A guide to 20 of popular walking routes on the MacGillycuddy's Reeks contains full-colour maps specially commissioned from the Ordnance Survey, photographs and map references. This guide also encompasses the history of the area, its geology and natural history, its place names and people. It offers useful information on travel and accommodation.

Nowhere in Ireland is there such a rich diversity of walks as Killarney. Thousands visit every year to walk in the beautiful landscape for which Killarney is renowned, and until now there has been no guidebook for these walks. Jim Ryan has compiled eighteen of Killarney's most interesting low level walks, providing excellent photographs, precise directions and the length, time and level of difficulty of each. Each walk has a map indicating the important features. Walks vary in duration fro...

"Simple Happiness" is not intended as a quick fix to change your life. It is meant for those who are looking for a little more out of life. To understand "simple happiness" is to realize that you have a choice in how you feel at any given time or in any situation. It is not a particular destination, but merely a state of awareness along your journey of life. You may already be on a quest for happiness. Or you may not. Perhaps you've never even given it a thought. No worries. You will still...

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...

Acting is a subjective, idiosyncratic art. One actor’s sensibilities and specific performance methodology or process may, and typically does, differ considerably from that of another actor. However, there are inherent objectives and considerations that are common to anyone who steps on stage. In Credibility: A Recipe for the Beginning Actor these considerations, as well as strategies and specific tactics designed to achieve an honest, life-like, credible performance are explored using the ...

drum set instruction manual for beginning to intermediate students aimed at perfecting the drummer's timing. When used as part of a regular practice routine, this book will improve timing and provide ideas on creating your own fills. Provides practical application for playing the entire drum set including the small, medium and floor tom. You will be surprised at the many combinations you can create from the written parts of this book.

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...

Focusing on change and reform in secondary and elementary schools, this book explores the possibilities for better schooling for early adolescents.

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...

The Complete Blues/Rock Drummer is an advanced instruction book specializing in blues and blues/rock beats. This book includes fills and instrumentals, both with and without drums for play-along. About half of the book features advanced beats with fills and the other half consists of instrumentals. Drummers interested in studying blues will learn much from this book. There is challenging material for you to practice. The Complete Blues/Rock Drummer is a unique source for those interested i...

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...

This is not intended to be any type of Pulitzer Prize style of document but a set of notes about the three decades or so that we were involved in the poultry industry from the late 1960s through to the early 2000s. It is hoped that future generations may get some understanding of the evolution of the industry that we stumbled into! Consumption of chicken per head of population the time we started was about 2.5kg per person per year. In the 2000s it was about 35kg per person per year and st...