Stand beneath the highest mountain in South America and explore the dramatic spine of the Southern Andes in Argentina and Chile — a landscape of immense skies, sculpted glaciers and windswept high-altitude deserts.Dominated by Aconcagua (6961m), this region offers high-altitude trekking and serious mountaineering objectives amid some of the most spectacular scenery outside the Himalaya.Aconcagua and the Southern Andes is a comprehensive guide to tr...

Rhythmic Aerobics Volume 2 is an advanced instruction book which specializes in four areas of drumming: shuffle, swing, six-eight and odd time signatures. It contains over 200 drum fills plus challenging material relative to today's music, all arranged in four-measure exercises. Drummers who use this text will improve their timing, technique, dexterity and learn a wealth of rhythms for the demands of modern drumming. Drum fills are also included on each page. Author Jim Ryan meticulously b...

Cut-throat Jake and his ugly crew are busy celebrating on Cactus Island, surrounded by their stolen treasure. So they are caught off guard when Captain Pugwash and his men arrive disguised as a sea monster. But more surprises are to follow for all the pirates - when the real sea monster turns up to investigate, and Pugwash's crew are stranded by high tide.Luckily quick-thinking Tom the Cabin-boy is on hand to save the day again!

There's nothing more likely to prompt our hero into action than the prospect of treasure. So when the valiant cabin boy Tom sees a mound of yellow stuff aboard a nearby ship, the Captain sets off in hot pursuit. Unfortunately, his villainous arch-enemy, the horrible Cut-throat Jake, is not far away. Will the Captain be trapped by Jake's dastardly plan?Or will Tom, the wisest little cabin boy on the Seven Seas, have a plan of his own…?

Terry Ryan was poised to take the hockey world by storm when he was selected eighth overall by the Montreal Canadiens in the 1995 NHL draft, their highest draft pick in a decade. Expected to go on to become a hockey star, Ryan played a total of eight NHL games for the Canadiens, scoring no goals and no assists: not exactly the career he, or anyone else, was expecting.Though Terry’s NHL career wasn’t long, he experienced a lot and has no shortage of hilarious and fascinating revelat...

Jack is doing fantastically well as the Wrestling Trolls training coach, Big Rock is winning matches, and the group are on their way to more gold than they can count. Nothing ever goes smoothly for Jack though, especially after Milo is kidnapped by evil goblins determined to get their greedy hands on Big Rock's winnings! The wrestling crew know that they will have to be very quick and clever if they want to rescue Milo.

We are currently experiencing the largest and fastest religious shift in US history.It is greater than the First and Second Great Awakening and every revival in our country combined...but in the opposite direction. Yet precious little rigorous study has been done on the broad phenomenon of dechurching in America. Jim Davis and Michael Graham have commissioned the largest and most comprehensive study of dechurching in America by renowned sociologists Dr. Ryan Burge ...

Maria finally reaches the gates of the Owl King’s Castle—but did she make it before the clock strikes thirteen?

As the clock ticks ever closer to the thirteenth hour, Maria struggles through the canals of the Labyrinth alongside her peculiar band of companions, wishing desperately to be reunited with her son. While she may be no closer to the Owl King’s castle, Maria begins to uncover the secrets of the Labyrinth and her own power within the walls of this magical domain. But from deep in the shadows, the Owl King watches her every move, plotting and waiting to bring her demise by any means necessary...

Much recent scholarship has sought to identify the linguistic and social factors that favor the expression or omission of subject pronouns in Spanish. This volume brings together leading experts on the topic of language variation in Spanish to provide a panoramic view of research trends, develop probabilistic models of grammar, and investigate the impact of language contact on pronoun expression.The book consists of three sections. The first studies the distributional patterns and ...

From the minute we open our eyes in the morning we re on the go! So much clamoring for our attention - in the home, family, workplace, and community. We are constantly bombarded with information through social media in our high tech world. When do we have time to breathe? This elegantly simple book removes some of the mystery and confusion from everyday life and offers straightforward solutions for readers to relax and be in the moment...less stress more joy. Simple Happiness provides 52 W...

Just a short drive from the Costa del Sol, the limestone mountains of the Sierras Tejeda, Almijara and Alhama rise dramatically from the Mediterranean coastline to summits exceeding 2000m, offering some of the most rewarding and accessible mountain walking in southern Spain.With over 50 peaks above 915m packed into a relatively compact area, the mountains around Nerja deliver outstanding natural beauty, remote gorges, ancient white villages, and striking geological...