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Managing Risk
Systems Planning for Outdoor Adventure Programs, 2nd edition
2020
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Managing Risk is the adventure guide's resource for risk management and systems planning. The second edition etext is fully updated,revised and expanded from the original widely adopted Managing Risk textbook. Adventure guiding is anchored in managing risk, and this etext builds the risk assessment and systems planning skills all professional outdoor guides require. Equal parts guide manual and management reference, this book is required reading for pro guides, program managers, and owner/...
Destroy All Monsters
The Last Rock Novel
2018
EN
"A wild roar of a novel . . . Writing about music is tricky. Ninety-nine percent of the time hearing the actual song or going to the actual concert is far more revealing than any paragraph describing it. But Jackson pulls off this near-impossible feat, pulling the reader past the velvet ropes into the black-box theaters and sweaty, sticky-floored stadiums." —Marisha Pessl, The New York Times Book ReviewAn epidemic of violence is sweeping the country: music...
Equality Beyond Debate
John Dewey's Pragmatic Idea of Democracy
2018
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While many current analyses of democracy focus on creating a more civil, respectful debate among competing political viewpoints, this study argues that the existence of structural social inequality requires us to go beyond the realm of political debate. Challenging prominent contemporary theories of democracy, the author draws on John Dewey to bring the work of combating social inequality into the forefront of democratic thought. Dewey's 'pragmatic' principles are deployed to present democ...
2023
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Is God still active around the world today desiring to reach mankind with a personal relationship, or is He just a God from the pages of a two-thousand-year-old book? Jeff Jackson takes you on a few personal journeys to find out the lengths that God is willing to go in using ordinary people to make this relationship a reality no matter where people are found.
Me and My Memory, 2nd ed.
Why We Forget Some Things and Remember Others
2022
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The first book in Hoopoe's "All About Me" series, Me and My Memory explores the mystery of our minds and memories: How do we remember, and how do we forget? In a clear and engaging way, it summarizes everything that scientists and researchers know about the topic, and also explores questions that have yet to be answered. Readers will begin to notice how their own and other people's memories work. They'll learn why memory is powerful but not perfect, and they'll uncover strategies ...
- Narrated by
- Chris Jackson
Unabridged
17 hours 36 min
2023
EN
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**From the author of The Dynasty and Tiger Woods—the “definitive…fantastic” (Sports Illustrated) biography of basketball superstar LeBron James, based on three years of exhaustive research and more than 250 interviews.LeBron James is the greatest basketball player of the twenty-first century, and he’s in the conversation with Michael Jordan as the greatest of all time. Th...
Re-Visioning Zionism
Reflections on my Life in Service to The Jewish People
- Narrated by
- Mason Jackson
Unabridged
8 hours 32 min
2026
EN
This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In every step of Rabbi Brian Lurie’s atypical journey through various professional paths and objectives, he has personified leadership, social justice, a love of Israel, and an ambitious yet down-to-earth approach to the evolving challenges of Jewish peoplehood in the 21st Century.Throughout our friendship, I have been impressed with Brian’s entrepreneurship and deep integrity. He leads by the power of his example and by the soundness of h...
2021
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Proceedings from the Adventure Risk Research Symposium, 2019 to 2021. The Adventure Risk Research Symposium brings together adventure risk and safety researchers to present their findings and share ideas. The focus of the symposium is on qualitative and quantitative empiricism as a means of improving understanding or practice for wilderness and adventure risk management and safety.Download the app or desktop reader software.
Harness Horses, Bucking Broncos & Pit Ponies
A History of Horse Breeds
2011
EN
Thousands of years ago people living on the steppes of central Asia realized that horses could transport them long distances, help them fight their wars, pull their plows, and provide them with sport and companionship. Ever since, horses and human history have been intertwined.The author-illustrator team of Jeff Crosby and Shelley Ann Jackson celebrates all kinds of horses in this beautifully illustrated, fact-filled book. From fast horses like the Barb, which traveled to Spain fro...
The Last Folk Hero
The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
- Narrated by
- JD Jackson
Unabridged
22 hours
2022
EN
**By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definitive biography of mythic multi-sport star Bo Jackson.From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the greatest athlete of all time streaked across American sports and popular culture. Stadiums struggled to contain him. Clocks failed to capture his speed. His strength was legendary. His power unmatched. Video game makers turned him into an invincible cha...
2025
EN
The proceedings and short research papers from the annual Adventure Risk Research Symposium, held every year since 2019.
Unabridged
25 hours 46 min
2022
EN
Children of all ages will adore this audiobook collection of some of the most notable stories in history. Listen to tales from the Grimm brothers, journey through the jungle with Mowgli in The Jungle Book, embrace youth with Wendy in Peter Pan, and run across pastures in Black Beauty.











