Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his
Presents an account of the author and Simon's (author's climbing partner) terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. This book shows how the pair dealt with the psychological traumas. It not only tel
The author offers a personal interpretation of the values of mountaineering by describing his own climbing experiences and relating them to the Mt. Everest deaths of May 1996
The book behind the BAFTA award-winning film.Winner of the NCR Award for non-fiction and the Boardman Tasker award.Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure
The author offers a personal interpretation of the values of mountaineering by describing his own climbing experiences and relating them to the Mt. Everest deaths of May 1996
In 1950, no mountain higher than 8,000 meters had ever been climbed. Maurice Herzog and other members of the French Alpine Club resolved to try. This title tells the story of the first conquest of Ann
The biochemistry of food is the foundation on which the research and development advances in food biotechnology are built.In Food Biochemistry and Food Processing, second edition, the editors have bro
The updated easy-to-learn reference for rough carpentry and framingComplete Book of Framing, Second Edition is an updated, easy-to-learn guide to rough carpentry and framing written by an expert with
Plant Systematics has made a substantial contribution to plant systematics courses at the upper-undergraduate and first year graduate level. This second edition continues to provide the basis for teac
Updated to cover all the latest features and capabilities of Access 2007, this resource provides new and inexperienced Access users with eight task-oriented minibooks that cover begininning to advance
Many people call our current era "The Age of Information." True, the body of information is increasing at an unprecedented pace, and information is more accessible than ever. But information doesn’t m
