This textbook presents a comprehensive overview of the environmental impacts of various types of outdoor recreation, and how these can be best managed. As a field of study, recreational ecology is both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary, and the authors seek to develop a deeper understanding of both the role and function of the factors that influence visitor numbers and their impact. An accessible and comprehensive textbook, it features numerous types of outdoor recreational activitie...

This textbook presents a comprehensive overview of the environmental impacts of various types of adventure tourism and how these can be best managed. This volume follows on from the authors previous textbook – ‘Outdoor Recreation: Environmental Impacts and Management’ and continues the aim of developing a deeper understanding of how tourist numbers impact the environment and to provide practical solutions to these problems.Combining their own first-hand experience and rese...

Comprehensive coverage of the whole Earth system throughout its entire existence and beyondComplete with a new introduction by the authors, this updated edition helps provide an understanding of the past, present, and future processes that occur on and in our Earth—the fascinating, yet potentially lethal, set of atmospheric, surface, and internal processes that interact to produce our living environment. It introduces students to our planet’s four key interdependen...

The church lies at the centre of God's purpose. Christ gave himself 'to purify for himself a people that are his own'.But when we think about church, there's the tension between the ideal and the reality. The former is beautiful: God's special treasure, the covenant community, a haven of love and peace. The latter? A motley rabble needing constant rebuke and exhortation.Here we focus on the ideal, on what God intends his church to be, while all the time kee...

What is the authentic gospel? How do we answer the sceptics?Christianity is not a religion, but God's good news for the world. This implies that it has both a divine origin and a human relevance: it comes from God and it speaks to our condition.So, before we ask, 'What is the gospel?', we need to ask, 'What is a human being?'Chapter 1: The human paradox looks at what the Bible teaches and what our experience endorses: the glory and shame of our huma...

We have a God-given responsibility to infiltrate the world, listening to the world's challenges, but also to bring our own challenge to the world by sharing the good news by word and deed.We look at four aspects of mission:* The uniqueness of Jesus, the chief foundation of Christian mission* The nature of God himself, and mission coming from his heart* Mission in word, but also in works* A clear and fresh vision of ChristWe look...

If Christ is our Lord, then we are his servants, and if he is our teacher, then we are his pupils.Following Christ is a multi-faceted responsibility. We should remember:* Every true disciple is a listener* We are both rational and emotional* We can discern God's call and willLove is the first fruit of the Spirit, a core ingredient of discipleship.

Scripture has brought us light in darkness, strength in weakness, comfort in sadness. It isn't difficult to endorse the Psalmist's experience that the words of God are 'more precious than gold... sweeter than honey'.So it's distressing to watch the Bible being dislodged from its position of authority, not only in our nation but also in the church.Here we focus on the urgent need to continue in, respond to, interpret and expound God's Word.

A ghost haunts King David's family. Brothers devour their enemies and each other. A rabbi opens a Chabad House in a sinister New England town. In this book, you will find seven stories as demented and horrifying as the Bible that inspired them.---------------------------Dark and enticing, the stories in King David & the Spiders from Mars explore Biblical themes with a paradoxical combination of religious irreverence and respect for the literary richness of the texts. Marked...