. These approaches afford design
knowledge that supports "specify then implement" design practices.
Acquisition of the initial EDPs apply current best-practice design
knowledge in the form of "specify, implement, test, and iterate"
design practices. This can be used similarly to acquire new
HCI-EDPs. Strategies for developing HCI-EDPs are proposed together
with conceptions of human-computer systems, required for
conceptualisation and operationalisation of their associated design
problems and design solutions. This book is primarily for
postgraduate students and young researchers wishing to develop
further the idea of HCI-EDPs and other more reliable HCI design
knowledge. It is structured to support both the understanding and
the operationalisation of HCI-EDPs, as required for their
acquisition, their long-term potential contribution to HCI design
knowledge, and their ultimate application to design practice.
Traditional, or simply, " trad climbing," is a do-it-yourself
adventure requiring the climbing team to negotiate the climb and to
carry, hand-place and remove most if not all components of the
roped safety system. In "The Trad Climber's Bible," two of the most
revered and respected trad climbers in the world, John Long and
Peter Croft, offer hard-won knowledge to aspiring trad climbers in
a narrative format that is as informative as it is entertaining.
With photos by iconic climbing photographer Greg Epperson and AMGA
Certified Rock Instructor Bob Gaines, this full color book will
appeal to climbers of all stripes.
The art of climbing dis-roped and disrobed. Twenty years ago, Dean
Fidelman asked a rock climber to take off her shoes and boulder
nude, and his famous series Stone Nudes was born. The stunning
black-and-white images of athletic figures captured in motion on
cliffs in breathtaking wild landscapes have made Fidelman famous
within the climbing community. Fidelman followed his nomadic muses
around North America and the world, framing them in the picturesque
landscapes of Yosemite Valley; Joshua Tree; Moab, Utah; Patagonia;
Europe; and coastal Thailand. The sensual photographs uniquely
capture the stark beauty of athletes on the stone, their muscular
bodies camouflaging with the formations of the rocks they are
poised on. This book will appeal to those interested in climbing,
lovers of nude photography, as well as anyone who appreciates
breathtaking images of improbable physical feats across stunning
landscapes.
This book was written to help celebrate the 70th anniversary of
D-Day and to preserve the last personal voices of the truly great
soldiers that went ashore at Normandy on June 6, 1944 or shortly
thereafter. Soon, all these brave men will pass to another time and
place. We believe that these men should never be forgotten. Their
personal memories must be preserved. Paratroopers, glider pilots,
artillery men, medics, dog soldiers, and even a sailor who
witnessed Rangers storming the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc were
personally interviewed. The interviewees ranged in age from 88 to
93 and to a man, each had some profound stories to tell. Those
landing on the beaches have burning memories of the great armada of
ships and vessels in the avenging invasion of Normandy. They
remember the carnage of bodies on the beaches. I asked one of the
Interviewees, George Pulakos to describe his experiences on the
beach. GEORGE PULAKOS: They kept me on the beach, I could swim. I
was a swimmer and I would recover bodies. We were stacking them
like cord wood on the beach. For years I've carried horrific images
in my head of all the bodies on the beach. They were stacked like
cord wood, 4 and 5 feet high. This book describes such memories
from 14 of these warriors. This may be the last documented
eyewitness's memories of the D -Day invasion. Four have already
died since our interviews of just a few months ago. We interviewed
Eugene Meier October 30, 2013; he died 17 days later on November
16, 2013 at age 90. We interviewed Percy Scarborough November 22,
2013; he died 25 days later on December 17, 2013 at age 88. We
interviewed Jack Carver December 1, 2013; he died 38 days later on
January 8, 2014 at age 90. We interviewed Harold Powers December 9,
2013; he died 23 days later on January 1, 2014 at age 92. This book
is indeed about the last eyewitnesses' memories. We begin this
heroic, terrible, terrible war story in 1939. That was when the
European war really started. That is when Germany invaded Poland,
and Britain and France declared war on Germany. Many books have
been written about World War II, but most have concentrated on well
known leaders and celebrated heroes. We wanted to tell the story
through the eyes and memories of the common soldier. Most of our
heroic interviewees still had clear memories of the significant
events they encountered. We present their memories in their own
words because we want you to be able to sense their emotions. The
interviews are split into sections so that we can integrate their
memories with the chronological and historical framework of their
experiences. Some of the interviews were so very visual that we
could see the bodies floating in the waters at the beaches. We
could see our soldiers falling in the hedgerows and roads of the
country side. We could see our soldiers when they were captured and
marched long distances in severe weather. We could almost hear the
gunfire and smell the gunpowder. We could see the horrors of the
German concentration camps. Let's never forget these memories.
"Process Modeling Style"focuses on other aspects of process
modeling beyond notation that are very important to practitioners.
Many people who model processes focus on the specific notation used
to create their drawings. While that is important, there are many
other aspects to modeling, such as naming, creating identifiers,
descriptions, interfaces, patterns, and creating useful process
documentation.Experience author John Longfocuses on those
non-notational aspects of modeling, which practitioners will find
invaluable.
Gives solid advice for creating roles, work products, and
processesInstucts on how to organize and structure the parts of a
processGives examples of documents you should use to define a set
of processes"
This research textbook, designed for young Human-Computer
Interaction (HCI) researchers beginning their careers, surveys the
research models and methods in use today and offers a general
framework to bring together the disparate concepts. HCI spans many
disciplines and professions, including information science, applied
psychology, computer science, informatics, software engineering and
social science making it difficult for newcomers to get a good
overview of the field and the available approaches. The book's
rigorous 'approach-and-framework' response is to the challenge of
retaining growth and diversification in HCI research by building up
a general framework from approaches for Innovation, Art, Craft,
Applied, Science and Engineering. This general framework is
compared with other HCI frameworks and theories for completeness
and coherence, all within a historical perspective of dissemination
success. Readers can use this as a model to design and assess their
own research frameworks and theories against those reported in the
literature.
Vertical, overhanging and upside-down climbing on indoor walls
studded with bulbous handholds and footholds is the fastest-rising
adventure sport. This book is a complete instruction guide to
technique, safety, and getting the most out of your indoor climbing
experience.
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