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- The Way Out : A True Story of Survival in the Heart of the Rockies. by O'Neil, Devon.;
- Three fathers and four teenage children together went for a bonding alpine getaway outside Salida, Colorado, in January 2017. But what was supposed to be an adventure quickly ended in tragedy. 'The Way Out' is the never-before-told story of life and death in the Colorado mountains - 30 hours that changed lives forever and forced a reckoning about the cost of adventure. A RADD Pick.Library Bound Incorporated
- Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Friendship; NATURE / Natural Disasters; PHILOSOPHY / Nature; PSYCHOLOGY / Grief & Loss; SPORTS & RECREATION / Extreme Sports; SPORTS & RECREATION / Outdoor Skills; SPORTS & RECREATION / Winter Sports / Skiing; TRAVEL / United States / West / Mountain (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, UT, WY);
- Sun house / by Duncan, David James,author.;
- "A bolt from an Aero México DC-8 falls from the sky, killing a Mexican girl and throwing the faith of a young American Jesuit into crisis. Jamey van Zandt's mother dies on his fifth birthday, sparking a lifetime of repressed anger that he only unlashes once a year when he recklessly duels the Fate, God, or Power who let the coincidence happen. A young woman, Risa McKeig, runs through the streets of Seattle searching for a "shooting star moment" that will pierce her world with a love that will eventually help heal both the Jesuit and the angry actor. The sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious journeys of this "unintentional menagerie" carry them to the healing lands of Montana's Elkmoon Beguine & Cattle Company, where nothing tastes better than four fingers of Maker's Mark mixed with glacier ice, nothing sounds lovelier than a lone flycatcher's mating song, and nothing seems less likely than the delight a bunch of urban sophisticates, Montana cowboys, road-weary musicians, and spiritual refugees begin to find in each other's company"--
- Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Epic fiction.; Novels.; Anger; Conduct of life; Love; Meaning (Philosophy); Nature; Transcendence (Philosophy);
- Capturing Kahanamoku : How a Surfing Legend and a Scientific Obsession Redefined Race and Culture. by Rossi, Michael.;
- In the 1920's, Henry Fairfield Osborn, a fervent eugenicist and the director of the American Museum of Natural History went to Hawaii to learn how to surf. His teacher was Duke Kahanamoku, the famous surfer. Osborn became obsessed with Kahanamoku, physically perfect, yet belonging to an 'imperfect' race. What happened next changed how we think about race, culture, science, and humanity.Library Bound Incorporated
- Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Indigenous; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Indigenous; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports; HISTORY / Study & Teaching; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY); NATURE / Regional; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Indigenous / General; SPORTS & RECREATION / Water Sports / Surfing;
- Edison / by Morris, Edmund,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index.From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history. A Dewey Diva Pick.
- Subjects: Biographies.; Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931.; Electrical engineers; Inventors;
- The philosophy of modern song / by Dylan, Bob,1941-author.;
- In his first book of new writing since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, Bob Dylan offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music through a series of essays that double as meditations and reflections on the human condition.
- Subjects: Essays.; Popular music;
- The stars turned inside out : a novel / by Jacobs, Nova,author.;
- "The discovery of a suspicious death at a famous Swiss physics laboratory sparks a mystery that merges science, philosophy, and the high-stakes race to unlock the fundamental nature of our universe"--
- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; European Organization for Nuclear Research; Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland); Murder; Physicists; Secrecy; Women private investigators;
- Wild wisdom : primal skills to survive in nature / by Dust, Donny,author.; Venables, Bob,illustrator.;
- Survive anything nature throws your way with these survival tips and wilderness philosophy. A US Marine Corps veteran and owner of a premier survival and wilderness self-reliance school, Donny Dust amassed two decades worth of primitive-living skills everywhere from the jungles of Asia to the mountains of North America and is one of the country's foremost experts.
- Subjects: Outdoor life.; Outdoor recreation.; Survival.; Wilderness survival.;
- On trails / by Moor, Robert(Environmental journalist),author.;
- "From a brilliant new literary voice comes a groundbreaking exploration of how trails help us understand the world--from tiny ant trails to hiking paths that span continents, from interstate highways to the Internet. In 2009, while thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, Robert Moor began to wonder about the paths that lie beneath our feet: How do they form? Why do some improve over time while others devolve? What makes us follow or strike off on our own? Over the course of the next seven years, Moor traveled the globe, exploring trails of all kinds, from the miniscule to the massive. He learned the tricks of master trail-builders, hunted down long-lost Cherokee trails, and traced the origins of our road networks and the Internet. In each chapter, Moor interweaves his adventures with findings from science, history, philosophy, and nature writing--combining the nomadic joys of Peter Matthiessen with the eclectic wisdom of Lewis Hyde's The Gift. Throughout, Moor reveals how this single topic--the oft-overlooked trail--sheds new light on a wealth of age-old questions: How does order emerge out of chaos? How did animals first crawl forth from the seas and spread across continents? How has humanity's relationship with nature and technology shaped world around us? And, ultimately, how does each of us pick a path through life? Moor has the essayist's gift for making new connections, the adventurer's love for paths untaken, and the philosopher's knack for asking big questions. With a breathtaking arc that spans from the dawn of animal life to the digital era, On Trails is a book that makes us see our world, our history, our species, and our ways of life anew"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Moor, Robert (Environmental journalist); Hikers; Hiking; Trails;
- Deep utopia : life and meaning in a solved world / by Bostrom, Nick,1973-author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index.Suppose that we develop superintelligence safely, govern it well, and make good use of the cornucopian wealth and near magical technological powers that this technology can unlock. If this transition to the machine intelligence era goes well, human labor becomes obsolete. We would thus enter a condition of "post-instrumentality", in which our efforts are not needed for any practical purpose. Furthermore, at technological maturity, human nature becomes entirely malleable. Here we confront a challenge that is not technological but philosophical and spiritual. In such a solved world, what is the point of human existence? What gives meaning to life? What do we do all day? Deep Utopia shines new light on these old questions, and gives us glimpses of a different kind of existence, which might be ours in the future.
- Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Computers and civilization.; Meaning (Philosophy); Artificial intelligence;
- Matrescence : on the metamorphosis of pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood / by Jones, Lucy(Journalist),author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index."In this important and ground-breaking, deeply personal investigation, Jones writes of the emerging concept of "matrescence" -- the wholeness of becoming a mother. Drawing on her own experiences of twice becoming a mother, as well as exploring the latest research in the fields of neuroscience and evolutionary biology; psychoanalysis and existential therapy, sociology, economics and ecology, Jones writes of the physical and emotional changes in the maternal mind, body, and spirit and shows us how these changes are far more profound, wild, and enduring than have been previously explored or written about. Part memoir, part scientific and health reporting, part social critique, ecological philosophy, eco-feminism and nature writing, Matrescence is a kind of whodunnit, ferreting out with the most nuanced, searing and honest observations, why mothers throughout this heightened transition are at a breaking point, and what the institution of intensive, isolated motherhood can tell us about our still-dominant social and cultural myths"--
- Subjects: Childbirth; Motherhood; Mothers; Pregnancy.; Motherhood;
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