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Nature Sports
This book represents the first international collection that challenges current thinking and research in the emerging field of nature sport. Owing to its inherent connections with fields such as business, leisure, health, tourism, and education, this emerging field has attracted perspectives from a wide range of theoretical viewpoints – much of which are discussed within this collection. In simple terms nature sports refer to a group of sporting activities that predominantly take place in natural and rural areas. Participation can be both competitive and recreational, with the primary aim to work in relation to nature, where participants seek harmony rather than the quest to conquer it. Wi...
Historical Social Research
International journal for the application of formal methods to history.
Ein Leben im Lot
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Mirrors in the Cliffs
The editor has drawn from a wide range of subject matter covering an international spectrum of climbing activity. While representing a modern outlook on the sport, the best of the older writers is included.
Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siècle England and Germany
This book is the first transnational history of rambling and mountaineering. Focussing on the critical turn-of-the-century era, it offers new insights into alpine development, attitudes to danger, cultures of time, internationalism and domesticity in the outdoors. It charts an emerging group of mass tourist activities, and argues that these thousands of walkers and climbers can only be understood within the context of the urban cultures from which most of them came. In doing so, it offers a fresh perspective on the relationship of alpinists and countryside enthusiasts to the modern world. Instead of an escape from or rejection of modernity, it finds that upland trampers and climbers contested what it meant to be modern, used those modern identities to make political claims on rural space and rural people, and sought to define what a more modern future society should be like.
Dougal Haston: The Philosophy Of Risk
The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes, who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering, Haston remains a cult figure whose deeds have inspired generations of climbers world-wide. Connor traces the career of a great climber from his native Scottish hills to his startling feats on Everest and the world's other great mountains.This definitive biography, which draws on never before seen diaries, explores the agonised development of Haston the man.
Incentives and Economic Behaviour
Aus Sicht der Neuen Institutionenökonomik bestimmen staatlich gesetzte oder spontan entstandene Anreize das ökonomische Verhalten. Diese ordnungsökonomische Erkenntnis ist nicht nur Bestandteil der Volkswirtschaftslehre, sondern auch der Betriebswirtschaftslehre und der Wirtschaftsinformatik. Im vorliegenden Band wird der Zusammenhang zwischen Anreizen und ökonomischer Effizienz am Beispiel ausgewählter Themenbereiche diskutiert. Dabei wird deutlich, dass die Neue Institutionenökonomik eine inhaltliche Klammer zwischen verschiedenen ökonomischen Nachbardisziplinen bildet.
Hanging On
The start of a love affair. 'I kicked off my shoes and prepared to climb in stocking feet, aware of an enormous sense of occasion as I laid hands on the rock and stepped up on the first rounded hold. It was not a hard climb but that was unimportant. I felt instinctively at home and at the finish experienced such a surge of happy elation that I knew then I was committed to climbing.' Martin Boysen's passion for crags and mountains springs from his deep love of nature and a strong sense of adventure. From his early days on rock as a Kent schoolboy after the war, he was soon among the most gifted climbers of his or any generation, famed for his silky technique. Boysen made a huge contribution t...
Extreme Alpine Rock
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