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In "Training for the New Alpinism," Steve House, world-class
climber and Patagonia ambassador, and Scott Johnston, coach of U.S.
National Champions and World Cup Nordic Skiers, translate training
theory into practice to allow you to coach yourself to any
mountaineering goal. Applying training practices from other
endurance sports, House and Johnston demonstrate that following a
carefully designed regimen is as effective for alpinism as it is
for any other endurance sport and leads to better performance. They
deliver detailed instruction on how to plan and execute training
tailored to your individual circumstances. Whether you work as a
banker or a mountain guide, live in the city or the country, are an
ice climber, a mountaineer heading to Denali, or a veteran of
8,000-meter peaks, your understanding of how to achieve your goals
grows exponentially as you work with this book. Chapters cover
endurance and strength training theory and methodology, application
and planning, nutrition, altitude, mental fitness, and assessing
your goals and your strengths. Chapters are augmented with
inspiring essays by world-renowned climbers, including Ueli Steck,
Mark Twight, Peter Habeler, Voytek Kurtyka, and Will Gadd. Filled
with photos, graphs, and illustrations.
This book offers a meaningful and practicable guide to better
management of arsenic problems in the groundwater of the Gangetic
Plain. It gathers contributions from distinguished researchers who
have been actively working in the area for over a decade. The
arsenic contamination of groundwater is a growing concern in the
central Gangetic Plain, where the local population's main sources
of fresh water are surface water, groundwater and rain water; of
these sources, only the last two generally meet the most important
criteria for drinking water in their natural state. Natural
geological changes are presumed to be the primary reason for
arsenic contamination in this region. Further, most of the people
living in this area have developed the habit of drinking water
(groundwater) from the arsenic-contaminated tubewells in many parts
of the region. As a result, many are suffering from arsenicosis and
many more are at risk. Since the cause of arsenic contamination in
groundwater still remains unclear, this book seeks to address the
arsenic issue in this region by pursuing a holistic and systematic
scientific approach. Accordingly, it delineates various sources,
processes, hypotheses and remedial approaches that are needed to
manage the arsenic contamination in the Central Gangetic Plain.
The Corbetts & Other Scottish Hills was first published in 1990
as a companion volume to the Scottish Mountaineering Club's
comprehensive guide to The Munros. This new edition has been fully
updated by both previous and new authors and is complemented
throughout by new mapping and a large number of new photographs.
The guidebook details routes up all 222 Corbetts (Scottish hills
between 2,500 ft. and 3,000 ft.) and many other popular lower
hills. Other hills include popular classics such as Criffel, Tinto,
The Pentlands, The Eildons, The Ochils, Ben Venue, Mount Blair,
Bennachie, Stac Pollaidh, Suilven and a wide range of hills
throughout the islands, from Lewis to Arran. The book has been
edited by Rob Milne and Hamish Brown.
Problems in Philosophy of Education canvasses several of the
leading issues in philosophy of education. These include the
disconnect between the disciplines of philosophy and philosophy of
education, the strained relationship between educational practice
and philosophy of education, the role of educational research in
philosophy of education, and the lack of an independent scholarship
for philosophy of education. James Scott Johnson argues for a
philosophy of education separate and distinct from both the
disciplines of philosophy and education and claims that philosophy
of education should raise and address its own questions and
concerns. Supporting this is a model of how philosophy of education
should originate basic questions, together with a set of
philosophic presuppositions regarding the model's logic, ethics,
politics, and relationship to science and social science.
Additional Authors Include Gerald V. Stamm, Paul C. Greene, And Dan
D. Howe.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
This book examines the interconnections between self-consciousness
and self-cultivation (Bildung). Drawing on resources both
philosophical and historical, it probes the various ways in which
self-cultivation stands or falls on a theory of self-consciousness.
Heavily indebted to Classical German Philosophy, this book examines
the twists and turns self-cultivation has taken through 200 years
of philosophical and educational thought. Self-cultivation in one
form or another has always been prevalent in Germany specifically,
and Europe generally- even in those cases where varieties of
self-cultivation are themselves in opposition to earlier projects
and programs. Self-cultivation, however, never became a focus of
North American educational theory and this book examines why this
is, and what would need to be in place for a theory of
self-cultivation to prosper. In the final section, this book
examines the requirements for a new theory of self-consciousness in
the context of self-cultivation.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
After losing his father, Scott, a previously driven and emotionally
strong young man, falls into a deep depression and takes every
wrong turn that a person can trying to find a way to deal with the
pain, anger, and confusion that suddenly consumed his very being.
"Losing Superman" is an account of his experiences. Told from both
his point of view and his sister Danica's, "Losing Superman" takes
the reader through heartbreak, drug abuse, jail time, violent
outburst, and every step Scott took to hit bottom and finally pull
himself back up and learn to live life again.
Dovetailing on the success of Training for the New Alpinism and
Patagonia's own emphasis on all mountain use, Training for the
Uphill Athlete translates theory into methodology to allow you to
write your own training plans and coach yourself to endurance
goals. Steve House, one of the best mountaineers, and his coach
Scott Johnston, an Olympic-level cross country ski coach, along
with Kilian Jornet, hands-down best endurance athlete at this time,
present training principles for the multisport mountain athlete who
regularly participates in a mix of distance running, ski
mountaineering, and other endurance sports that require optimum
fitness and customized strength. This is an authoritative but
accessible training manual for athletes and coaches who feel most
alive in the mountains or pushing the uphill ascent. Distance
running, ski mountaineering, skimo, and skyrunning are becoming
increasingly popular all over the world, and are often undertaken
by the same person during a single year. This book collects the
scientifically backed and athlete-tested wisdom and experience of
three of the best uphill athletes and coaches and extrapolates both
to educate outdoor athletes of all stripes to perform their best.
The book includes the same mix of theory, application, and
experiential essays from experts in the field, as well as
instructional illustrations as in Training for the New Alpinism.
Contributions by Kilian Jornet increase the worldwide appeal of the
book.
Problems in Philosophy of Education canvasses several of the
leading issues in philosophy of education. These include the
disconnect between the disciplines of philosophy and philosophy of
education, the strained relationship between educational practice
and philosophy of education, the role of educational research in
philosophy of education, and the lack of an independent scholarship
for philosophy of education. James Scott Johnson argues for a
philosophy of education separate and distinct from both the
disciplines of philosophy and education and claims that philosophy
of education should raise and address its own questions and
concerns. Supporting this is a model of how philosophy of education
should originate basic questions, together with a set of
philosophic presuppositions regarding the model's logic, ethics,
politics, and relationship to science and social science.
Most statements today about higher education begin with the
assumption that it should be relevant. That it should be relevant,
however, does not settle the matter. The significance of relevance
depends on the power of something else that is more fundamental.
Relevance may be a true standard of judgment, but it does not stand
by itself. Assuming higher education should be relevant, the
question emerges, relevant to what? Why? How? At what costs? And,
relevant in what sense? These are some of the central questions
animating this study. The Relevance of Higher Education: Exploring
a Contested Notion, edited by Timothy L. Simpson examines the
relevance of higher education by bringing together the work of
historians, political scientists, and educational philosophers. The
contributors probe the meaning of relevance in its many guises,
providing an historical and philosophical account of the roots of
this concept and its impact on the institution of higher education.
Furthermore, The Relevance of Higher Education provides a critical
evaluation of the impact of relevance on our understanding of the
political and economic relationship between higher education and
society. This study suggests views of relevance that could guide
the future of higher education. By providing penetrating analysis,
this text thoroughly explores relevance and its underlying
assumptions, potential implications and long-lasting effects on
higher education and society. The Relevance of Higher Education
provides the tools necessary to develop a rich framework for
understanding relevance and its impact on higher education and
society.
Meant to go hand-in-hand with Steve House and Scott Johnston's
groundbreaking, bestselling Training for the New Alpinism, The New
Alpinism Training Log is a goal-setting planner and a workout
journal in one. With pages to plot your program based on your
aspirations, and others to break it down and record your monthly,
weekly, daily workouts, this book will be your in-the-gym or
on-the-mountain companion to training for any mountain ascent.
Includes inspirational and motivational tips throughout.
James Scott Johnston's incisive study draws on a holistic reading
of Kant: one that views him as developing and testing a complete
system (theoretical, practical, historical and anthropological)
with education as a vital component. As such, the book begins with
an extensive overview of Kant's chief theoretical work (the
"Critique of Pure Reason"), and from that overview distils crucial
discussions (the role of practical reason; the claims of the third
antinomy) for his moral theory. An extended discussion of Kant's
moral and political theories and the place of pedagogy in it
follow, with attention to all of Kant's important moral works as
well as his chief religious work, "Religion within the Bounds of
Mere Reason." A discussion of culture and character follows,
chiefly through a discussion of Kant's "Critique of the Power of
Judgment" and "Anthropology from a Pragmatic Standpoint," together
with certain lectures and published essays on history and politics.
Finally, an extensive discussion of Kant's published works on
education, together with only recently published letters and
announcements (in English), is provided. This culminates in
Johnston's estimation of what a Kantian education, systematically
conceived, might look like: an education that is attentive to
theoretical, moral, cultural-historical, and pedagogic domains of
Kant's thinking.
Institutions and Incentives in Regulatory Science explores
fundamental problems with regulatory science in the environmental
and natural resource law field. Each chapter covers a variety of
natural resource and regulatory areas, ranging from climate change
to endangered species protection and traditional health-based
environmental regulation. Regulatory laws and institutions
themselves strongly influence the direction of scientific research
by creating a system of rewards and penalties for science. As a
consequence, regulatory laws or institutions that are designed
naively end up incentivizing scientists to generate and then
publish only those results that further the substantive regulatory
goals preferred by the scientists. By relying so heavily on science
to dictate policy, regulatory laws and institutions encourage
scientists to use their assessment of the state of the science to
further their own preferred scientific and regulatory policy
agendas. Additionally, many environmental and natural resource
regulatory agencies have been instructed by legislatures to rely
heavily upon science in their rulemaking. In areas of rapidly
evolving science, regulatory agencies are inevitably looking for
scientific consensus prematurely, before the scientific process has
worked through competing hypotheses and evidence. The contributors
in this volume address how institutions for regulatory science
should be designed in light of the inevitable misfit between the
political or legal demand for regulatory action and the actual
state of evolving scientific knowledge.
Most statements today about higher education begin with the
assumption that it should be relevant. That it should be relevant,
however, does not settle the matter. The significance of relevance
depends on the power of something else that is more fundamental.
Relevance may be a true standard of judgment, but it does not stand
by itself. Assuming higher education should be relevant, the
question emerges, relevant to what? Why? How? At what costs? And,
relevant in what sense? These are some of the central questions
animating this study. The Relevance of Higher Education: Exploring
a Contested Notion, edited by Timothy L. Simpson examines the
relevance of higher education by bringing together the work of
historians, political scientists, and educational philosophers. The
contributors probe the meaning of relevance in its many guises,
providing an historical and philosophical account of the roots of
this concept and its impact on the institution of higher education.
Furthermore, The Relevance of Higher Education provides a critical
evaluation of the impact of relevance on our understanding of the
political and economic relationship between higher education and
society. This study suggests views of relevance that could guide
the future of higher education. By providing penetrating analysis,
this text thoroughly explores relevance and its underlying
assumptions, potential implications and long-lasting effects on
higher education and society. The Relevance of Higher Education
provides the tools necessary to develop a rich framework for
understanding relevance and its impact on higher education and
society.
Institutions and Incentives in Regulatory Science explores
fundamental problems with regulatory science in the environmental
and natural resource law field. Each chapter covers a variety of
natural resource and regulatory areas, ranging from climate change
to endangered species protection and traditional health-based
environmental regulation. Regulatory laws and institutions
themselves strongly influence the direction of scientific research
by creating a system of rewards and penalties for science. As a
consequence, regulatory laws or institutions that are designed
naively end up incentivizing scientists to generate and then
publish only those results that further the substantive regulatory
goals preferred by the scientists. By relying so heavily on science
to dictate policy, regulatory laws and institutions encourage
scientists to use their assessment of the state of the science to
further their own preferred scientific and regulatory policy
agendas. Additionally, many environmental and natural resource
regulatory agencies have been instructed by legislatures to rely
heavily upon science in their rulemaking. In areas of rapidly
evolving science, regulatory agencies are inevitably looking for
scientific consensus prematurely, before the scientific process has
worked through competing hypotheses and evidence. The contributors
in this volume address how institutions for regulatory science
should be designed in light of the inevitable misfit between the
political or legal demand for regulatory action and the actual
state of evolving scientific knowledge.
James Scott Johnston's incisive study draws on a holistic reading
of Kant: one that views him as developing and testing a complete
system (theoretical, practical, historical and anthropological)
with education as a vital component. As such, the book begins with
an extensive overview of Kant's chief theoretical work (the
Critique of Pure Reason), and from that overview distils crucial
discussions (the role of practical reason; the claims of the third
antinomy) for his moral theory. An extended discussion of Kant's
moral and political theories and the place of pedagogy in it
follow, with attention to all of Kant's important moral works as
well as his chief religious work, Religion within the Bounds of
Mere Reason. A discussion of culture and character follows, chiefly
through a discussion of Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment
and Anthropology from a Pragmatic Standpoint, together with certain
lectures and published essays on history and politics. Finally, an
extensive discussion of Kant's published works on education,
together with only recently published letters and announcements (in
English), is provided. This culminates in Johnston's estimation of
what a Kantian education, systematically conceived, might look
like: an education that is attentive to theoretical, moral,
cultural-historical, and pedagogic domains of Kant's thinking.
'Inquiry and Education' offers a lucid and challenging
interpretation of John Dewey, his critics, and his supporters.
Thematically organised, the book focuses on four of Dewey's
preeminent concerns - inquiry, growth, community, and democracy -
and their close association with formal education.
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