Sea Kayaking covers the basics of equipment and technique, including types of paddles and strokes, as well as such essential skills as how to read the weather and the water, how to navigate with and without GPS and how to travel with a group.Still regarded as “the bible” for both new and experienced kayakers after more than thirty years in print. Drawing on his many years of experience paddling in all climates, John Dowd presents practical advice on dealin...

THE ARC IS WIDE, the zigzags are many in John Dowd’s candid and compelling memoir of eight decades of ventures, adventures, and misadventures—from his youth in postwar New Zealand to grandfatherhood on a Canadian homestead. In between, Dowd threads back and forth around the world at speed, taking or making jobs for himself as he goes, his journal close at hand.We are swept right along: with him we grub it out in the New Zealand bush, culling invasive deer. We cross an ocean and cli...

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye: The Barbara Payton Story is the only family-authorized biography of the late Hollywood actress whose promising film career in the 1950s was quickly overtaken by a disastrous and scandal-ridden personal life that left her career in ashes. Barbara Payton’s story has long been considered one of the saddest and most potent cautionary tales the town has ever known.

A couple's affectionate retrospective of their decade spent living off the grid, in a coastal paradise for paddlers, whale watchers, and naturalists.Twenty years ago, two empty-nesters with a love of the outdoors stumbled upon a vacant beach house on a small island in Clayoquot Sound, part of an off-grid, ten-acre stretch nestled within a provincial park reserve. Escape to Clayoquot Sound is an extended love letter to this place, chronicling the decade Joh...

This book elucidates how technology has impacted the discourse and practices of higher education. Dowd situates current educational movements centered on new technologies, such as the Do It Yourself (DIY) movement, within broader ideological concepts concerned with education, progress, technology, and work. Knowledge of how the discourse and practices of higher education have been impacted enables teachers to create learning environments that are conducive to the cultivation of ethically i...

Tired of a world ruled by men? Escape to Millennium Hall, a hidden paradise where women have built a utopia. In this audiobook, narrated by [Your Name], listen as a lost gentleman stumbles upon a grand estate inhabited solely by intelligent, independent women. Here, education reigns supreme, property is shared, and a spirit of equality thrives. But will societal norms shatter upon his arrival? Dive into Sarah Scott's witty social commentary, A Description of Millennium Hall and the Country...

A radical re-interpretation of events between 1914 and 1945, this book is a scholarly revision of the history of Nazi Germany that is sure to open the eyes of many thus far reluctant to face the truth. Deeply researched, well-sourced, evidence relates the true origins of the world wars, Corporal Hitler's meteoric rise to supreme power thanks to Britain and the United States of America, and how in 1939 the world was once again and very deliberately taken into the abyss. The book does not, ...

The Definitive Insider’s Guide to Auditing Software SecurityThis is one of the most detailed, sophisticated, and useful guides to software security auditing ever written. The authors are leading security consultants and researchers who have personally uncovered vulnerabilities in applications ranging from sendmail to Microsoft Exchange, Check Point VPN to Internet Explorer. Drawing on their extraordinary experience, they introduce a start-to-finish methodo...

A warning and a wake-up call to learn history so we are not doomed to repeat it. A must-read for anyone who longs for a promising future for our great nation.What is wrong with America today? Is it possible that America could crumble and our democracy fail?Questions like these plague Americans and cause us to be anxious about the future of the "land that we love." Individuals may come to different conclusions, but there seems to be a common thread - the dee...

Social work is under unprecedented pressure as a result of funding cuts, political interventions, marketisation and welfare transformations which, combined, are dramatically reshaping the relationship between individuals and the welfare state.A wide range of distinguished academics provide a comprehensive analysis of the evolving challenges facing contemporary social work, reflecting on both the existential and ideological threats to the profession. As well as the chief practice ar...

Use your knowledge of pharmacology to enhance oral care! Pharmacology and Therapeutics for Dentistry, 6th Edition describes how to evaluate a patient's health and optimize dental treatment by factoring in the drugs they take. It explores the basic fundamentals of pharmacology, special topics such as pain control, fear and anxiety, and oral complications of cancer therapy, and most importantly, the actions of specific drug groups on the human body. Whether you're concerned about the drugs a...

Over fifty years ago, Albert Hirschman argued that dissatisfied consumers could either voice complaint or exit when they were dissatisfied with goods or services. Loyal consumers would voice rather than exit. Hirschman argued that making exit easier from publicly provided services, such as health or education, would reduce voice, taking the richest and most articulate away and this would lead to the deterioration of public services. This book provides the first thorough empirical study of ...