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“michael j manyak”

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  • Take Two Aspirin and Call Me at 20,000 Feet

    An Eagle Scout at the Crossroads of Medicine, Exploration, and Science

    by Michael J. Manyak, MD ...
    In his own words, modern-day explorer Dr. Michael Manyak transports thrill seekers to the farthest reaches of the earth, from the dense forests of the Congo Basin to the icy expanses of Antarctica.While many may crave adventures around the globe, they are unlikely to experience anywhere near the many escapades that Dr. Michael Manyak has had during his prolific career. From his tropical medical ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Expedition and Wilderness Medicine

    by Gregory H. Bledsoe, Michael J. Manyak, David A. Townes ...
    With an increase in visits to remote and dangerous locations around the world, the number of serious and fatal injuries and illnesses associated with these expeditions has markedly increased. Medical personnel working in or near such locations are not always explicitly trained in the management of unique environmental injuries, such as high-altitude sickness, the bends, lightning strikes, ... Read more

    $263.99 CAD

  • Martial Arts in the Arts

    An Appreciation of Artifacts

    by Michael DeMarco, Anne Manyak, Jim Silvan, Joel Stein, Joseph Svinth, Richard Pegg, Manouchehr Khorasani, Nicolae Bialokur, Suien Wada, Ruel Macaraeg, Anthony DiCristofano ...
    Combative forms of movement meet all the criteria required to be called “arts”. Additionally, items associated with martial art theory and practice can be shown in a variety media and appreciated as objets d’art in their own right. This anthology presents the aesthetic side of the martial arts as they are found in numerous examples of material culture and items of fine art.An often neglected but ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD

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  • Grunt

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  • Why We Swim

    by Bonnie Tsui ...
    New York Times contributor Bonnie Tsui dives into our love affair with the water—from evolution to mythology, from survival and well-being, from community swim clubs to competitive races—and travels around the world to explore its significance in many cultures.“A fascinating and beautifully written love letter to water. I was enchanted by this book." —Rebecca Skloot, bestselling author of The ... Read more

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  • Deep

    Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves

    by James Nestor ...
    From the bestselling author of Breath, a “fascinating, informative, exhilarating” voyage from the ocean’s surface to its darkest trenches (Wall Street Journal)New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • An Amazon Best Science Book of 2014 • Scientific American Recommended ReadFascinated by the sport of freediving—in which competitors descend great depths on a single breath—James Nestor embeds ... Read more

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  • The Boys in the Cave

    Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand

    by Matt Gutman ...
    From award-winning ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman, and written using exclusive interviews and information comes the definitive account of the dramatic story that gripped the world: the miracle rescue of twelve boys and their soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave miles underground for nearly three weeks—a pulse-pounding page-turner by a reporter who was there every step of their ... Read more

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  • Not on My Watch

    How a renegade whale biologist took on governments and industry to save wild salmon

    by Alexandra Morton ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERAlexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada" because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon. Her account of that fight is both inspiring in its own right and a roadmap of resistance.Alexandra Morton came north from California in the early 1980s, following her first love--the northern resident orca. In remote Echo Bay, in the ... Read more

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  • The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011

    Edited by Mary Roach, Tim Folger ...
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    The bestselling author of Stiff and Packing for Mars presents fascinating essays about our world by Jonathan Lethem, Jaron Lanier, Malcom Gladwell and others."America's funniest science writer." — Washington PostGood science writing, as Mary Roach explains in her introduction, is a cure for ignorance and fallacy. But great sci... ... Read more

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  • The Next Pandemic

    On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers

    by Dr. Ali S Khan ...
    An inside account of the fight to contain the world's deadliest diseases -- and the panic and corruption that make them worse.Throughout history, humankind's biggest killers have been infectious diseases: the Black Death, the Spanish Flu, and AIDS alone account for over one hundred million deaths. We ignore this reality most of the time, but when a new threat -- Ebola, SARS, Zika, coronavirus -- ... Read more

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    The trouble with lions is that while you are conducting a pregnancy test, you need to be equally, if not more, aware of what you can learn from the lion's other end. That is one lesson that Jerry Haigh brings home in this fascinating collection of stories about working with wild animals in Africa. Conversational in tone, conservational in theme—you will be right beside Jerry, wife Jo, and a ... Read more

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